The Lever as Instrument of Reason (PDF)
Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800
(Sprache: Englisch)
The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature...
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The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers?
In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.
In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.
Autoren-Porträt von Jocelyn Holland
Jocelyn Holland is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Professor of Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of German Romanticism and Science: the Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis and Ritter (2009) and Key Texts on the Science and Art of Nature by Johann Wilhelm Ritter (2010).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jocelyn Holland
- 2019, 1. Auflage, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- ISBN-10: 1501346075
- ISBN-13: 9781501346071
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2019
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