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A final story : science, myth, and beginnings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zakariya, Nasser (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Science > Historiography.
Science > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Varieties of Natural History : The Whole of the Natural and the Known
  • Dogmas of Unity and Questions of Expertise
  • The Many Faces of Force and the Mutability of Energy
  • Schisms
  • Part II
  • Undoing and Reassembling Scales and Histories
  • Other Emerging Genres of Synthesis : From the Fabulaic to the Foundational
  • Humanisms, Nuclear Histories, and Nuclear Ages
  • Scientific Myth and Mysticism
  • Part III
  • Scientific Tribes and Totalizing Myths
  • Cosmos and the Structure of "Epic Myth"
  • Political Cosmologies
  • A New Version of Genesis
  • Coda : Epic Humanisms.