TY  - GEN
T1  - At the end of an age
A1  - Lukacs, John, 1924-2019
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn808346537
AB  - At the End of an Age is a deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge. In this work, John Lukacs describes how we in the Western world have now been living through the ending of an entire historical age that began in Western Europe about five hundred years ago. Unlike people during the ending of the Middle Ages or the Roman empire, we can know where we are. But how and what is it that we know?In John Lukacs's view, there is no science apart from scientists, and all of "Science," including our view of the universe, is a human creation, imagined and defined by fallible human beings in a historical continuum. This radical and reactionary assertion-in its way a summa of the author's thinking, expressed here and there in many of his previous twenty-odd books-leads to his fundamental assertion that, contrary to all existing cosmological doctrines and theories, it is this earth which is the very center of the universe-the only universe we know and can know.
OP  - 230
CN  - CB430 .L85 2002eb
SN  - 9780300180923
SN  - 0300180926
SN  - 0300092962
SN  - 9780300092967
KW  - Civilization, Modern : 1950- : Philosophy.
KW  - Postmodernism.
KW  - Science and civilization.
KW  - Dualism.
KW  - Monism.
KW  - Civilisation : 1950- : Philosophie.
KW  - Postmodernisme.
KW  - Sciences et civilisation.
KW  - Dualisme.
KW  - Monisme.
KW  - dualism.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Epistemology.
KW  - Civilization, Modern : Philosophy
KW  - Dualism
KW  - Monism
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - Since 1950
ER  -