Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe: Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

ISBN 10: 1138117048 / ISBN 13: 9781138117044

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

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Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and culture and neutrality in politics. By analyzing the activities of scientists, intellectuals, and politicians (sometimes overlapping categories) of mostly neutral nations in the First World War and after, it traces how an ideology of neutralism was developed that soon was embraced by international organizations. This book explores how the notion of neutrality has been used and how a neutralist discourse developed in history. As such, Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe presents a different perspective on the century than the story of the great belligerent powers, and one in which science, culture, and politics are inextricably mixed.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Rebecka Lettevall is Associate Professor and Docent of the History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is author of The Idea of Kosmopolis: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of World Citizenship (2008).

Geert Somsen is University Docent in the Department of History at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Sven Widmalm is Professor in the Department of Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden.

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Titel: Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe: ...
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New