A Métraux
Biographic Data
| ID | 75302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Métraux |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Métraux |
| SIGNATURE | MÉTRAUX A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2232-6290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multiple Lurias. Reconstructing Alexander Romanovich’s Life-Writing
While widely considered Alexander Luria’s (1902–1977) autobiography, The Making of Mind. A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology, published posthumously in 1979, is not a true autobiography but rather an autobiography with heterobiographic elements. However, the largely overlooked Spanish book, Mirando hacia atrás. La vida de un psicólogo soviético en retrospección, published in the same year, may be regarded as an authentic autobiography written…
Reaching the Invisible: A Case Study of Experimental Work in Microbiology (1880–1900)
La science selon Mead
On Lester Embree, Aron Gurwitsch, and Some Other Things From the Past
Moses on his way to the promised land: On Vygotsky’s Notebooks
The publication of a voluminous selection of notebooks from the Vygotsky Family Archive represents a major event for the Vygotsky studies. The material provided in the book turns out to be truly novel; it reaches far beyond mere compilations of existing texts, reprints, and (re-)translations. The key question we address in our contribution is: does this newly made available material have a significant impact on our understanding of Vygotsky’s lif…
L’invitation au voyage ou les tableaux en prose d’Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Outre nombre de contributions académiques, Alfred Sohn-Rethel a publié quelques morceaux en prose dont le trait commun se révèle être la forme brève. Ces textes ressemblent, du point de vue formel, aux « images de pensée » de Walter Benjamin. Mais contrairement à celles-ci, les brefs essais n’ont pratiquement jamais été analysés. Ils ont pour objet des phénomènes de déglingue, de déraillement, d’imprévisibles incidents survenant dans la vie en so…
Ernst Mach Invents a New Sphygmograph
Argument The sphygmograph as designed and tested by Jules-Étienne Marey – an apparatus destined to write pulse tracings on paper – revolutionized medical diagnostics in the early 1860s. Since the accuracy with which this device registered and objectified the pulse was controversial from the outset, the young scholar Ernst Mach (soon to become a leading theoretician and philosopher) decided to thoroughly examine Marey's sphygmograph. The investiga…
Working with Instruments: Ernst Mach as Material Epistemologist, a Short Introduction
With the death of Ernst Mach on February 19, 1916, one day after his seventy-eighth birthday, a question finally became explicit that had been looming for some time. It was as simple as it was fundamental: who, in the end, was this man, a scientist or a philosopher? The importance of this question for contemporaries can easily be gleaned from the obituaries that appeared in the weeks following Mach's death: one in the Physikalische Zeitschrift , …
On Some Issues of Human-Animal Studies: An Introduction
Animals are "in" - since prehistoric times when humans (or their ancient ancestors) were hunting animals, and when they fabricated the Paleolithic dog as well as the Paleolithic cat. In less general terms, animals are "in" since they received names and were listed, observed, mummified, turned into totems, and, later on, dissected, tortured under laboratory conditions, trained as experimental subjects or "purified" as model organisms. And they are…
Lev Vygotsky as seen by someone who acted as a go-between between eastern and western Europe
It is one thing to deal with any aspect of Lev Vygotsky’s work from a purely scholarly standpoint. It is something quite different to deal with Vygotsky’s work from both an academic standpoint and also that of someone who is involved in East–West editorial and commercial projects. This article sheds light upon what it meant to work on Vygotsky’s theories for someone who was formally affiliated to West European academia and who also became involve…
The History of Science as Unending Steeplechase: A Dialogue
Preliminary remark: The following conversation began as a series of written email exchanges. Due to technical reasons, this exchange had to be interrupted at some point. Rather than rewriting the text that had obtained from scratch, I continued the conversation, turning the real “other” of the dialogue into an imagined one. Heartfelt thanks to Oren Harman, the guest editor of this topical issue, for continuing support and for having taken the ris…
Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012)
We mourn the loss of Yehuda Elkana, founding editor of this journal. Setting science in context was a mission of his life. For him this did not mean to relativize and historicize science to the point where it is no longer distinguishable as central to the human quest for knowledge. Rather, an understanding of science as being rooted in social, material, and cultural contexts was for him the key to its central role for solving the problems of huma…
On Emanuel Ringelblum's New Research Program for the History of Jewish Medicine: Introductory Remarks
