About this title: "The Essential Tension" is a collection of previously published essays by Thomas Kuhn to which the author has added two hitherto unpublished articles and a splendid, partly autobiographical preface. These assembled studies shed much light on the early evolution and subsequent reformulations of Kuhn's provocative "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962; revised edition 1970). Read as a group, they reveal a profound and subtle mind struggling to articulate and to resolve tensions between different modes of knowing and experiencing
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1977
Date Published: 1977
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1979-03-15
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226458069ISBN:0226458067
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780226458069ISBN:0226458067
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