Table Of ContentIntroduction: Wolfgang Schirmacher Translated by Virginia Cutrufelli Physics as Scientific World View ERNST MACH Philosophical and Scientific Thought Translated by Paul Foulkes HERMANN WEYL Knowledge as Unity Translator unknown ERWIN SCHRODINGER Science, Art, and Play Translator unknown ALBERT EINSTEIN Principles of Research What Is the Theory of Relativity? Translated by Alan Harris MAX PLANCK The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics Translated by W.H. Johnson WERNER HEISENBERG Quantum Theory and the Structure of Matter Language and Reality in Modern Physics Translator unknown OTTO HAHN Reminiscences from the History of Natural Radioactivity Translated by W. Gaade LISE MEITNER The Atom Translated by Daniel Theisen The Status of Women in teh Professions Translator unknown KURT GODEL About the Relationship between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy Translator unknown Life Sciences: Biochemistry, Ecology, Ethology ADOLF BUTENANDT Life as an Object of Chemical Research Translated by Daniel Theisen ROBERT KOCH On Bacteriological Research Translated by Daniel Theisen JAKOB VON UEXKULL Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men Translated by Claire H. Schiller KONRAD LORENZ Habit, Ritual, and Magic Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson MANFRED EIGEN with RUTHILD WINKLER-OSWATISCH What Is Life? Translated by Paul Wooley Social Sciences, Law, and Culture MAX WEBER Science as a Vocation Translated by Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills KARL VOßLER Language and Science Translated by Oscar Oeser GEORG SIMMEL Money and the Pace of Life Translated by Tom Bottomore and David Frisby GUSTAV RADBRUCH The Concept of Law Translated by Kurt Wilk ROBERT BOSCH How Can We Achieve Economic Harmony? Aphorisms Translated by Daniel Slager CARL FRIEDRICH VON WEIZSACKER Public Consciousness: Culture Translated by Daniel Theisen Biographies Translated by Virginia Cutrufelli Bibliography
SynopsisThe 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 36 (German Essays on Science in the 19th Centiry, also edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher), represents the sciences in a comprehansive way: Physics, Biochemistry, Ecology, Ethology, Social Sciences, Law and Culture. Writers and scientists represented include: Robert Bosch, Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Konrad Lorenz, Lise Meitner, Max Planck, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and many others.