What Reason Promises [online] : Essays on Reason, Nature and History / Wendy Doniger, Peter Galison and Susan Neiman

Frontmatter Table of Contents Processional Poem: If we could know Introduction

Reason Expanded Is Reason Defensible? The Natural and the Moral Order: What’s to Blame? Rationality for Dummies? Objectivity and the Theory of the Archetype Thus We See: Objectivity and Archaeology Love = Medieval Miracles as Evidence Myth, Reason, and Rationality

Nature Enframed Dwelling Under the Sea, or the Wonder of a Glass Sponge Miss Fielde’s Nests Revisiting Mein Weltbild Knowledge and Rational Action: The Economization of Environment, and After Galilei’s Spiral Scribbles, Campanella and Fludd Heraclitus Fragment B123 DK Some Comments on Emergence Anthropomorphism and Science Fiction Empirical Observation and Embodied Nature in Sixteenth-century South India

History Refracted Limits of Localism: The Scale of Sight Discipline(s) Good Company: Spinoza the Traditionalist and Some Unexpected Friends Historicizing Novelty Literary Knowledge between Translation and Migration: The Case of Dostoevsky in Israel Crab Nebulous Reason, Nature, Metaphor A Page at the Orchestra Athanasius Kircher on the Beauty of Knowing Everything The Note Epilogue: “Man, That Woman Can Talk!” Recessional Poem: “Josefa de Ayala/Josepha von Óbidos (1630–1684): Stilleben, ca. 1660–1670” Contributors
Curriculum Vitae of Lorraine Daston
Index of Authors and Subjects

Achiziție prin proiectul Anelis Plus 2020.