What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History

Published by De Gruyter 2016

What Reason Promises

Essays on Reason, Nature and History

Edited by: Wendy Doniger , Peter Galison and Susan Neiman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455113

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Contents

About this book

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on three interlocking categories: Reason stakes a bigger territory than the enclosed yard of universal rules. Nature expands over a far larger region than an eternal category of the natural. And history refuses to be confined to claims of an unencumbered truth of how things happened.

Author / Editor information

W. Doniger, University of Chicago, US; P. Galison, Harvard University, Cambridge, US; S. Neiman, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Processional Poem: If we could know Amy Edith Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction Peter Galison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Reason Expanded
Is Reason Defensible? Susan Neiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Natural and the Moral Order: What’s to Blame? Nancy Cartwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Rationality for Dummies? Philip Kitcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Objectivity and the Theory of the Archetype Robert Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Thus We See: Objectivity and Archaeology Simon Goldhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Love = David Nirenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Medieval Miracles as Evidence Caroline Bynum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Myth, Reason, and Rationality Wendy Doniger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Nature Enframed
Dwelling Under the Sea, or the Wonder of a Glass Sponge Marina Warner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Miss Fielde’s Nests Deborah R. Coen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Revisiting Mein Weltbild Gerald Holton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Knowledge and Rational Action: The Economization of Environment, and After Dominique Pestre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Galilei’s Spiral Scribbles, Campanella and Fludd Horst Bredekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Heraclitus Fragment B123 DK Glenn W. Most Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Some Comments on Emergence Sam Schweber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Anthropomorphism and Science Fiction William C. Wimsatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Empirical Observation and Embodied Nature in Sixteenth-century South India David Shulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
History Refracted
Limits of Localism: The Scale of Sight Peter Galison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Discipline(s) Robert Pippin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Good Company: Spinoza the Traditionalist and Some Unexpected Friends Anthony Grafton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Historicizing Novelty Daniel Garber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Literary Knowledge between Translation and Migration: The Case of Dostoevsky in Israel Rivka Feldhay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Crab Nebulous Michael D. Gordin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Reason, Nature, Metaphor Andrew Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
A Page at the Orchestra Carla Nappi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Athanasius Kircher on the Beauty of Knowing Everything Ingrid Rowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
The Note Caroline A. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Epilogue: “Man, That Woman Can Talk!” M. Norton Wise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Recessional Poem: “Josefa de Ayala/Josepha von Óbidos (1630–1684): Stilleben, ca. 1660–1670” Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Curriculum Vitae of Lorraine Daston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index of Authors and Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler/innen, Institute, Bibliotheken
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Reason; knowledge; rationality; history of science

eBook

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110455113

Hardcover

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110453393