When Emanuel Ringelblum was born on November 21, 1900, in Buczacz, the small, multilingual and multi-ethnic Galician town was to be found on the far northeastern part of the Austrian Empire. As a mail stamp on a Correspondenz-Karte or Karta korrespondencyja of 1890 shows, the place was officially spelled in accordance with its Polish orthography. However, it was called Butschtasch in German, Bichuch in Yiddish, and still differently in Ukranian. …
Opening Remarks on the History of Science in Yiddish
When introducing a collection of essays on Yiddish, Joseph Sherman asserted, among other things, that: Although the Nazi Holocaust effectively destroyed Yiddish together with the Jews of Eastern Europe for whom it was a lingua franca, the Yiddish language, its literature and culture have proven remarkably resilient. Against all odds, Yiddish has survived to become a focus of serious intellectual, artistic and scholarly activity in the sixty-odd y…
Atomes Et Un Cercle De Vie: Quelques réflexions à peine philosophiques
Cet article pose la vieille question du vitalisme à partir d’un exemple concret, très récent : la fabrication en laboratoire, pour la première fois, d’un virus (de la poliomyélite). Face à cet exemple, l’auteur rappelle deux exemples d’argumentation sur la nature du vivant : celle de Leibniz et celle de Claude Bernard. Si le propre du vivant, selon les biologistes ayant fabriqué le virus eux-mêmes, est de se répliquer, que dire de la position dom…
Gideon Freudenthal Leaves Science in Context
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The Emergent Materialism in French Clinical Brain Research (1820-1850): A Case Study in Historical Neurophilosophy
Philosophy, Neurology, and the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness: On two unpublished letters from Ernst Cassirer to Kurt Goldstein
Author: Métraux, Alexandre; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 1999; Title: Philosophy, neurology, and the pathology of symbolic consciousness : on two unpublished letters from Ernst Cassirer to Kurt Goldstein
Impure Epistemology and the Search for the Nervous Agent: A Case Study in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Neurophysics
The Argument In this contribution, I argue for epistemological impurity as the key to the historical reconstruction of the proto-biological sciences of the eighteenth century. The traditional approaches to the more or less complex and more or less stratified past of science either focus on the ideal content of that which has in the meantime been recognized as standard biological knowledge (transmitted from generation to generation by textbooks) o…
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Quest for Natural Species
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a prolific writer, a multifaceted naturalist, and a zoologist by second profession. Throughout his adult life he lived up to his passion of politely contributing to the advancement of natural philosophy by publishing more than 30,000 pages, probably too much for even the most scrupulous (and persevering) historians of science who seek to reconstruct his theories and to shed some light on the role he played in…
Kurt Lewin: Philosopher-Psychologist
Kurt Lewin's essay “Gesetz und Experiment in der Psychologie” of 1927, published in this issue of SiC for the first time in English translation, and his “Der Übergang von der aristotelischen zur galileischen Denkweise in Biologie und Psychologie” (in the English version: The Conflict between Aristotelian and Galilean Modes of Thought in Contemporary Psychology) of 1931 1 have together contributed most to shape his image as a metatheorist (or phil…
Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge Contributions to the Sociology of Religion
U.N.E.S.C.O.'s New Statement on Race: The Provisional Text
U nited N ations E conomic and S ecurity C ouncil , S tatement by E xperts on P roblems of R ace
Les paysans haïtiens
Two Easter Island Tablets in Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Unesco and Anthropology
Opening Remarks on the History of Science in Yiddish
When introducing a collection of essays on Yiddish, Joseph Sherman asserted, among other things, that: Although the Nazi Holocaust effectively destroyed Yiddish together with the Jews of Eastern Europe for whom it was a lingua franca, the Yiddish language, its literature and culture have proven remarkably resilient. Against all odds, Yiddish has survived to become a focus of serious intellectual, artistic and scholarly activity in the sixty-odd y…
Technical Assistance and Anthropology
Numerals from Easter Island
On Some Issues of Human-Animal Studies: An Introduction
Animals are "in" - since prehistoric times when humans (or their ancient ancestors) were hunting animals, and when they fabricated the Paleolithic dog as well as the Paleolithic cat. In less general terms, animals are "in" since they received names and were listed, observed, mummified, turned into totems, and, later on, dissected, tortured under laboratory conditions, trained as experimental subjects or "purified" as model organisms. And they are…
Les paysans haïtiens
L'Afrique vivante en Haïti
Numerals from Easter Island
Two Easter Island Tablets in Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Original Documents from the Cuna Indians of San Blas, Panama
North and South America: Gramática Teórico-Práctica y Vocabulario de la Lengua Jibara. Juan Ghinassi
North and South America: Tucumán indigena. Manuel Lizondo Borda
