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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Fairleigh Dickinson,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Ancient and Medieval; 1 Plato in the Crito; 2 Grief and Homecoming in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; 3 A Universe, Created and Eternal; Part II: Renaissance and Modern; 4 Why Giordano Bruno's "Tranquil Universal Philosophy" Finished in a Fire; 5 Galileo under Fire and under Patronage; 6 The French Revolution, Science, and the Arts; 7 "The Preface," Hegel's Legal Philosophy, and the Crises of His Time; Part III: Twentieth Century; 8 The Political Commitment of the Philosopher; 9 Simone Weil and the Traps of Intellectual Engagement
- 10 The Impact of World War II on Jean-Paul Sartre's Writing11 Philosophy under Apartheid; Part IV: Contemporary; 12 Guerrilla Theory and the Origins of the Second Wave; 13 Was Science under Fire from the Bush Administration in the United States?; 14 The Limits of Philosophy; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors