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In 1917/18 the German publisher Eugen Diederichs organized three “closed meetings” at Lauenstein castle in Upper Franconia (Germany) where about 60 representatives of science, art, and “the youth” discussed “the meaning and purpose of our time.” (273) The present volume delivers the definitive documentation of these historically important meetings. At the same time, it brings together three different sources, carefully selected, edited, and introduced by Meike Werner.
Meike G. Werner (ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2021. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8353-3584-4
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Page numbers throughout the text refer to the reviewed book.
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At the theoretical side, the fascist conception of politics as an antagonistic struggle between friend and foe, was formulated by Carl Schmitt and Hans Freyer. The democratic understanding of politics as an agonistic pluralism is due to Hans Kelsen and Weber himself. Weber and Kelsen, in turn, functioned as political role models, Schmitt and Freyer as contrast foiles for later logical empiricists such as Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Reichenbach. See Christian Damböck, “Carnap, Reichenbach, Freyer. Noncognitivist Ethics and Politics in the Spirit of the German Youth Movement”, in: Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, and Meike G. Werner (eds.): Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement, Cham: Springer, 2022, 105–126.
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Max Weber, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Munich, 1919. The lecture took place in Munich at November 7th, 1917.
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See Damböck, Sandner, and Werner, op. cit.
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Damböck, C. (2023). Review: Meike G. Werner (Ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein, Wallstein Verlag 2021. In: Cantù, P., Schiemer, G. (eds) Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42190-7_17
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