The Modern Theme
By: by Jose Ortega y Gasset; translated from the Spanish by James Cleugh.
Contributors: Cleugh, James, tr.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Published: 1933
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Translation of: El tema de nuestro tiempo. El ocaso de las revoluciones. El sentido histórico de la teoría de Einstein
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Philosophy.; Revolutions.; Relativity (Physics)
Notes: "First published: 1931."
"The first part of this book contains a somewhat amplified draft of the lecture with which I began my ordinary university course for the year 1921-22...My own interest is centered particularly in the appendix, which gives a brief account of a philosophical interpretation of the general significance latent in Einstein's theory of physics."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: Chapter I
title: The Concept of the Generation; label: Chapter II
title: The Forecasting of the Future; label: Chapter III
title: Relativism and Rationalism; label: Chapter IV
title: Culture and Life; label: Chapter V
title: The Double Imperative; label: Chapter VI
title: The Two Ironies, or, Socrates and Don Juan; label: Chapter VII
title: Valuations of Life; label: Chapter VIII
title: Vital Values; label: Chapter IX
title: Signs of the Times; label: Chapter X
title: The Doctrine of the Point of View; label: Supplementary; title: The Sunset of Revolution; title: Epilogue on the Mental Attitude of Disillusion; title: The Historical Significance of the Theory of Einstein