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Reason and Being

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  1. B. G. Kuznetsov
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 17)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 3-28

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Heraclitean-Eleatic Clash

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 31-46

    3. Paradoxes of Being

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 47-66

    4. Einstein and Epicurus

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 67-108

    5. The Rationalism of the Renaissance

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 109-147

    6. Descartes

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 148-177

    7. Spinoza and Einstein

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 178-210

    9. Dynamism and the Critique of Stationary Being

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 239-275

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Heterogeneous Being

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 279-297

    3. Existence and Actuality

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 298-324

    5. Nothing and the Vacuum

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 358-394

  5. Afterword

    1. Afterword

      • B. G. Kuznetsov
      Pages 395-426

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 427-444
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About this book

Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness. He was steeped in classical European culture, from earliest times to the latest avant-garde, and he roamed through the ages, an inveterate time-traveller, chatting and arguing with Aristotle and Descartes, Heine and Dante, among many others. Kuznetsov was also, in his intelligent and thoughtful way, a Marxist scholar and a practical engineer, a patriotic Russian Jew of the first sixty years of the Soviet Union. Above all he meditated upon the revolutionary developments of the natural sciences, throughout history to be sure but particularly in his own time, the time of what he called 'non-classical science', and of his beloved and noblest hero, Albert Einstein. Kuznetsov was born in Dnepropetrovsk on October 5, 1903 (then Yekaterinoslav). By early years he had begun to teach, first in 1921 at an institute of mining engineering and then at other technological institutions. By 1933 he had received a scientific post within the Academy of Science of the U. S. S. R. , and then at the end of the Second World War he joined several colleagues at the new Institute of the History of Science and Technology. For more than 40 years he worked there until his death two years ago.
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`...the editors deserve warm thanks for making one of Kuznetsov's most important books available to readers of English in a form worthy of its substance.'
ISIS, Vol. 79, No. 1, 1988
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reason and Being

  • Authors: B. G. Kuznetsov

  • Editors: Carolyn R. Fawcett, Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4590-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2181-5Published: 31 March 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8539-7Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4590-6Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 444

  • Additional Information: Originally published in Russian

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Political Philosophy

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