Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935

by Stephen Gaukroger

Book Overview

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones--come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192866281
• ISBN13: 9780192866288
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"