Rethinking the Needham Question
portes grátis
Rethinking the Needham Question
A Non-Eurocentric Framework Transcending Dialogism
Lau, Raymond W. K.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
01/2025
335
Dura
9789819794713
Pré-lançamento - envio 15 a 20 dias após a sua edição
Descrição não disponível.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Needham Question, dialogism versus Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, and the need to transcend dialogism.- Chapter 3: Analyzing intellectual development on a non-essentialist basis: A theoretical-methodological framework.- Chapter 4: Greece and the Needham Question.- Chapter 5: Social essentialism and sociological reductionism concerning Greece in comparison to China.- Chapter 6: The issue of evidence of knowledge transmission across different civilizations.- Chapter 7: Alleged 'cultural obstacles' to knowledge transmission and Huff's 'intellectual curiosity' argument.- Chapter 8: Late-Renaissance scholar agency and the breakthrough into modern science.- Chapter 9: Cultural essentialism and Cohen's Eurocentric-cum-neo-Eurocentric argument concerning the breakthrough into modern science.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.- Chapter 11: Appendix - Deconstructing cultural essentialism at root: The 'maritime vs continental civilizations' narrative.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Needham Question;Eurocentrism;neo-Eurocentrism;essentialism;cultural essentialism;social essentialism;circulation of knowledge;knowledge exchanges;science history;historical sociology;sinology;science studies;sociology of knowledge;Chinese science;Islamic science;Arabic science;comparative studies;Joseph Needham;decoloniality
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Needham Question, dialogism versus Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, and the need to transcend dialogism.- Chapter 3: Analyzing intellectual development on a non-essentialist basis: A theoretical-methodological framework.- Chapter 4: Greece and the Needham Question.- Chapter 5: Social essentialism and sociological reductionism concerning Greece in comparison to China.- Chapter 6: The issue of evidence of knowledge transmission across different civilizations.- Chapter 7: Alleged 'cultural obstacles' to knowledge transmission and Huff's 'intellectual curiosity' argument.- Chapter 8: Late-Renaissance scholar agency and the breakthrough into modern science.- Chapter 9: Cultural essentialism and Cohen's Eurocentric-cum-neo-Eurocentric argument concerning the breakthrough into modern science.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.- Chapter 11: Appendix - Deconstructing cultural essentialism at root: The 'maritime vs continental civilizations' narrative.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Needham Question;Eurocentrism;neo-Eurocentrism;essentialism;cultural essentialism;social essentialism;circulation of knowledge;knowledge exchanges;science history;historical sociology;sinology;science studies;sociology of knowledge;Chinese science;Islamic science;Arabic science;comparative studies;Joseph Needham;decoloniality
