Mitchell G Ash
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 997303 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mitchell G Ash |
| NOMBRES | Mitchell G |
| APELLIDO | Ash |
| FIRMA | ASH M G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7033-2073 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
In memoriam Fritz Krafft (10. Juli 1935 – 9. November 2025)
Am 9. November 2025 ist Fritz Krafft, der Gründer und langjährige Herausgeber der Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte , im Alter von 90 Jahren verstorben. Von 1988 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 2000 leitete er das Marburger Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften. Bereits 1978, damals war er Professor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Universität Mainz und Präsident der Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (GWG), init…
Frank W Stahnisch Great Minds in Despair
Frank Stahnisch’s long-awaited magnum opus examines the lives and careers of 367 émigrés from National Socialist Germany and Austria. Called ‘neuroscientists’ in the title, this transdisciplinary group also includes psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists. Though the study remains rooted in history of medicine, it is also a significant contribution to the broader literature on the forced migration of scientists and physicians during and …
Situating Cognitive Science after 1945
The paper attempts to place the emergence of cognitive science (CS) as an interdisciplinary research program in historical context. A broad overview of the institutional and intellectual situations during the early postwar period is presented, focusing primarily on psychology and artificial intelligence (AI). From an institutional perspective, the paper shows that although computers and computer science were closely linked with weapons research d…
Edge of Catastrophe
The crisis in American science
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive O…
Holger Fischer, Semper reformanda. Studium, Lehre und Studienreform an der Hamburger Universität 1919 bis 2020. (Hamburger Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 28.) Göttingen, Wallstein 2023
Allies and Rivals
Psychology and the fall of Communism
The fall of Communism is now universally agreed to be what the philosopher Hegel called a world historical event-one that few predicted but nearly everyone saw as inevitable after it happened. In the aftermath many lives-and worldviews-changed, not only, but also in the human sciences. These remarks attempt to address in a preliminary way both the impact of the fall of Communism on psychology in former East Germany (including changes in personnel…
John Gascoigne 2019
Modernism, modernity, and politics in the general history of science
Argument Herbert Mehrtens‘ work and the implications of the historical ideas he advanced went beyond the history of any single discipline. The article therefore addresses three broad issues: (1) Mehrtens‘ reconceptualization of mathematical modernism, in his field-changing book Moderne—Sprache—Mathematik (1990) and other works, as an epistemic and cultural phenomenon in a way that could potentially reach across and also beyond the sciences and al…
Ist die Verfassung an allem schuld? Thesen zur politischen Krise der USA
Der Beitrag behandelt in drei Schritten die Rolle der Verfassung in der gegenwärtigen politischen Krise der USA. Zunächst geht es um die Frage, inwiefern der US-Verfassung das Attribut »demokratisch« zugeschrieben werden kann, und warum der offenbar nicht-demokratische Modus der Präsidentenwahl (Electoral College) noch immer besteht. In einem zweiten Schritt wird die reale Verfassung am Beispiel des Wahlrechts besprochen und im aktuellen restrikt…
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects
The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and cultural problems for society, which have been studied by the corresponding disciplines and are increasingly the subject of reflexive discourses of scientific communities. Unfortunately, problems of independence are usually framed in disciplinary contexts without due consideration of other perspecti…
David Cahan’s Helmholtz
Deborah R. Coen, Climate in Motion
Wissenschaftsgeschichte in der Geschichtswissenschaft
History of Science in History . This position paper discusses the position of history of science within the field of history and presents arguments for maintaining and expanding that position in future
Americanizing Psychoanalysis
The general theme that unites the works to be discussed here is the history of psychoanalysis in America over the past hundred years, particularly during the heyday of its public impact from the 1950s through the 1970s. The broad outlines of this story have been well known for some time. Interesting about the volumes discussed here is the step that each book takes in its own way beyond a narrow focus on Freud and his followers or the institutiona…
The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Geschichte der Deutschen Psychologie Im 20. Jahrhundert
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The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918
Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures The Authors The Nationalisation of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-century Central Europe: An introduction M.G.Ash & J.Surman Science and its Publics. Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe J.Surman 'Staatsnation', 'Kulturnation', 'Nationalstaat'. The Role of National Politics in the Advancement of Science and Scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938 J.Feichtinger 'National Agreem…
Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie – Einführende Bemerkungen
History of Science and Philosophy of Science. Introductory Remarks. This article introduces two special issues of the journal History of Science Reports ( Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte ) with contributions on the relationships of history and philosophy of science since the seventeenth century. The introduction begins with a brief reminder of Thomas Kuhn's provocative discussion of the relationship in the 1970s, placing it in the context of…
Rezension
Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science, by Amos Morris-Reich. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol. 54. London: Roudedge, 2008. 193 pp. $95.00. In this short but interestingly conceived volume, Amos Morris-Reich presents a systematic study of role of and Jewish assimilation in thought of Franz Boas and Georg Simmel. The two thinkers are of obvious interest, because both were of Jewish background but themselve…
Mythos Humboldt
Academic Politics in the History of Science
The rise of large-scale laboratory research in nineteenth-century Germany has often been portrayed as a continuous success story. Taken as indicative are the two sciences on the leading edge of the trend, chemistry and physiology; developments in biology, physics, and the technical fields are then depicted either as imitations of or as the results of knowledge or personnel transfer from the leading disciplines. At first glance, the founding in 18…
Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research
What roles have instruments played in psychology and related disciplines? How have instruments affected the dynamics of psychological research, with what possibilities and limits? What is the psychological instrument? This article provides a conceptual foundation for specific case studies concerning such questions. The discussion begins by challenging widely accepted assumptions about the subject and analyzing the general relations between scient…
Max Wertheimer and Gestalt theory
Scientific Changes in Germany 1933, 1945, 1990
Wissens‐ und Wissenschaftstransfer – Einführende Bemerkungen
Knowledge and science transfer – introductory remarks . The article presents introductory remarks on the historical study of knowledge and science transfer. Discussion focuses initially on the reasons for speaking of knowledge transfer and not only about science transfer, and the relations of this topic to current research in general history on cultural transfer. Multiple levels of knowledge / science transfer are then discussed, specifically: (1…
Räume des Wissens ‐ was und wo sind sie? Einleitung in das Thema
Historicizing Mind Science
It is no longer necessary to defend current historiography of psychology against the strictures aimed at its early text book incarnations in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, Robert Young (1966) and others denigrated then standard textbook histories of psychology for their amateurism and their justifications propaganda for specific standpoints in current psychology, disguised as history. Since then, at least some textbooks writers and working hi…
Work and Instrumental Action
In recent discussions of historical materialism, the relationship of Marx's critique of political economy to a critical social theory directed toward political action has come into question. The thesis that there is a in the theory of indicates that the analysis of capital, the centerpiece of Marx's theoretical project, can no longer retain such a leading role in the determination of a critical social theory capable of offering a Praxis-oriented …
The crisis in American science
The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive O…
The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects
The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and cultural problems for society, which have been studied by the corresponding disciplines and are increasingly the subject of reflexive discourses of scientific communities. Unfortunately, problems of independence are usually framed in disciplinary contexts without due consideration of other perspecti…
From ‘Positive Eugenics’ to Behavioral Genetics
"Rund um "Marienthal
Gestalt psychology in Weimar culture
Disziplinentwicklung und Wissenschaftstransfer ‐ Deutschsprachige Psychologen in der Emigration
(Discipline development and the transfer of science ‐ German‐speaking psychologists in the emigration). In this essay recently developed ideas from the social history of science, in particular the notion that there are historically conditioned „national professional styles”︁ in science, are applied to the transfer of psychological theory ‐ and of scientific psychologists ‐ from German‐speaking lands to the United States before and after 1933. Aft…
Psychology and the fall of Communism
The fall of Communism is now universally agreed to be what the philosopher Hegel called a world historical event-one that few predicted but nearly everyone saw as inevitable after it happened. In the aftermath many lives-and worldviews-changed, not only, but also in the human sciences. These remarks attempt to address in a preliminary way both the impact of the fall of Communism on psychology in former East Germany (including changes in personnel…
Wissenschaftsgeschichte in der Geschichtswissenschaft
History of Science in History . This position paper discusses the position of history of science within the field of history and presents arguments for maintaining and expanding that position in future
Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie – Einführende Bemerkungen
History of Science and Philosophy of Science. Introductory Remarks. This article introduces two special issues of the journal History of Science Reports ( Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte ) with contributions on the relationships of history and philosophy of science since the seventeenth century. The introduction begins with a brief reminder of Thomas Kuhn's provocative discussion of the relationship in the 1970s, placing it in the context of…
The Uses and Usefulness of Psychology
Psychology occupies a peculiar place among the sciences, suspended between methodological orientations derived from the physical and biological sciences and a subject matter that extends into the social and human sciences. This article traces the history of psychology from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. Early in the field’s history, psychologists distanced themselves from spiritualists and psychical researchers a…
American and German Perspectives on the Goldhagen Debate
Journal Article American and German Perspectives on the Goldhagen Debate: History, Identity, and the Media Get access Mitchell G. Ash Mitchell G. Ash Institute of History, University of Vienna Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, Winter 1997, Pages 396–411, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/11.3.396 Published: 01 December 1997
The struggle against the Nazis
The struggle against the Nazis
Academic Politics in the History of Science
The rise of large-scale laboratory research in nineteenth-century Germany has often been portrayed as a continuous success story. Taken as indicative are the two sciences on the leading edge of the trend, chemistry and physiology; developments in biology, physics, and the technical fields are then depicted either as imitations of or as the results of knowledge or personnel transfer from the leading disciplines. At first glance, the founding in 18…
Work and Instrumental Action
In recent discussions of historical materialism, the relationship of Marx's critique of political economy to a critical social theory directed toward political action has come into question. The thesis that there is a in the theory of indicates that the analysis of capital, the centerpiece of Marx's theoretical project, can no longer retain such a leading role in the determination of a critical social theory capable of offering a Praxis-oriented …
Disziplinentwicklung und Wissenschaftstransfer ‐ Deutschsprachige Psychologen in der Emigration
(Discipline development and the transfer of science ‐ German‐speaking psychologists in the emigration). In this essay recently developed ideas from the social history of science, in particular the notion that there are historically conditioned „national professional styles”︁ in science, are applied to the transfer of psychological theory ‐ and of scientific psychologists ‐ from German‐speaking lands to the United States before and after 1933. Aft…
Geschichte der deutschen Psychologie im 20. Jahrhundert
Geschichte der deutschen Psychologie im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Überblick
Die Professionalisierung der deutschen Psychologie im Nationalsozialismus. Ulfried Geuter
Racial hygiene
Gestalt psychology in Weimar culture
Cultural contexts and scientific change in psychology
Cultural contexts and scientific change in psychology
The Kaiser's Chemists
In the early twentieth century, an elite group of modern-minded scientists in Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers and open new sources of funding for chemical research. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1911 of the chemical institues of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, whose original staff included several future Nobel laureates. Although these institutes w…
"Rund um "Marienthal
Historicizing Mind Science
It is no longer necessary to defend current historiography of psychology against the strictures aimed at its early text book incarnations in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, Robert Young (1966) and others denigrated then standard textbook histories of psychology for their amateurism and their justifications propaganda for specific standpoints in current psychology, disguised as history. Since then, at least some textbooks writers and working hi…
Zur Bedeutung des Begriffs der Alltagspsychologie in Theorie und Geschichte der Psychologie
Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 . Paul Weindling , Charles Webster , Charles Rosenberg
Surviving the Swastika
The Nazi Connection
Science, Technology, and Higher Education under Nazism Hochschule und Nationalsozialismus . Walter Kertz Science, Technology, and National Socialism . Monika Renneberg , Mark Walker Mathematische Beri…
Universal Ice
Forced Migration and Scientific Change
The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earl…
Wissenschaft und Krieg
The essay suggests ways in which the general history of warfare in its military, social and cultural dimensions might be brought together with the historical discussion of science, technology and war in the modern era. The thesis is advanced that more is involved than the use of science as a mere instrument for the development of weapons technology. Rather, developments fundamental to modernity itself are at work: a loss of inhibition in interact…
Natives, Strangers, and Foreigners
Bonn and the Bomb
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