ON THE REVIEW OF A. ALIOTTA’S BOOK
THE IDEALIST REACTION AGAINST
SCIENCE
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Antonio Aliotta:
La reazione idealistica contro la sciensa
.
1 vol. 8°. XVI + 526 pages. Palerme. Casa editrice Optima,
1912.
Review in
Revue Philosophique
(Ribot). Paris, 1912,
No. 12, pp. 644--646, by J. Segond, who states:
“He” (Aliotta) “shows us in agnosticism all the latest
sources of contemporary reaction; he shows how it de-
velops through German (Riehi) and French (Renouvier)
neo-criticism, the empirio-criticism of Mach and Avenarius,
and English neo-Hegelianism; he describes and exposes the
intuitionism of Bergson and Schmitt, the Anglo-American
pragmatism of W. James, Dewey and Schiller, the philos-
ophy of values and the historicism of Rickert, Croce, Mün-
sterberg and Royce,” etc. (645), and so on up to Schuppe,
Cohen and others.
In the second part the author examines the energetics
of Ostwald and “the new physics des qualités”
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of Duhem
and the “theory of models” of Hertz, Maxwell and Pastore.
The author particularly dislikes, he says, mysticism (includ-
ing that of Bergson), etc.
The point of view of the author is stated to be “the spir-
it of the happy mean of truly rational intellectualism,
that of M. Aliotta and of M. Chiapelli.” (645)
Written in 1913
First published in 1938 in
Lenin Miscellany XXXI
Published according to the manuscript