The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox - Stephen Jay Gould
Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities
KORTE INHOUD
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. Stephen Jay Gould uses the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities to investigate urgent scientific issues of the past and present.
In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day, that science and the humanities stand in opposition. In the title and throughout the book Gould uses a metaphor drawn from Erasmus and a more obscure sixteenth-century scholar named Konrad Gesner (an illustrator of the animal kingdom) of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure from the Catholi...
In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day, that science and the humanities stand in opposition. In the title and throughout the book Gould uses a metaphor drawn from Erasmus and a more obscure sixteenth-century scholar named Konrad Gesner (an illustrator of the animal kingdom) of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure from the Catholi...
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