Demystifying Mentalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demystifying Mentalities write by Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd. This book was released on 1990-08-31. Demystifying Mentalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Lloyd explores cultural diversity in terms of communication and not mentality.
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expanding Horizons in the History of Science write by G. E. R. Lloyd. This book was released on 2021-08-11. Expanding Horizons in the History of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.
The Magical Imagination
The Magical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Magical Imagination write by Karl Bell. This book was released on 2012-02-23. The Magical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.
Memory, History, Forgetting
Memory, History, Forgetting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory, History, Forgetting write by Paul Ricoeur. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Memory, History, Forgetting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. Memory, History, Forgetting, like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora. A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, Memory, History, Forgetting provides the crucial link between Ricoeur's Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another and his recent reflections on ethics and the problems of responsibility and representation. “His success in revealing the internal relations between recalling and forgetting, and how this dynamic becomes problematic in light of events once present but now past, will inspire academic dialogue and response but also holds great appeal to educated general readers in search of both method for and insight from considering the ethical ramifications of modern events. . . . It is indeed a master work, not only in Ricoeur’s own vita but also in contemporary European philosophy.”—Library Journal “Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy—critical, economical, and clear.”— New York Times Book Review
Sentimental Education in Chinese History
Sentimental Education in Chinese History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentimental Education in Chinese History write by Paolo Santangelo. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Sentimental Education in Chinese History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pionering inquiry on the role, perception and representation of emotional sphere in traditional Chinese culture provides a fascinating contribution on a key anthropological problem, in order to understand not only pre-modern private history, but also contemporary Chinese society. The importance of this work goes beyond Chinese studies.
