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Unterwegs zum Weltbewußtsein
(2000)
Towards Global Consciousness. Alexander von Humboldt's Conception of Science and the emerging ethical Weltanschauung. In the context of recent reflections upon global ethics (Hans Küng), global democracy (Otfried Höffe) and a new cultural situation after the end of the Cold War (Clifford Geertz), Alexander von Humboldt's concept of global consciousness (Weltbewußtsein) marks a decisive point in the ungoing process of the construction of a new ethics of globalization. This article tries to show how Humboldt's transdisciplinary and intercultural conception of sience as WorldWideWeb integrates Kant's philosophical visions of global political institutions and formulates a critique of the non-empirical foundations of Hegel's teleological Weltanschauung. From his Visions of Nature and his Personal Narrative to his Cosmos, Humboldt's theory and practice of science help us to find a new ethos and new answers to the contemporary questions of divergent modernities.
Humboldt's works on Mexico
(2000)
Humboldt wrote about Mexico from the perspective of a scientific explorer and naturalist. His works include his diaries, the Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, the Tablas géograficas, the Vues des Cordillères and a geographic atlas. Concerning the scientific aspect, the lack of a section on Mexico in the Relation historique is not a real deficit, since this can be found in the Essai. But only the diaries and letters from the journey, both published by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Centre, Berlin, can be considered an adequate substitute. The following will show the origin of Humboldt's writings on Mexico, offer historical and bibliographical facts and present the publications "Beiträge zur Alexander von Humboldt-Forschung", as well as Humboldt’s handwritten estate as far as they are available to us.
On the 17th of July 1800 Alexander von Humboldt was elected as an extraordinary member of the Prussian Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres at Berlin. The paper first deals with Humboldt’s scientific activities before his election and then goes into detail as far as his integration into the work of the Academy is concerned. Humboldt was elected as a chimiste célèbre, but as a member of the Academy he did not work as a chemist. When Humboldt proposed in 1837 to classify the members of each class in special fields, he chose for himself the field of "mineralogy-geology".
Alexander von Humboldt has been characterized as the second, scientific discoverer of the New World, as the last universal scientist, Aristotle of modern times, etc. However, more or less hidden in his correspondence we find certain self-characterizations which are not that well-known. Some of them are quoted and discussed in the paper. Thus, an attempt is made to answer the question why Humboldt liked to call himself "the old man from the mountains", and whether or not he found it appropriate to be called "Aristotle of our age."
The present paper investigates the conceptual development of Alexander on Humboldt. The point of reference is his relation to Schelling and to a series of investigators of nature and of physicians closely connected to Naturphilosophie. It is shown that in the correspondence of Humboldt with this group the content underwent a transformation. Scientific exchanges and a general interpretative consensus were over the years more and more replaced by social cooperation over academic appointments, and collaboration over other political problems within the scientific establishment. Humboldt fit Schelling and other partners with whom he cooperated into a network of relationships that rested on mutual social support.
Inhalt:
-Ottmar Ette: Unterwegs zum Weltbewußtsein. Alexander von Humboldts Wissenschaftsverständnis und die Entstehung einer ethisch fundierten Weltanschauung
-Ulrike Leitner: Humboldt’s works on Mexico
-Herbert Pieper: „Ungeheure Tiefe des Denkens, unerreichbarer Scharfblick und die seltenste Schnelligkeit der Kombination“. Zur Wahl Alexander von Humboldts in die Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin vor 200 Jahren
-Ingo Schwarz: „Es ist meine Art, einen und denselben Gegenstand zu verfolgen, bis ich ihn aufgeklärt habe“. Äußerungen Alexander von Humboldts über sich selbst
-Petra Werner: Übereinstimmung oder Gegensatz? Zum widersprüchlichen Verhältnis zwischen A. v. Humboldt und F. W. J. Schelling
Inhalt:
- Rex Clark: If Humboldt had a Laptop. Moving Knowledge Networks from Print to Digital Media
- Wolf von Engelhardt: Goethe und Alexander von Humboldt - Bau und Geschichte der Erde
- Gerhard Kortum: Humboldt der Seefahrer und sein Marinechronometer. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Nautik und Meereskunde
- Ulrike Leitner: Unbekannte Venezuela-Karten Alexander von Humboldts
- Jose Alberto Navas-Sierra: Comercio y reinserción internacional: los “casos” latinoamericano y colombiano (Una hipótesis de Humboldt)
- Sandra Rebok: Alexander von Humboldt y el modelo de la Historia Natural y Moral
- Michael Zeuske: Humboldt, Historismus, Humboldteanisierung. Der „Geschichtsschreiber von Amerika“, die Massensklaverei und die Globalisierungen der Welt
- Ottmar Ette: Nachwort nach dem 11. September 2001
Inhalt:
- Kurt-R. Biermann und Ingo Schwarz: Der Aachener Kongreß und das Scheitern der indischen Reisepläne Alexander von Humboldts
- Kurt-R. Biermann und Ingo Schwarz: „Sibirien beginnt in der Hasenheide“ – Alexander von Humboldts Neigung zur Moquerie
- Kurt-R. Biermann und Ingo Schwarz: Rezepte des jungen Alexander von Humboldt von 1789 gegen Mangel an Arbeit und an Subsistenz
- Francisco Díaz Solar y Duanel Díaz Infante: Gastón Baquero invita a leer Cosmos, de Alejandro de Humboldt
- Ottmar Ette: The Scientist as Weltbürger: Alexander von Humboldt and the Beginning of Cosmopolitics
- Margot Faak: Alexander von Humboldt. Reise durch Venezuela
- Heinz Krumpel: Zur Aneignung und Verwandlung der Ideen Humboldts und Krauses in Lateinamerika – Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede
- Oliver Lubrich: En el reino de la ambivalencia. La Cuba de Alejandro de Humboldt
- Ursula Thiemer-Sachse: Welche Kunst es ist, Kunst zu begreifen …
Alexander von Humboldts Sicht auf indianische Kunst
- Engelhard Weigl: Alexander von Humboldt and the Beginning of the Environmental Movement
The scientist as Weltbürger
(2001)