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Ideas under fire : historical studies of philosophy and science in adversity /
The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of such cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity he...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Prophets and gadflies, leisure and adversity / Jonathan Lavery
- Plato in the Crito / Steven Robinson
- Grief and homecoming in Boethius's Consolation of philosophy / James Crooks
- A universe, created and eternal: the crisis of faith and reason in the thirteenth century / William E. Carroll
- Why Giordano Bruno's "Tranquil universal philosophy" finished in a fire / Hilary Gatti
- Galileo under fire and under patronage / Maurice A. Finocchiaro
- The French Revolution, science, and the arts / Maurice Crosland
- "The Preface," Hegel's legal philosophy, and the crises of his time / William E. Conklin
- The political commitment of the philosopher: Henri Bergson's wartime discourses: paradox or ambiguity? / Jean-Benoît Ghenne, Louis Groarke
- Simone Weil and the traps of intellectual engagement / Robin Lathangue
- The impact of World War II on Jean-Paul Sartre's writing / Christine Daigle
- Philosophy under apartheid / William Sweet
- Guerrilla theory and the origins of the second wave: FBI and CIA harassment of second-wave radical feminists in the 1960s and 1970s / Hilary E. Davis
- Was science under fire from the Bush administration in the United States? / Stephen F. Haller, James Gerrie
- The limits of philosophy: setting out the legal framework of dissent / Paul Groarke.