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The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics
S. Restivo
其他書名
Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas
出版Springer Science & Business Media, 1985-09-30
主題Gardening / GeneralMathematics / GeneralBody, Mind & Spirit / MysticismPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / ReligiousReference / GeneralReligion / PhilosophyScience / Physics / GeneralScience / Philosophy & Social AspectsSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN90277208439789027720849
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h6XypXr6lSMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and modern physics, and a sociological analysis of this claim as a strategy in intellectual conflict. This study must. ultimately be rooted more firmly in a: type of sociology of knowledge that is just now beginning to crystallize (and which I discuss in Chapter 7), and a sociology of religion that is not so much unknown as underground, and timid, that is, a non-worshipful materialist sociology of religion. My study of physics-mysticism parallelism is a vehicle for exploring epistemic strategies. I thus conclude Part I by sketching a materialist, emancipatory epistemic strategy. My conclusion brings together a number of ideas formulated by myself and others over the past several years, but stops short of a systematic synthesis. A more integrated and coherent "model" than what I can sketch here must wait on the results of research now in progress in the critical (as opposed to apologetic or worshipful) sociology of knowledge.