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The Lever as Instrument of Reason
Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800
Taschenbuch von Jocelyn Holland
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Jocelyn Holland
Zusammenfassung
By offering a productive means of connecting questions of literature, science, and technology, this book will also serve as an example of interdisciplinary research in and beyond the field of German studies
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction. An Object and Its Positions: The Lever, the Fulcrum, and the Archimedean Point
1. The Balance of Life / Quantifying Kant
2. The Levers of German Romanticism
3. The Contested God of Naturphilosophie4. From Naturphilosophie to a Mechanically-Minded Psychology
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781501371141
ISBN-10: 1501371142
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Holland, Jocelyn
Redaktion: Meyer, Imke
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Maße: 139 x 216 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jocelyn Holland
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,284 kg
Artikel-ID: 121903388
Über den Autor
Jocelyn Holland
Zusammenfassung
By offering a productive means of connecting questions of literature, science, and technology, this book will also serve as an example of interdisciplinary research in and beyond the field of German studies
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction. An Object and Its Positions: The Lever, the Fulcrum, and the Archimedean Point
1. The Balance of Life / Quantifying Kant
2. The Levers of German Romanticism
3. The Contested God of Naturphilosophie4. From Naturphilosophie to a Mechanically-Minded Psychology
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781501371141
ISBN-10: 1501371142
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Holland, Jocelyn
Redaktion: Meyer, Imke
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Maße: 139 x 216 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jocelyn Holland
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,284 kg
Artikel-ID: 121903388
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