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1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 301 pages)
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ISBN:
9781139052542
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earlier work on the 'intellectual migration' on losses (for German science) and gains (for British and American science). Instead, the authors proceed from the assumption that the sciences are open, dynamic, and historically contingent systems, and explore the multiple, complex interactions of biographical, social, and cultural circumstances with changes - or lack of change - in the émigrés' scientific thinking and research
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Introduction : Forced migration and scientific change after 1933
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Part one : Physical and medical sciences ; Identification of emigration-induced scientific change
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Physics, life, and contingency : Born, Schrödinger, and Weyl in exile
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Emigration from country and discipline : the journey of a German physicist into American photosythesis research
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The impact of German medical scientists on British medicine : a case study of Oxford, 1933-45
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Part two : Psychology, psychoanalysis, pedagogy ; Emigré psychologists after 1933 : the cultural coding of scientific and professional practices
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Psychoanalytic science : from Oedipus to culture
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The impact of emigration on German pedagogy
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Part three : Social sciences ; Dismissal and emigration of German-speaking economists after 1933
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Emigration of social scientists' schools from Austria
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The Vienna Circle in the United States and empirical research methods in sociology
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From public law to political science? The emigration of German scholars after 1933 and their influence on the transformation of a discipline
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Epilogue : The refugee scholar in America : the case of Paul Tillich
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521497411
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521522786
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521497411
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139052542
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Author information:
Söllner, Alfons 1947-
Author information:
Ash, Mitchell G. 1948-
