Concepts of nature :: a Chinese-European cross-cultural perspective /

This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature b...

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Weitere Verfasser: Vogel, Hans Ulrich, Dux, Günter, Elvin, Mark
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ; v. 1.
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Zusammenfassung:This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first time to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 566 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004187511
9004187510
ISSN:2210-2884 ;

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