Alchemists Of Revolution

Author : Richard E. Rubenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040598604

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Alchemists Of Revolution by Richard E. Rubenstein Pdf

Neither a call to "exterminate the beasts" nor a soft-hearted "sympathy for the devil" [the book] is a compelling argument that the surest way to unintentionally abet a terrorist organization is to deny its authenticity.--Blurb.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521096197

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The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri Pdf

Translation of Mishnato ha-òhevratit òveha-medinit shel òKarl Marks.

Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226577147

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Gehennical Fire by William R. Newman Pdf

Both the quest for natural knowledge and the aspiration to alchemical wisdom played crucial roles in the Scientific Revolution, as William R. Newman demonstrates in this fascinating book about George Starkey (1628-1665), America's first famous scientist. Beginning with Starkey's unusual education in colonial New England, Newman traces out his many interconnected careers—natural philosopher, alchemist, chemist, medical practitioner, economic projector, and creator of the fabulous adept, "Eirenaeus Philalethes." Newman reveals the profound impact Starkey had on the work of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Hartlib, and other key thinkers in the realm of early modern science.

Author : Dirk Hanson
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983-12-01
Category : Microelectronics industry
ISBN : 0380658542

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The New Alchemists by Dirk Hanson Pdf

Author : Bruce T. MORAN,Bruce T Moran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674041226

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Distilling Knowledge by Bruce T. MORAN,Bruce T Moran Pdf

Reacting to the perception that the break, early on in the scientific revolution, between alchemy and chemistry was clean and abrupt, Moran literately and engagingly recaps what was actually a slow process. Far from being the superstitious amalgam it is now considered, alchemy was genuine science before and during the scientific revolution. The distinctive alchemical procedure--distillation--became the fundamental method of analytical chemistry, and the alchemical goal of transmuting "base metals" into gold and silver led to the understanding of compounds and elements. What alchemy very gradually but finally lost in giving way to chemistry was its spiritual or religious aspect, the linkages it discerned between purely physical and psychological properties. Drawing saliently from the most influential alchemical and scientific texts of the medieval to modern epoch (especially the turbulent and eventful seventeenth century), Moran fashions a model short history of science volume

Author : Frank W. Elwell,Brian Andrews,Kenneth S. Hicks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538122907

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Karl Marx by Frank W. Elwell,Brian Andrews,Kenneth S. Hicks Pdf

Karl Marx: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and works. Marx was a philosopher, a crusading journalist, as well as a political organizer and activist advocating democratic reforms, working-class political organizations, and the establishment of a socialist political order. Includes a comprehensive historical timeline of major events involving or related to Marx The A to Z section includes the major events, works, and concepts related to Marx Bibliography of major works by and about Marx and events surrounding his life and works The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 067404326X

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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781608461653

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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callinicos Pdf

An accessible introduction to the author of Capital and coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, with a focus on his relevance in today’s world. Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out-of-date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade has gone by since his death in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him, Marx’s specter continues to haunt his detractors more than a century after his passing. As the boom and bust cycle of global capitalism continues to widen inequality around the world, a new generation is discovering that the problems Marx addressed in his time are remarkably similar to those of our own. In this engaging and accessible introduction, Alex Callinicos demonstrates that Marx’s ideas hold an enduring relevance for today’s activists fighting against poverty, oppression, environmental destruction, and the numerous other injustices of the capitalist system.

Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226577036

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Atoms and Alchemy by William R. Newman Pdf

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle’s famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors—figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert—provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an “atomic” element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry. Atomsand Alchemy thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed—and deliberated—by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice.

Author : Hal Draper
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853456735

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Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution III by Hal Draper Pdf

In this third volume of his definitive study of Karl Marx's political thought, Hal Draper examines how Marx, and Marxism, have dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Writing with his usual wit and perception, Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves really meant by the term.

Author : Richard Norman Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349026616

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The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels by Richard Norman Hunt Pdf

Author : George Klosko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199695447

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History of Political Theory: An Introduction by George Klosko Pdf

History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. The second volume traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary views.

Author : Curtis Runstedler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031266065

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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature by Curtis Runstedler Pdf

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

Author : Jeffrey Maitland
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781556431883

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Spacious Body by Jeffrey Maitland Pdf

In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience.

Author : Minister Faust
Publisher : Resurrection House
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781630230692

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The Alchemists of Kush by Minister Faust Pdf

Two Sudanese "lost boys." Both fathers murdered during civil war. Both mothers forced into exile where the only law was violence. To survive, the boys became ruthless loners and child soldiers, until they found mystic mentors who transformed them into their true destinies. One: known to the streets as the Supreme Raptor; the other: known to the Greeks as Horus, son of Osiris. Separated by seven thousand years, and yet connected by immortal truth. Born in fire. Baptized in blood. Brutalized by the wicked. Sworn to transform the world and themselves. They are the Alchemists of Kush.