Lektürekurs Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Der Lektürekurs Wissenschaftsgeschichte liest pro Semester ca. drei einschlägige Monographien der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, von Klassikern bis Neuerscheinungen. Jeder Text wird in einer zweistündigen Sitzung diskutiert. Der Lektürekurs richtet sich in erster Linie an Masterstudierende, aber interessierte Studierende im Bachelor oder Lehramtsstudiengang sowie DoktorandInnen (auch anderer Studiengänge) sind ebenfalls herzlich willkommen.

Lektürevorschläge werden begrüßt. In einer Sitzung vor Semesterstart werden gemeinsam Texte und Termine festgelegt.

Die Anmeldung erfolgt über das LSF.

Lektüre

Wintersemester 2024/25

Dieses Semester findet der Lektürekurs Wissenschaftsgeschichte leider nicht statt.

Sommersemester 2024

• Amir Teicher: Social Mendelism. Genetics and Politics of Race in Germany, 1900-1948. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Michel Foucault: Die Geburt der Klinik. Eine Archäologie des ärztlichen Blicks. Carl Hanser Verlag, 1973.
• James Poskett: Materials of the Mind. Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Wintersemester 2023/24

• Hunter Heyck: Age of System. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
• Etienne Benson: Surroundings. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• Melinda Balwin: Making Nature, University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Sommersemester 2023

• Anke te Heesen: Revolutionäre im Interview. Thomas Kuhn, Quantenphysik und Oral History. Wagenbach, 2022.
• Marci R. Baranski: The Globalization of Wheat. A Critical History of the Green Revolution. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
• Lorraine Daston: Rules. A Short History of What We Live by. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Wintersemester 2022/23

• James Poskett: Horizons. The Global Origins of Modern Science. Mariner Books, 2022.
• Susan Lindee: Rational Fog. Science and Technology in Modern War. Harvard University Press, 2020.
• Sigrid Schmalzer: The People’s Peking Man. Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Wintersemester 2021/22

• Kapil Raj: Relocating Modern Science. Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

• Désirée Schauz: Nützlichkeit und Erkenntnisfortschritt. Eine Geschichte des modernen Wissenschaftsverständnisses. Wallstein, 2021.

• Mary A. Brazelton: Mass Vaccination. Citizen’s Bodies and State Power in Modern China. Cornell University Press, 2019.

• Matthew L. Jones: Reckoning with Matter. Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage. University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Sommersemester 2021

• Jardine, Nicholas: The Scenes of Inquiry - On the Reality of Questions in the Sciences. Clarendon Press, 1991.
• Schär, Bernard: Tropenliebe - Schweizer Naturforscher und Niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, 2015.
• Robson, Eleanor: Ancient Knowledge Networks - A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millenium Assyria and Babylonia. UCL Press, 2019.
• Stolberg, Michael: Gelehrte Medizin und ärztlicher Alltag in der Renaissance. De Gruyter, 2020.

Wintersemester 2020/21

• Bullough, Vern: Science in the Bedroom - A History of Sex Research. Basic Books, 1994.
• Milam, Erika Lorraine: Creatures of Cain - The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton University Press, 2019.
• Coen, Deborah: Climate in Motion - Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• Cowles, Henry: The Scientific Method - An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey. Harvard University Press, 2020.

Sommersemester 2020

• Dear, Peter: The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Harrington, Anne: Mind Fixers. Psychiatry´s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. W.W. Norton, 2019.
• Penny, Glenn: Objects of Culture. Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Wintersemester 2019/20

• Kingsland, Sharon: The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890–2000. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
• de Regt, Henk: Understanding Scientific Understanding. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
• Hacking, Ian: The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press, 1999.

Sommersemester 2019

• Hilgartner, Stephen: Reordering Life. Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution. The MIT Press, 2017.
• White, Hayden: Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press, 40^th Anniversary Ed. 2014.
• Scott, James C.: Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998.

Wintersemester 2018/19

• Harrison, Peter: The Territories of Science and Religion. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Krige, John (editor): How Knowledge Moves - Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• Lemov, Rebecca: World as Laboratory - Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men. Hill &Wang, 2005.
• Kracauer, Siegfried: Geschichte - Vor den letzten Dingen. Oxford University Press, 1969.

Sommersemester 2018

• Erickson, Paul, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm und Michael D. Gordin: How Reason almost lost its Mind. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Golinski, Jan: Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface. University of Chicago Press, 1998 [2005].
• Turchin, Peter: War and Peace and War. The Rise and Fall of Empires. Penguin, 2007.

Wintersemester 2017/18

• Burke, Peter: History and Social Theory. Cornell University Press, 1999.
• Latour, Bruno: Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Porter, Theodore: Trust in Numbers. The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton University Press, 1995.

Sommersemester 2017

• Foucault, Michel: Archäologie des Wissens, übersetzt von Ulrich Köppen. Suhrkamp, 1981.
• Moser, Stephanie: Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Oreskes, Naomi (Hgg.): Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, 2014.
• Osterhammel, Jürgen: Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. C.H. Beck, 2013.

Wintersemester 2016/17

• Radkau, Joachim. Das Zeitalter der Nervosität. Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler. Hanser, 1998.
• Zwierlein, Cornel (Hgg.): Dark Side of Knowledge. Histories of Ignorance, 1400 to 1800. Brill, 2016.
• Kohler, Robert: Lords of the Fly. Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. University of Chicago Press, 1994. 
  
  

Sommersemester 2016

• Latour, Bruno: Laboratory Life. The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton University Press, 1986.
• Pickstone, John: Ways of Knowing. A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Manchester University Press, 2000.
• Tilley, Helen: Africa as a Living Laboratory. Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Wintersemester 2015/16

• Bowler, Peter: Darwin Deleted. Imagining a World Without Darwin, university of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Foucault, Michel: Wahnsinn und Gesellschaft: Eine Geschichte des Wahns im Zeitalter der Vernunft, übersetzt von Ulrich Köppen. Suhrkamp, 1973.
• Livingstone, David: Putting Science in its Place. Geographies of Scientific Knowledge. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

 Sommersemester 2015

• Porter, Roy: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. Fontana Press, 1999.

Wintersemester 2014/15

• Agar, Jon: Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Wiley, 2012.