TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sean Howard
AU  - Lee-Anne Broadhead
PY  - 2025
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781636677484
TI  - Cultivating Perception, Countering Faust
T2  - The Radical Resonance of Goethean and Indigenous Science
DO  - 10.3726/b21381
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1390901
N2  - While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with ‘science proper’ – the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality – has been called into question in recent decades. This book offers a critique of that dominant worldview through a comparative analysis of two radical alternatives: Indigenous Science and Goethean Science. On close examination, the resonance between these two approaches to nature and knowledge becomes strikingly clear. The authors present both Goethean and Indigenous Sciences as counter-Faustian, using ‘Faust’ – Goethe’s greatest literary creation – as shorthand for the hubristic supremacism, massive destructiveness, and wanton disregard for the natural world characteristic of Eurocentric science in the last four centuries.
KW  - History and Philosophy of Science, Indigenous Science, Goethean Science, Faust
LA  - English
ER  -