Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84464 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger |
| NOMBRES | Hans-Jörg |
| APELLIDO | Rheinberger |
| FIRMA | RHEINBERGER H |
| AFILIACIONES | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3741-4250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Writing and Experimenting
This essay is a short reflection on experimenting and writing. It starts from the assumption that both literary and scholarly writing as well as scientific experimentation share, as productive processes, a common ground structure. In the first part of the essay, I will expose the basic features of experimentation in scientific research by interpreting a key passage of scientist and philosopher of science Michael Polanyi. I will then show, in the …
Experimentalism and Sociology
Has society become a “real-world laboratory”? Tanja Bogusz asks this question in her book as she traces back the experimentalist approach from early American pragmatism to contemporary world society. She recommends that sociology, as a discipline, transform from a science of crisis towards an experimental science of experience, focusing on heterogeneous cooperation to overcome the epistemic disparities of our time. The speakers will discuss the b…
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory
Much has been written on Claude Bernard as a relentless promoter of the experimental method in physiology. Although the paper will touch Bernard's experimental intuitions and his experimental practice as well, its focus is slightly different. It will address the laboratory, that is, the space in which experimentation in the life sciences takes place, and it will analyze the scattered remarks that Bernard made on the topic both in his books and in…
Postscriptum
Lara Keuck and Kärin Nickelsen, the organizers of this special issue and its workshop, invited me to contribute a closing commentary, and I feel honored and pleased to do so. Now that the English version of the book that inspired it is forthcoming,1 it might be better to look ahead instead of looking back. Therefore, I will try to convey in my concluding remarks less the air of a closure than that of an outlook on things to come. And I hope I wil…
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Ordnung und Organisation“. Interview zur Historiographie der Biologie mit Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger und Peter McLaughlin
Anlässlich des Erscheinens von Ordnung und Organisation: Begriffsgeschichtliche Studien zu den Wissenschaften vom Leben im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, einer Sammlung früher biologiehistorischer Texte von Hans-Jörg Rheinberger und Peter McLaughlin,1n1 Rheinberger und McLaughlin 2021. führten Mathias Grote und Anke te Heesen (MG und ATH) ein Interview mit den Autoren und Herausgebern (HJR und PML). Es behandelt die Entstehung der Texte in den 1970er u…
Coisa Epistêmica e Corporificação
O artigo trata de como coisas epistêmicas, que estão no centro de sistemas experimentais típicos das ciências empíricas dos séculos XIX e XX, desenvolvem-se através de corporificações de conceitos, constituindo amálgamas de matéria e signo. O autor refere trabalhos seus anteriores, e autores como Gaston Bachelard e Michel Serres. A discussão é pontuada pela análise de diferentes etapas e reviravoltas na história da pesquisa experimental sobre gen…
Introduction à la correspondance Gaston Bachelard – Ludwig Binswanger (1948-1955)
Alors que Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) est mort depuis bientôt près de soixante ans et que ses archives ne sont toujours pas disponibles, il est très satisfaisant d’assister à la publication progressive de sa correspondance avec des contemporains qui ont pris soin de conserver ses lettres manuscrites. Dès 1984, un extrait de la correspondance échangée entre Gaston Bachelard et le philosophe de la religion Martin Buber (1878-1965) a été publié. En…
Wissenschaftsgeschichte heute
History of Science Today . The paper argues for a theoretically demanding history of science along three lines. (1) History of science requires a permanent reflection on the concept of history. (2) It demands an epistemological reflection on the historically changing forms of knowledge. (3) An intimate knowledge of scientific practice is necessary, be it more theoretically or more practically oriented. These competences can be brought together in…
Historische Epistemologie
Historische Epistemologie ist im deutschen Sprachraum in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten zu einem Schlagwort in Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie geworden, das jedoch sehr verschiedene Ansätze umfasst. Daher seien an den Anfang ein paar Überlegungen zu Herkunft, Etymologie und Verwendung dieses Begriffes gestellt.
