Michael Hagner
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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
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Year of Publication: 2025
Michael HagnerYear of Publication: 2025
The Moral Economy of the Book
The debates over the demise of the printed book have died down, but the question of what role the book will play in an entirely digitalised world remains more pressing than ever. By way of numerous case studies, Michael Hagner seeks to provide some answers to this question by analysing historical and contemporary constellations that highlight the evolving significance of the...
Year of Publication: 2023
Paul FeyerabendYear of Publication: 2023
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...
Year of Publication: 2010
Michael HagnerYear of Publication: 2010
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...
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Year of Publication: 2008
Michael HagnerYear of Publication: 2008
Homo cerebralis
Few phenomena in the field of life sciences cultivate such a strong fascination as the brain and the way it functions. In his book, Michael Hagner leads through the cultural-historical developments of brain research from Descartes to the present.
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...
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...