Jurgen Renn

Gebundenes Buch

The Evolution of Knowledge

Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

Beschreibung

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jurgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations g

Autor

Jürgen Renn is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where, together with his group, he researches structural changes in systems of knowledge. His books include, with Hanoch Gutfreund, The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures and The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity" (both Princeton).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9780691171982
• ISBN-10: 069117198X
• Artikelnr.: 56711013