Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells
Endeavour. 2024 Apr 1;48(1):100918. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100918. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCan love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society. Their partnership inspired their work, a living experiment conducted through their own unco...
Source: Endeavour - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Hanneke Hoekstra Source Type: research
Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells
Endeavour. 2024 Apr 1;48(1):100918. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100918. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCan love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society. Their partnership inspired their work, a living experiment conducted through their own unco...
Source: Endeavour - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Hanneke Hoekstra Source Type: research
Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells
Endeavour. 2024 Apr 1;48(1):100918. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100918. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCan love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society. Their partnership inspired their work, a living experiment conducted through their own unco...
Source: Endeavour - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Hanneke Hoekstra Source Type: research
Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber's scholarly endeavor
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 26;48(1):100914. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100914. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation "Science as a Vocation"), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how "profession" and "calling" are related in science and scholarship, but also Entzauberung ("disenchantment"); rationality and its limits; ultimate values; and the field of tension between science and religion. The present essay locates these themes in Weber's oeuvre from 1911 onward, and analyses how they resonate and culminate in Weber's address in 1917. It is in...
Source: Endeavour - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Authors: H Floris Cohen Source Type: research
Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber's scholarly endeavor
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 26;48(1):100914. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100914. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation "Science as a Vocation"), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how "profession" and "calling" are related in science and scholarship, but also Entzauberung ("disenchantment"); rationality and its limits; ultimate values; and the field of tension between science and religion. The present essay locates these themes in Weber's oeuvre from 1911 onward, and analyses how they resonate and culminate in Weber's address in 1917. It is in...
Source: Endeavour - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Authors: H Floris Cohen Source Type: research
Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber's scholarly endeavor
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 26;48(1):100914. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100914. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation "Science as a Vocation"), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how "profession" and "calling" are related in science and scholarship, but also Entzauberung ("disenchantment"); rationality and its limits; ultimate values; and the field of tension between science and religion. The present essay locates these themes in Weber's oeuvre from 1911 onward, and analyses how they resonate and culminate in Weber's address in 1917. It is in...
Source: Endeavour - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Authors: H Floris Cohen Source Type: research
Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber's scholarly endeavor
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 26;48(1):100914. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100914. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation "Science as a Vocation"), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how "profession" and "calling" are related in science and scholarship, but also Entzauberung ("disenchantment"); rationality and its limits; ultimate values; and the field of tension between science and religion. The present essay locates these themes in Weber's oeuvre from 1911 onward, and analyses how they resonate and culminate in Weber's address in 1917. It is in...
Source: Endeavour - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Authors: H Floris Cohen Source Type: research
Science as a calling and as a profession: The wider setting in Weber's scholarly endeavor
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 26;48(1):100914. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100914. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation "Science as a Vocation"), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how "profession" and "calling" are related in science and scholarship, but also Entzauberung ("disenchantment"); rationality and its limits; ultimate values; and the field of tension between science and religion. The present essay locates these themes in Weber's oeuvre from 1911 onward, and analyses how they resonate and culminate in Weber's address in 1917. It is in...
Source: Endeavour - March 27, 2024 Category: Science Authors: H Floris Cohen Source Type: research
Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber's 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.PMID:38520917 | DOI:10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919 (Source: Endeavour)
Source: Endeavour - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steven Shapin Source Type: research
Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber's 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.PMID:38520917 | DOI:10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919 (Source: Endeavour)
Source: Endeavour - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steven Shapin Source Type: research
Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber's 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.PMID:38520917 | DOI:10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919 (Source: Endeavour)
Source: Endeavour - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steven Shapin Source Type: research
Specialists with spirit: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
This article is both a comment on the collection of papers, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," offered as a tribute to Klaas van Berkel, and an attempt to add historical depth to present-day sensibilities about the academic discipline called the history of science: Is it a special sort of inquiry? Is science as its subject matter a special sort of culture? Max Weber's 1917 Science as a Vocation lecture, and its continuing appropriations, is a focal point for addressing these questions.PMID:38520917 | DOI:10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100919 (Source: Endeavour)
Source: Endeavour - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steven Shapin Source Type: research
Diogenes' tub and the double bind of science and vocation in the late Middle Ages
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 21;48(1):100912. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100912. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIntellectuals tend to cherish heroes who embody their ideal way of life. The fact that the personas of the unworldly Greek philosophers Diogenes and Crates were so popular in the late Middle Ages proves that Max Weber's Idealtypus of the "authentic man of science" (as termed by Steven Shapin) has been problematic for centuries. This finding gives cause to modify Max Weber's and Shapin's viewpoints about the loss of the "authentic man of science" due to professionalization. The development of the university as an educati...
Source: Endeavour - March 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Catrien Santing Source Type: research
Editorial: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 18;48(1):100920. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100920. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis editorial introduces the collection, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," co-edited by Dorien Daling and Hanneke Hoekstra. The collection offers a tribute to the eminent historian of science, Klaas van Berkel, commemorating his retirement from the University of Groningen. The papers compel us to consider the ongoing tensions between knowledge production and the social, political, and economic constraints faced by scholars, a theme that Max Weber famously addressed in his 1917 lecture, W...
Source: Endeavour - March 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Donald L Opitz Source Type: research
Editorial: Re-enchanting the vocation of science
Endeavour. 2024 Mar 18;48(1):100920. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2024.100920. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis editorial introduces the collection, "Specialists with Spirit: Re-Enchanting the Vocation of Science," co-edited by Dorien Daling and Hanneke Hoekstra. The collection offers a tribute to the eminent historian of science, Klaas van Berkel, commemorating his retirement from the University of Groningen. The papers compel us to consider the ongoing tensions between knowledge production and the social, political, and economic constraints faced by scholars, a theme that Max Weber famously addressed in his 1917 lecture, W...
Source: Endeavour - March 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Donald L Opitz Source Type: research
