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Michael Polanyi and his generation : origins of the social construction of science / Mary Jo Nye.
LIBRA B945.P584 N94 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nye, Mary Jo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976--Influence.
- Polanyi, Michael.
- Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976--Friends and associates.
- Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976.
- Jewish scientists--Hungary--Intellectual life.
- Jewish scientists.
- Jewish scientists--Germany--Intellectual life.
- Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- History.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Intellectual life.
- Friends and associates.
- Germany.
- Hungary.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Scientific culture in Europe and the refugee generation
- Germany and Weimar Berlin as the City of Science
- Origins of a social perspective: doing physical chemistry in Weimar Berlin
- Chemical dynamics and social dynamics in Berlin and Manchester
- Liberalism and the economic foundations of the "Republic of Science"
- Scientific freedom and the social functions of science
- Political foundations of the philosophies of science of Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi
- Personal knowledge: argument, audiences, and sociological engagement
- Epilogue: SSK, scientific constructivism, and the paradoxical legacy of Polanyi and the 1930s generation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226610634
- 0226610632
- OCLC:
- 700468494
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