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Philosophy, History and Social Action

Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer

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Editors:
  1. Sidney Hook

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, New York University, USA
      Hoover Institution, USA

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  2. William L. O’Neill

    1. Dept. of History, Rutgers University, USA

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  3. Roger O’Toole

    1. Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 107)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. A Narrative of Personal Events and Ideas

    • Lewis S. Feuer
    Pages 1-85

  3. List of Published Writings of Lewis S. Feuer

    • Sidney Hook, William L. O’Neill, Roger O’Toole
    Pages 87-101

  4. On the Reality of Economic Illusion

    • William J. Baumol
    Pages 103-117

  5. Institutional Economics as an Ideological Movement

    • William Breit
    Pages 119-136

  6. Generalization, Value-Judgment and Causal Explanation in History

    • William H. Dray
    Pages 137-155

  7. Theory and Practice: An Unsteady Dichotomy?

    • Abraham Edel
    Pages 157-172

  8. Development and Underdevelopment: Conflicting Perspectives on the Third World

    • Robert G. Gilpin
    Pages 173-208

  9. Occupational Mobility: A Personal Perspective

    • Eli Ginzberg
    Pages 209-219

  10. From Animism to Rationalism

    • Charles Hanly
    Pages 221-234

  11. Toward Greater Equality

    • Sidney Hook
    Pages 235-243

  12. Left-Wing Fascism and Right-Wing Communism: The Fission—Fusion Effect in American Extremist Ideologies

    • Irving Louis Horowitz
    Pages 245-266

  13. The Nature of Bronson Alcott

    • Milton R. Konvitz
    Pages 267-274

  14. Is Marxism a Religion?

    • Paul Kurtz
    Pages 275-295

  15. Judaism in the Culture of Modernism

    • Thelma Z. Lavine
    Pages 297-311

  16. Panteleimon Kulish: A Ukrainian Romantic Conservative

    • George S. N. Luckyj
    Pages 313-321

  17. Idea

    • Czeslaw Milosz
    Pages 323-324

  18. Organizational Weapons and Political Sects

    • Roger O’Toole
    Pages 325-348

  19. Millenarianism in England, Holland and America: Jewish-Christian relations in Amsterdam, London and Newport, Rhode Island

    • Richard Popkin
    Pages 349-371

  20. John Dewey’s Philosophy of War and Peace

    • Sidney Ratner
    Pages 373-390
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About this book

Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the other his critical review of Philipp Frank's biography of Einstein, 'Philosophy and the Theory of Relativity' (1947). How extraordinary it was to find so intelligent, independent, critical, and humane a mind; and furthermore he went further, as I soon realized when I looked for his name on other publications. I recall arguing with myself over his exploration of 'Indeterminacy and Economic Development' (1948), and even more when I read his 'Dialectical Materialism and Soviet Science' (1949). More papers, and then the fascinating, sometimes irritating, always insightful, books. His monograph on Psychoanalysis and Ethics 1955, the beautiful sociological and humanist study of Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism (1958), his essays on 'The Social Roots of Einstein's Theory of Relativity' (1971) together with the book on Einstein and the Genera­ tions of Science (1974), the splendid reader from the works of Marx and Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy (1959) which was a major text of the '60s, the stimulating essays on the social formation which seems to have been required for a modern scientific movement to develop, set forth most convincingly in The Scientific Intellectual (1963).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, New York University, USA

    Sidney Hook

  • Hoover Institution, USA

    Sidney Hook

  • Dept. of History, Rutgers University, USA

    William L. O’Neill

  • Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada

    Roger O’Toole

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy, History and Social Action

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer

  • Editors: Sidney Hook, William L. O’Neill, Roger O’Toole

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2873-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2644-5Published: 31 July 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7793-4Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2873-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 496

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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