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ix, 213 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
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MUP academic monographs |
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MUP academic monographs
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 12.Postcolonial friction: The Indigenous governance machine / Emma Kowal -- 13.The gravitational force of Indian secularism / Christine Deftereos -- 14.History's motion: On absolute time and space in Tibet / Gillian G. Tan -- 15.Equilibrium, chaos and Macedonian nationalism / Violeta Duklevska Schubert |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Newtonian fantasy and its ̀social' other / Emma Kowal -- pt. 1 Newtonian science and its shadows -- 2.Newton's laws, Laplace's dream and Clausewitz' nightmare: On friction / Gerhard Wiesenfeldt -- 3.From being to becoming: Force, movement, and intensity in romanticism / Peter Otto -- 4.Gravity and grace: A study of martial movement and discourse / Tamara Kohn -- pt. 2 Social theory with and against Newton -- 5.Modernity and motion / Peter Beilharz -- 6.Sublime intensity: In the realm of sublimation / John Cash -- 7.Social gravity: Pierre Bourdieu's phenomenological social physics / Ghassan Hage -- 8.Power-geometry: Milieu, mobility and justice / Ramaswami Harindranath -- 9.Mathematics and human subjectivity / Ian M. McDonald -- pt. 3 Metaphoric deployments -- 10.Atom and individual: The trajectory of a metaphor / Kristian Camilleri -- 11.Looking for Newton: From hydraulic societies to the hydraulics of globalisation / Warwick Anderson -- |
| Summary |
This book considers the original and continuing legacy of Newtonian theories and imaginaries in the vast array of human attempts to understand the world. Drawing from a range of disciplines, the essays in this volume engage with Newton as a thinker and examine his legacy |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in a electronic version via the Internet |
| Subject |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Influence.
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia -- Influence.
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia.
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Arithmetica universalis. English.
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Physics in literature.
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| Author |
Hage, Ghassan.
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Kowal, Emma.
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| ISBN |
9780522860818 (paperback) |
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