Zambelli, Paola (Author)
Olschki
Biblioteca di «Galilaeana»
Physical Details: xxii, 290 pp.
Language: Italian
Chi era Alexandre Koyré (Odessa 1892-Parigi 1964)? Un filosofo, studioso di Galileo, Cartesio, Newton, allievo di Husserl? Oppure un terrorista, un agente doppio, la voce dei bolscevichi dopo la Rivoluzione d’Ottobre? Il quadro complesso e sfaccettato che questa biografia dà di Koyré storico delle scienze, filosofo, testimone del «secolo breve», un nuovo ritratto, che è certo inaspettato, ma non insolito per il Novecento. Ancora liceale Koyré fu più volte arrestato in Russia con l’accusa di terrorismo. Nel 1914 si arruolò volontario nell’esercito francese e poi fu inviato a combattere sul fronte russo, dove però nel 1919 si trovò a essere addetto stampa dei bolscevichi. Arrestato dai francesi per spionaggio fu detenuto per sei mesi in una fortezza di Istanbul e rischiò la pena capitale. Negli anni Trenta professore a Parigi, svolse un ruolo segreto di collegamento per gli intellettuali ebrei in fuga dalla Germania; egli stesso dovette rifugiarsi a Beirut e a Il Cairo, e poi, passando da Bombay, Singapour, Manila, Guam, Wake, Honolulu, giunse a New York, dove creò una scuola francofona e una rivista per far propaganda a de Gaulle. Dopo il 1946, pendolare fra le università francesi e americae, fu ed è tuttora considerato il fondatore di un nuovo metodo per la storia delle scienze fisico-matematiche. [English Abstract: Who was Alexandre Koyré (Odessa 1892-Paris 1964)? A student of the first School of Husserl in Göttingen and a great interpreter of Galileo, Descartes and Newton, or a terrorist, a double agent, the voice of the Bolsheviks after the Revolution? This biography offers a new, multifaceted portrait of this philosopher and witness of the «short century»: a surprising portrait to be sure, but one that is not altogether uncommon in the twentieth century. At 15, still a pupil in a Russian secondary school, Koyré was arrested twice for terrorism; in 1914, when he was a student at the University of Paris, he joined the French Foreign Legion and was sent to fight against Austria and Germany at the Russian front. He remained in Russia until after the Revolution resurfacing in 1919 in Odessa as a press officer for the Bolsheviks. The French Navy arrested him as a double agent: he was held for six months in a fortress in Istanbul, risking capital punishment. Appointed to a professorship in Paris in the Thirties, he acted as a secret connection for Jewish intellectual refugees from Hitler's Germany, Czechoslovakia, etc. In 1940 Koyré himself was forced to flee to Beirut and Cairo; after a semester teaching there, in September 1941 he moved to the United States (still neutral in WW2) via Bombay, Singapour, Manila, Guam, Wake, Honolulu; in New York he established a French Ecole Libre and a journal to support de Gaulle’s France Libre. After 1946 he became a celebrated professor teaching in both Europe and America; he is still now credited with having established a new method in, and new institutes for, the history of the sciences in France and the US.]
...MoreReview Pietro D. Omodeo (2017) Review of "Alexandre Koyré in Incognito". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 523-526).
Review Marco Beretta (2017) Review of "Alexandre Koyré in Incognito". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 729-731).
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