Marius Stan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1098398 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marius Stan |
| PRENOMES | Marius |
| SOBRENOME | Stan |
| ASSINATURA | STAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4313-1962 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Newtonianism and the Physics of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
Reassessing the End of the Cold War and Its Implications
Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich, eds., The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. Budapest: Central European University, 2019. 290 pp. Editor’s Introduction: The upheavals in East-Central Europe at the end of the 1980s have been covered in exhaustive detail in countless books, articles, edited volumes, and other academic publications, as well as memoirs, journalistic accounts, and collections of declassified documents from various count…
How physics flew the philosophers' nest
Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship
In a review of recent Newton scholarship, H. Floris Cohen charges that my paper is not a 'case of worthwhile innovation, or even of any innovation at all'. I beg to differ
Beyond Balkanism
Where Diana Mishkova's new book succeeds so impressively is in ‘highlight[ing] the strategies that were used at the Balkan margins to challenge their asymmetric conceptualization by devising subversive regional categories (and classifications) and alternative regional modes of collective identification. [...] The book thus seeks to prompt academics to think about the transnational roots of their practices beyond the one way, west to east, transfe…
Romania Confronts its Communist Past
Reckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundations. In the case of Romania, such an analysis requires an interpretation of the role of personality in the construction of a uniquely grotesque and unrepentant form of neo-Stalinist despotism. Of all the revolutions of 1989, the only violent one took place in Romania. Confronting its communist past there…
Emilie du Châtelet's Metaphysics of Substance
I argue that Emilie du Chtelet's metaphysics of corporeal substance in the 1740s was a species of realism. This result challenges the ruling consensus, which takes her to have been decisively influenced by Leibniz, an idealist. In addition, I argue that du Chtelet's ontology of body is a mixture of realism and idealism, likewise non-Leibnizian. This, too, questions the scholarly consensus and opens the way for an overdue careful reassessment of h…
The Death of a Leninist Dictator
Funeral ceremonies for Communist leaders during the Cold War signaled the end of a particular era and the beginning of a new one. In the case of Romania, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's unexpected demise in March 1965 resulted in Nicolae Ceaușescu's spectacular rise to power and the beginning of a short lived de-Stalinization. Weeks after the former dictator's death, dramatic changes occurred within the top elite and in the interpretation of the Romania…
Huygens on Inertial Structure and Relativity
I explain and assess here Huygens’s concept of relative motion. I show that it allows him to ground most of the Law of Inertia and also to explain rotation. Thereby his concept obviates the need for Newton’s absolute space. Thus, his account is a powerful foundation for mechanics, although not without some tension
The end of the Cold War
It is not unsurprising for Oxford professor Robert Service, the author of acclaimed biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, to address the circumstances and dynamics under which the Bolshevik state declined and finally collapsed. Absorbingly written, displaying an admirable command of the sources, this book is destined to become a classic of Cold War historical literature. It stands on a par with state of the art books such as Stephen Kotkin's …
Putinism
There is an abundance of recent literature on Vladimir Putin's regime. This new addition, by veteran historian Walter Laqueur, is a splendidly informed and informative exploration of the most intimate mechanisms of the Russian political system, as well as a thoroughly documented portrait of the autocrat who has been calling the shots in the Kremlin for more than 15 years. Many analysts have wondered whether there is a Putin doctrine. Is it nation…
On Stalin's team
On Stalin's team: the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics. By Sheila Fitzpatrick. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015. 384pp. £25.00. isbn 978 0 69114 533 4. Available as e-book. This political history of Stalinism is immensely important for at least three reasons: first, Sheila Fitzpatrick, who is a well-respected scholar of the USSR, challenges the monolithic perspective on the totalitarian leader as an increasingly paran…
Cristian Găzdac, Franz Hummer, Eduard Pollhammer. In the Shadow of the Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins From Carnuntum
Cristian Găzdac, Franz Hummer, Eduard Pollhammer. In The Shadow of the Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins from Carnuntum
The Phenomenon of Roman Republican Coinage in Pre-Roman Dacia. A Rexamination of the Evidence
This article offers a re-examination of the phenomenon of Roman Republican coinage during the pre-Roman period in Carpathian region. It is argued that by compiling the evidence into a multifaceted database, new insights are gained on the explanation of the currency in pre-Roman Dacia. Furthermore, the study employs statistical methods in an interdisciplinary approach to a better pinpoint the chronological point of entry for Republican denarii int…
Unity for Kant’s Natural Philosophy
I uncover here a conflict in Kant’s natural philosophy. His matter theory and laws of mechanics are in tension. Kant’s laws are fit for particles but are too narrow to handle continuous bodies, which his doctrine of matter demands. To fix this defect, Kant ultimately must ground the Torque Law; that is, the impressed torque equals the change in angular momentum. But that grounding requires a premise—the symmetry of the stress tensor—that Kant den…
History of Roman Coinage in Britain
Sam Moorhead, A History of Roman Coinage in Britain, Greenlight Publishing (Essex 2013), pp. 219, ISBN 978–1–897738–54–2
Kant’s third law of mechanics
Kant’s third law of mechanics
Emilie du Châtelet's Metaphysics of Substance
I argue that Emilie du Chtelet's metaphysics of corporeal substance in the 1740s was a species of realism. This result challenges the ruling consensus, which takes her to have been decisively influenced by Leibniz, an idealist. In addition, I argue that du Chtelet's ontology of body is a mixture of realism and idealism, likewise non-Leibnizian. This, too, questions the scholarly consensus and opens the way for an overdue careful reassessment of h…
Beyond Balkanism
