Einstein on politics
Subtitle: his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb
By: edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann
Contributors: Rowe, David E., 1950-; Schulmann, Robert J
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780691120942
Subjects: Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955 -- Political and social views; Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955 -- Ethics; Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955 -- Religion
Description: "In Einstein on Politics, leading Einstein scholars David Rowe and Robert Schulmann gather Einstein's most important public and private political writings and put them into historical context. The book reveals a little-known Einstein - not the ineffectual and naive idealist of popular imagination, but a principled, shrewd pragmatist whose stands on political issues reflected the depth of his humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-514) and index
Table of contents: title: The first world war and its impact, 1914-1921; title: Science meets politics : the relativity revolution, 1918-1923; title: Anti-semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930; title: Internationalism and European security, 1922-1932; title: Articles of faith, 1930-1933; title: Hitler's Germany and the threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938; title: The fate of the Jews, 1939-1949; title: The Second World War, nuclear weapons, and world peace, 1939-1950; title: Soviet Russia, political economy, and socialism, 1918-1952; title: Political freedom and the threat of nuclear war, 1931-1955