Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells

IF 0.5 4区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Endeavour Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100918

Hanneke Hoekstra

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Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society. Their partnership inspired their work, a living experiment conducted through their own unconventional relationship. Over time, their increasingly radical, avant-garde ideas on marriage complicated the ongoing negotiation over power and intimacy which typified their marriages. Building on the historiography of social science couples, and by means of an analysis of the micro-social dynamics of marriage as documented in the life writings of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells, I analyse the connections between gender, intimacy, and creativity. These couples’ experiences highlight the non-rational dimension of a most rational endeavour.

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作为悲剧的使命：米尔斯夫妇、韦伯夫妇和罗素夫妇生活中的爱与知识

爱能影响知识，知识能影响爱吗？约翰-斯图亚特-密尔（John Stuart Mill）和哈丽特-泰勒-密尔（Harriet Taylor-Mill）、马克斯-韦伯（Max Weber）和玛丽安-韦伯（Marianne Weber）以及伯特兰-罗素（Bertrand Russell）和多拉-罗素（Dora Russell）都有一个明确的使命：他们想要改变世界。他们通过出版关于平等、婚姻和教育的出版物，对传统的性别安排提出质疑。他们是自由主义思想家，主张个人自由和自主，不受国家和社会的约束。他们的伙伴关系激发了他们的工作，这是他们通过自己的非传统关系进行的活生生的实验。随着时间的推移，他们越来越激进、前卫的婚姻观念使他们婚姻中典型的关于权力和亲密关系的持续协商复杂化。在社会科学夫妇史学的基础上，通过分析米尔斯夫妇、韦伯夫妇和罗素夫妇生平著作中记录的婚姻微观社会动态，我分析了性别、亲密关系和创造力之间的联系。这些夫妻的经历凸显了最理性努力的非理性层面。

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Endeavour 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学

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1.10

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16.70%

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49 days

期刊介绍： Endeavour, established in 1942, has, over its long and proud history, developed into one of the leading journals in the history and philosophy of science. Endeavour publishes high-quality articles on a wide array of scientific topics from ancient to modern, across all disciplines. It serves as a critical forum for the interdisciplinary exploration and evaluation of natural knowledge and its development throughout history. Each issue contains lavish color and black-and-white illustrations. This makes Endeavour an ideal destination for history and philosophy of science articles with a strong visual component. Endeavour presents the history and philosophy of science in a clear and accessible manner, ensuring the journal is a valuable tool for historians, philosophers, practicing scientists, and general readers. To enable it to have the broadest coverage possible, Endeavour features four types of articles: -Research articles are concise, fully referenced, and beautifully illustrated with high quality reproductions of the most important source material. -In Vivo articles will illustrate the rich and numerous connections between historical and philosophical scholarship and matters of current public interest, and provide rich, readable explanations of important current events from historical and philosophical perspectives. -Book Reviews and Commentaries provide a picture of the rapidly growing history of science discipline. Written by both established and emerging scholars, our reviews provide a vibrant overview of the latest publications and media in the history and philosophy of science. -Lost and Found Pieces are playful and creative short essays which focus on objects, theories, tools, and methods that have been significant to science but underappreciated by collective memory.