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The workshop and the world : what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority / Robert P. Crease.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crease, Robert P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Methodology.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science--Political aspects.
- Science and state.
- Discoveries in science.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
- Summary:
- "A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority."-- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- Galileo and the authority of science
- René Descartes : workshop thinking
- Giambattista Vico : going mad rationally
- Mary Shelley's hideous idea
- Auguste Comte's religion of humanity
- Max Weber : authority and bureaucracy
- Kemal Atatürk : science and patriotism
- Edmund Husserl : cultural crisis
- Hannah Arendt : action
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393292435
- 0393292436
- OCLC:
- 1037807472
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