Title The social and economic roots of the Scientific Revolution : texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann / edited by Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) Series Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 278 Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 278. Contents Classical Marxist historiography of science : the Hessen-Grossmann-thesis / Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin -- The social and economic roots of Newton's Principia / Boris Hessen -- The social foundations of the mechanistic philosophy and manufacture / Henryk Grossmann -- Descartes and the social origins of the mechanistic concept of the world / Henryk Grossmann -- Additional texts on mechanism / Henryk Grossmann -- Henryk Grossman : a biographical sketch / Rick Kuhn -- Boris Hessen : in lieu of a biography / Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin Summary The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scienti?c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the?rst half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and served as an Austrian of?cer in the First World War; afterwards he was forced to return to Poland and then because of his revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the rise to power of the Nazis he had to?ee to France and then Americawhilehisfamily, whichremainedinEurope, perishedinNaziconcentration camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in Europe in the wake of the student movement and the p- fessionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope that under the again very different conditions of the early twenty-?rst century these texts will contribute to the further development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach to the study of science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Hessen, Boris Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950 SUBJECT Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950. cct Hessen, Boris. cct Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950 fast Hessen, Boris fast Subject Science -- Historiography. Science -- History. SCIENCE -- History. Science -- History. Science -- Historiography. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Science Science -- Historiography Genre/Form History Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Hessen, Boris Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950 Freudenthal, Gideon. McLaughlin, Peter. LC no. 2008942091 ISBN 9781402096044 1402096046

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