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This reads as a claim that politics and art are not separate worlds, but doors into each other. The speaker can be understood as saying that a political upheaval opened the way to artistic experience, and that art in turn sharpened political awareness. It lands in discussions about art that becomes political through lived experience, or politics that is changed by aesthetic education.
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About Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity. He also made major contributions to quantum theory and was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics, especially his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is closely associated with mass-energy equivalence, expressed in the formula E = mc2, which comes from special relativity and has been called the world’s most famous equation. His work reshaped modern physics and continues to define how his name is remembered.
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Books by Albert Einstein
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
1917
Mein Weltbild
1934
Out of my later years
1492
Relativity
1998
The travel diaries of Albert Einstein
2018