Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality: 1984 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) - Tapa blanda

Tambiah, Stanley

 
9780521376310: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality: 1984 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 0521376319 ISBN 13: 9780521376310
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Sinopsis

Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution, and then reconsiders the three major interpretive approaches to magic in anthropology: the intellectualist and evolutionary theories of Tylor and Frazer, Malinowski's functionalism, and Levy Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities. There follows a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism. The book concludes with a discussion of thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests interesting perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.

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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

De la contraportada

Most anthropologists who have attempted to demarcate and contrast magic, science and religion as cross-cultural categories appear to have been unaware of the rich and long intellectual history of Western thought which framed their own specialized writings. In this book, Professor Tambiah reexamines magic, science and religion within the framework of this history, including the Judaic religion, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the European scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521376319
ISBN 13 
9780521376310
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
200
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9780521374866: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality: 1984 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

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ISBN 10:  0521374863 ISBN 13:  9780521374866
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1990
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