Synopsis
1923. Robinson, an American historian and one of the founders of the New School for Social Research of which he was the first director. Through his writings and lectures, in which he stressed the new history-the social, scientific, and intellectual progress of humanity rather than merely political happenings-he exerted an important influence on the study and teaching of history. Contents: On Mankind's General Indifference to Scientific Truth; The Dehumanizing of Science; How Scientific Discoveries have become a Matter of General Concern; Present Organized Opposition to the Scientific View of Man's Place in the Natural Order; On Science vs. Lore and the Current Hostility to a Scientific Attitude of Mind; The Problem of Humanizing Knowledge; and How is Scientific Knowledge to be Democratized? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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