Stöltzner, Michael (Author)
An Encyclopedia for the Empire. In the preface to the universal encyclopedia Die Kultur der Gegenwart (The Culture of the Present), the editor-in-chief Paul Hinneberg places his project - not openly but nevertheless unequivocally - in the tradition of the French Encyclopédie that Diderot and d'Alembert had organized from 1751 until 1765. The attempt to accomplish anew such a large-scale project and, in this way, to win the German Empire the kind of intellectual leadership which the Encyclopédie, in historical retrospect, had achieved for the epoch of Enlightenment, required to convince the leading scholars, scientists, and technicians of the nation to participate in the endeavor and to assemble their contributions under a common systematic agenda through which this universal encyclopedia would distinguish itself from all dictionaries and disciplinary encyclopedias. While the Encyclopédie followed to a large extent an empiricist philosophy, Hinneberg trusted in the integrative function of the concept of culture and the ability of his contributors to elucidate the history of their respective disciplines and to connect them with neighboring fields of culture. The present contributions argues that although, from a philosophical point of view, the historicist tack taken by Hinneberg makes the concept of culture quite blurry, it nevertheless provides enough cohesive structure such that the work, even though unfinished as a consequence of war and inflation, represents a faithful picture of its epoch that Hinneberg understands as an epoch of transition.
...MoreDescription On the early 20th-century German encyclopedia Die Kultur der Gegenwart edited by Paul Hinneberg and its ties to the French Encyclopédie tradition.
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Tobies, Renate;
(2008)
Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik als Bestandteile der Kultur der Gegenwart
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Ziche, Paul;
(2008)
Wissenschaftssystematik als Kulturaufgabe. Möglichkeiten eines offenen Kulturbegriffs in Paul Hinnebergs Enzyklopädieprojekt
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Cara Murray;
(2022)
Cultivating Chaos: Entropy, Information, and the Making of the Dictionary of National Biography
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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette;
(2013)
Popular Science and Politics in Interwar France
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Tobies, Renate;
(2006)
Biographisches Lexikon in Mathematik promovierter Personen an deutschen Universitäten und Technischen Hochschulen, WS 1907/08 bis WS 1944/45
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Carhart, Michael C.;
(2007)
The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany
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Brandau, Daniel;
(2012)
Cultivating the Cosmos: Spaceflight Thought in Imperial Germany
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Seth, Suman;
(2013)
Forman at Forty: New Perspectives on “Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics”
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Miller, Ethan Zane;
(2010)
The Cultural Logics of the Liberal Self in Early 20th Century U.S. Anthropology
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Jaume Navarro;
(2018)
Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century
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Fuechtner, Veronika;
(2011)
Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
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Hui, Alexandra;
(2008)
Hearing Sound as Music: Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation and the Music Culture of Germany, 1860--1910
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Kolchinskii, Eduard I.;
(2006)
Biologiia Germanii i Rossii-SSSR v usloviiakh sotsial'no-politicheskikh krizisov pervoi poloviny XX veka: mezhdu liberalizmom, kommunizmom i natsional-sotsializmom
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Midgley, David;
(2011)
“Creative Evolution”: Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World
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Kauders, Anthony D.;
(2013)
Truth, Truthfulness, and Psychoanalysis: The Reception of Freud in Wilhelmine Germany
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Schmidt, Michael J.;
(2014)
Visual Music: Jazz, Synaesthesia and the History of the Senses in the Weimar Republic
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Badino, Massimiliano;
Friedrich, Bretislav;
(2013)
Much Polyphony but Little Harmony: Otto Sackur's Groping for a Quantum Theory of Gases
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Kaes, Anton;
(2009)
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
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Gerhard, Gesine;
(2012)
Change in the European Countryside: Peasants and Democracy in Germany 1935--55
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Sonnert, Gerhard;
(2005)
Einstein and Culture
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