Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early 20th Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science

Authors

Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
Stephen J. Stern, Gettysburg College

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

12-2022

Department 1

Philosophy

Department 2

Judaic Studies

Abstract

The Second World War ended with the exposure of the Nazi death camps and the threat of global nuclear annihilation. The former disclosed the depths of human depravity and the latter warned us about the severity of the consequences that could await us as a result. The grimness of each, much less both, had the effect of shielding from our collective consciousness the equally dire warnings from the First World War that had occurred only a couple of decades earlier. [excerpt]

Comments

The book containing this chapter can be found at the publisher's website.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

ISBN/ISSN

9781612498003

Version

Version of Record

Recommended Citation

Gimbel, Steven and Stephen Stern. "Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early 20th Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science" in Jews and Science. Sander Gilman (ed.) (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2022).