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One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle ""the negation of the absolute"" and set itself under the militant banner of ""relativity.""Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativi

Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- History --- Knowledge, Theory of - History - 19th century. --- Relativity - History - 19th century. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Relativism --- Reality --- Relationism