North and South America: El Indio en la poesia de América española. Aida Cometta Manzoni
Xi. Anthropology in Germany1: I. Some Trends in German Anthropology
U nited N ations E conomic and S ecurity C ouncil , S tatement by E xperts on P roblems of R ace
Les paysans haïtiens
L'Afrique vivante en Haïti
Technical Assistance and Anthropology
Unesco and Anthropology
U.N.E.S.C.O.'s New Statement on Race: The Provisional Text
Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge Contributions to the Sociology of Religion
Kurt Lewin: Philosopher-Psychologist
Kurt Lewin's essay “Gesetz und Experiment in der Psychologie” of 1927, published in this issue of SiC for the first time in English translation, and his “Der Übergang von der aristotelischen zur galileischen Denkweise in Biologie und Psychologie” (in the English version: The Conflict between Aristotelian and Galilean Modes of Thought in Contemporary Psychology) of 1931 1 have together contributed most to shape his image as a metatheorist (or phil…
Impure Epistemology and the Search for the Nervous Agent: A Case Study in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Neurophysics
The Argument In this contribution, I argue for epistemological impurity as the key to the historical reconstruction of the proto-biological sciences of the eighteenth century. The traditional approaches to the more or less complex and more or less stratified past of science either focus on the ideal content of that which has in the meantime been recognized as standard biological knowledge (transmitted from generation to generation by textbooks) o…
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Quest for Natural Species
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a prolific writer, a multifaceted naturalist, and a zoologist by second profession. Throughout his adult life he lived up to his passion of politely contributing to the advancement of natural philosophy by publishing more than 30,000 pages, probably too much for even the most scrupulous (and persevering) historians of science who seek to reconstruct his theories and to shed some light on the role he played in…
Philosophy, Neurology, and the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness: On two unpublished letters from Ernst Cassirer to Kurt Goldstein
Author: Métraux, Alexandre; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 1999; Title: Philosophy, neurology, and the pathology of symbolic consciousness : on two unpublished letters from Ernst Cassirer to Kurt Goldstein
Gideon Freudenthal Leaves Science in Context
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Emergent Materialism in French Clinical Brain Research (1820-1850): A Case Study in Historical Neurophilosophy
Atomes Et Un Cercle De Vie: Quelques réflexions à peine philosophiques
Cet article pose la vieille question du vitalisme à partir d’un exemple concret, très récent : la fabrication en laboratoire, pour la première fois, d’un virus (de la poliomyélite). Face à cet exemple, l’auteur rappelle deux exemples d’argumentation sur la nature du vivant : celle de Leibniz et celle de Claude Bernard. Si le propre du vivant, selon les biologistes ayant fabriqué le virus eux-mêmes, est de se répliquer, que dire de la position dom…
Opening Remarks on the History of Science in Yiddish
When introducing a collection of essays on Yiddish, Joseph Sherman asserted, among other things, that: Although the Nazi Holocaust effectively destroyed Yiddish together with the Jews of Eastern Europe for whom it was a lingua franca, the Yiddish language, its literature and culture have proven remarkably resilient. Against all odds, Yiddish has survived to become a focus of serious intellectual, artistic and scholarly activity in the sixty-odd y…
On Emanuel Ringelblum's New Research Program for the History of Jewish Medicine: Introductory Remarks
When Emanuel Ringelblum was born on November 21, 1900, in Buczacz, the small, multilingual and multi-ethnic Galician town was to be found on the far northeastern part of the Austrian Empire. As a mail stamp on a Correspondenz-Karte or Karta korrespondencyja of 1890 shows, the place was officially spelled in accordance with its Polish orthography. However, it was called Butschtasch in German, Bichuch in Yiddish, and still differently in Ukranian. …
The History of Science as Unending Steeplechase: A Dialogue
Preliminary remark: The following conversation began as a series of written email exchanges. Due to technical reasons, this exchange had to be interrupted at some point. Rather than rewriting the text that had obtained from scratch, I continued the conversation, turning the real “other” of the dialogue into an imagined one. Heartfelt thanks to Oren Harman, the guest editor of this topical issue, for continuing support and for having taken the ris…
Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012)
We mourn the loss of Yehuda Elkana, founding editor of this journal. Setting science in context was a mission of his life. For him this did not mean to relativize and historicize science to the point where it is no longer distinguishable as central to the human quest for knowledge. Rather, an understanding of science as being rooted in social, material, and cultural contexts was for him the key to its central role for solving the problems of huma…
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