Sentences with phrase «romantic reaction against it»

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

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In the chapter, «The Romantic Reaction», in Whitehead's (1933) Science and the Modern World he points to the English poets who reacted against the mechanical universe.