| Description |
1 online resource (63 p.) |
| Series |
Ideas Roadshow Conversations |
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Ideas Roadshow conversations.
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| Contents |
Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. A Counterculture Hero -- II. An Ideal Case -- III. The Lysenko Lesson -- IV. A Freudian Cosmology -- V. Enter Einstein -- VI. Responses and Reactions -- VII. Digging In -- VIII. Science vs. Pseudoscience -- IX. Fringe Benefits -- X. Learning From History -- XI. Anthropic Digression -- XII. Better Science? -- Continuing the Conversation |
| Summary |
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. This thought-provoking, extensive conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the bestselling book ""Worlds in Collision"" that managed to provocatively combine unbridled scientific speculation with ancient myth, as a way of probing the often-problematic boundary between science and pseudoscience.By all accounts, Velikovsky was a decidedly curious character. The notorious Russian-born docto |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2023) |
| Subject |
Gordin, Michael D. -- Interviews
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Pseudoscience.
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Pseudoscience
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781771700542 |
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1771700548 |
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1771702354 |
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9781771702355 |
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