Another hanger-on to Einstein's fame and persona, telling the story of relativity as a parallel to Bergsonian philosophy.
The book depicts Einstein as a petulant brat basking in rays of his own popularity. Certainly, he was a Prussian man of his generation--for instance, thinking that a wife's rage at her man's infidelities--is a "usual" female hysteria. But he was unusually enlightened for his day and age.
I cannot vouch how accurately the author reproduces Bergson's concepts of time and space but her understanding of relativity and its place in contemporary science is superficial.
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