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Understanding Nature: Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
H. Zwart
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Description for Understanding Nature: Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
hardcover. Science is not the only route to understanding nature. This volume presents a series of case studies in comparative epistemology, critically comparing the works of prominent representatives of the life sciences, such as Aristotle, Darwin, and Mendel, with the writings of literary masters, such as Andersen, Melville, Verne, and Ibsen. Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1310.
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwin and novelists like Melville actually went to sea. Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience of a long-term trans-oceanic voyage in the course of which he did discover new worlds, new justifications, new moral watchwords even (“struggle for life”) that were to have a ... Read more
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwin and novelists like Melville actually went to sea. Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience of a long-term trans-oceanic voyage in the course of which he did discover new worlds, new justifications, new moral watchwords even (“struggle for life”) that were to have a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402064913
SKU
V9781402064913
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Reviews for Understanding Nature: Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
From the reviews: "Hub Zwart’s Understanding Nature is a project designed as a defense of epistemology reformulated as a comparative practice that conceives knowledge as a process undertaken by a range of disciplines and practices to apprehend the constitutive features of complex phenomena. … the great strength of Understanding Nature is Zwart’s fascinating and provocative ... Read more