9780262191111 - Science and Politics: An Essay on the Scientific Situation in the Modern World di Salomon, Jean-Jacques (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1973; Cambridge; blue glossy paper dust jacket with black titles; dust jacket contains minimal rubbing and wear; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 277 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent or torn pp.; jacket fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 5 small tears to otherwise complete dust jacket, name written in pen on first white page, text clean.

Condizione: Very Good. 1974. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condizione: Very Good. 1974. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

Hardback. From the beginning, science has nourished the political ideal that its knowledge and applications should liberate men from magic, fear, and oppression. Salomon traces this ideal from its origin through the early nineteenth-century French laissez-faire attitude, which tolerated but did not yet underwrite scientific research, to the time when American scientists put the atom at the disposition of the military, Roosevelt asked American researchers to help effect the New Deal, and Leon Blum made Irene Joliot-Curie and Jean Perrin undersecretaries for scientific research. "This book is about politics—about political decision and action on issues which affect science," writes Salomon. He deals with basic rather than social science and focuses on research subsidized by governments for military and defense purposes. He is concerned equally with an empirical investigation of the scientist's condition in modern society and with a philosophical examination of the moral questions involved in the scientist's relations with political authority and in the changed nature of science itself. Science and Politicsposes precisely those questions about values, science, and politics that lie at the heart of the contemporary American debate about the moral and political implications of technology. The book presents its issues in a comparative perspective. Most of the cases are drawn from American experiences "because this relation [of science to power] assumed the institutionalized form which it now has in all industrialized countries earlier and on a larger scale in the United States, with more acute problems, greater awareness and a richer effort of reflection than elsewhere." The speculative conclusion of the book is that against the idea of "pure" science and the idea of "applied" science will rise up the notion of the realm of "science, period," where scientific man will not only engage in pure and applied research but will also consider science more carefully in its problematic relation to humanity. Translated from French by Noel Lindsay. Good condition. Some tanning on back and front pages. Dust jacket has bumping wear and small tears at edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Likely ex-military library - likely lighter use with corresponding military stamp. Likely condition is Fair-Good if not stated. All other info as listed. NB note this is a placeholder description and my entire list is being regularly updated with photographs and information. Please enquire for further details for this copy.