The Problem of Knowledge : Philosophy, Science, and History Since Hegel

Pbk, xviii, 334 pages ; 25 cm. Covers slightly dulled o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Contents : pt. 1. Exact science. The problem of space and the development of non-euclidean geometry ; Experience and thought in the construction of geometry ; Order and measurement in geometry ; The concept of number and its logical foundation ; The goal and methods of theoretical physics -- pt. 2. The ideal of knowledge and its transformations in biology. The problem of classifying and systematizing natural forms ; The idea of metamorphpsis and idealistic morphology : goethe ; Developmental history as a problem and a maxim ; Darwinism as a dogma and as a principle of knowledge ; Developmental mechanics and the problem of cause in biology ; The argument over vitalism and the autonomy of living organisms -- pt. 3. Fundamental forms and tendencies of historical knowledge. The rise of historicism : Herder ; Romanticism and the beginnings of the critical science of history : the theory or historical ideas, Niebuhr, Ranke, Humbolt ; Positivism and its ideal of historical knowledge : Taine ; Political and constitutional theory as foundations of historiography : Mommsen ; Political history and the history of civilization : Burckhardt ; The theory of psychological types in history : Lamprecht ; Influence in the history of religion on the ideal of historical knowledge : Strauss, Renan, Fustel de Coulanges. t253 / m15892.…