Crisis in Physics

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J. B. S. Haldane, The Crisis in Physics offers a 'quarry of ideas' for future philosophers: a wealth of insights and arguments that demand and deserve continuing critical reflection.

About the author

Christopher Caudwell was the pen name of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a self-taught polymath and active member of the Poplar Branch of the Communist Party. Caudwell was killed in action on February 12th 1937, and all his significant works on literature, aesthetics, philosophy, science, history, religion and many other topics were published posthumously. Caudwell remains an interesting and controversial figure in the history of British Marxism.

Summary

Caudwell's controversial book offers an astute and enduring diagnosis of the maladies of bourgeois epistemology

Additional text

“Caudwell criticized, brilliantly and destructively, the philosophical conclusions of bourgeois scientists.”
—J. D. Bernal

Report

Caudwell's style is fluent, cogent and assertive E. P. Thompson, historian and author, The Making of the English Working Class

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Caudwell, Caudwell Christopher
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781786634603
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-460-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 15
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Society & culture: general, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Politics & government, Politics and government, Society and culture: general