Ein konkretes Performativitätskonzept – die "Ästhetik des Performativen" – wird hinsichtlich der Relevanz für die (Grundlagenreflexion der) Theologie erschlossen.
This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university.
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Duree.
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Londoner Kongress zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1931 und das Problem der Determination von Erkenntnisentwicklung" verfügbar.
This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology - "e;the eclipse of Darwinism"e; and the "e;modern synthesis"e;.
Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature.
Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature.
The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries.
Using the "e;Parallel Lives"e; approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the lives and research careers of two famous astronomers, Percival Lowell and Edward Emerson Barnard.
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Probleme des Zeichens und der Kommunikation in der Wissenschafts- und Ideologiegeschichte der Aufklärung" verfügbar.
The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties, and divided into periodic trends.
As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?
The calendar worked out by Bede remains essentially the one we still use today, yet the mathematical and scientific studies of the early medieval schools have been largely neglected in most discussions of the cultural and intellectual history of Latin Europe.
Eine vermeintliche Sensation wurde zu einem der größten Skandale in der deutschen Mediengeschichte: Ende April 1983 veröffentlichte die Illustrierte "Stern" angebliche Tagebücher Adolf Hitlers.
In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in pathological ways.
A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclastA mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (19372020) possessed a rock star's charisma, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor.
