[PDF] From Physics To Politics eBook

Author : Paul R. Josephson
Publisher : University of California Presson Demand
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520074828

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"Will certainly become one of the standard works on the history of modern scientific institutions."--Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics

Author : Robert Trundle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351518534

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Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked questions about the source of -truth.- For nineteenth-century ideologists, -truth- comes either from dominating classes in a progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom of the superior man to create it. In From Physics to Politics Robert C. Trundle, Jr. uncovers the relation of modern philosophy to political ideology. And in rooting truth in human nature and Nature by modal reasoning, he resolves the problem of politicized truth. Our concepts of scientific truth, logic, and necessity are essentially connected. Modern philosophy restricts our understanding of necessity to the political dreams and aspirations of Enlightenment intellectuals. As a result, these intellectuals refuse to acknowledge as factual or meaningful whatever is not intelligible within the practical goals of establishing science as a system of enlightened ideas. The effect of these ideas is that in our time metaphysical principles, speculative truths, our understanding of science, and the nature of logic have become subordinated to ideological dreams. Fascism, Nazism, Marxism, political correctness, and moral relativism are not historical aberrations but essential consequences. Trundle's work is groundbreaking and daring, and his underlying thesis demonstrates why scientific truth demands a modal defense. The defense not only integrates science, ethics, and politics, but shows how -truth- may be ascribed to moral and scientific principles in contrast to a modern philosophical tradition. Since this tradition is the origin of political ideology, it has led to an irrational politicization of truth. The book will appeal particularly to those interested in political history, histories of philosophy, the philosophy of sciences, and ethics.

Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734087058

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Reproduction of the original: Physics and Politics by Walter Bagehot

Author : John Protevi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847143989

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Political Physics analyses the work of two of the most influential thinkers of our time - Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey, crossing the boundaries of philosophy and science.Political Physics explores the limits and strengths of Derridean and Deleuzean philosophical approaches. Focussing on their differing approaches to the question of the 'body politic' - in all its registers, from the physical-chemical body, to the economic, the social and the political body - the book reveals a profound difference in ontological commitment. The book argues that the straightforward materialism of Deleuzean philosophy can operate across the range of analysis whereas Derridean deconstruction effectively operates at the level of reason, consciousness and culture.Cross-cutting a Derridean analysis of the history of philosophy with a Deleuzian approach to creative dialogue and complexity theory, Political Physics illuminates the value of both approaches to the analysis of contemporary culture, politics and science and to the rereading of the history of ideas.

Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2018-02-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781376671629

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Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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One of the great short masterpieces of nineteenth-century thought, Physics and Politics is in essence a brilliant essay in social psychology. It defines with grim humor the conditions of stabiltiy and social progress.

Author : Walter 1826-1877 Bagehot
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781014463340

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