...Kevin S. Amidon In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism...

... of the political spectrum. 24 The historian of science Anne Harrington has masterfully traced the emergence of the holistic paradigm in German biology and medicine during this same postwar period. 25 What separates Heidegger and Goldberg from all these other indictments of the contemporary Western world...

... recycled some of the debates of the first “age of racial biology” in the late nineteenth century. Our “second age of biology” seems to be repeating the claims (albeit with substan- tially different evidence) of the first. In 2010 a scandal rocked Germany that illustrated how very much the debate...

... after an experi- mental biology class, “Uexküll said that man is not that much better than a spider.”10 Even without relating their conceptualization of the human to   5. Gordon, Continental Divide, 73, with reference to Sein und Zeit, 47. For a recent critical engagement, see Santner...

... overlaps between Benn’s fascist poetics and his readings in medicine and evolutionary biology (Gehirn und Züchtung). Helmut Lethen argues that Benn’s primitivist interests in anthropology laid a kind of groundwork for his fascist views from 1930 on, but does not mention Benn’s engagement...

... in 1990.1 This theoretically informed synthesis of social and intellectual history examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, thermodynamics, politics, sports, and the visual arts came to employ the metaphor of a working body as a human motor. The work is encyclopedic...

..., “‘Ein neues, mächtiges Volkstum’: Eugenic Discourse and Its Impact on the Work of Gerhart Hauptmann,” German Life and Letters 59 (2006): 418. 10. Gisela Bock, “Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Steriliza- tion, and the State,” in When Biology Became Destiny: Women...

... noninvasive incitement to action—such as hygiene campaigns—over control through prohibition.4 However, for Draeseke and Bülow in the early twentieth century, repression and public health, violent intervention and better biology, were no longer mutually exclusive. In fact, this brand of German...

... to the sciences, especially the paleontology and biology of the time, see Nicholls, Myth and the Human Sciences , 89–93, 108–16 ; and Lysemose, “The Being, the Origin, and the Becoming of Man,” 118–20, 126, 128 . 42. See Steffen et al., Global Change and the Earth System . 41. Blumenberg...

... to the larger world that would not be clouded by the accidents of our birth or biology? What is at stake in the desire for such a perspective? How does human self- reflexivity condition the possibility of expanding the scope of our sympathies beyond the allegiances of tribe or species? What role does...

... as such”: the theologically inflected notion of the sanctity of life and the scientific notion of life as living matter. The state calls on its sciences when it legitimates this law. Theology and philology come to their help . . . as does biology. By nature and tendency normatively indifferent, rejecting any philosophy...

... mimesis with a biologi- cal account of perception, suggesting that reportage qua refl ectionist literary depiction necessarily fails because there are entire realms of experience—some of them within the very perimeters of our bodies—for which Homo sapiens has neither sense organ nor cognitive scheme...

.... For that reason, I wanted to show both kinds alive, side by side. 16 There you have it: decades of research and breeding boil down to a biology lesson. De-extinction furnishes living (or rather, reanimated) proof that Bos primigenius and Bison bonasus , the aurochs and the wisent, are different...

... ( 2017 ). https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/323592/323593 . Whitney Tyler . “ Inside the Ear: Silence, Self-Observation, and Embodied Spaces in Kafka’s ‘Der Bau.’ ” Germanic Review 92 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 301 – 19 . Wiehl Klaus . “ Die Poetologie der Biologie: Frank Kafkas...

... studies of myth, ethnology, and embryology. His position against Darwin, as a recent study points out, was less an instance of his “irrationalism” than derived from con- temporary science, which, in the century’s first decades, had not brought all domains of biology and genetics into accord...

..., 1949), 273. By the time The Philosopher’s Way appeared, moreover, the epistemological impact of the uncertainty principle had moved far beyond the limits of quantum physics, and echoed the resolution of several prob- lems. For example, referring to problems of experimentation in biology...

... the logical structure of traditional theory preeminently with the research of the natural sciences—physics, biology—and with social-scientific disciplines that aspire to the apparent status of physics and its kin (such as bourgeois economics). Meanwhile, he identifies the logical structure of critical theory...

... measures over the long term, these processes are not only politically objectionable but also ecologically ineffective. One recent textbook on conservation biology therefore features the subtitle Balanc- ing the Needs of People and Nature to reflect the new attention to the human communities whose...

..., 1928), 2:124–26. Claudia Schmölders 127 oriented organon of human observation, a physiognomic rhizome that drew on biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, art, photography, and literature. Around 1920 the pillars of this German physiognomic metascience...

... (matching inhalation cycles of 70  Software Physiognomics jogging, heart rates, etc cover song detection in differently entrained biologi- cal temporalities, and new music browsing tools based on metric tempi. As with instrument simulation, style simulation, and groove-tracking technolo- gies...