Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 THE SOCIAL ROOTS OF EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- Zurich: The Peaceful Cradle of European Revolution -- Friedrich Adler and Albert Einstein -- Ernst Mach: The Genesis of the Relativist Standpoint -- The Appeal of Mach's Philosophy to the New Revolutionary Generation -- The Olympia Academy: A Scientific Countercommunity -- Countercultures and Isoemotional Lines -- The Sublimation of Revolutiojiary Emotion into Physical Theory -- Einstein as a Generational Revolutionist -- Social and Ideological Contrast of the Zurich-Berne Circle with the Cantabrigians and Parisians -- Hermann Minkowski: Architectural Formalist of the Theory of Relativity -- The Subsidence of the Relativist Spirit: Einstein as a Generational Conservative -- 2 SOCIAL, GENERATIONAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCES OF QUANTUM THEORY -- Niels Bohr: The Ekliptika Circle and the Kierkegaardian Spirit -- Werner Heisenberg and the Revolt against Determinism -- Louis Victor, Prince de Broglie, Aristocratic Revolutionist -- 3 GENERATIONAL MOVEMENTS AND "SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS"--The Idea of Scientific Revolution -- The Disanalogy of Scientific Revolution: The Absence of Revolutionary Situations -- Generational Collaboration in Scientific Revolutions -- Classical Systems as Limiting Cases of Revolutionary Systems: The Absence of Qualitative Negation in Scientific Revolutions -- The Non-Immanent, Epigenetic Development of Novel Sciences -- The Complementarity of Subjective Generational Revolution and Objective, Cumulative Evolution -- 4 THE CONFLICT OF SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS -- The Notion of Isomorpheme -- The Emotional Character of Scientific Schools -- The Tragedy of Ludwig Boltzmann: A Case Study in the Consequences of Generational, Methodological Fanaticism -- The Planck-Macb Controversy