EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Early Modern Europe, Paradigm Shift, Hermeneutics
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Encounters with the islamic world (ottoman empire) From marxist theory: the masking of (economic) power structures by cultural means; the naturalization of historical developments. The suffering of the peasants of the campagna is legitimated by ideas about their place in the universe . How one idea can flip into its opposite even as (because) it insists on its difference. A narrow form of (scientific reason) that rejects the validity of other ways of thinking can itself become dogmatic. Standard view of science is that theories are additive or cumulative. Instead, thomas s. kuhn argues there are periods of normal science (agreement over basic aspects of a discipline), crises (when anomalies emerge) and. Revolutions (when there is a paradigm shift to a new way of viewing the world) The review essay dealing with three books on the ottoman empire gives example modes of history-writing ( historiography )
