Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

by William Paul Cockshott, Greg Michaelson, Katerina Kolozova

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted. Defending Materialismfollows the political and theoretical background of this intense philosophical controversy, defending atomistic and mechanical materialism against idealist paradigms. These accounts range from the explicit idealism criticised by Lenin and Einstein to the implicit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350447323
• ISBN13: 9781350447325
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"