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Wissenschaft im Glaubenskampf. Geschichte als Argument in den akademischen Festreden Emil DuBois-Reymonds (1818–1896)

The Religious War of Science. Historical Argumentation in the Academic Speeches of Emil DuBois-Reymond (1818–1896). Among the protagonists of the “laboratory revolution” (Cunningham/Williams) in 19th-century physiology were the self-proclaimed ‘organic physicists’ (“organische Physiker”), who shared a mechanistic conception of life processes. One of their key figures was the physiologist Emil DuBois-Reymond (1818–1896) who not only excelled in the field of neuroscience but also became known, over the decades of his active career, as an orator at the Berlin Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In his academic speeches, DuBois-Reymond regularly commemorated heroes of the history of science. On closer inspection, these references went far beyond paying the usual homage to precursors: This paper argues that DuBois-Reymond made use of episodes from the history of science as a means to legitimate his own reductionist research programme and, at the same time, decry idealistic natural philosophy and vitalistic positions. Drawing upon biblical rhetorics, DuBois-Reymond systematically construed experimental physiology as the culmination of a teleological development, and, hence, organic physicists as the incarnation of scientific ‘redeemers’. According to him, the success of ‘organic physics’ displayed the peak of an inevitable development.

Jean-François Bert, Elisabetta Basso (Hrsgg.), Foucault à Münsterlingen. A l’origine de l’Histoire de la folie, Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS 2015.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch. 2/2016

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Sabine Baier, Feuerphilosophen. Alchemie und das Streben nach dem Neuen, (Legierungen 12) Zürich: Chronos 2015.

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Helmut Maier, Chemiker im „Dritten Reich“. Die Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft und der Verein Deutscher Chemiker im NS-Herrschaftsapparat, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 2015.

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Han F. Vermeulen, Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment, Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press 2015.

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Titelbild: (Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch. 2/2016)

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Liselotte Frisk and Peter Åkerbäck: Religiosity in Contemporary Sweden: The Dalarna Study in National and International Context. Sheffield: Equinox, 2015; pp. viii + 197.

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Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern: Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014; pp. lx + 171.

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