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Author Crease, Robert P., author.

Title The workshop and the world : what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority / Robert P. Crease.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  306.45 CRE    DUE 04-29-24
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Description 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Francis Bacon's New Atlantis -- Galileo Galilei and the authority of science -- Ren©♭ Descartes: workshop thinking -- Giambattista Vico: going mad rationally -- Mary Shelley's hideous idea -- Auguste Comte's religion of humanity -- Max Weber: authority and bureaucracy -- Kemal Atat©ơrk: science and patriotism -- Edmund Husserl: cultural crisis -- Hannah Arendt: action.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index.
Subject Science -- Methodology.
Science -- Social aspects.
Science -- Political aspects.
Science and state.
Discoveries in science.
ISBN 9780393292435 (hardcover)
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