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Description of  William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

1032459174 rar The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely explored in this book. By examining the views of William Blake and other poets in the context of twentieth-century philosophers Hannah Arendt, Jacob Bronowski, Martin Heidegger, Bruno Latour and Karl Popper, amongst others, the book takes an eclectic approach drawing on examples from biology, history, literature, philosophy and economics, arguing for the reestablishment of imagination as a central attribute of science that may help to resolve some of our most pressing ecological problems as seen in the context of science and technology studies and what is loosely developing into the discipline of environmental humanities. Read more