| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Collection -- Unpacking the Collection -- Visions of Wonderment: Overcoming the Logic of the Treasure Hoard -- Of Lux and Lumen: Reflections on the Sacred -- Rainbow Madonna: The Transparency of Scientific Knowledge -- "Enlightenment" of Curiosity: Dispelling the Enchantment of Collection -- Fox, the Fake, and the Firmament -- Renewal of Worlds: The "Knowing" Prince and the Cult of the Machine -- Postscript: From Collection to Exhibition -- 2. Bodies -- Scientific Prestidigitations: The "Collection" and Repatriation of Yagan -- Three Tasks of Andreas Vesalius: A "Biography" of Anatomy -- Life of Infamous Men -- Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp -- Representing Open Bodies: The Birth of a Scientific Gaze -- Normative Science and the "Evasiveness" of Anatomical Illustration -- Carnivalesque Anatomy: The Narrative of the Criminal-God -- Beyond Iconography: Toward a Reclamation of the Sacred -- Conclusion: Dissecting Statues / Invigorating Knowledge -- Postscript: Fragments of Yagan -- 3. Spaces -- Visions of Modernity: Perspectives on the Sacred -- Painting the "World Picture": Toward a Genealogy of Cartography -- Moral Geographies / Earthly Technologies: The Magic of Geometric Perspective -- Cartographic Desire: Mapping and the Erasure of Space -- Mapping and the Colonization of Space -- Modernity in Ascension: The World Picture Mourning the Celestial -- Postscript: The Maze of Linear Discourse -- CONCLUSION -- Scientific "Visions" of the Living Body -- Monuments and Masks: Visions of a Modern Sacred -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems |
| Analysis |
ARTS/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Ansichtspostkarte
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Körper Motiv
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Moderne
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Körper.
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Moderne.
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Wissenschaftstheorie.
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Erkenntnistheorie.
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Raritätenkammer.
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Anatomie.
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Kartographie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262298971 |
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026229897X |
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9780262298100 |
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0262298104 |
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