/lit/ - Literature

>>4665692

rolling off this, vico, hamann and herder will also all be important to understanding modernity's treatment/development of "progress" as a teleological category; isaiah berlin's work on them, too, will prove instructive (three critics of the enlightenment). if you like berlin's stuff, then also check out "against the current"--it is a great collection of historical essays that, though not responding to science in particular, begin to map out the large-scale historical trajectories that made feasible conceptions of causality, etc. that obviously deeply inform and structure the terms of scientific discourse