Joachim Radkau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joachim Radkau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joachim |
| FAMILY NAME | Radkau |
| SIGNATURE | RADKAU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fakultät für Geschichtwissenschaft und Philosophie Universität Bielefeld Postfach 100131 33501 Bielefeld, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wie unterschiedlich in Deutschland Solargeschichte erzählt wird
Zahlreiche Beteiligte haben die Geschichte der Solarforschung in Deutschland geprägt. Dies ging nicht immer koordiniert vonstatten, letztlich haben aber der Einsatz und die Kontinuität zahlreicher Wissenschaftler(innen) zum Durchbruch, zur Wirtschaftlichkeit der erneuerbaren Energien im Stromsektor geführt. Ein Buch zeigt anhand von Interviews auf, dass Technikgeschichte von vielen geschrieben wird ‐ und durch und durch menschlich ist
Dennis Romberg, Atomgeschäfte. Die Nuklearexportpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1970–1979. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020
Article Dennis Romberg, Atomgeschäfte. Die Nuklearexportpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1970–1979. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 3)
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
Gau
This essay traces the history of the nuclear risk discourse and policy in West Germany from the first use of the term GAU in the 1960s to the present. A close examination of the term reveals that it is in fact ambiguous, oscillating between support of nuclear energy and criticism of it. GAU, which stands for “größter anzunehmender Unfall”, is a translation of the English “maximum credible accident”, the greatest possible accident that was conceiv…
Nature and Power
Nature and Power is to be understood not only as human power against nature but also as power by nature in the sense of Michel Foucault's biopouvoir (biopower) or Francis Bacon's “Naturae non imperator nisi parendo” (Only by obeying nature may we dominate nature). The fragile human attempts to get power over nature and by nature have a long history, reaching back over millennia until prehistoric times, and much of world history may be explained i…
Joachim Radkau replies to his critics
The negative status of biography in writing history and in the social sciences is discussed. It is argued that the individual human life needs to be placed within the general situation of the world and that structural history and social systems are denatured by excluding the human person. The author discusses and replies to critical reactions to his biography of Max Weber. A caesura in Weber's writings occurred in autumn 1909 when Else Jaffé rele…
Max Weber
Radkau brings out, in a way that no one has ever done before, the intimate interrelations between Weber's thought and his life experience. He presents detailed revelations about the great enigmas of Weber's life: his suffering and erotic experiences, his fears and his desires, his creative power and his methods of work as well as his religious experience and his relation to nature and to death. --from publisher description
Wasserbaugeschichte als deutsches Drama
Von der Entwässerung des Oderbruchs im 18. Jahrhundert bis zu den Sumpf trockenlegungen der Nazis: Anschaulich und packend erzählt der Historiker David Blackbourn die Geschichte des Wasserbaus in Deutschland als Kampf gegen die Naturgewalt Wasser. Seine Grundprämisse: Das menschliche Umweltbewusstsein ist durch kollektive traumatische Ängste, etwa vor Überschwemmung, geprägt. Der Dramatik der Erzählung opfert Blackbourn oft die Komplexität der Ma…
Bicultural Resynthesis
The purpose of this qualitative study of a 6-week effectiveness trial was to describe among a group of urban American Indian women, the process of successful traditionalism in the form of bicultural resynthesis. Bicultural resynthesis represents a major current attempt on the part of the participants to integrate traditional and contemporary demands in a positive, culturally-consistent manner. The themes of shame and isolation, adapting to surviv…
Wood and Forestry in German History
Environmental history is mostly human history, but, at the same time, should be more than it; that ambiguity causes much theoretical confusion. The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice. In connection with that, he comments on several open questions of German forest history: the environmental significance of the many cries of alarm about 'wood famine'; the idea of natur…
Deutsche Industrie und Politik
Erinnern und Vergessen. Das Gegenwartigsein des Vergangenen als Grundproblem historischer Wissenschaft
Die deutsche Emigration in den USA
Wood and Forestry in German History
