New Atlantis Revisited

Author : Paul R. Josephson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691044546

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New Atlantis Revisited by Paul R. Josephson Pdf

In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced setbacks in research on recombinant DNA. Josephson presents case studies of high energy physics, genetics, computer science, environmentalism, and social sciences. He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise. Still, a kind of openness reigned that presaged the glasnost of Gorbachev's administration decades later. The openness was rooted in the geographical and psychological distance from Moscow and in the informal culture of exchange intended to foster the creative impulse. Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.

Author : Edgar Evans Cayce,Gail Cayce Schwartzer,Douglas G. Richards
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:49015003107290

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Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited by Edgar Evans Cayce,Gail Cayce Schwartzer,Douglas G. Richards Pdf

Author : Bronwen Price
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719060524

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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis by Bronwen Price Pdf

The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. Standing at the threshold of early modern culture, this key text incorporates the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Contributors consider the book's use of rhetoric, its narrative contexts, its political and ethical implications, its relation to the natural knowledge of the period, and the function of miracles in New Atlantan society. The politics of colonialism and Jewish toleration, its complex representation of gender, and the role and politics of censorship are also explored. This volume will be the ideal companion to Bacon's The New Atlantis and for all students of literature, politics, history, cultural history and history of science

Author : Zelator
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing Company
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805959610

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Atlantis Revisited by Zelator Pdf

Author : Stephen Kotkin,David Wolff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317461302

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Rediscovering Russia in Asia by Stephen Kotkin,David Wolff Pdf

This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have they a distinct culture?; and does the area have a future as part of the Pacific Rim?

Author : I. A. Graef
Publisher : Epigraph Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944037756

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Atlantis Revisited by I. A. Graef Pdf

This historical romance, sci-fi adventure novel of the last days of Atlantis draws many of its ideas from the Russian philosopher, G.I. Gurdjieff's (1872-1949), All & Everything. The lost continent of Atlantis is becoming increasingly relevant as Earth's glaciers melt and the oceans rise.

Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571269471

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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Pdf

'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick HornbyThe Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working.Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.

Author : Marina Leslie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501745263

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Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History by Marina Leslie Pdf

Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts—Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World—as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.

Author : Lissa Roberts
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643900951

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Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands During the Early Modern Period by Lissa Roberts Pdf

The Netherlands housed a number of widely-known, envied, and emulated centers of accumulation during the early-modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles of accumulation and exchange. Its institutions of learning and culture similarly served as internationally famous centers of accumulation that furthered knowledge and cultural production, embodied in the form of books, maps, prints, exhibits, and the like. This collection of essays brings together the Dutch histories of manufacture, commerce, and global exchange along with the histories of knowledge and cultural circulation during the 17th and 18th centuries by anatomizing the multi-faceted concept of accumulation. The book explores the processes that led to the formation of concentrated, often hybrid, sites of material, intellectual, and cultural accumulation in the Netherlands and its overseas stations, as well as the concerns and consequences to which the successes and challenges of accumulation gave rise. It will be of interest to historians of science, technology, culture, and economics. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 2)

Author : Lee Alan Dugatkin,Lyudmila Trut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226599717

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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) by Lee Alan Dugatkin,Lyudmila Trut Pdf

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication. This is the extraordinary, untold story of this remarkable undertaking. Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there the whole time, and has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind it all. In How to Tame a Fox, Dugatkin and Trut take us inside this path-breaking experiment in the midst of the brutal winters of Siberia to reveal how scientific history is made and continues to be made today. To date, fifty-six generations of foxes have been domesticated, and we continue to learn significant lessons from them about the genetic and behavioral evolution of domesticated animals. How to Tame a Fox offers an incredible tale of scientists at work, while also celebrating the deep attachments that have brought humans and animals together throughout time.

Author : Sophy Roberts
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802149305

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The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts Pdf

This “melodious” mix of music, history, and travelogue “reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.” —The Wall Street Journal Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos—grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos traveled into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia follows Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful—and peppered with pianos. “An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia. I loved this book.” —Paul Theroux

Author : Barbara Goodwin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0714681695

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The Philosophy of Utopia by Barbara Goodwin Pdf

This study covers the theory, history and future of utopianism (the belief in an ideal society).

Author : Robert E. Stillman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838753108

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The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-century England by Robert E. Stillman Pdf

That saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.

Author : Frances Bacon
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000182517

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The New Atlantis by Frances Bacon Pdf

“New Atlantis” is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem.

Author : Maria Rogacheva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196360

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The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev by Maria Rogacheva Pdf

A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.