Michael Hagner
Michael Hagner is a physician and historian of science and is Professor of Science Studies at the ETH Zürich. In 2008, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose by the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Michael Hagner is a physician and historian of science and is Professor of Science Studies at the ETH Zürich. In 2008, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose by the German Academy for Language and Literature.
PUBLICATIONS
Historical Roots of Modern Problems
In 1985, Paul Feyerabend gave a lecture at ETH Zurich in which he argued that we can understand many problems of the modern world better if we trace them back to their historical roots in the intellectual world of ancient Greece. His audience, a majority of which had a background in science, was not disappointed. In a deliberately anti-professorial performance peppered with brilliant...
Private Tutor
October 1903. Bayreuth is the scene of a sensational trial. Andreas Dippold, a 23-year-old law student and private tutor to two brothers, is accused of beating his pupils so violently that one of...
Spanish world rights (Mardulce)
Homo cerebralis
Until the late 1800s the brain was regarded as the »domicile of the soul«, as »organ of the mind« and as the material link between body and...