Demystifying Mentalities. - LLOYD, G.E.R.,
KORTE INHOUD
?In this study G.E.R. Lloyd explores the rhetoric of discourse in which early Greek scientific concepts were expressed. He begins by questioning the validity of Lévy-Bruhl?s influential concept of ?mentalities? as it applies to Greek society. Lloyd argues that the notion is not merely vague and ambiguous, (?) but that it ignores the critical problem of how an observer?s own value-laden categories can significantly distort the interpretation of the actor?s beliefs. Lloyds proceeds to a discussion of Greek medicine as a representative example of the development of Greek science. He focuses on the difficulty of distinguishing clearly between the literal and metaphorical intent of the counterintuitive or paradoxical statements that are frequently found in Greek literature. (?) he points out that Greek science and philosophy developed in the context debate, both intellectual and political, and cannot be understood apart from the adversarial and agonistic elements that were so much a part of Greek life. (?) Lloyd c...
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1993. Reprint 1st ed. VIII,174p. Paperback. Ex libris Prof. Horstmanshoff glued to half title. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: LLOYD, G.E.R.,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: Demystifying Mentalities.]
