LEADER 03855nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910960372203321 005 20240513051936.0 010 $a9786612901935 010 $a9781282901933 010 $a1282901931 010 $a9780226327365 010 $a0226327361 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226327365 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059641 035 $a(EBL)616040 035 $a(OCoLC)690177209 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12193619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448867 035 $a(PQKB)10741284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12183688 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10462447 035 $a(PQKB)11202223 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616040 035 $a(DE-B1597)524615 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589580 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226327365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10431289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290193 035 $a(Perlego)1834121 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059641 100 $a20001117d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian relativity $eradical thought and scientific discovery /$fChristopher Herbert 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780226327334 311 0 $a0226327337 311 0 $a9780226327327 311 0 $a0226327329 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPREFACE: Relativity and Ideology --$tINTRODUCTION. The Conspiracy against Truth --$tChapter 1. Difference, Unity, Proliferation --$tChapter 2. Relativity and Authority --$tChapter 3. The Relativity of Logic --$tChapter 4. Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine --$tChapter 5. Frazer and Einstein --$tAfterword: Protagoras and History-Writing --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aOne of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity." Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity produced revolutionary changes in one field after another in the nineteenth century. Surveying a long line of thinkers including Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Alexander Bain, W. K. Clifford, W. S. Jevons, Karl Pearson, James Frazer, and Einstein himself, Victorian Relativity argues that the early relativity movement was bound closely to motives of political and cultural reform and, in particular, to radical critiques of the ideology of authoritarianism. Recuperating relativity from those who treat it as synonymous with nihilism, Herbert portrays it as the basis of some of our crucial intellectual and ethical traditions. 606 $aRelativity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aRelativity$xHistory 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory 676 $a115 700 $aHerbert$b Christopher$0711857 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960372203321 996 $aVictorian relativity$94352517 997 $aUNINA