TY - BOOK ID - 8433261 TI - The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution : Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann AU - Freudenthal, Gideon. AU - McLaughlin, Peter. PY - 2009 SN - 9400791933 1402096038 9786612364426 1282364421 1402096046 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950. KW - Hessen, Boris. KW - Science -- Historiography. KW - Science -- History. KW - Science KW - Sciences - General KW - History - General KW - History & Archaeology KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - History. KW - Grossmann, Henryk, KW - Grossman, Henryk KW - Grossmann, Heinrich, KW - Grossmann, H. KW - Grossman, Henryk, KW - Grossman, Chaskel, KW - Science. KW - Philosophy and science. KW - Philosophy and social sciences. KW - Physics. KW - History of Science. KW - Philosophy of Science. KW - Science, general. KW - Philosophy of the Social Sciences. KW - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. KW - Social sciences KW - Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. KW - Philosophy. KW - Social philosophy KW - Social theory KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Social sciences and philosophy KW - Science and philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8433261 AB - The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scientific Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the first half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and served as an Austrian officer in the First World War; afterwards he was forced to return to Poland and then because of his revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the rise to power of the Nazis he had to flee to France and then America while his family, which remained in Europe, perished in Nazi concentration camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in Europe in the wake of the student movement and the professionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope that under the again very different conditions of the early twenty-first century these texts will contribute to the further development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach to the study of science. ER -