Ideas under Fire Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity

Name: Ideas under Fire Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity
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ISBN: 9781611475425

ISBN-10: 1611475422

ISBN-13: 9781611475425

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sweet/Groarke/Lavery, Louis Groarke, William Sweet

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List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date: 11/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 386
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction: Prophets and Gadflies, Leisure and Adversity




Ancient and Medieval



Plato in the Crito




Grief and Homecoming in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy




A Universe, Created and Eternal: The Crisis of Faith and Reason in the Thirteenth Century




Renaissance and Modern



Why Giordano Bruno's "Tranquil Universal Philosophy" Finished in a Fire




Galileo under Fire and under Patronage Maurice




The French Revolution, Science, and the Arts




"The Preface," Hegel's Legal Philosophy, and the Crises of His Time




Twentieth Century



The Political Commitment of the Philosopher: Henri Bergson's Wartime Discourses: Paradox or Ambiguity?




Simone Weil and the Traps of Intellectual Engagement




The Impact of World War II on Jean-Paul Sartre's Writing




Philosophy under Apartheid




Contemporary



Guerrilla Theory and the Origins of the Second Wave: FBI and CIA Harassment of Second-Wave Radical Feminists in the 1960s and 1970s




Was Science under Fire from the Bush Administration in the United States?




The Limits of Philosophy: Setting Out the Legal Framework of Dissent



Bibliography


Index


About the Contributors