04761nam a22005295i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001500172072001500187072002300202072001400225100008700239245013800326250001800464264008200482300004300564336002600607337002600633338003600659347002400695505102200719520183601741650003603577650003203613650002903645650002903674650002603703650004303729650003403772650003103806650003303837650004203870650006003912710003403972773002604006776003604032776003604068776003604104856004604140912001404186912001404200999001704214978-981-97-9472-0DE-He21320251030114638.0cr nn 008mamaa241224s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197947209978-981-97-9472-07 a10.1007/978-981-97-9472-02doi 4aQ175.4-.55 7aJF2bicssc 7aSOC0000002bisacsh 7aJB2thema1 aLau, Raymond W. K.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98403310aRethinking the Needham Questionh[electronic resource] :bA Non-Eurocentric Framework Transcending Dialogism /cby Raymond W. K. Lau.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVI, 358 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Needham Question, dialogism versus Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, and the need to transcend dialogism -- Chapter 3: Analyzing intellectual development on a non-essentialist basis: A theoretical-methodological framework -- Chapter 4: Greece and the Needham Question -- Chapter 5: Social essentialism and sociological reductionism concerning Greece in comparison to China -- Chapter 6: The issue of evidence of knowledge transmission across different civilizations -- Chapter 7: Alleged ‘cultural obstacles’ to knowledge transmission and Huff’s ‘intellectual curiosity’ argument -- Chapter 8: Late-Renaissance scholar agency and the breakthrough into modern science -- Chapter 9: Cultural essentialism and Cohen’s Eurocentric-cum-neo-Eurocentric argument concerning the breakthrough into modern science -- Chapter 10: Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Appendix – Deconstructing cultural essentialism at root: The ‘maritime vs continental civilizations’ narrative.  aThis book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question. Why did modern science emerge in Europe, but not in any of the advanced non-European civilizations? Eurocentric accounts attribute it to certain ‘qualities’ said to be ‘unique’ to Europe. Opposed to the Eurocentric view is a position known as the ‘dialogical perspective’. Dialogism argues that Europe borrowed heavily from non-European scientific knowledges, and that scientific exchanges were key to the development of modern science. Neo-Eurocentric arguments have emerged in response to the challenge of dialogism, and the debate between Eurocentrism/neo-Eurocentrism and dialogism currently stands at a stalemate. In this book, Raymond Lau brings a new theoretical-methodological framework to finally settle this debate. The historical analysis developed here shows that to secure the non-Eurocentric case, and decisively rebut Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, it is necessary to go beyond dialogism both theoretically and methodologically. Raymond W.K. Lau, PhD, was Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University until retirement in 2017; he is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University. He has published primary research on the philosophies of Xunzi, Laozi, and Zhuangzi. In Intellectual Developments in Greece and China: Contingency, Institutionalization and Path Dependency (2020), he formulated a theoretical-methodological framework for analyzing intellectual development on a non-essentialist basis, which also underpins the present work. His research into the Needham Question is an extension from that previous work. He is a co-editor and contributor to the volume titled Multicultural Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham’s Dialogical Vision (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). 0aSciencexSocial aspects.969032 0aSciencexPhilosophy.963307 0aSciencexHistory.965232 0aKnowledge, Sociology of. 0aWorld history.96522014aScience and Technology Studies.96903324aPhilosophy of Science.96856024aHistory of Science.96610124aSociology of Science.98213524aSociology of Knowledge and Discourse.24aWorld History, Global and Transnational History.9664702 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981979471308iPrinted edition:z978981979473708iPrinted edition:z978981979474440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9472-0  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c66015d66015