TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison and correspondence
T2 - Revisiting an old idea for the present time
AU - Zhang, Longxi
PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - Analogical thinking that relates everything to everything else in a complicated system of correspondences was common in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, early modern Europe, as well as ancient China. Such premodern theories of knowledge about correspondences between the cosmos and the human world are discredited in modern scientific thinking, but by revisiting some of the old ideas, of which the value has not been sufficiently recognized in modern scholarship, we may find them helpful in rethinking the disciplinary compartmentalization of knowledge and the possibilities of dialogues between different disciplines in comparative studies.
AB - Analogical thinking that relates everything to everything else in a complicated system of correspondences was common in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, early modern Europe, as well as ancient China. Such premodern theories of knowledge about correspondences between the cosmos and the human world are discredited in modern scientific thinking, but by revisiting some of the old ideas, of which the value has not been sufficiently recognized in modern scholarship, we may find them helpful in rethinking the disciplinary compartmentalization of knowledge and the possibilities of dialogues between different disciplines in comparative studies.
KW - Analogical thinking
KW - Book of nature
KW - Correspondence
KW - Science as paradigm
KW - Truth
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U2 - 10.5325/complitstudies.53.4.0766
DO - 10.5325/complitstudies.53.4.0766
M3 - RGC 62 - Review of books or of software (or similar publications/items)
SN - 0010-4132
VL - 53
SP - 766
EP - 785
JO - Comparative Literature Studies
JF - Comparative Literature Studies
IS - 4
ER -