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The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution - Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution - Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 278
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The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this
volume are important contributions to the historiography of the
Scienti?c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography
of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only
testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating
typical European fates in the ?rst half of the twentieth century.
Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the
Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in
the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born
a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and
served as an Austrian of?cer in the First World War; afterwards he
was forced to return to Poland and then because of his
revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the
rise to power of the Nazis he had to ?ee to France and then
Americawhilehisfamily,whichremainedinEurope,perishedinNaziconcentration
camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is
also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more
fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in
Europe in the wake of the student movement and the p-
fessionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope
that under the again very different conditions of the early
twenty-?rst century these texts will contribute to the further
development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach
to the study of science.
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