Heisenberg in the Atomic Age : Science and the Public Sphere (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Carson, Cathryn

Cambridge University Press（2014/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 566 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107436954
• DDC分類 943.087

Full Description

The end of the Second World War opened a new era for science in public life. Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science's public presence in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. It shows how Heisenberg's philosophical commentaries, circulating in the mass media, secured his role as science's public philosopher, and it reflects on his policy engagements and public political stands, which helped redefine the relationship between science and the state. With deep archival grounding, the book tracks Heisenberg's interactions with intellectuals from Heidegger to Habermas and political leaders from Adenauer to Brandt. It also traces his evolving statements about his wartime research on nuclear fission for the National Socialist regime. Working between the history of science and German history, the book's central theme is the place of scientific rationality in public life - after the atomic bomb, in the wake of the Third Reich.

Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Science and the public sphere; 2. Tracking Heisenberg; Part II. Culture: 3. The scientist as bildungsburger; 4. Physics as philosophy; 5. The culture of the vent; 6. Bildung als konsumgut: dilemmas of the literary public sphere; Part III. Politics: 7. Science, politics, and power: initial orientations; 8. A new research system; 9. Science policy in the atomic age; 10. Expansion and uncertainty; 11. Politics in the public sphere; 12. Speaking of the Third Reich: denazification; 13. Speaking of the Third Reich: war work; 14. Speaking of the Third Reich: into the public sphere; Part IV. Scientific Reason in the Public Sphere: 15. The public reach of reason after 1945; Epilogue.