Where Diana Mishkova's new book succeeds so impressively is in ‘highlight[ing] the strategies that were used at the Balkan margins to challenge their asymmetric conceptualization by devising subversive regional categories (and classifications) and alternative regional modes of collective identification. [...] The book thus seeks to prompt academics to think about the transnational roots of their practices beyond the one way, west to east, transfe…
Huygens on Inertial Structure and Relativity
I explain and assess here Huygens’s concept of relative motion. I show that it allows him to ground most of the Law of Inertia and also to explain rotation. Thereby his concept obviates the need for Newton’s absolute space. Thus, his account is a powerful foundation for mechanics, although not without some tension
Kant’s third law of mechanics
Unity for Kant’s Natural Philosophy
I uncover here a conflict in Kant’s natural philosophy. His matter theory and laws of mechanics are in tension. Kant’s laws are fit for particles but are too narrow to handle continuous bodies, which his doctrine of matter demands. To fix this defect, Kant ultimately must ground the Torque Law; that is, the impressed torque equals the change in angular momentum. But that grounding requires a premise—the symmetry of the stress tensor—that Kant den…
History of Roman Coinage in Britain
Sam Moorhead, A History of Roman Coinage in Britain, Greenlight Publishing (Essex 2013), pp. 219, ISBN 978–1–897738–54–2
Cristian Găzdac, Franz Hummer, Eduard Pollhammer. In the Shadow of the Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins From Carnuntum
Cristian Găzdac, Franz Hummer, Eduard Pollhammer. In The Shadow of the Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins from Carnuntum
The Phenomenon of Roman Republican Coinage in Pre-Roman Dacia. A Rexamination of the Evidence
This article offers a re-examination of the phenomenon of Roman Republican coinage during the pre-Roman period in Carpathian region. It is argued that by compiling the evidence into a multifaceted database, new insights are gained on the explanation of the currency in pre-Roman Dacia. Furthermore, the study employs statistical methods in an interdisciplinary approach to a better pinpoint the chronological point of entry for Republican denarii int…
Huygens on Inertial Structure and Relativity
I explain and assess here Huygens’s concept of relative motion. I show that it allows him to ground most of the Law of Inertia and also to explain rotation. Thereby his concept obviates the need for Newton’s absolute space. Thus, his account is a powerful foundation for mechanics, although not without some tension
The end of the Cold War
It is not unsurprising for Oxford professor Robert Service, the author of acclaimed biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, to address the circumstances and dynamics under which the Bolshevik state declined and finally collapsed. Absorbingly written, displaying an admirable command of the sources, this book is destined to become a classic of Cold War historical literature. It stands on a par with state of the art books such as Stephen Kotkin's …
Putinism
There is an abundance of recent literature on Vladimir Putin's regime. This new addition, by veteran historian Walter Laqueur, is a splendidly informed and informative exploration of the most intimate mechanisms of the Russian political system, as well as a thoroughly documented portrait of the autocrat who has been calling the shots in the Kremlin for more than 15 years. Many analysts have wondered whether there is a Putin doctrine. Is it nation…
On Stalin's team
On Stalin's team: the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics. By Sheila Fitzpatrick. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015. 384pp. £25.00. isbn 978 0 69114 533 4. Available as e-book. This political history of Stalinism is immensely important for at least three reasons: first, Sheila Fitzpatrick, who is a well-respected scholar of the USSR, challenges the monolithic perspective on the totalitarian leader as an increasingly paran…
The Death of a Leninist Dictator
Funeral ceremonies for Communist leaders during the Cold War signaled the end of a particular era and the beginning of a new one. In the case of Romania, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's unexpected demise in March 1965 resulted in Nicolae Ceaușescu's spectacular rise to power and the beginning of a short lived de-Stalinization. Weeks after the former dictator's death, dramatic changes occurred within the top elite and in the interpretation of the Romania…
Romania Confronts its Communist Past
Reckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundations. In the case of Romania, such an analysis requires an interpretation of the role of personality in the construction of a uniquely grotesque and unrepentant form of neo-Stalinist despotism. Of all the revolutions of 1989, the only violent one took place in Romania. Confronting its communist past there…
Emilie du Châtelet's Metaphysics of Substance
I argue that Emilie du Chtelet's metaphysics of corporeal substance in the 1740s was a species of realism. This result challenges the ruling consensus, which takes her to have been decisively influenced by Leibniz, an idealist. In addition, I argue that du Chtelet's ontology of body is a mixture of realism and idealism, likewise non-Leibnizian. This, too, questions the scholarly consensus and opens the way for an overdue careful reassessment of h…
Response to H. Floris Cohen's essay review on Newtonian scholarship
In a review of recent Newton scholarship, H. Floris Cohen charges that my paper is not a 'case of worthwhile innovation, or even of any innovation at all'. I beg to differ
Beyond Balkanism
Where Diana Mishkova's new book succeeds so impressively is in ‘highlight[ing] the strategies that were used at the Balkan margins to challenge their asymmetric conceptualization by devising subversive regional categories (and classifications) and alternative regional modes of collective identification. [...] The book thus seeks to prompt academics to think about the transnational roots of their practices beyond the one way, west to east, transfe…
How physics flew the philosophers' nest
Newtonianism and the Physics of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
Reassessing the End of the Cold War and Its Implications
Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich, eds., The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. Budapest: Central European University, 2019. 290 pp. Editor’s Introduction: The upheavals in East-Central Europe at the end of the 1980s have been covered in exhaustive detail in countless books, articles, edited volumes, and other academic publications, as well as memoirs, journalistic accounts, and collections of declassified documents from various count…
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