Cosmologies and the Modern World

About this book

This book examines the cosmologies or world views of western civilization over the last five hundred years. Applying an approach from anthropology, it examines the way in which shifts in relative power between the West and the Rest have shaped concepts of time, space and causation. It expands the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault and outlines eight shifts in mental and moral systems, from circular and closed worlds, to a global and multi-cultural world view.