Science And The Retreat From Reason
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| Weight | 0.430000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9780850364514 |
| ISBN10 | 0850364515 |
| Author | GILLOT & KUMAR |
| Binding | Hardback |
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| Date Published | 19th October 1995 |
| Pages | 0 |
| Publisher | Merlin Press |
Today nature is often glorified and science seen as dangerous and meddlesome: can science serve humanity? The loss of faith in progress has engendered a loss of faith in the potential of science.
‘A comprehensive critique of the degraded relationship between science and modern society...Science and the Retreat from Reason is the most substantial contribution to the Marxist critique of the role of science in capitalist society for at least half a century.’ LM
Contents: The Sense of an End; Post-War Loss of Certainty; Quantum Mechanics; Chaos, Complexity and Control; Science and Humanism; Science and the Retreat from Humanism; The Loss of Certainty and the Quest for Beauty in Science; Notes, Bibliography, Index.