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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9780609601402
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609601407
ISBN-13
9780609601402
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1525095
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox : Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, History
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-007807
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
303.483
Synopsis
For the metaphor of cunning versus persistence that runs through this title, Gould refers to the 7th century B.C., when the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus said that "the fox devises many strategies; the hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy.", In his final book and his first full-length original title since "Full House" in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities., In his final book and his first full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long. To establish his two protagonists, Gould draws from a seventh century b.c. proverb attributed to the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus that said roughly, "The fox devises many strategies; the hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy." While emphatically rejecting any simplistic attempt to assign either science or the humanities to one or the other of these approaches to knowledge, Gould uses this ancient concept to demonstrate that neither strategy can work alone, but that these seeming opposites can be conjoined into a common enterprise of tremendous unity and power. In building his case, Gould shows why the common assumption of an inescapable conflict between science and the humanities (in which he includes religion) is false, mounts a spirited rebuttal to the ideas that his intellectual rival E. O. Wilson set forth in his book Consilience, and explains why the pursuit of knowledge must always operate upon the bedrock of nature's randomness.The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Poxis a controversial discourse, rich with facts and observations gathered by one of the most erudite minds of our time.
LC Classification Number
Q175.55.G68 2003
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