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English: The fundamental transformations in science and politics during the 20th century challenged the Göttingen Academy. The limits of the unifying scientific ethos became clear. As one of the oldest German academies, the Göttingen learned society not only had to face a newly forming research landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Bet...
Chapter 3 of the book "Umkämpfte Identitäten"
Das akademische Göttingen nach 1945: ein Neuanfang?
Das akademische Göttingen nach 1945 lässt sich als »Laboratorium der Selbstbehauptung« verstehen, in dem die lokale Hochschulelite ungeachtet ihrer NS-Belastung am Anspruch auf Weltdeutungskompetenz festhielt. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen die vergangenheitspolitische Kommunikation, mit der...
After 1945, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities was eager to win back its former members who had been forced to leave the academy during the Nazi period, or had decided to resign in protest. This article explores how the academy dealt with its Nazi past when approaching its former members and how the emigrés reacted to the academy's ac...
Nutzenideale ändern sich. Was bleibt, ist die Einsicht, dass sich die Naturwissenschaften nicht allein an aktuellen Bedürfnissen ausrichten sollten.
Der Aufstieg der modernen Naturwissenschaften war getragen vom Glauben, dass sich das Wissen über die Natur stetig vermehren und sich über kurz oder lang für Mensch und Gesellschaft als nützlich erwei...
The chapter carves out the national characteristics of the German discourse on marketization of science in both the literature and the public. In contrast to the English literature, the critic of the marketization of research does not take center stage in the German discourse. Although the concept of "Ökonomisierung" was contested at the beginning,...
This chapter discusses challenges in teaching history of science and technology in interdisciplinary STS master programs.
This chapter reconstructs the shift of science and research categorizations in the United States from the 1840s to the 1960s. In the early nineteenth century, US scientists built upon semantic traditions from Europe, especially upon the distinction between “abstract” and “practical” sciences. Later, a “pure science ideal” emerged, which, due to its...
The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the...
The introduction discusses how the conceptual history of basic and applied research contributes to current debates on the relation of science, politics, and society. We argue that concepts and, more generally, language, is an integral part of the politics of science. In a synopsis of the volume, two perspectives are highlighted: First, a diachronic...
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The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the...
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Daniel Greenberg’s The Politics of Pure Science, we discuss trajectories of 20th century science policy concepts. Statistical analyses of digitized text corpora shed light on how ‘basic research’ became the predominant concept during World War II and in the postwar decades. In contrast to the 19th century...
Science as a body of knowledge (natural and/or social) and as a method (experimental and hermeneutic) has been discussed and debated for centuries among philosophers and ‘men of science’ (scientists). This paper looks at research, the latest element added to the discourse on science. Science as research (an activity or practice), conducted at the l...
Full text: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00048-015-0127-y.pdf
For some years now, the concept of basic research has been under attack. Yet although the significance of the concept is in doubt, basic research continues to be used as an analytical category in science studies. But what exactly is basic research? What is the difference between basic and applied research? This article seeks to answer these questio...
With the introduction of imprisonment as a punishment in the late eighteenth century, prison reformers began to discuss measures for the welfare of prisoners and released prisoners that were intended to ease their return into society (along with strategies of discipline). American and British pioneers of the prison reform movement founded bourgeois...
Mit „Überwachen und Strafen“ setzte in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft die Auseinandersetzung mit Michel Foucaults
Schriften und diskursanalytischen Ansätzen ein (Blasius 1983; Dülmen 1985; Finzsch 1990; Peukert 1991; Dinges 1994). Für die
Gefängnisgeschichtsschreibung eröffnete die These von der Disziplinaranstalt mit ihren neuen Kont...
