The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. A historical and sociological study of science (1978-2020)

柏林科学学院。

• 批准号: 532187798
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas Etzemüller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/532187798?language=en
• 关键词: Wissenschaftskolleg; zu; Berlin.; historical; sociological

The project will examine the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Wiko). The Wiko is one of the world's most renowned Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) and is intended to offer selected top scientists the opportunity to give their own thinking a new direction beyond the disciplinary segmentation of everyday university life. The fellows should be free from all exploitation interests and success constraints and even be allowed to fail. From the beginning, the Kolleg was intended to undermine disciplinary boundaries, the difference between science and art, and national research traditions by inviting scholars from all disciplines, artists, and fellows from the former Eastern Bloc, Africa, Asia, and South America. The founding history of the Wiko since 1978 in the specific scientific situation of the late 1970s and 1980s (mass university, critique of elite thinking, beginning of the discourse on excellence) will be reconstructed and the position of the college in the West German and international scientific landscape will be determined more precisely. In the main part, on the basis of files, memoirs, interviews and the work reports of the fellows, it will be examined what scientific practice at the Wiko was and is like. The Wiko appears as a hub of the scientific community: the stay is deliberately designed as a break with university routines and is intended to change them as a result. In longitudinal section, a transformation of the habitus and self-image of scientists since the 1980s becomes apparent. The Wiko can also be interpreted as a symptom of a crisis in the science system, which has come under increasing criticism due to bureaucratization, specialization, overcrowding, and the intensified global competition in science that was already emerging when the Wiko was founded. Therefore, this IAS offers an ideal case study in the history of science in order to be able to examine in detail the multifaceted and complex structural change of science in post-war Germany concentrated on an eccentrically positioned institution.

该项目将考察柏林科学学院 (Wiko)。 Wiko 是世界上最著名的高等研究院 (IAS) 之一，旨在为选定的顶尖科学家提供机会，让他们自己的思维在日常大学生活的学科细分之外找到新的方向。研究员应该摆脱一切剥削利益和成功的限制，甚至允许失败。从一开始，Kolleg 就旨在通过邀请来自前东欧集团、非洲、亚洲和南美洲的各个学科的学者、艺术家和研究员来破坏学科界限、科学与艺术之间的差异以及国家研究传统。 Wiko自1978年以来的创立历史将在20世纪70年代末和1980年代的具体科学形势（大众大学、对精英思想的批判、卓越话语的开始）中得到重建，并确定该学院在西德和国际上的地位科学格局将得到更精确的确定。主要部分将根据档案、回忆录、访谈和研究员的工作报告，考察 Wiko 的科学实践过去和现在的样子。 Wiko 似乎是科学界的中心：这里的设计是为了打破大学的常规，并因此而改变它们。从纵向剖面来看，自 20 世纪 80 年代以来科学家习惯和自我形象的转变变得显而易见。 Wiko 也可以被解读为科学体系危机的征兆，由于官僚化、专业化、过度拥挤以及 Wiko 成立时就已经出现的全球科学竞争加剧，科学体系受到越来越多的批评。因此，本 IAS 为科学史上提供了一个理想的案例研究，以便能够详细研究战后德国科学的多方面和复杂的结构变化，这些变化集中在一个偏心的机构上。