Biblioteca / 1930-1939
Christopher Caudwell. The Crisis in Physics.
Londres: John Lane, 1939.
Londres: Verso, 2017. 256 páginas.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION / Hyman Levy
I – FROM NEWTON TO EINSTEIN
The New School in Physics
Newton’s Universe
The Wave Theory of Light
The Beginning of the Crisis
Relative and Absolute Motion
The Special Principle of Relativity
Unity and Atomicity
The General Principle of Relativity
II – THE WORLD AS MACHINE
Revolution and Mysticism
The Metaphysics of Science
The Economic Crisis
Matter and Mechanism
The World of Bourgeois Society
The World as Machine
The Machine as Slave
The Bourgeois as Owner
Class and World-View
The Shattering of a World-View
The Sharing of Matter
The Wild World
World-View and Social Change
III – MAN AS IDEA
The Generation of Idealism
The Advance to Dialectics
The Explosion of Theory
Reality as Appearance
The Screen of Phenomena
The Re-Discovery of the Object
IV – THE DISTORTION OF PHILOSOPHY
The Monopoly of Consciousness
Primitive Materialism
The Cosmic Market
God-makingNature and the Slaveowner
V – THE COLLAPSE OF DETERMINISM
The Problem of Freewill
The Principle of Indeterminism
The Sanction of Determinism
From God to Man
The Transition to Idealism
VI – THE MEANING OF CAUSALITY
Causality not Determinism
The Meaning of Freedom
Spirit and Substance
The Flux of Phenomena
The Movement of Logic
VII
Bell and earth
Universal determinism… contradictory to causality?
Like and unlike
Time and Space
Mutually determining
Modern views: Probability (accident)
Determinism
Causality
Freedom
Iron bourgeois determinism
Freedom: Ignorance of necessity
VIII
IX
X
Zeno
The calculus
Quantum (opp. light. All particles view of one)
Frequency and discontinuity
Continuity and discontinuity (unity)
Entropy
Accident and Necessity
Freewill
General to science
XI
XII
Causality and freewill
Rooted in bourgeois gen
Mechanism
Future