Victorian relativity [electronic resource] : radical thought and scientific discovery / Christopher Herbert.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 302 p.)ISBN: - 9780226327365 (electronic bk.)
- 0226327361 (electronic bk.)
- Relativity -- History -- 19th century
- Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century
- History
- Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Connaissance, Théorie de la -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics
- Relativiteitstheorie
- Radicalisme
- Victoriaanse tijd
- Relativismus
- Wirklichkeit
- Naturwissenschaften
- Erkenntnis
- Relativität
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- 115 22
- BD221 .H47 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
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.
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 p.
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