The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics
S. Restivo
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The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics

Studies in Social Structure, Interests, and Ideas

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The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci ology of science and knowledge. Part I is a critique of the claim that there are parallels between ancient mysticism and modern physics, and a sociological analysis of this claim as a strategy in intellectual conflict. This study must. ultimately be rooted more firmly in a: type of sociology of knowledge that is just now beginning to crystallize (and which I discuss in Chapter 7), and a sociology of religion that is not so much unknown as underground, and timid, that is, a non-worshipful materialist sociology of religi...