Friedrich Cain Bücher

From the Middle Ages to the present, intercultural exchange has shaped knowledge and scholarship in Central Europe. While nationalism, practical and methodological, as well as memory practices created a clear-cut vision of German-Polish scholarly contacts, this volume proposes interconnectedness, entanglement and circulation as new modes of inquiry. Based on examples ranging from architectural knowledge to philosophy and from archaeology to physical chemistry, contributions to this volume seek for alternative ways to tell the stories of scholarly relations in the space shaped not only by multilinguality, but also by power inequalities, imperialism and nationalisms. In particular, they counter the widespread center-periphery dependence by concentrating on encounters and sites "in between" as privileged places of inquiry. Last but not least, they put to the test the prevailing categories of historical research of the space in question, highlighting the variety of identifications and ways they impacted scholarly communication. Jetzt reinlesen: Inhaltsverzeichnis(pdf)

Die Untersuchung von Friedrich Cain beleuchtet, wie polnische Wissenschaftler während der deutschen Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg trotz massiver Einschränkungen und Verbote weiterhin wissenschaftlich tätig waren. Unter dem Druck der Rassentheorien der Besatzungsmacht, die höhere Bildung für überflüssig hielten, organisierten sie geheime Seminare und forschten in verschiedenen Disziplinen. Diese clandestinen Aktivitäten fanden in Privatwohnungen oder unter dem Deckmantel offizieller Institutionen statt und führten zu einer Neubewertung der wissenschaftlichen Neutralität im Kontext des polnischen Widerstands.

When Poland gained independence in 1918, it became an urgent priority to secure information on just how the state and society ought to be organized. Up until 1939, the journal Nauka Polska and the working group Kolo Naukoznawcze provided sociologists, philosophers, pedagogues, and scientists with a forum to debate the advancement of science and the academic system. Among other things, they asked how scientific creativity could be generated and stabilized (Antoni B. Dobrowolski), what a socio-psychological "science of knowledge" should look like (Florian Znaniecki), and how society could profit from a "science of science" (Maria Ossowska and Stanislaw Ossowski). Unlike similar contemporary contributions, such as Ludwik Fleck's, most of these ideas are unknown today. The volume reconstructs the forgotten history of this Warsaw-based sociology of knowledge and science, presenting for the first time pivotal articles in English translation. Contributors: Marta Bucholc, Friedrich Cain, Pawel Kawalec, Bernhard Kleeberg, Andreas Langenohl, Olga Linkiewicz, Katrin Steffen, Jan Surman, Jan Piskurewicz, Leszek Zasztowt