Afterword
Difference Machines
For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were conceptualized. Following Gilles Deleuze, this essay uses the categories of reproduction and difference instead to convey an idea of how the sciences develop on the basis of experimentation-a development that does not rest on anticipation, as is usually thought, but reveals itself as a process "driven from behind," as Thomas Kuhn once put it. The…
Räume des Wissens
Preparations, models, and simulations
Heidegger and Cassirer on Science after the Cassirer and Heidegger of Davos
The paper exposes the views of Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger on the dynamics of the sciences of their day, as both developed them in the two decades after the encounter of the two philosophers in Davos in 1928. It emphasizes points of common concern, and it compares their positions to those of contemporary philosophers of science Gaston Bachelard and Edgar Wind
My Road to History of Science
Had anybody told me at the beginning of my university studies that I would end up as a historian of science, I would not only have shaken my head in disbelief, I would in all probability not even have understood the prophecy. When I left high school, my interests ranged from literary writing to the life sciences. After an initial attempt to study biochemistry, which I aborted after a year, my early university education was in philosophy, with an …
Gaston Bachelard et Albert Flocon. La rencontre d'un philosophe avec un graveur
Cet article porte sur la collaboration entre le philosophe des sciences Gaston Bachelard et le graveur sur cuivre Albert Flocon durant la première décennie suivant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De leurs échanges résultèrent plusieurs ouvrages dont le contenu est analysé ici
Heredity in the Twentieth Century
A Cultural History of Heredity
It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological develo…
Infra-Experimentality
The Art of Exploring the Unknown
An Epistemology of the Concrete
Historische Epistemologie
Recent science and its exploration
What Happened to Molecular Biology
Experiment, difference, and writing
Infra-Experimentality
Recent science and its exploration
Experimental Complexity in Biology
My paper draws on examples from molecular biology, the details of which I have developed elsewhere (Rheinberger 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997). Here, I can give only a brief outline of my argument. Reduction of complexity is a prerequisite for experimental research. To make sense of the universe of living beings, the modern biologist is bound to divide his world into fragments in which parameters can be defined, quantities measured, qualities identified…
Experiment, difference, and writing
Cycles and circulation
We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biol…
Preparations, models, and simulations
Heredity in the Twentieth Century
Ordnung und Organisation“. Interview zur Historiographie der Biologie mit Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger und Peter McLaughlin
Anlässlich des Erscheinens von Ordnung und Organisation: Begriffsgeschichtliche Studien zu den Wissenschaften vom Leben im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, einer Sammlung früher biologiehistorischer Texte von Hans-Jörg Rheinberger und Peter McLaughlin,1n1 Rheinberger und McLaughlin 2021. führten Mathias Grote und Anke te Heesen (MG und ATH) ein Interview mit den Autoren und Herausgebern (HJR und PML). Es behandelt die Entstehung der Texte in den 1970er u…
Scrips and Scribbles
This paper is concerned with forms of writing that characterize the laboratory, a research place where scientific knowledge is made to emerge and can be grasped in its emergence. Laboratory notebooks and other forms of research inscriptions have received increasing attention in recent years. With few exceptions, however, the epistemic function of such notes in the overall order of knowledge production has been widely neglected. This paper tries t…
Difference Machines
For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were conceptualized. Following Gilles Deleuze, this essay uses the categories of reproduction and difference instead to convey an idea of how the sciences develop on the basis of experimentation-a development that does not rest on anticipation, as is usually thought, but reveals itself as a process "driven from behind," as Thomas Kuhn once put it. The…
Life stories
When Did Carl Correns Read Gregor Mendel's Paper? A Research Note
It was in a sleepless night in November [1899], toward morning, when the explanation for the observations on Pisum and Zea suddenly dawned upon me.But it was only when I was in the process of preparing the publication that I screened the literature systematically.Now I realized-with the help of Focke's Pflanzenmischlinge-that Mendel had found and published all this already thirty-five years ago.... If I had found the explanation earlier, I would …
Postscriptum
Lara Keuck and Kärin Nickelsen, the organizers of this special issue and its workshop, invited me to contribute a closing commentary, and I feel honored and pleased to do so. Now that the English version of the book that inspired it is forthcoming,1 it might be better to look ahead instead of looking back. Therefore, I will try to convey in my concluding remarks less the air of a closure than that of an outlook on things to come. And I hope I wil…
Wissenschaftsgeschichte heute
History of Science Today . The paper argues for a theoretically demanding history of science along three lines. (1) History of science requires a permanent reflection on the concept of history. (2) It demands an epistemological reflection on the historically changing forms of knowledge. (3) An intimate knowledge of scientific practice is necessary, be it more theoretically or more practically oriented. These competences can be brought together in…
Heidegger and Cassirer on Science after the Cassirer and Heidegger of Davos
The paper exposes the views of Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger on the dynamics of the sciences of their day, as both developed them in the two decades after the encounter of the two philosophers in Davos in 1928. It emphasizes points of common concern, and it compares their positions to those of contemporary philosophers of science Gaston Bachelard and Edgar Wind
Heredity and its entities around 1900
Translating Derrida
Translating Derrida Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (bio) This text is about translation. It is about translating Derrida, both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense. Let me start witha personal reminiscence. The students in Jacob Taubes’s Institute of Hermeneutics at the Free University of Berlin—assembling around Rodolphe Gasché and a few other senior students—were reading Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-S…
Kulturen des Experiments
Cultures of Experiment . – It is generally accepted that the development of modern science is rooted in experiment. Yet for a long time, experimentation did not occupy a prominent role in history of science. With the practical turn in science studies, this has begun to change. This paper is concerned with cultures of experiment. In the first part, a suggestion is made as to how the concept of experimental culture can be used to go beyond a histor…
Thomas Cremer
Ludwig Trepl
Experiment, difference, and writing
Experiment, difference, and writing
Experimentalsysteme in den biologisch‐medizinischen Wissenschaften
Iconology
Beyond Nature and Culture
The Argument The paper is divided into the two parts. In the first, I examine the relations among molecular biology, gene technology, and medicine as some aspect of the consequences of these relations with respect to the human genome project of the consequences of these relations with respect to the human genome project. I argue that the prevailing momentum of early molecular biology resided in argue that the prevailing momentum of relay molecula…
When Did Carl Correns Read Gregor Mendel's Paper? A Research Note
It was in a sleepless night in November [1899], toward morning, when the explanation for the observations on Pisum and Zea suddenly dawned upon me.But it was only when I was in the process of preparing the publication that I screened the literature systematically.Now I realized-with the help of Focke's Pflanzenmischlinge-that Mendel had found and published all this already thirty-five years ago.... If I had found the explanation earlier, I would …
Ute Deichmann
Bruno Latour
Experimental Complexity in Biology
My paper draws on examples from molecular biology, the details of which I have developed elsewhere (Rheinberger 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997). Here, I can give only a brief outline of my argument. Reduction of complexity is a prerequisite for experimental research. To make sense of the universe of living beings, the modern biologist is bound to divide his world into fragments in which parameters can be defined, quantities measured, qualities identified…
Invisible Architectures
The Argument In this essay I will sketch a few instances of how, and a few forms in which, the “invisible” became an epistemic category in the development of the life sciences from the seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth century. In contrast to most of the other papers in this issue, I do not so much focus on the visualization of various little entities, and the tools and contexts in which a visual representation of these things…
Scrips and Scribbles
This paper is concerned with forms of writing that characterize the laboratory, a research place where scientific knowledge is made to emerge and can be grasped in its emergence. Laboratory notebooks and other forms of research inscriptions have received increasing attention in recent years. With few exceptions, however, the epistemic function of such notes in the overall order of knowledge production has been widely neglected. This paper tries t…
Life stories
Gaston Bachelard and the Notion of “Phenomenotechnique”
The paper aims at an analysis of the oeuvre of the French historian of science and epistemologist Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962). Bachelard was the founder of a tradition of French thinking about science that extended from Jean Cavaillès over Georges Canguilhem to Michel Foucault. In the past, he has become best known and criticized for his postulation of an epistemological rupture between everyday experience and scientific experience. In my analys…
A Reply to David Bloor
September 01 2005 A Reply to David Bloor: "Toward a Sociology of Epistemic Things" Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Online Issn: 1530-9274 Print Issn: 1063-6145 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Perspectives …
Heredity Produced
Kulturen des Experiments
Cultures of Experiment . – It is generally accepted that the development of modern science is rooted in experiment. Yet for a long time, experimentation did not occupy a prominent role in history of science. With the practical turn in science studies, this has begun to change. This paper is concerned with cultures of experiment. In the first part, a suggestion is made as to how the concept of experimental culture can be used to go beyond a histor…
What Happened to Molecular Biology
Heredity and its entities around 1900
Translating Derrida
Translating Derrida Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (bio) This text is about translation. It is about translating Derrida, both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense. Let me start witha personal reminiscence. The students in Jacob Taubes’s Institute of Hermeneutics at the Free University of Berlin—assembling around Rodolphe Gasché and a few other senior students—were reading Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-S…
Recent science and its exploration
The Art of Exploring the Unknown
An Epistemology of the Concrete
Historische Epistemologie
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