Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube.Twenty-four years later, in 2021, he compiled a collection of essays under the title Spalt und Fuge: Eine Phänomenologie des Experiments, which will shortly also be available in English.What happened between these two books?What does it mean to write the history of the life sciences now?What is the place of Rheinberger's historical epistemology in the contemporary landscape?These were the questions that we, the editors, started discussing in the summer of 2021.The occasion was not only Rheinberger's latest book, but also the more mundane fact that one of us, Lara Keuck, had just joined the editorial team of this journal.The other one of us, Editor-in-Chief Kärin Nickelsen, therefore proposed to collaboratively edit a small topical collection, dedicated to their mutual interest in the history and historiography of the life sciences, in order to introduce the novice to the inner workings of journal making.Rheinberger's Spalt und Fuge would loosely serve as a starting point for a forum of four or five short contributions, mainly from early and midcareer scholars in the field.The project would avoid any Festschrift character (since several of them had been published already 1 ); instead, we wanted to initiate a discussion about how topics and concepts associated with Rheinberger's work, and others that originated in the same period, are dealt with today.After all, we are now starting to write the history of life sciences during the 1990s, when some of our favorite historiographical tools were invented.What does this mean for our distinction between actors' categories and analytical
Authors: Lara Keuck, Kärin Nickelsen
Language: German
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,050
OpenAlex ID: W4295129801