Understanding Nature: Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology

by Hub Zwart

Book Overview

This summons clearly resonates with the "archetypical image" associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one's horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like Darwin and novelists like Melville actually went to sea. Darwin, although regarded by Nietzsche as an arid 6 and mediocre mind, exposed himself to the experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048176549
• ISBN13: 9789048176540
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"