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Christopher Caudwell. The Crisis in Physics.

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