Is the Present the Key to the Past or Is the Past the Key to the Present?

Is the Present the Key to the Past or Is the Past the Key to the Present? James Hutton and Adam Smith Versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in Interpreting History - Special Paper

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Seng r (geology, ITU, Istanbul) considers the philosophies of knowledge of two natural scientists (James Hutton and Abraham Gottlob Werner) and two social scientists (Adam Smith and Karl Marx). He argues that while Smith and Hutton interpreted history in terms of the present, Marx and Werner interpreted the present on the basis of history. He furth

Book information

ISBN: 9780813723556
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Imprint: Geological Society of America
Pub date:
DEWEY: 551.01
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 51
Weight: 204g
Height: 273mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 6mm