Name: The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe (en Inglés)
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Author: Gross, Alan G.
ISBN: 9780190637774

portada The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe (en Inglés)

The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Alan G. Gross

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.9 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9780190637774

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Historia de la ciencia

The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe (en Inglés)"

The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson--evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language? These authors maintain a tradition initiated by Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith, towering 18th-century figures who adapted the literary sublime first to nature, then to science--though with one crucial difference: religion has been replaced wholly by science. In a final chapter, Gross explores science's attack on religion, an assault that attempts to sweep permanently under the rug two questions science cannot answer: What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of the good life?