This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.
...MoreReview Chunglin Kwa (2017) Review of "The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 877-879).
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