Federico Marcon is assistant professor of Japanese history in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.
发表于2024-11-25
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity—and then seemingly disappeared. Or did it? In The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, Federico Marcon recounts how Japanese scholars developed a sophisticated discipline of natural history analogous to Europe’s but created independently, without direct influence, and argues convincingly that Japanese natural history succumbed to Western science not because of suppression and substitution, as scholars traditionally have contended, but by adaptation and transformation.
The first book-length English-language study devoted to the important field of honzogaku, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan will be an essential text for historians of Japanese and East Asian science, and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the development of science in the early modern era.
well organized and beautifully written。不过是不是占了英语圈没有类似主题著作的便宜感觉主要是汇总了日本材料。。。做入门参考不错
评分Marcon是历史圈为数不多真正喜欢critical theory的,在普大还专门教过Horkheimer/Adorno的课。这本书文本扎实,叙述流畅,将知识史、政治史、文化史结合起来得很精美,不过因为强调secularization总让人觉得有些teleology的影子(虽说在22/23页否定了teleology)。建议和Josephson Storm那本The Invention of Religion in Japan的一起看。
评分始终觉得他的理论和材料有两张皮的感觉,不过其人还是很风趣的,现在转向货币的社会史研究
评分Marcon是历史圈为数不多真正喜欢critical theory的,在普大还专门教过Horkheimer/Adorno的课。这本书文本扎实,叙述流畅,将知识史、政治史、文化史结合起来得很精美,不过因为强调secularization总让人觉得有些teleology的影子(虽说在22/23页否定了teleology)。建议和Josephson Storm那本The Invention of Religion in Japan的一起看。
评分下学期选他的课
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书