ISBN:
9789400970588
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
A Pallas Paperback
Series Statement:
Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied 10
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Keywords:
Philosophy
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Science Philosophy
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Humanities
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Science—Philosophy.
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Religion—Philosophy.
Abstract:
I. Physics, Mysticism, and Society -- Section I. The Parallelist Perspective -- 1: Parallels Between Physics and Mysticism -- 2: The Pitfalls of Parallelism -- Section II. The Sociology of Physics and Mysticism -- 3: Mysticism as a Social Fact -- 4: Physics as a Social Fact -- Section III. Parallelism and Society -- 5: Interests and Ideas: Parallelism as an Intellectual Strategy -- 6: Parallelism, Science, and Society -- Section IV. Emancipatory Epistemology -- 7: Epistemic Strategies, Society, and Social Change -- II. The Social Roots of Mathematics -- Section V. Introduction -- 8: The Sociology of Mathematics -- Section VI. The Legacy of Marx -- 9: Dialectics, Materialism, and Mathematics -- 10: Historical Materialism and Mathematics -- 11: Contemporary Marxist Sociology of Mathematics -- Section VII. The Legacy of Spengler -- 12: Numbers and Cultures -- 13: Mathematics and World View -- Section VIII. Sociological Materialism and History of Mathematics: An Exploratory Case Study -- 14: Mathematics in Ancient Greece -- 15: Mathematics in Europe, 1200–1700 -- Notes -- Name Index.
Abstract:
The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and modern physics, and a sociological analysis of this claim as a strategy in intellectual conflict. This study must. ultimately be rooted more firmly in a: type of sociology of knowledge that is just now beginning to crystallize (and which I discuss in Chapter 7), and a sociology of religion that is not so much unknown as underground, and timid, that is, a non-worshipful materialist sociology of religion. My study of physics-mysticism parallelism is a vehicle for exploring epistemic strategies. I thus conclude Part I by sketching a materialist, emancipatory epistemic strategy. My conclusion brings together a number of ideas formulated by myself and others over the past several years, but stops short of a systematic synthesis. A more integrated and coherent "model" than what I can sketch here must wait on the results of research now in progress in the critical (as opposed to apologetic or worshipful) sociology of knowledge.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-7058-8
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