Homo Faber and Homo Economicus in the Scientific Revolution [Paperback]

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Imitation

1.1  Ancient Relations

1.2  Tekhne as Imitation of Nature

Chapter 2: The Epistemological Transformation of Secret Knowledge

2.1 Magia Naturalis

2.2 Privileged Knowledge as a Question of Property

Chapter 3: Quantification

3.1 New Environment, New Awareness, and Space-Time Concentration

3.2 Quantitative Quality and Anthropocentric Knowledge

3.3 Quantification and Functional Art

3.4 Epistemological Effects of the Quantification

3.5 Galileo and Re-Building of Scientific Demonstration

3.6 Scientia Experimentalis as the Origins of New-Experiment

Chapter 4: The Space of the New Knowledge

4.1 The Possibility of Storable and Publishable Knoweldge: Kunstkammer

4.2 Laboratory as Knowledge Workshop

4.3 The New Knowledges Artificial Nature: Mechanical Arts

Chapter 5: Mechanization

5.1 Scientific Tools as means of Applied Philosophy

5.2 Continuity and Transmission of Knowledge: Official Curriculum

Chapter 6: Transformation of Tekhne

6.1 The Solidarity between Homo economicus and Homo faber

6.2 From Tekhne to Phronetic Tekhne

Conclusion

This book tells the story of how the servile arts turned into the mechanical arlS‰