Author: Lewis S. Feuer
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: science, generations, einstein
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0878558993
ISBN-13: 9780878558995

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieux in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man’s potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the soc

Author: Lewis S. Feuer
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: scientific, hypotheses, aims, experience, varieties, emotive
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1560002239
ISBN-13: 9781560002239

In a remarkable summing up of more than forty years of work in the sociology and philosophy of science, Lewis Feuer provides his readers with both exciting essays on major people and landmarks in the evolution of modern science, and a sense of the human drama involved in the creative process. He shows that the gestation of the hypotheses of original-minded scientists, such as Darwin, Einstein, or Bohr, is in large part a subconscious process. Scientists try to project upon the world structural laws that, beside fitting the given physical realities, will also realize their own emotional longing

Author: Lewis S. Feuer
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: mind, imperialist, anti, imperialism
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0887387926
ISBN-13: 9780887387920

Lewis Feuer, a distinguished philosopher and social critic, has presented a remarkable thesis in "Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind". Feuer regards imperialism as a natural political process, and one that is endemic to all nations under all political and social systems. The significant distinction to make is whether a given imperialistic period is progressive or regressive. The greatest historical advances, maintains Feuer, have been made during progressive imperialistic eras, such as the Hellenic-Macedonian, the Roman, and the modern British periods. Retrogression took place under the

Author: Lewis S. Feuer
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: modern, science, origins, sociological, intellectual, psychological, scientific
Number of Pages: 497
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560005718
ISBN-13: 9781560005711

In The Scientific Intellectual, Lewis S. Feuer traces the evolution of this new human type, seeking to define what ethic inspired him and the underlying emotions that created him. Under the influence of Max Weber the rise of the scientific spirit has been viewed by sociologists as an offspring of the Protestant revolution, with its asceticism and sense of guilt acting as causative agents in the rise of capitalism and the growth of the scientific movement. Feuer takes strong issue with this view, pointing out how it is at odds with what we know of the psychological conditions of modern socie

Authors:Kathryn B. Feuer, Robin Feuer Miller, Donna Tussing
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: peace, war, genesis, tolstoy
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 1996-12
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0801419026
ISBN-13: 9780801419027

"The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process. You see the seams and joints in the novel." --Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University "In 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the manuscripts of the drafts for the novel, almost 4,000 pages. At Tolstoy’s home, she concentrated on a dozen books that related to his earlier conceptions of War and Peace. She was indefatigable, with every detail at her fingertips, and she could express fine perceptions with something of the lucidity and measure of her a

Authors:Kathryn B. Feuer, Robin Feuer Miller, Donna Tussing
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: peace, war, genesis, tolstoy
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2008-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801474477
ISBN-13: 9780801474477

"The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process. You see the seams and joints in the novel." --Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University "In 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the manuscripts of the drafts for the novel, almost 4,000 pages. At Tolstoy’s home, she concentrated on a dozen books that related to his earlier conceptions of War and Peace. She was indefatigable, with every detail at her fingertips, and she could express fine perceptions with something of the lucidity and measure of her a

Author: A. B. Feuer
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: sea, air, combat, war, world, navy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0275962121
ISBN-13: 9780275962128

When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the clamoring in the press for a strong army largely overshadowed the need for considerable naval contributions to the war effort. Although it was small at the time, the U.S. Navy transported thousands of doughboys to France, all the while battling the predatory German U-Boats. Henry Ford tried to put his mass-production techniques to work to produce hundreds of submarine chasers to patrol American coastlines. The fledgling Naval Air Service was assigned the daunting task of dealing with enemy aircraft over France and in the Adriatic Se