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Hermes and the Telescope: History and Philosophy of Science

Autor Paolo Palmieri
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iul 2016
This book explores the life of Galileo Galilei through a philosophical and scientific lens, utilizing an innovative hermeneutic perspective that places his work in the wider context of early modern hermeticism, religious heresy, and libertinism. As the first comprehensive study of Galileös life and work from a phenomenological and existentialist viewpoint, Paolo Palmieri calls into question the positivist myth of Galileo, the founder of modern science, and interrogates the positivist historiography that has shaped the myth since the historic publication of the monumental edition of Galileös works at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights the entanglement of Galileös natural philosophy with his private unorthodox convictions about Christian theology, Biblical hermeneutic, sexuality, and the hidden traditions of Italian heretics and libertines. The text demonstrates the philosophical, pedagogical, and political implications of this new reading of one of the founding fathers of modernity for both the sciences and the humanities. Addressing hotly debated questions of ethnicity, racism, subjectivity, the self, and pedagogy, this study will be of particular interest to scholars who teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in history of science, philosophy of science, phenomenology and existential philosophy, cultural studies, Italian studies, humanism, and the European Renaissance.
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ISBN-13: 9781433131400
ISBN-10: 1433131404
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 156 x 231 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG
Seria History and Philosophy of Science


Notă biografică

Paolo Palmieri received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the University of London. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, exploring the traditions which shaped modernity during the late middle ages through the twentieth century. His research includes work on the creativity processes at the crossroads of art, science, philosophy, and pedagogy. Dr. Palmieri¿s special interests also include early modern science and philosophy, hermeticism, the Montessori method, pragmatism, existentialism, and phenomenology. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books.

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This book explores the life of Galileo Galilei through a philosophical and scientific lens, utilizing an innovative hermeneutic perspective that places his work in the wider context of early modern hermeticism, religious heresy, and libertinism.