The reception of Hessen’s famous essay titled The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia has undergone various stages or, to put it in Bourdieu’s terms, labeling processes (marcature) through which Hessen himself has come to be regarded as a precursor figure in a wide range of debates. Readers of his work have o"ered a variety of interpretations of it based on their speci!c positions within these debates. In the following pages, I will outline the various phases of the circulation of Hessen’s theses from the 1930s to the present day.

The International and Interdisciplinary Circulation of Boris Hessen’s Theses

Gerardo Ienna
2022-01-01

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The reception of Hessen’s famous essay titled The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia has undergone various stages or, to put it in Bourdieu’s terms, labeling processes (marcature) through which Hessen himself has come to be regarded as a precursor figure in a wide range of debates. Readers of his work have o"ered a variety of interpretations of it based on their speci!c positions within these debates. In the following pages, I will outline the various phases of the circulation of Hessen’s theses from the 1930s to the present day.
2022
Manuscripts and Documents on the History of Physics: A Historical Materialist Textbook
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