Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nJan Müggenburg, nSebastian Vehlkenn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
The Squaring of the Bermuda Triangle. In the course of the great success of theory programs and the funding of young researchers within media studies and the history of science over the past 15 years, a generation of scholars has emerged (including the authors of this article) who have been genuinely trained in approaching interdisciplinary problems and objects. However, in view of a recently increasing renaissance of scientific ‘disciplines’, this raises the question of how to deal with such an innate lack of discipline in the future. We respond here with two personal scenes that are by no means intended as a self‐adulation of our own research approaches, but as pleas for a continued multi‐voicedness between the history of science, media studies, the history of technology, and other interdisciplinary (non‐)disciplines.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801945?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nMichael Hagnern,
Allgemein.
Abstract
Views on History of Science II. This essay makes a claim for a new political awareness in the history of science, which goes beyond the practical turn that shaped the field in the last 25 years. This revision should take into consideration both new hostile political circumstances and new conditions for academic publishing after the digital revolution.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801938?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nMitchell G. Ashn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
History of Science in History. This position paper discusses the position of history of science within the field of history and presents arguments for maintaining and expanding that position in future.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801942?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nAnna Echterhöltern,
Allgemein.
Abstract
‘Little by Little’. Data Collection and Scales in Nineteenth‐Century Legal Anthropology. With the growing possibilities to measure and accumulate data, two strategies for a small discipline like the history of science are suggested: (1) It should facilitate and maintain the cooperation of specialists who pursue different subject matters and methods. (2) It should invite the recent history of quantification as an essential perspective. A large data collection on the anthropology of law by the German colonial office serves as example.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801935?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nKärin Nickelsenn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
The Future of the Histories of Science and Knowledge. This essay addresses the relationship between the history of science and the history of knowledge, particularly in view of the situation in Germany. This relationship has become a controversial issue, culminating in the suggestion that the history of science suffers of irremediable shortcomings and, hence, ought to be replaced by the less problematic history of knowledge. The essay raises doubt in this analysis, while a more comprehensive discussion will be presented in a special issue on this topic, to be published in this journal next year.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801928?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nFabian Grütter, nNils Güttler, nMax Stadler, nMonika Wulzn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration. In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same token, ‘knowledge’ has lost traction for the purposes of a historiography trying to keep abreast with the times. At this impasse, we propose that historians of science embrace our predicament head‐on. They should take a more serious interest in the trajectories that brought us here: that is, in recent history and the political and ideological projects which shaped it. We suggest two complementary concepts along which such analyses might proceed: deregulation and restoration.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801932?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nArmin Schäfern,
Allgemein.
Abstract
Literature and Madness. The Art of Posing a Problem. Literary studies and the history of science can collaborate in their ways of posing a problem, which is an art in itself. The article points to a problem that is posed by Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. What is the nexus between literature and madness and what makes their difference?
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801927?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nVeronika Lipphardtn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
Critical Interventions in the Life Sciences – not a Task for the History of Science? This brief paper asks whether historians of science – along with scholars from Science and Technology Studies – should intervene if, in their research, they come across ethically and societally problematic behavior of scientists. I discuss whether and how interventions can be made in such a case that go beyond publishing scholarly articles. In contrast to Nicholas Rose, who claims that determinism and reductionism are no longer driving forces in the life sciences and that scholars from history of science and STS should hence form new relationships with life scientists, I hold that such a general understanding of ‘life scientists’ is at odds with the reality of scientific communities. The challenge is rather to find those colleagues in the life sciences who agree with our criticism. At the same time, such discipline‐crossing collaborative interventions need to carefully watch out for responsible communication in all directions.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801930?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nMathias Grote, nAnke te Heesenn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
Subject of the Moment, Reloaded. The catalogue of Ludwig Darmstaedter's document collection, which contains sources as well as a categorization conspicuous of a history of knowledge avant la lettre, invites for a revisiting of the history of our discipline, thereby asking for its current role in academia and beyond. We argue that as historians of science or as historians of knowledge, our discipline disposes of the tools and topics necessary to respond to urgent epistemic and political problems.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801926?af=R
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Dezember 7, 2018, 2:50 p.m.,
nChristoph Hoffmannn,
Allgemein.
Abstract
Spontaneous Histories, Spontaneous Philosophies: Concepts of Science in Academic Training. Science studies and history of science usually focus on exploring scientific research activities. Academic training does not garner much attention by contrast. However, what scientists think and do in the course of research activities is not completely independent of what they once have learned. I suggest that in academic training, beneath everything else, a kind of ‘spontaneous philosophy of the scientists’ (Louis Althusser) is established. Textbooks mark one entry point to approach the concepts of science students are confronted with. As an example, I rely on a chapter on the “history of macroeconomics” from a recent textbook.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.201801918?af=R
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