2009
Scientific Cultures – Technological Challenges
Klaus Benesch and Meike Zwingenberger, Editors
PUBLIKATIONEN DER BAYERISCHEN AMERIKA-AKADEMIE (Band 8)
PUBLICATIONS OF THE BAVARIAN AMERICAN ACADEMY (Volume 8)
SERIES EDITOR
Bavarian American Academy
In 12 original essays highly reputed scholars from both the United States and Europe take a fresh look at the plurality of contemporary scientific cultures and their respective methodologies and discursive practices. While some investigate recent advancements in science and technology and their repercussions in the social and political field, others discuss new approaches, especially in the humanities, that may help to reconnect what C.P. Snow famously called the “two cultures” and open up new perspectives for ‘cross cultural’ fertilization. Contributors also probe the regulatory political and institutional mechanisms that determine the public success and representation of specific scientific cultures, particularly with respect to scientific ethics, to the frequently invoked ideal of ‘Objectivity’ and the alleged cultural disinterestedness of the sciences.