Publication

2021 - Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789048550043
  • ISBN-109048550041
  • Better World Books9789048550043
  • Open LibraryOL33851865M

Description

"Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, the awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element of "Baroque Science". Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself; including the notion that truth is out there, universal, and therefore situated at one remove from human manipulations. This book addresses the central question of how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, amidst uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. An international and interdisciplinary team of experts in fields ranging from Astronomy to Business Administration to Theology investigate a number of practices that are central to maintaining and functionalizing the notion of absolute truth, the certainty that could be achieved about it, and of the credibility of a wide plethora of actors in differentiating fields of knowledge"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Making Truth in Early Modern CatholicismAmsterdam University Press2021-01-01

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