Article ID: CBB000550093

Introduction (2004)

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Galison, Peter Louis (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 95
Pages: 610-613


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Special Section---Focus: The Elusive Icon: Einstein, 1905-2005
Language: English

As Einstein's portrait comes increasingly to resemble an icon, we lose more than detail---his writings and actions lose all reference. This is as true for his physics as it is for his philosophy and his politics; the best of recent work aims to remove Einstein's interventions from the abstract sphere of Delphic pronouncements and to insert them in the stream of real events, real arguments. Politically, this means attending to McCarthyism, Paul Robeson, the Arab--Israeli conflict. Philosophically, it means tying his concerns, for example, to late nineteenth-century neo-Kantian debates and to his own struggles inside science. And where physics is concerned, it means attending both in the narrow to his responses to others' work and his reactions to his own sometimes misfired early work on, for example, general relativity and to the wider context of technological developments. Einstein remains and will remain a magnet for historians, philosophers, and scientists; the essays assembled here represent a strong sampling---but only a sampling---of a fascinating new generation of work on this perennial figure.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Renn, Jürgen (2004) The Relativity Revolution from the Perspective of Historical Epistemology. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 640). unapi

Article Darrigol, Olivier (2004) The Mystery of the Einstein--Poincaré Connection. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 614). unapi

Article Jerome, Fred (2004) Einstein, Race, and the Myth of the Cultural Icon. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 627). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Galison, Peter Louis
Glass, Philip
Weinstein, Galina
Casolaro, Ferdinando
Giannini, Giulia
Zahar, Elie G.
Concepts
Relativity
Physics
Astronomy
Geometry
Historiography
Speed of light
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
North America
Japan
Italy
Europe
China
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