On the Roads to Modernity

Conscience, Science, and Civilizations: Selected Writings by Benjamin Nelson, with a New Introduction
Herausgeber: Huff, Toby E

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains highly original essays on the sweep of Western civilization from the middle ages to the present, including such topics as conscience and usury, "probabilism" in science and theology, systems of spiritual direction, as well as economic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780739172780
• ISBN-10: 0739172786
• Artikelnr.: 34442860

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Nelson was a wide ranging New York intellectual, trained at Columbia in medieval history, who wrote a classic study, The Idea of Usury. He became a sociologist and continued to explore large issues in philosophy, psychoanalysis and the construction of systems of spiritual direction. He taught at the University of Chicago, at Minnesota, and at the New School for Social Research. He also served as editor of many books in the famous Harper & Row paperback series of classic authors. Toby E. Huff is a research associate at Harvard University and Chancellor Professor Emeritus at UMass Dartmouth. He is the author of Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences (1984), The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (2nd ed. Cambridge 2003); Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010) as well as co-editor with Wolfgang Schluchter of Max Weber and Islam (1999). He has lectured in Europe, Asia and across the Muslim world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface On Life's Way: A Biographical Sketch On The Road to Modernity
Acknowledgments Introduction to the Reprinted Edition Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1: On the Origins of Modernity: The Author's Point of View Part II.
Conscience Cultural Systems, and Directive Structures Chapter 2: Cultural
Cues and Directive Systems Chapter 3: Self Images and Systems of Spiritual
Direction Chapter 4: Conscience and the Makings of Early Modern Cultures:
Beyond Max Weber Chapter 5: Civilizational Complexes and
Intercivilizational Encounters Part III. Comparative Studies of Science in
Historical and Civilizational Perspectives Chapter 6: On the Shoulders of
Giants: The Comparative Historical Sociology of "Science" Chapter 7:
Sources of "Probabilism" and "Anti-Probabilism" in 16th and 17th Century
Science Chapter 8: The Early Modern Revolution in Science and Philosophy
Chapter 9: Certitude and the Books of Scripture, Nature and Conscience
Chapter 10: Sciences and Civilizations, "East" and "West": Joseph Needham
and Max Weber Part IV. Civilizational Analysis and the Study of Existences,
Experiences and Expressions Chapter 11: On the Structures of Consciousness
and the Omnipresence of the Grotesque Chapter 12: Eros, Nomos, Polis:
Shifting Balances of the Structures of Existence Chapter 13: Sociology and
Civilizational Analysis: A Reply to Friends and Critics Epilogue: Priests,
Prophets, Machines, Futures: 1202, 1848, 1984, 2001 Appendix- Our
Ecological Crisis