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A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Being also an introduction to the study of the science

By: Ernst von Meyer

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A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Being also an introduction to the study of the science

By: Ernst von Meyer

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3112410742

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9783112410745

Kant's Life and Thought

By: Ernst Cassirer

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Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen’s and Cassirer’s only full-scale study of Kant’s philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer’s philosophy was based on Kant’s, and accordingly this book is Cassirer’s explicit coming to terms with his own historical origins. It sensitively integrates interesting facts about Kant’s life with an appreciation and critique of his works. Its value is enhanced by Stephen K�rner’s Introduction, which places Cassirer’s Kant-interpretation in its historical and contemporary context.”--Lewis White Beck "The first English translation (well done by James Haden) of a 60-year-old classic intellectual biography. Those readers who know Kant only through the first Critique will find their understanding of that work deepened and illuminated by a long explication of the pre-critical writings, but perhaps the most distinctive contribution is Cassirer’s argument that the later Critiques, and especially the Critique of Judgment, must be understood not as merely applying the principles of the first to other areas but as subsuming the latter into a larger and more comprehensive framework.”--Frederick J. Crown, The Key Reporter "Kant’s Life and Thought is that rare achievement: a lucid and highly readable account of the life and work of one of the world’s profoundest thinkers. Now for the first time available in an admirable English translation, the book introduces the reader to two of the finest minds in the history of philosophy.”--Ashley Montagu

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Yale University Press

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0300029829

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9780300029826

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

On the Evolutionary History of Culture

By: Ernst Kapp

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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

On the Evolutionary History of Culture

By: Ernst Kapp

The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of the human body and its relationship with the world that surrounds it. At the book’s core is the concept of “organ projection”: the notion that humans use technology in an effort to project their organs to the outside, to be understood as “the soul apparently stepping out of the body in the form of a sending-out of mental qualities” into the world of artifacts. Kapp applies this theory of organ projection to various areas of the material world—the axe externalizes the arm, the lens the eye, the telegraphic system the neural network. From the first tools to acoustic instruments, from architecture to the steam engine and the mechanic routes of the railway, Kapp’s analysis shifts from “simple” tools to more complex network technologies to examine the projection of relations. What emerges from Kapp’s prophetic work is nothing less than the emergence of early elements of a cybernetic paradigm.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452958211

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A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Kant's Life and Thought

Kant's Life and Thought

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

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