A SPANNER IN THE WORKS: RECONCILING SCIENCE AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 02321018C00001
English Summary/英文概要： What does a painting by Leonardo da Vinci and the first ancient Greek machine teach us about the evolution of scientific thinking? This is one of the many questions James Cowan explores as he analyses the transformation which has occurred since our shift away from a metaphysical to a scientific world-view. Max Plank, Walter Benjamin and Alfred Einstein join ancient and medieval thinkers alike to inform the thrust of his argument.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 列奥纳多•达•芬奇的画和第一部古希腊机器教会了我们怎么样的科学思维进化理论？这是詹姆斯•考恩在分析我们从形而上学世界观转向科学世界观以来所发生的转变时所探讨的众多问题之一。马克斯•普兰克、沃尔特•本杰明和阿尔弗雷德•爱因斯坦都加入了古代和中世纪思想家的行列，阐述了考恩论点的主旨。（XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：《从中作梗》追溯了科学和技术的历史，从最早起源于希腊的思想开始，一直到对当今社会的影响。科学不仅把仪器作为所有现代活动的基础，而且使我们为了从神圣走向世俗而进行了彻底的斗争。
从科学家马克斯•普兰克、沃尔特•本杰明和阿尔弗雷德•爱因斯坦，神学家托马斯•阿奎那、约翰•吕斯布鲁克，哲学家赫拉克利特和恩培多克勒，到许多中世纪神秘主义者的声音，考恩强调了精神和身体之间的关系，并对如何平衡我们生活中这两个重要方面提出了一个令人振奋的新观点。
“《从中作梗》，独一无二的詹姆斯•考恩——“白热小说大师“”、精神异域的探索者，对艺术和科学成就，以及我们如何在充满现代性的平原上恢复诗意、英雄主义和神话色彩进行了反思。博学、发人深省，这些文章值得仔细品味。”——阿瑟•弗斯路易斯，《新宗教裁判所、魔法与神秘主义》的作者。
A Spanner in the Works traces the history of science and technology from its earliest beginnings in Greek thinking, through to its impact today. Not only has science introduced us to instrumentation as the basis of all modern activity, but it has caused us to make a radical fight from the sacred to the secular.
Through scientists such as Max Planck and Albert Einstein, theologians like Thomas Aquinas and John of Ruysbroeck, philosophers Heraclitus and Empedocles, as well as the voices of numerous medieval mystics, Cowan highlights the relationship between spirit and body and offers a stimulating new look at how to balance two such important aspects of our lives.
“In A Spanner in the Works, the inimitable James Cowan – master of incandescent fiction, and explorer of exotic lands of the spirit – reflects on artistic and scientific achievement, and on how, in the flatland of modernity, we can recover a sense of the poetic, the heroic, and the mythic. Erudite, provocative, these are essays to be savoured.” Arthur Versluis, author of The New Inquisitions, Magic and Mysticism.
About the Author/作者介绍： 詹姆斯•考恩出版了超过25本书，主题从土著形而上学到波斯诗歌，他的作品被翻译成17种语言。1998年，考恩因其小说《绘图师的梦想》获得澳大利亚文学协会金奖，同年，他因毕生的工作获得了密歇根大峡谷州立大学的人文文学荣誉博士学位。考恩经常旅行，最近花了三年时间在阿根廷写作和旅行。他目前住在澳大利亚。JAMES COWAN has published over 25 books on subjects ranging from Aboriginal metaphysics to Persian poetry, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages. In 1998 Cowan was awarded the Australian Literary Society’s Gold Medal for his novel, A Mapmaker’s Dream and in the same year he received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Grand Valley State University, Michigan, for his life’s work.
Cowan has travelled extensively and often, recently spending three productive years writing and travelling in Argentina. He currently resides in Australia.
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