Article ID: CBB532163613

A Japanese Physicist Meets Socialist Natural Philosophy: SAKATA Shōichi (1911-1970) and Dialectical Materialism (2021)

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SAKATA Shōichi, known as a physicist who contributed significantly to the development of the theory of elementary particles, held a sincere belief in the Marxist philosophical view of nature. He acquired the basic core of this worldview by reading the classics of Marxism as a youth and later added original insights via correspondence with others or development of his own inquiry into the microscopic world. Several visits to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China also deeply impressed Sakata. This article examines the features of his understanding of Marxist natural philosophy and the factors that helped him establishing it. By focusing on Sakata's experience of the international/domestic exchange with Marxists, this study will also reveal how the orthodox and unique part of his understanding of dialectical materialism divided and conjoined.

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Authors & Contributors
Ichikawa, Hiroshi
Zhang, Baichun
Liu, Jinyan
Cain, Frank
Freire, Olival, Jr.
Hall, Karl
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of Contemporary History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Viella
Concepts
Dialectical materialism
Marxism
Physics
Philosophy of science
Science and politics
Cold War
People
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
Born, Max
Deleuze, Gilles
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Geymonat, Ludovico
Gramsci, Antonio
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
Soviet Union
People's Republic of China
China
Japan
United States
Italy
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