[INDOLOGY] New publication: Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe, ed. by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf. Routledge, 2020

Jan E.M. Houben jemhouben at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 21:47:45 UTC 2020


Dear List Members,
Although, strictly speaking, only some of the chapters are directly
relevant to this List, many might also be interested in the book as a whole:

*Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe*
Edited by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf,
Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2020

ToC:
List of contributors viii
Foreword xii (see extract below)

PART I
Scientification and scientism in India p. 1

Introduction to part I   p. 3-12
AXEL MICHAELS

1. The art of grammar in context: ‘Science’, human interest,
and the construction of cultural and political worlds p. 13-41
JAN E. M. HOUBEN

2. Sanskrit and computer science p. 42-56
ANAND MISHRA

3. Mathematics and Vedic mathematics 57-68
AXEL MICHAELS

4. The birth of the (exorcism) clinic: media, modernity,
and the jinn 69-77
WILLIAM S. SAX

5. The science question in alternative agricultures: zero
budget natural farming and the emergence of agronomical
pluralism in India 78-95
DANIEL MÜNSTER

6. Counting food?: the pitfalls of caloric conception
of nutrition and alternative theories of food 96-113
V. SUJATHA

7. Thinking about agriculture in an industrialising
economy: an essay 114-126
SUSAN VISVANATHAN

PART II
Philosophical and anthropological foundations
in the European history of science 127

Introduction to part II: philosophy, anthropology
and history of the humanities 129-137
CHRISTOPH WULF

8. The dominance of scientific knowledge and the devaluation
of other forms of knowledge 138-154
CHRISTOPH WULF

9. Modernity, colonialism and the ‘Science of Language’ 154-172
FRANSON MANJALI

10. Scientism of early modern age and the prevailing scholastic
discourse on principium individuationis 173-192
BABU THALIATH

11. Prolegomenon to the study of science and religion:
a philosophical and historical reflection 193-205
DHRUV RAINA

12. Technoscientification and the oblivion of the social
dimension of knowledge 206-215
GABRIELE SORGO

13. Science cannot do it alone: habits, environment,
and the enchantment of beauty 216-229
MARIAGRAZIA PORTERA

14. Knowledge and science in the art of living 230-241
JÖRG ZIRFAS

15. Transforming knowledge into cognitive basis of policies:
a cosmopolitan from below approach 242-254
VANDO BORGHI

16. The limits of science from the standpoint of philosophy 255-269
JACQUES POULAIN

Index 270

*** *** ***

>From the Foreword by the Editors:

"In the globalised world of the present, science has become one of the most
important factors determining the structure and dynamics of societal
development.
Its meaning encompasses all regions of the world and drives the further
development of the globalised world. But what do we understand by
science in the face of this situation?
...
Even where the sciences hold to their claim of producing coherent,
justifiable and
criticisable knowledge, the general criteria for scientific knowledge often
require culturally different concretisations.
...
The 19th century has led to the establishment of several new disciplines,
such as history, religious studies, classical studies, anthropology,
sociology,
educational science (pedagogics), psychology etc. These academic
developments
led not only to a professionalisation of knowledge but also to a special
humanities approach to cultural phenomena. Many of these disciplines
have adopted methods that are taken from or modelled after the assumingly
‘better’ verifiable and empirically testable sciences.
... In this competition between humanities, natural sciences
and life sciences, the humanities (and social sciences) often strived for
adopting scientific methods ... ‘Scientifically proven’ has become the
most reliable label for most forms of knowledge.
... All these forms of knowledge production entail an understanding of
scholarship
that more or less excludes other legitimate ways of generating knowledge.
Humanities have therefore often regarded the positivistic scientification
or scientism as a form reductionism. ..."

-- 

*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

*johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>*

*https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
<https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben>*


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