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The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Michael D. Gordin
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Description for The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Paperback. Resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his strange career and surprisingly influential writings to explore the changing definitions of the line that separates legitimate scientific inquiry from what is deemed bunk and to show how vital this question remains to us today. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
The publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950 was an event: the book was an instant best seller and launched Velikovsky on a long career as a writer and public figure opining on questions of science, history, myth, and more. But at the same time, Velikovsky and his theories - which claimed that ancient mythological and religious writings revealed Earth's hitherto unknown history of natural disasters and cosmic near-misses - were vigorously attacked by scientists, who saw them as unscientific nonsense. In The Pseudoscience Wars, Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his ... Read more
The publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950 was an event: the book was an instant best seller and launched Velikovsky on a long career as a writer and public figure opining on questions of science, history, myth, and more. But at the same time, Velikovsky and his theories - which claimed that ancient mythological and religious writings revealed Earth's hitherto unknown history of natural disasters and cosmic near-misses - were vigorously attacked by scientists, who saw them as unscientific nonsense. In The Pseudoscience Wars, Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgotten figure of Velikovsky and uses his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226101729
SKU
V9780226101729
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About Michael D. Gordin
Michael D. Gordin is professor of history at Princeton University and the author of a number of books, including Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly.
Reviews for The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
"A slyly funny writer.... Make no mistake: Michael D. Gordin's sympathies are not with the occult. His fascination with pseudoscience is more like a negative method: the experts define the boundaries of their domain by fending off the quacks. For Gordin, pseudoscience is an instrument by which he takes the temperature of the past.... The Pseudoscience Wars is a relatively ... Read more