Umfang:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415271226
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9781136466625
Serie:
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series
Inhalt:
This unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century brings together a number of case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Introduction: science and ideology -- Science and the Cold War -- Science and National Socialism -- Comparative studies of science and ideology -- Notes -- 2. Science and totalitarianism: lessons for the twenty-first century -- Introduction -- Science and scientism in totalitarian ideologies -- Totalitarian ideologies in science -- Science and freedom -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3. "Ideologically correct" science -- Introduction -- France -- The Soviet Union -- Germany -- Japan -- United States -- China -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. From communications engineering to communications science: cybernetics and information theory in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union -- Technical content and national context -- The origins of cybernetics: expanding control -- The NDRC and the fire control problem -- Wiener's civilian elaboration -- Cybernetics and information theory in France -- French political context -- Discussions at the first French congresses -- Ideological attack from the French Communist Party -- French contributions to information theory -- A French consensus regarding the place of cybernetics -- Cybernetics and information theory in the Soviet Union -- The anti-cybernetics campaign in the USSR -- The rehabilitation of cybernetics and the new era -- Soviet cybernetics as a trading zone -- Models of communication as exchange of information -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Science policy in post-1945 West Germany and Japan: between ideology and economics -- Introduction -- Post-1945 West Germany -- Shifting American attitudes towards science in Germany -- Post-war German critiques of science and technology -- Promoting the power of science -- Claiming political virtue for science -- Post-1945 Japan
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Postwar Japanese critiques of science and technology -- Shifting American attitudes -- Promoting atoms for peace in Japan -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 6. The transformation of nature under Hitler and Stalin -- Introduction -- The Third Reich and the forest -- The people's automobile -- Nature transformation under Stalin and beyond -- Seeing the forest for the socialist trees -- Authoritarian regimes and nature transformation reconsidered -- Notes -- 7. Legitimation through use: rocket and aeronautic research in the Third Reich and the U.S.A. -- Introduction -- Structures I: rocket and aeronautics research in the Third Reich -- Rocket development at Peenemünde-Ost -- Aeronautic research at Völkenrode -- First Actor: towards the socialization of German rocket and aeronautic researchers -- Structures II: the replication of a principle of organization -- Replicas: Huntsville and Tullahomat -- Rocket development in Huntsville -- Aeronautic and rocket research in Tullahoma -- Second actors: transfer of scientists and technology to the U.S.A. -- Tasso Proppe: a "Paperclip" engineer in the U.S.A. -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Weaving networks: the University of Jena in the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the postwar East German state -- 1945: The "Spirit of Weimar" and the "Myth of Jena -- Crisis and awakening": the structural genesis of the Thüringen state university -- The Weimar period -- The Third Reich -- The postwar period -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Friedrich Möglich: a scientist's journey from fascism to communism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Walker, Mark Science and Ideology Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780415271226
Sprache:
Englisch
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