Scientists and the cultural politics of academic disciplines in late 19th-century Germany

Emil Du Bois-Reymond and the controversy over the role of the cultural sciences

Bibliographic Data

ID5768544
AuthorsIrmline Veit-Brause (The History of Ideas and Sciences in Society Centre at Deakin University), Irmline Veit‐brause (Max Planck Society, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume14
Issue4
Pages31-56
Publication date2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/095269510101400402
PMID18509960
OpenAlexW2127082731
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

This article is concerned with interactions between the natural and the human sciences. It examines a specific late 19th-century episode in their relationship and argues that the schism between the two branches of knowledge was due to cognitive factors, but consolidated through the social dynamics of institutionalized disciplines. It contends that the assignment of a social function to the human sciences to compensate for the self-destructive tendencies inherent in the technological society was expressed even by those, at the end of the 19th century, who were fervent advocates of a science- and technology-driven modernization

Human science · Late 19th century · Schism · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History

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