Ideas under fire : historical studies of philosophy and science in adversity / edited by Jonathan Lavery, Louis Groarke, and William Sweet.

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TextPublication details: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 374 p.)Content type:

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9781611475432
1611475430
1283734613
9781283734615

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Introduction: Prophets and gadflies, leisure and adversity / Jonathan Lavery -- Plato in the Crito / Steven Robinson -- Grief and homecoming in Boethius's Consolation of philosophy / James Crooks -- A universe, created and eternal: the crisis of faith and reason in the thirteenth century / William E. Carroll -- Why Giordano Bruno's "Tranquil universal philosophy" finished in a fire / Hilary Gatti -- Galileo under fire and under patronage / Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- The French Revolution, science, and the arts / Maurice Crosland -- "The Preface," Hegel's legal philosophy, and the crises of his time / William E. Conklin -- The political commitment of the philosopher: Henri Bergson's wartime discourses: paradox or ambiguity? / Jean-Benoît Ghenne, Louis Groarke -- Simone Weil and the traps of intellectual engagement / Robin Lathangue -- The impact of World War II on Jean-Paul Sartre's writing / Christine Daigle -- Philosophy under apartheid / William Sweet -- Guerrilla theory and the origins of the second wave: FBI and CIA harassment of second-wave radical feminists in the 1960s and 1970s / Hilary E. Davis -- Was science under fire from the Bush administration in the United States? / Stephen F. Haller, James Gerrie -- The limits of philosophy: setting out the legal framework of dissent / Paul Groarke.

Summary: The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of such cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity helped shape the ideas that emerged from these conditions.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-354) and index.

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The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of such cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity helped shape the ideas that emerged from these conditions.

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