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Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective

Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective

Vogel, Hans Ulrich
Dux, Günter

Hardcover

General LawGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004185267
ISBN13: 9789004185265
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 13 2010
Pages: 566
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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.

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