Galison, Peter Louis (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 95
Pages: 610-613
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.
...MoreDescription Contents:
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).
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).
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).
Similar Citations
Book
Auffray, Jean-Paul;
(1999)
Einstein et Poincaré: Sur les traces de la relativité
(/isis/citation/CBB000083045/)
Article
Galison, Peter L.;
Burnett, D. Graham;
(2003)
Einstein, Poincaré & Modernity: A Conversation
(/isis/citation/CBB000300957/)
Article
Gingras, Yves;
(2008)
The Collective Construction of Scientific Memory: The Einstein-Poincaré Connection and Its Discontents, 1905--2005
(/isis/citation/CBB000931531/)
Chapter
Schaffner, Kenneth F.;
(1976)
Space and time in Lorentz, Poincaré, and Einstein: Divergent approaches to the discovery and development of the special theory of relativity
(/isis/citation/CBB000012557/)
Book
Galison, Peter;
(2003)
Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time
(/isis/citation/CBB000470038/)
Book
Galina Weinstein;
(2015)
Einstein's Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity
(/isis/citation/CBB495363061/)
Article
Abiko, Seiya;
(2005)
The Light-Velocity Postulate? The Essential Difference between the Theories of Lorentz-Poincaré and Einstein
(/isis/citation/CBB001022855/)
Article
Paty, Michel;
(1985)
Invention et réception d'une nouvelle théorie et tradition scientifique: Le cas de la relativité restreinte et des savants français Poincaré et Langevin
(/isis/citation/CBB000042647/)
Chapter
Zahar, Elie;
(1991)
Poincaré et la découverte du principe de relativité
(/isis/citation/CBB000051004/)
Article
Borella, Vincent;
(2002)
Les écrits épistémologiques de Poincaré, obstacles à la diffusion de la relativité?
(/isis/citation/CBB000200405/)
Chapter
Hon, Giora;
(1995)
Is the identification of experimental error contextually dependent? The case of Kaufmann's experiment and its varied reception
(/isis/citation/CBB000071447/)
Book
Gray, Jeremy;
(1999)
The symbolic universe: Geometry and physics, 1890-1930
(/isis/citation/CBB000083033/)
Book
Enrico Giannetto;
Giulia Giannini;
(2009)
Da Archimede a Majorana: la fisica nel suo divenire
(/isis/citation/CBB945473809/)
Article
Jaume Navarro;
(2021)
Whittaker, Einstein, and the History of the Aether: Alternative Interpretation, Blunder, or Bigotry?
(/isis/citation/CBB285498190/)
Book
Alice Calaprice;
Daniel Kennefick;
Robert Schulmann;
(2015)
An Einstein Encyclopedia
(/isis/citation/CBB531111800/)
Article
Chandrasekhar, S.;
(1979)
Einstein and general relativity
(/isis/citation/CBB000009673/)
Chapter
Salvo D'Agostino;
(2009)
Einstein: la scienza come autocritica
(/isis/citation/CBB537435671/)
Book
Miller, Arthur I.;
(1981)
Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity: Emergence (1905) and early interpretation (1905-1911)
(/isis/citation/CBB000014014/)
Chapter
Howard, Don;
(2010)
“Let Me Briefly Indicate Why I Do Not Find This Standpoint Natural”: Einstein, General Relativity, and the Contingent a priori
(/isis/citation/CBB001033546/)
Chapter
Kleinert, Andreas;
(1993)
Paul Weyland, der Berliner Einstein-Töter
(/isis/citation/CBB000048912/)
Be the first to comment!