The separation between cultural and biological anthropology replicates the ancient Western divide between nature and culture. Evolutions in 20th century's sciences, however, tend to disprove this divide and the assumptions it carries. The new epistemology that comes out from thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, logics and biology exceeds the Newtonian model based on the separation between hard facts and subjectivity and on the possibility of observing events from an omniscient position. This new epistemology, though, hasn't yet become common sense neither among Westerners, nor even in science, where a reductionist paradigm still operates.
L'eredità del Novecento. La costruzione di un umano (prima parte).
CONSIGLIERE, STEFANIA
2012-01-01
Abstract
The separation between cultural and biological anthropology replicates the ancient Western divide between nature and culture. Evolutions in 20th century's sciences, however, tend to disprove this divide and the assumptions it carries. The new epistemology that comes out from thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, logics and biology exceeds the Newtonian model based on the separation between hard facts and subjectivity and on the possibility of observing events from an omniscient position. This new epistemology, though, hasn't yet become common sense neither among Westerners, nor even in science, where a reductionist paradigm still operates.
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