Isbn: 9780521376310 - magic, science and religion and the scope of rationality (lewis henry morgan lectures) (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution, and then reconsiders the three major interpretive approaches to magic in anthropology: the intellectualist and evolutionary theories of Tylor and Frazer, Malinowski's functionalism, and Levy Bruhl's philosophical anthropology, which posited a distinction between mystical and logical mentalities. There follows a wide-ranging and suggestive discussion of rationality and relativism. The book concludes with a discussion of thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests interesting perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.…

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Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Very Good. Condition Notes: Previous owners' name to the upper wrapper verso; Paperback; Measures Trade Paperback (9" x 6") (0.6 kg); pp (xi) 187; Index; Bibliography; In the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures series; Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185456 ||.…