Einstein and the Generations of Science: Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-De-Siecle Debate on Social Order

ISBN 10: 0878558993 / ISBN 13: 9780878558995

Published by Routledge, 1989

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Einstein and the Generations of Science: Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-De-Siecle Debate on Social Order
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878558993
• ISBN 13: 9780878558995
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

About the Author

David Abshire