On the Roads to Modernity

Conscience, Science, and Civilizations: Selected Writings by Benjamin Nelson, with a New Introduction
Herausgeber: Huff, Toby E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains highly original essays on the sweep of Western civilization from the middle ages to the present, including such topics as conscience and usury, "probabilism" in science and theology, systems of spiritual direction, as well as economic development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780739172940
• ISBN-10: 0739172948
• Artikelnr.: 34441915

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Nelson was a wide ranging New York intellectual, trained at Columbia in medieval history, who wrote a classic study, The Idea of Usury. Hebecame a sociologist and continued to explore large issues in philosophy, psychoanalysis and the construction of systems of spiritual direction. He taught at the University of Chicago, at Minnesota, and at the New School for Social Research. He also served as editor of many books in the famous Harper & Row paperback series of classic authors. Toby E. Huff is a research associate at Harvard University and Chancellor Professor Emeritus at UMass Dartmouth. He is the author of Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences (1984), The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (2nd ed. Cambridge 2003); Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010) as well as co-editor with Wolfgang Schluchter of Max Weber and Islam (1999). He has lectured in Europe, Asia and across the Muslim world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
On Life's Way: A Biographical Sketch
On The Road to Modernity
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Reprinted Edition
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1: On the Origins of Modernity: The Author's Point of View
Part II. Conscience Cultural Systems, and Directive Structures
Chapter 2: Cultural Cues and Directive Systems
Chapter 3: Self Images and Systems of Spiritual Direction
Chapter 4: Conscience and the Makings of Early Modern Cultures: Beyond Max
Weber
Chapter 5: Civilizational Complexes and Intercivilizational Encounters
Part III. Comparative Studies of Science in Historical and Civilizational
Perspectives
Chapter 6: On the Shoulders of Giants: The Comparative Historical Sociology
of "Science"
Chapter 7: Sources of "Probabilism" and "Anti-Probabilism" in 16th and 17th
Century Science
Chapter 8: The Early Modern Revolution in Science and Philosophy
Chapter 9: Certitude and the Books of Scripture, Nature and Conscience
Chapter 10: Sciences and Civilizations, "East" and "West": Joseph Needham
and Max Weber
Part IV. Civilizational Analysis and the Study of Existences, Experiences
and Expressions
Chapter 11: On the Structures of Consciousness and the Omnipresence of the
Grotesque
Chapter 12: Eros, Nomos, Polis: Shifting Balances of the Structures of
Existence
Chapter 13: Sociology and Civilizational Analysis: A Reply to Friends and
Critics
Epilogue: Priests, Prophets, Machines, Futures: 1202, 1848, 1984, 2001
Appendix- Our Ecological Crisis