Great Knowledge Transcendence - The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed

Informationen zum Autor Dengjian Jin is John J. Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Chair in International Studies, Business and Management and Associate Professor of International Business and Management at Dickinson College, USA. Klappentext This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations. Zusammenfassung This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.

Product details

• Authors: Jin Dengjian, Dengjian Jin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781137527936
• ISBN: 978-1-137-52793-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, European History, popular science, Life Sciences, world history, History of Science, Life sciences: general issues, Popular works, Physical Sciences, Popular Science, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Modern History, Europe—History, creativity;growth;knowledge;premodern;science;society