A New Organon, Gebunden
A New Organon
- Science Studies in Interwar Poland
- Publisher:
- Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg
- Publisher:
- Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K, 06/2024
- Binding:
- Gebunden, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783161543159
- Item number:
- 5392296
- Volume:
- 401 Pages
- Weight:
- 726 g
- Format:
- 240 x 158 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 4.6.2024
- Series:
- wbv Publikation , Historische Wissensforschung
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
When Poland became independent in 1918, knowledge about organizing the state and society gained utmost importance. Until 1939 sociologists, philosophers, pedagogues, and representatives of the natural sciences met around the journal Nauka Polska and the Science Studies Circle (Köo Naukoznawcze) to discuss the advancement of science and the academic system. They asked how scientific creativity could be generated and stabilized (Antoni B. Dobrowolski), how a socio-psychological "science of knowledge" should look like (Florian Znaniecki), or how society would benefit from a "science of science" (Maria Ossowska und Stanis¿aw Ossowski). Unlike other contemporary reflections on science, such as those of Ludwik Fleck, most of these ideas have fallen into oblivion. This volume reconstructs the forgotten history of the Warsaw based initiative and presents key contributions in English translation, many for the first time.
Biography (Bernhard Kleeberg)
Bernhard Kleeberg ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin.