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William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep Keith Davies

William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep By Keith Davies

William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep by Keith Davies


Summary

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role of poiesis and imagination play in our understanding of science and of progress is widely explored in this book through taking an eclectic approach to arguing for the reestablishment of imagination as a central attribute of science to resolve our most pressing ecological problems.

William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep Summary

William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress by Keith Davies

By examining the views of William Blake and other poets in the context of twentieth century philosophers Jacob Bronowski, Martin Heidegger, Karl Popper, and Hannah Arendt, amongst others, the book takes an eclectic approach drawing on examples from biology, history, literature, philosophy and economics, arguing for the reestablishment of imagination as a central attribute of science that may help to resolve some of our most pressing ecological problems as seen in the context of science and technology studies and what is loosely developing into the discipline of environmental humanities.

This book is an excellent reference book for postgraduate students and professional researchers interested in ecology and environmental humanities and offers a new perspective on the history of science and the role of imagination within this field.

About Keith Davies

Keith G. Davies is an associate professor based at the University of Hertfordshire, where he teaches the science of crop protection and plant pathology. Dr Davies has published widely on crop protection in over 80 refereed articles and book chapters and has also been actively involved in public engagement with science. This is his first book that brings together his scientific concerns with his broader cultural and philosophic interests around the relationship between science, the humanities and the nature of progress.

Table of Contents

1. Unacknowledged legislators 2. Providence and progress 3. Hegemony of science 4. Myopic evolutionists 5. Mind from matter 6. Matter from mind 7. City of imagination 8. Homo faber 9. Science and public affairs 10. Antidote for the future 11. Reawakening Newton 12. Where do we go from here? 13. Epilogue

Additional information

NPB9781032459172
9781032459172
1032459174
William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress by Keith Davies
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-07-27
208
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