Reviews for The Development of chemistry, 1789-1914

The average rating for The Development of chemistry, 1789-1914 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-22 00:00:00 Bryan Colegate "The future is negatively cathected; we see outlined on the threshold of the twenty-first century the horrifying panorama of a worldwide threat to universal life interests... The responses of the intellectuals reflect as much bewilderment as those of the politicians. It is by no means only realism when a forthrightly accepted bewilderment increasingly takes the place of attempts at orientation directed toward the future. The situation may be objectively obscure. Obscurity is nonetheless a function of a society's assessment of its own readiness to take action. What is at stake is Western culture's confidence in itself."

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-18 00:00:00 Ralph Baker Shadia Drury's thesis is pretty much that Strauß was a closet Nietzschean (and, perhaps, also a closet homosexual--she only grazes that suggestion in the book, though; for a more detailed examination of Strauß' views on homosexuality, see Drury's review of The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism in the November 1991 issue of Political Theory, pp. 671-5). Well, I already knew this, but it is really nice to have a detailed account of Strauß' Nietzscheanism if only to rob the Straussians of their insufferably smug sanctimony.