{"title":"[Metamorphosis of psychology between 1860 and 1989 and their reflections in the Leipzig, Berlin and Halle academies].","authors":"Horst Gundlach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study discusses the approach to psychology and psychological topics in three scientific academies, the Saxon Society of Sciences, the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences. Four different uses of the academies emerge: academies as a scene of transdisciplinary exchange and emergence of new ideas, as a location for the presentation of normal scientific research, as an arena of proclamations in science policy, and as a reputation generating scene for a new, arising science-based profession and its associated scientific discipline.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 64","pages":"217-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34643002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007): scientist and citizen].","authors":"Dieter Hoffmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution provides an introductory overview of the life and work of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker for the present volume. It presents him as a prominent scholar of the twentieth century. This pupil of Werner Heisenberg made fundamental contributions to physics, specifically, nuclear physics, and after World War II was able to excel as a highly acknowledged philosopher of science and pioneer in twentieth-century conflict and peace research. Beyond science, politics and religion also counted among the defining influences of Weizsäcker's life, which also molded him into civic leadership. This aspect is treated particularly in the second and central part of this article, which discusses and closely documents his membership in the Leopoldina and his engagement elsewhere, particularly in the sphere of East German church activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"23-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32461764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Where are we going? Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker as a pioneering personality - a personal acknowledgment on his 100th birthday].","authors":"Friedrich Schorlemmer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author reports from his own experience on Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's presence in the Evangelische Studentengemeinde (ESG) Halle (Saale). The paper shows how Weizsäcker, the scientist, philosopher, and Christ, had combined the rational, the emotional, and the spiritual dimension. In doing so he had formed the experience of the history of mankind in which each individual found himself as an example.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"53-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32461765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Critical mass, explosive participation at the Max-Planck Institute about research of the living conditions of the scientific-technical world in Starnberg].","authors":"Philipp Sonntag","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reviewers of the Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt (MPIL) did focus upon an abundance of vague reports of evaluative commissions, of benchmarking, of scientific modes. Thus it remained rather neglected, what staff actually had researched. An example: Progression and end of project AKR (Work-Consumption-Assessment) does display all kinds of related emotions at MPIL, and the sensitive guidance by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"271-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32462134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A failed experiment - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Jürgen Habermas and the Max-Planck Society].","authors":"Ariane Leendertz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From 1970 to 1980 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker headed the Max-Planck-lnstitut zur Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt (MPI for the study of the living conditions of the world of science and technology) in Starnberg, jointly with Jürgen Habermas since 1971. From the start, the Max Planck Society regarded the new institute as an experiment that might perhaps be aborted a few years later. This is exactly what happened. With the retirement of Weizsäcker, his section was closed and the whole institute was renamed. In 1981. Habermas resigned, and then the institute was closed. This paper focusses on some of the problem constellations within the institute that partly explain its development and eventual closure: its birth out of the idea of scientific policy advice, the debates within the Max Planck Society and the complex relationship between Weizsäcker and Jürgen Habermas.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"243-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32463624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Medical anthropology in academies: on the criticism of natural science medicine exemplified by Viktor von Weizsäcker].","authors":"Heinz Schott","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886-1957) founded his concept of medical anthropology as a clinician educated in internal medicine and neurology. He tried to broaden natural scientific medicine psychosomatically focussing on the \"sick human\". The natural scientific approach would exclude subjectivity, and therefore he propagated the \"introduction of the subject' (Einführung des Subjekts) into the life sciences. His own sensory physiological experiments and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis inspired him essentially since the 1920s. In his main work Der Gestaltkreis (gestalt circle) published in 1940 he stressed the \"entity of perceiving and moving\" (Einheit von Wahrnehmen und Bewegen) in regard to relevant aspects of medicine. In 1932, Weizsäcker became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, whose president he was from 1947 till 1949; 1942 he became a member of the Leopoldina. Primarily his merits as a neurologist were highly appreciated. His medical anthropology was not relevant for his election by the two academies. Nevertheless, there was a certain repudiation against the objectivistic and materialistic Weltanschauung within the scientific community. So, Paracelsus and Goethe were highly estimated as natural philosophical guides for own conceptions. This was especially evident for the circle around Wilhelm Troll and Karl Lothar Wolf in Halle, both members of the Leopoldina, who were fascinated by Goethe's concept of \"Gestalt\". Weizsäcker's lecture on \"Gestalt und Zeit\" in Halle in 1942 fitted in the concept of those natural scientists.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 64","pages":"243-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34643004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Special issue in honor of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker].","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"7-578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32696493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[\"Living with the bomb\" - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's path from physics to politics].","authors":"Mark Walker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker spanned a spectrum from physics to politics, with philosophy in-between. This chapter surveys the most controversial part of his career, including his work on nuclear weapons and participation in cultural propaganda during the Second World War, his subsequent active political engagement during the postwar Federal German Republic, in particular the role of nuclear weapons, and his participation in myths surrounding Hitler's Bomb\".</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"343-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32462138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A utopian episode - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in the networks of the Max-Planck Society].","authors":"Horst Kant, Jürgen Renn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was a key figure in the history of the Max Planck Society (MPS). This essay contextualises his work with the development of the MPS, highlighting the institutional and personal networks upon which it was based. Some of the stations addressed in the following are his role in the German Uranium Project, in preparing the Mainau Declaration, the Göttingen Manifesto, and the Memorandum of Tübingen as well as his involvement in the foundation of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Development and his own MPI for the Research of Living Conditions in the Modern World located in Starnberg. The relationship between Weizsäcker and Hellmut Becker, long-time friend and founding director of the MPI for Human Development, will be of particular interest. Another issue broached here is the connection between natural science and the humanities in Weizsäcker's work, and subsequently the relation between these two science cultures in the MPS. Finally, we look at the challenges Weizsäcker's work could present to the MPS today.</p>","PeriodicalId":7006,"journal":{"name":"Acta historica Leopoldina","volume":" 63","pages":"213-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32463623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}