The workshop and the world : what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority /
Robert P. Crease.
- 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis -- Galileo and the authority of science -- Rene 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 Atatørk : science and patriotism -- Edmund Husserl : cultural crisis -- Hannah Arendt : action -- Conclusion.
9780393292435 (hardcover)
2018047219
Science--Methodology. Science--Social aspects. Science--Political aspects. Science and state. Discoveries in science.