About this title: In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780029326312ISBN:0029326311
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780226808383ISBN:0226808386
Description: Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Clean, tight copy, mildy bumped tips on covers. NO slant to spine. Fine interior. 228 pp. read more
Edition: Univ of Chicago PR ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780226808383ISBN:0226808386
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. GREAT GIFT IDEA--MC 2403. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 235 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780226808383ISBN:0226808386
Description: Very Good. 8vo. xii, 228pp, index, bibliographical notes. Slight edge wear to card covers, small bump at bottom edge. read more
Description: Fine. 0029326311 Free Press hardcover w/dustjacket, 1990, 1st edition/1st printing, clean/tight, No marks/tears or defects...Fine/Fine (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation. read more
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"Very approachable and an interesting theory about the certainty of Descartes and Newton and the desire for decontextualized science and philosophy for modernity. Toulmin basically theorizes that the religious wars of the 17th century rejected the humanism of the Renaissance and we only got it back during the Civil Rights movement."
"this is no easy book to read. i remember complaining about it almost non-stop. even though our professors were kind enough to space it out among other more readable books, that just meant "oh no, now we have to read cosmopolis again." yet, in the end, perhaps one of the most important books of my college career in terms of shaping my worldview."
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