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Intellectual Developments in Greece and China
Raymond W.K. Lau
其他書名
Contingency, Institutionalization and Path Dependency
出版Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020-03-17
主題Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN15275485629781527548565
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bUfhDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book presents a study of historical sociology and a comparison of ancient Greece’s and ancient China’s intellectual developments. It provides a special historical-sociological theoretical model, allowing the exploration of how and why Greece’s and China’s developments followed two different trajectories. This model allows a superior explanation of this phenomenon than previous studies, which all employ the outdated methodology of mono-causal determinism. This work takes the critique of Eurocentric views in comparative studies, pioneered by Joseph Needham in Science and Civilization in China, to a new level of excellence, because, in addition to presenting new empirical findings and dispelling previous misunderstandings, it also provides a sophisticated theoretical analysis. It will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of comparative intellectual studies, sinology, historical sociology, classics, and intellectual history.