{"product_id":"the-social-relations-of-physics-mysticism-and-mathematics-studies-in-social-structure-interests-and-ideas-9789027720849","title":"The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics: Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. Restivo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci- ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and modern physics, and a sociological analysis of this claim as a strategy in intellectual conflict. This study must. ultimately be rooted more firmly in a: type of sociology of knowledge that is just now beginning to crystallize (and which I discuss in Chapter 7), and a sociology of religion that is not so much unknown as underground, and timid, that is, a non-worshipful materialist sociology of religion. My study of physics-mysticism parallelism is a vehicle for exploring epistemic strategies. I thus conclude Part I by sketching a materialist, emancipatory epistemic strategy. My conclusion brings together a number of ideas formulated by myself and others over the past several years, but stops short of a systematic synthesis. A more integrated and coherent \"model\" than what I can sketch here must wait on the results of research now in progress in the critical (as opposed to apologetic or worshipful) sociology of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45282477015191,"sku":"9789027720849","price":11017.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789027720849.webp?v=1769302264","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-social-relations-of-physics-mysticism-and-mathematics-studies-in-social-structure-interests-and-ideas-9789027720849","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}