Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
Herausgeber: Lettevall, Rebecka; Widmalm, Sven; Somsen, Geert

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Produktbeschreibung

Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and culture and neutrality in politics. By analyzing the activities of scientists, intellectuals, and politicians (sometimes overlapping categories) of mostly neutral nations in the First World War and after, it traces how an ideology of neutralism was developed that soon was embraced by international organizations. This book explores how the notion of neutrality has been used and how a neutralist discourse developed in history. As such, Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe presents a different perspective on the century than the story of the great belligerent powers, and one in which science, culture, and politics are inextricably mixed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138117044
• ISBN-10: 1138117048
• Artikelnr.: 57050816

Autorenporträt

Rebecka Lettevall is Associate Professor and Docent of the History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is author of The Idea of Kosmopolis: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of World Citizenship (2008). Geert Somsen is University Docent in the Department of History at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Sven Widmalm is Professor in the Department of Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm Part I:
Points of Departure: The breakdown of internationalism in science and
culture and its effects 2. Probing the Master Narrative of Scientific
Internationalism: Nationals and Neutrals in the 1920s Brigitte Schroeder
Part II: International Collaborations: Neutrality in science 3. "Holland's
Calling": Dutch Scientists' Self-fashioning as International Mediators
Geert Somsen 4. "A superior type of universal civilisation": Science as
Politics in Sweden, 1917-1926 Sven Widmalm 5. "Has the Swedish Academy of
Sciences ... seen nothing, heard nothing, and understood nothing?" The
First World War, Biased Neutrality, and the Nobel Prizes in Science Robert
Marc Friedman 6. Pursuing Common Cultural Ideals: Niels Bohr, Neutrality,
and International Scientific Collaboration during the Inter-War Period
Henrik Knudsen and Henry Nielsen 7. Caught-up by Politics? The Solvay
Councils on Physics and the Trials of Neutrality Kenneth Bertrams 8. The
Scientific Construction of Swiss Neutrality Daniel Speich Chassé Part III:
Intellectual Positions: Neutrality and Culture 9. A Castle in the Centre:
The First Czechoslovak Republic and European Cooperation (1918-1938)
Carlos Reijnen 10. Prague Zionism, the Czechoslovak State, and the Rise of
German National Socialism: the Figure of Max Brod (1914-1933) Gaëlle
Vassogne 11. Legitimacy through Neutrality: Resources of Journalism in the
International Press Visit to Sweden in 1923 Patrik Lundell 12. Of Twins and
Time: Scientists, Intellectual Cooperation, and the League of Nations
Jimena Canales Part IV: Political Visions: Neutrality and Peace 13.
Eye-deep in Hell: Heinrich Lammasch, the Confederation of Neutral States,
and Austrian Neutrality, 1899-1920 Georg Cavallar 14. Nobel Science of
Peace: Norwegian Neutrality, Internationalism and the Nobel Peace Prize
Vidar Enebakk 15. Neutrality and Humanitarianism: Fridtjof Nansen and the
Nansen Passports Rebecka Lettevall List of Contributors Notes Index