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Product details
- ISBN 9780226808383
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1992
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda - its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.
