Hermes and the Telescope: In the Crucible of Galileo's Life-World Contributor(s): Palmieri, Paolo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433131404 ISBN-13: 9781433131400 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $104.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Religious |
Dewey: 501 |
LCCN: 2016014986 |
Series: History and Philosophy of Science |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.4" (1.25 lbs) 236 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 Galileo's 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 Galileo's works at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights the entanglement of Galileo's 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. |