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Cultivating Perception, Countering Faust
Sean HowardLee-Anne Broadhead
其他書名
The Radical Resonance of Goethean and Indigenous Science
出版Peter Lang, 2025
主題Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN16366774959781636677491
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9fxe0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with 'science proper' - the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality - has been called into question in recent decades. This book offers a critique of that dominant worldview through a comparative analysis of two radical alternatives: Indigenous Science and Goethean Science. On close examination, the resonance between these two approaches to nature and knowledge becomes strikingly clear. The authors present both Goethean and Indigenous Sciences as counter-Faustian, using 'Faust' - Goethe's greatest literary creation - as shorthand for the hubristic supremacism, massive destructiveness, and wanton disregard for the natural world characteristic of Eurocentric science in the last four centuries"--