The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities - Hardcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

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ISBN 10: 0609601407 ISBN 13: 9780609601402

Verlag: Harmony Books, 2003

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Book by Gould Stephen Jay

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Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.C. Greek soldier and poet Archilochus to challenge assumptions about an inescapable conflict between science and the humanities, rebut ideas from Edward O. Wilson's Consilience, and explain why the pursuit of knowledge must always operate in tandem with nature. 50,000 first printing.

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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

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• Verlag: Harmony Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0609601407
• ISBN 13: 9780609601402
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274