Environmental history is mostly human history, but, at the same time, should be more than it; that ambiguity causes much theoretical confusion. The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice. In connection with that, he comments on several open questions of German forest history: the environmental significance of the many cries of alarm about 'wood famine'; the idea of natur…
Die deutsche Emigration in den USA
Erinnern und Vergessen. Das Gegenwartigsein des Vergangenen als Grundproblem historischer Wissenschaft
Deutsche Industrie und Politik
Wood and Forestry in German History
Environmental history is mostly human history, but, at the same time, should be more than it; that ambiguity causes much theoretical confusion. The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice. In connection with that, he comments on several open questions of German forest history: the environmental significance of the many cries of alarm about 'wood famine'; the idea of natur…
Bicultural Resynthesis
The purpose of this qualitative study of a 6-week effectiveness trial was to describe among a group of urban American Indian women, the process of successful traditionalism in the form of bicultural resynthesis. Bicultural resynthesis represents a major current attempt on the part of the participants to integrate traditional and contemporary demands in a positive, culturally-consistent manner. The themes of shame and isolation, adapting to surviv…
Wasserbaugeschichte als deutsches Drama
Von der Entwässerung des Oderbruchs im 18. Jahrhundert bis zu den Sumpf trockenlegungen der Nazis: Anschaulich und packend erzählt der Historiker David Blackbourn die Geschichte des Wasserbaus in Deutschland als Kampf gegen die Naturgewalt Wasser. Seine Grundprämisse: Das menschliche Umweltbewusstsein ist durch kollektive traumatische Ängste, etwa vor Überschwemmung, geprägt. Der Dramatik der Erzählung opfert Blackbourn oft die Komplexität der Ma…
Max Weber
Radkau brings out, in a way that no one has ever done before, the intimate interrelations between Weber's thought and his life experience. He presents detailed revelations about the great enigmas of Weber's life: his suffering and erotic experiences, his fears and his desires, his creative power and his methods of work as well as his religious experience and his relation to nature and to death. --from publisher description
Joachim Radkau replies to his critics
The negative status of biography in writing history and in the social sciences is discussed. It is argued that the individual human life needs to be placed within the general situation of the world and that structural history and social systems are denatured by excluding the human person. The author discusses and replies to critical reactions to his biography of Max Weber. A caesura in Weber's writings occurred in autumn 1909 when Else Jaffé rele…
Gau
This essay traces the history of the nuclear risk discourse and policy in West Germany from the first use of the term GAU in the 1960s to the present. A close examination of the term reveals that it is in fact ambiguous, oscillating between support of nuclear energy and criticism of it. GAU, which stands for “größter anzunehmender Unfall”, is a translation of the English “maximum credible accident”, the greatest possible accident that was conceiv…
Nature and Power
Nature and Power is to be understood not only as human power against nature but also as power by nature in the sense of Michel Foucault's biopouvoir (biopower) or Francis Bacon's “Naturae non imperator nisi parendo” (Only by obeying nature may we dominate nature). The fragile human attempts to get power over nature and by nature have a long history, reaching back over millennia until prehistoric times, and much of world history may be explained i…
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
Dennis Romberg, Atomgeschäfte. Die Nuklearexportpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1970–1979. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020
Article Dennis Romberg, Atomgeschäfte. Die Nuklearexportpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1970–1979. Paderborn, Schöningh 2020 was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 3)
Wie unterschiedlich in Deutschland Solargeschichte erzählt wird
Zahlreiche Beteiligte haben die Geschichte der Solarforschung in Deutschland geprägt. Dies ging nicht immer koordiniert vonstatten, letztlich haben aber der Einsatz und die Kontinuität zahlreicher Wissenschaftler(innen) zum Durchbruch, zur Wirtschaftlichkeit der erneuerbaren Energien im Stromsektor geführt. Ein Buch zeigt anhand von Interviews auf, dass Technikgeschichte von vielen geschrieben wird ‐ und durch und durch menschlich ist
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