Force, Movement, Intensity
The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences
$73.40
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2011
Summary
Of all the scientific works that have influenced the social sciences and humanities, none has matched the profound effect of the work of Isaac Newton. In his 1687 masterpiece Principia Mathematica he laid the foundation of classical mechanics in his discoveries of the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. He reoriented human understanding of the cosmos, thus boosting the confidence of human beings to access elements of what they saw as the divine logic behind the order of thing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522860818 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522860818 |
| Author: | Ghassan Hage |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 134mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Academic Monograph |
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Ghassan Hage
“Professor Ghassan Hage is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the University of Melbourne’s Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory. He is the author of White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism, and Waiting (MUP). He has researched and published widely in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, racism and migration.Emma Kowal is a cultural anthropologist of white anti-racism and Indigenous governance in Australia. She is the co-editor of Moving Anthropology- Critical Indigenous Studies, and her work has been published in journals including American Anthropologist, Social Science and Medicine and Cultural Studies. She is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.”
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