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Rêver avec Freud: L'histoire Collective de 'L'interprétation du Rêve'
S'il est un livre fondateur de la psychanalyse, c'est L'Interprétation du rêve de Sigmund Freud, paru pour la première fois en 1899. Le lecteur y découvrait la voie royale d'accès à l'inconscient. Pourtant, l'histoire de cette oeuvre demeure méconnue. Comment a-t-elle été élaborée ?
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Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
This project investigated the changing valuation of complexity in nature and culture in Germany and the United States throughout the twentieth century
Albert Einstein : Helden ohne Degen
Der Physiker und Nobelpreisträger Albert Einstein (1879–1955) revolutionierte das physikalische Weltbild. Sein Leben und Wirken als engagierter Wissenschaftler stellt dieser reich bebilderte Band in Einzelbeiträgen, so von Jürgen Renn "Einsteins Relativitätsrevolutionen" und mit einem Dokumentenanhang versehen umfassend dar.
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The Globalization of Knowledge in History
This volume presents results of an interdisciplinary research project on the globalization of knowledge. The project is part of the research program of a historical epistemology whose aim is to contribute also to the reflexivity of present science and its institutions. It pursues a comparative history of knowledge in which present processes of globalization are conceived as the outcome of historical developments and their interactions.
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Verkörperungen
Neben dem Begriff des ,embodiment' existieren zahlreiche andere Bedeutungen von ,Verkörperung'. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren den Begriff der Verkörperung daher interdisziplinär. Sie reichen von der Neurophysiologie über die Epistemologie bis zur Kunstgeschichte und zu den Literatur- und Theaterwissenschaften.
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A Cultural History of Heredity
It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here the authors offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments that brought about these changes.
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Differing Routes to Stem Cell Research: Germany and Italy
Stem cells have been in the center of a heated biomedical and biopolitical debate in the first decade of the new millennium. Ethical concerns prevailed. The present volume follows the controversial discussions on stem cells in Italy and Germany, respectively, over the past 15 years. It aims at an assessment of the situation, and its method is comparative.
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Europe’s Green Revolution and Others since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding
How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘green revolutions’ in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers.
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A History of the Electron: J. J. and G. P. Thomson
Two landmarks in the history of physics are the discovery of the particulate nature of cathode rays (the electron) by J. J. Thomson in 1897 and the experimental demonstration by his son G. P. Thomson in 1927 that the electron exhibits the properties of a wave.
Together, the Thomsons are two of the most significant figures in modern physics, both winning Nobel prizes for their work.
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Together, the Thomsons are two of the most significant figures in modern physics, both winning Nobel prizes for their work.
Das physikalische Prinzip: der epistemologische Status physikalischer Weltbetrachtung
Das Buch versteht sich als Beitrag zur Naturphilosophie, indem es den erkenntnistheoretischen Status der Physik untersucht. Die hier skizzierte epistemologische Verfaßtheit der Physik erfordert es, die Welt unter der Form des Objekts zu fassen, wodurch sich die Physik grundlegend von der Philosophie unterscheidet und der Übergang von einem zum anderen unvermittelt nicht möglich ist.
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