Emerson's life in science : the culture of truth /
"Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Sphinx at the crossroads
- Converting the world: knowledge, science, power
- Gnomic science: the body and the law
- Global polarity and the single life
- Truth against the world
- The solar eye of science.