: radical thought and scientific discovery Herbert, Christopher creator Herbert, Christopher text Chicago : University of Chicago Press ©2001 monographic eng

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xv, 302 pages 24cm. One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity page Acknowledgments; Preface: Relativity and Ideology; Introduction: The Conspiracy against Truth; Chapter 1: Difference, Unity, Proliferation; Chapter 2: Relativity and Authority; Chapter 3: The Relativity of Logic; Chapter 4: Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine; Chapter 5: Frazer and Einstein; Afterword: Protagoras and History-Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index. / Christopher Herbert Metaphysics Time Relativity -- History -- 19th century Knowledge, Theory Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century Relativismus 115 HER 9780226327334 :Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi 190702 20190702113843.0