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Science and the Creative Spirit : Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science

Men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous conseq...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Harcourt
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1958.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN: AN INTRODUCTION
  • I: SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE GROWTH OF CIVILIZATION
  • II: "THOSE SCATTERED RAYS CONVERGENT": SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
  • III: TENSIONS AND ANXIETIES: SCIENCE AND THE LITERARY CULTURE OF FRANCE
  • IV: THE CREATIVITY OF SCIENCE.