Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

This book, stemming from David Lowenthal's inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, explores the Two Cultures quarrel's underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education, religion, genetics, race relations, heritage governance, and environmental policy.

Table des matières

Foreword: Environmental Humanities, the Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, and David Lowenthal. Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Marco Armiero
Introduction
1. Unifying Knowledge—Miracle or Mirage?
2. Man and Nature
3. Island Polymaths
4. Purity and Mixture
5. Heritage Universal and Divisive
6. Past into Present
Conclusion

A propos de l'auteur

David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, was an American historian and geographer. He was a renowned authority on heritage and conservation history, who died just days after he received the proofs. In 2016 he received the British Academy Medal for The Past Is a Foreign Country—Revisited. The medal honors "a landmark academic achievement which has transformed understanding in the humanities and social sciences" in a book exploring "the manifold ways in which history engages, illuminates and deceives us."

Résumé

This book, stemming from David Lowenthal’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, explores the Two Cultures quarrel’s underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education, religion, genetics, race relations, heritage governance, and environmental policy.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Lowenthal
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 13.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138613157
• ISBN: 978-1-138-61315-7
• Pages: 216
• Thème: Routledge Environmental Humanities
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Architecture d'intérieur, design; History of Ideas, NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, DESIGN / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Science / Environmental Science, Philosophy and theory of education, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge