German essays on science in the 20th century (Book, 1996.
Description. Robert Knox’s The Races of Men (1850) expressed the dominant view of the time in the West that race was a major determinant of culture, behaviour and character. Such views were used to support slavery and anti-Semitism. Knox himself was an anatomist and physiologist, and used his studies of black people in South Africa to build a theory of human history based on racial distinction.
They will need to make him laugh sometimes and want to go on living.'Here is a mix of fiction,nonfiction and poetry, heavyweight authors and popular classics and includes French,German,Russian,Czech and American books as well as English.The emphasis is not on midnight oil but on overlooked gems which show 20th century great authors in a new light.He brings a new perspective on certain lesser.
This book offers an historical and critical account of the important German philosophical movements and philosophers of the 20th century. In an accessible way, Gorner introduces the reader to a principal representative of each movement, laying out Husserl's phenomenology, Gadamar's hermeneutics, Habermas's critical theory, and Apel's pragmatics, and giving extensive treatment of Heideggar's.
TY - JOUR. T1 - German science in nineteenth century Australian libraries. AU - Kirsop, Wallace. PY - 2015. Y1 - 2015. N2 - Between Bligh s disdain for Robert Townson s books at the beginning of the century and C.W. Holgate s 1886 commentary on the collections of the Melbourne Public Library, there is evidence of deficiencies in Australian holdings of materials derived from the German states.
This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 82 (German Essays on Science in the 20th Century, also edited by Schirmacher), represents the sciences in a comprehensive way: Natural History, Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economy, and Technology. About the Author. Wolfgang Schirmacher teaches at the New School for Social Research. Product details. Series: German Library (Book 36.
History of science in Germany. Germany, the self-proclaimed “nation of poets and thinkers”, can look back on a long tradition of scientific research. The first German universities were established in the 14th and 15th century, such as in Cologne, Heidelberg and Leipzig. As was typically the case during the Middle Ages, there was a strong.
The present volume describes the various phases of the inner-Islamic ecumenical dialogue in the 20th century between Sunnis and Shiites, the short-lived periods of success it achieved, but also the fierce mutual polemics it inevitably engendered. The examination focuses on the role of the Cairene Azhar University as the most important representative of Sunni Islam and its relations with Shiite.