Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective
This book, inspired by the sociologist Gnter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the worlds leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partia…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Dux, Günter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-04-18526-5
- EAN: 9789004185265
- Produktnummer: 7213696
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 566 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B16.7 cm x D4.6 cm 1'020 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 1
- Gewicht: 1020
Über den Autor
Hans Ulrich Vogel, Ph.D. (1983) in Sinology, Zurich University is Professor of Chinese History and Society at Tubingen University. He has published mainly on the history of society, economy, science and technology in premodern China. Guenter Dux, Dr. iur., University of Bonn, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Freiburg University; Germany. He has published mainly on the sociology of culture, sociology of social and cultural change and sociology of politics. Mark Elvin, Ph.D. (1968) in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at the Australian National University. He has published mainly on economic and environmental history as well as history of technology in China.
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