Background
Gans, Eric Lawrence was born on August 21, 1941 in New York City. Son of Irving and Pearl Gans.
(Science and Faith, originally published by Rowman & Littl...)
Science and Faith, originally published by Rowman & Littlefield in 1990, recapitulates, focuses, and recontextualizes much of the thinking done in Gans’ first two books formulating his “new way of thinking,” Generative Anthropology: The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation (1981) and The End of Culture: Toward a Generative Anthropology (1985). Science and Faith conceives religious revelation as a cognitive phenomenon, a method for the discovery of human truth. The anthropological truths contained in biblical and other religious texts cannot be perceived by those who treat them as ethnological artifacts. Religion remains faithful to the conception of human origin as an event, a hypothesis non-generative anthropologies refuse to consider. Gans argues that only a human science that respects this fundamental religious intuition is capable of assimilating the human self-understanding on which Western culture, including its science, is founded. This new edition of Science and Faith, with a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by the series editor, is jargon free, requiring no detailed disciplinary knowledge, while addressing issues in anthropology, religion, philosophy of history, and linguistics. All it requires, as Marx once said, is a reader ready to think for him or herself.
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( Gans demonstrates that human representation—language, r...)
Gans demonstrates that human representation—language, ritual, art—could only have originated as an event taking place on a scene present to the consciousness of its participants. This volume lays the foundation for an important revision of our understanding of cultural achievement.
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Gans, Eric Lawrence was born on August 21, 1941 in New York City. Son of Irving and Pearl Gans.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Columbia College, 1960; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy with distinction, Johns Hopkins University, 1966.
Instructor, State University of New York, Fredonia, 1965-1967;
assistant professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1967-1969;
assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1973;
associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1976;
professor of French, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1976. Department chairman French University of California at Los Angeles, 1974-1977, 81-86. Visiting professor Romance Langs.
Department Johns Hopkins University, 1978.
(Science and Faith, originally published by Rowman & Littl...)
( Gans demonstrates that human representation—language, r...)
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Member Modern Language Association.
Married Michele Anne Hausser, September 16, 1969 (divorced February 1977). 1 child, Georges; married Monique Andree Roy, October 15, 1977.