Burton Feldman Editor (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - philosopher Bertrand Russell, quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli,and logician Kurt Godel - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best, science and philosophy. Taking these historic meetings as his starting point, author Burton Feldman sketches the lives and contributions of the four friends, colleagues, and rivals, as they held forth on 'the end of innocence in science' during that cold winter of 1943-44. Addenda. 243p.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Spine is slightly faded. ; Contents include Donald Sutherland, essay - Not Listening to the Odyssey; Eugene Mc Namara, short fiction - Fathers and Daughters; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Contents include Rosellen Brown, essay - 'Long About Tomorrow; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Five, Number Four. Contents include essay Irish Poetry Since Yeats: Notes Towards A Corrected History by Michael Smith; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Nine, Number One. Contents include essay A Reply to Barfield by Theodore Roszak; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Eight, Number Two. Contents include fiction With the Gypsy Girls by Mircea Eliade, translated by William Ames Coates; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Nine, Number Three.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Covers have some marginal fading. ; Volume Eight, Number Three. Contents include essay Our Narrative, Native Critic by Donald Sutherland; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Seven, Number Two. Contents include essay Thoughts on The Waste Land by G. Wilson Knight; and others. ; Complete issue, original wrapper.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Nine, Number Two. Contents include essay What, If Not a Poem, Poems? By Laura (Riding) Jackson; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Seven, Number Two. Contents include essay Myth Today by Roland Barthes, translated by Annette Lavers; four poems by Hagiwara Sakutaro, translated by Graeme Wilson; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Nine, Number Four.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Eight, Number One. Contents include essay What of Ezra Pound? By Donald Sutherland; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Six, Number Three. Contents include interview Ezra Pound: A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man by C. David Heymann; fiction The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost by Shiva Naipul; and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Contents include Some Autobiographical Corrections of Literary History by Laura (Riding) Jackson; several poems by Laura Riding; and others.

Hardcover. xx, 243 p. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Index. From the esteemed author of The Nobel Prize comes a portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science, closely tied by friendship, work, and twentieth century upheaval. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has a tear at top front corner First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 243 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 243 pp. Includes Glossary; Epilogue: The Projects of Science; Bibliography; Notes; Acknowledgments; and Index.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 564 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition textured blue boards with white spine lettering, contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction; Glossary; Epilogue: The Projects of Science; Bibliography; Notes; Acknowledgments; and Index. Includes a tipped-in handwritten note from the granddaughter of the woman who sold 112 Mercer Street, Mary Clark Marden, to Albert Einstein. "As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies wold emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best, science and philosophy, and perhaps to ponder their vision of the postwar world. His guests were the legendary philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell; the boy wonder of quantum physics Wolfgang Pauli; and the brilliant logician Kurt Godel, whose "incompleteness" theorems a decade before had shattered the link between logic and mathematics. Their casual meetings took place far from the horrific battlefields of the war and the (then) secret lair of experimental atomic physicists, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Just how many times they met and precisely what they discussed remains a matter of conjecture. All four men were well along in years by scientific standards - where youth tends to dominate with major breakthroughs - and they had to be aware of what Feldman terms "the pathos of science," that their own work would one day be superseded. As they met, they and their scientific brethren were awakening to the dire consequences of atomic power - as well as the fact that henceforth science and politics were inextricably intertwined. It was, as Feldman notes, the end of innocence in science. Taking these historic meetings as his starting point, Feldman sketches the lives and contributions of the four friends, colleagues, and rivals - especially Einstein, innately self-confident but frustrated in his attempt to come up with a unified theory, and the aristocratic but self-doubting Lord Russell. In a final section, Feldman also discusses the roles of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his German counterpart, Werner Heisenberg. Though neither was present at any of these meetings, they both cast long shadows over 112 Mercer Street during that cold winter of 1943-44." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 564 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.