Richard Beyler

• Purges in Comparative Perspective

  Richard H Beyler, Richard Beyler et al.•ARTICLE•Osiris•2005•Citada por: 2

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  During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …

• The demon of technology, mass society, and atomic physics in West Germany, 1945–1957

  Richard H Beyler, Richard Beyler•ARTICLE•History and Technology•2003

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  In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “mass society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in …

• Purges in Comparative Perspective

  Richard H Beyler, Richard Beyler et al.•ARTICLE•Osiris•2005•Citada por: 2

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  During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …

• The demon of technology, mass society, and atomic physics in West Germany, 1945–1957

  Richard H Beyler, Richard Beyler•ARTICLE•History and Technology•2003

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  In the cultural‐political literature of post‐1945 West Germany, atomic energy often functioned as the most potent image of a “demon of technology” fraught with both enormous potential and enormous danger. These critiques of techno‐science also represented a traditional critique of “mass society,” whose erstwhile anti‐western sentiments now had to be sublimated. As the Cold War developed, discussion shifted to ambivalence about Germany's place in …

• Purges in Comparative Perspective

  Richard H Beyler, Richard Beyler et al.•ARTICLE•Osiris•2005•Citada por: 2

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  During the intense political upheaval that dominated the middle decades of the twentieth century, modern states intensified their drives to discipline broad sectors of society and ensure their political reliability. Subjected to such pressures, scientific institutions faced the challenge of admitting new, officially mandated criteria into the regulation of scientific life. We examine the effects of these policies on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in …

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