A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

Cain, Friedrich; Hüchtker, Dietlind; Kleeberg, Bernhard; Surman, Jan

doi:10.51196/srz.17.1

SRZ

2019

DOI: 10.51196/srz.17.1

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A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

Friedrich Cain

Dietlind Hüchtker

Bernhard Kleeberg

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“… See Cain et al 2019a;Cain et al 2019b;Kleeberg and Suter 2014;Kleeberg 2019, where these approaches are further elaborated.3 See, e. g., Lässig 2008; Szöllösi-Janze 2000; Veit 2011. An overview is presented in Sommer et al 2017.…”

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“Honecker's Vassal” or a Prehistorian in the Service of Science? The Evaluation of Former East German Scholarship and the Concept ofthe Scholarin the Debate on Joachim Herrmann in Reunified Germany

Kluger

2021

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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The evaluation and transformation process of the GDR research system in the wake of German reunification 1989/90 was immediately accompanied not only by debates within the scientific community, but also by an extensive discussion about the value and future perspectives of East German scholarship and its protagonists in the nationally circulated press. In 1990, the focus turned temporarily to the prominent East German prehistorian Joachim Herrmann after his election to the board of an international historical association. The article uses the example of Herrmann and the public discussion about him as a case study to examine the status of, and changes in, the authority of scholarship and the scholar in the context of the evaluation and restructuring of the East German research landscape in the early 1990s. A selection of press articles from nationwide German newspapers and newsmagazines, as well as archival letters exchanged between different participants in the debate serve as prisms carving out the central arguments and subjacent structures of the discussion. Therefore, Herrmann's case exposes generic characteristics of (different concepts of) scientific authority and the close connection between its negotiation and the search for identity in the newly reunited German academic sphere.

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“Honecker's Vassal” or a Prehistorian in the Service of Science? The Evaluation of Former East German Scholarship and the Concept ofthe Scholarin the Debate on Joachim Herrmann in Reunified Germany

Kluger

2021

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

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“Honecker's Vassal” or a Prehistorian in the Service of Science? The Evaluation of Former East German Scholarship and the Concept ofthe Scholarin the Debate on Joachim Herrmann in Reunified Germany

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