Javier Pérez-Jara, Lino Camprubí

Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell

A Cultural Sociology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell's philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual's evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781793618498
• ISBN-10: 1793618496
• Artikelnr.: 70242601

Autorenporträt

By Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Wings of Icarus
Chapter 1: The Dying Sacred Fire of Mathematics and Logic
Chapter 2: World War I and the Dethronement of Science
Chapter 3: The Tortuous Mazes of Mind and Matter
Chapter 4: Lights and Shadows of Nuclear Death
Chapter 5: The Vietnam War and the Judgment Day
Conclusion: The History of Humankind and the Rashomon Effect