Monika Renneberg, Bourriau, Monkia Renneberg

Science, Technology, and National Socialism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a survey of the development of scientific disciplines and technical projects under National Socialism in Germany. Each contribution addresses a different, new aspect which is important for judging the interaction between science, technology and National Socialism. In particular, the personal conduct of individual scientists and engineers as well as the functionality of certain the ones and projects are examined. All essays share a common theme: continuity and discontinuity. All authors cover a period that reaches back to the Weimar Republic and forward beyond the end of National Socialism to the post-war period. This unanimity of approach provides answers to major questions about the nature of Hitler's regime and about possible lines of continuity in science and technology which may transcend political upheaval. The book is also the most comprehensive to date on this subject, and includes essays on engineering, geography, biology, psychology, physics, mathematics, and science policy. It thus offers something of interest for the specialist, engineer and historian as well as an unprecedented overview of science and technology before, during and after the Third Reich.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 869g
• ISBN-13: 9780521403740
• ISBN-10: 052140374X
• Artikelnr.: 21426160

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Scientists, engineers and
national socialism Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker; 2. 'Keinerlei
Untergang': German armaments engineers during the Second World War and in
the service of victorious powers Andreas Heinmann-Gruder; 3. The guided
missile and the Third Reich Michael Neufeld; 4. Self-mobilization or
resistance?: aeronautical research and National Socialism Helmut Trishler;
5. Military technology and National Socialist ideology Ulrich Albrecht; 6.
'Area Research' and 'Spatial Planning' from the Weimar Republic to the
German Federal Republic: creating a society with a spatial order under
National Socialism Mechtild Rossler; 7. The ideological origins of
institutes at the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft' in National Socialist
Germany Kristie MacRakis; 8. Biological research at universities and Kaiser
Wilhelm Institutes in Nazi Germany Ute Deichmann and Benno Muller-Hill; 9.
Pedagogy, professionalism, and politics: biology instruction during the
Third Reich Sheila Weiss; 10. The whole and the community: scientific and
political thought in the holistic psychology of Felix Krueger Ulfried
Gueter; 11. Pascual Jordan: quantum mechanics, psychology, National
Socialism M. Norton Wise; 12. The ideology of early particle accelerators:
an association between psychology and power Maria Osietzki; 13. The
'Minerva' project: the accelerator laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute/Max Planck Institute of Chemistry: continuity in fundamental
research Burghard Weiss; 14. The social system of mathematics and National
Socialism: a survey Herbert Mehrtens; 15. The problem of anti-fascist
resistance of 'Apolitical' German scholar Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze; 16.
Irresponsible purity: the political and moral Structure of mathematical
sciences in the National Socialist state Herbert Mehrtens.