New book by CCS Faculty Fellow Javier Pérez-Jara

Science and Apocalypse book cover

CCS Faculty Fellow Javier Pérez-Jara shares news of his new book, Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology, with co-author Lino Camprubi.

From the publisher:

“Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth century’s most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology brings those three aspects together to trace Russell’s changing views on the role of science and technology in society throughout his long intellectual career.

Drawing from cultural sociology, history of science, and philosophy, Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí provide a fresh multidimensional analysis of the general themes of science, technology, utopia, and apocalypse. The book critically examines Russell’s influential interpretations of the turn-of-the-century mathematical logic, World War I, the metaphysics and epistemology of mind and matter, World War II, nuclear holocaust, and the Vietnam War.”

Congratulations, Javier!