Critique of Contemporary Techno-Scientific Civilisation

Krista Berglund
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Krista Berglund: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker, 2012, pp 429-471 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter finally discusses Shafarevich’s texts on contemporary Western civilisation, a broad subject which, judging by his recollections recounted in Ch. 2, has intrigued him since he went to school in the 1930s – the time when the young Soviet state was frenetically building itself a bold future. With the view of what will follow, it is telling that Shafarevich’s earliest known non-mathematical text was dedicated to Konrad Lorenz’s findings in ethology. As was noted in Ch. 6, Shafarevich explained the significance of Lorenz’s work by saying that in our times, in particular, it is important to consider the world in terms of something that is living, not only in terms of mechanisms and machines as so often is done.

Keywords: Western Civilisation; Scientific Revolution; Command System; Ecological Crisis; Soviet System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0215-4_10

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