eprintid: 9315
rev_number: 42
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dir: disk0/00/00/93/15
datestamp: 2009-03-31 07:30:39
lastmod: 2021-11-18 12:59:03
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creators_name: Livingstone, David
title: Hettner-Lecture 2001
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-550
divisions: i-120700
abstract: David Livingstone is renowned for his work on the history and philosophy of geography and scientific culture. His writing focuses on contextual histories of the sciences and the relationship between science and religion. During the Hettner Lectures 2001 Livingstone developed further his geographical approach to science studies. In "Knowledge, Space and the Geographies of Science," David Livingstone explores how different historical spaces of knowledge production and consumption contribute to the shaping of scientific knowledge claims. He argues that both scientific practice and the interpretation of scientific theories can best be characterised as located performances. Livingstone’s second lecture traces geographical imaginations of the tropics in the Western world. He reconstructs the processes by which European philosophers, travel writers, medical doctors, artists and cartographers shaped the "exotic" character of the concept "tropics". In an inherently hermeneutic encounter, they helped to establish a feeling of superiority over nature and other civilisations. By taking up basic ideas of Hans-Georg Gadamer on hermeneutics, Livingstone contextualises his second Hettner Lecture in Heidelberg.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2001
date_type: published
ubhd_kollation: Dauer: Teil 1: 72 Minuten, Teil 2: 63 Minuten
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00009315
official_url: https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/detail/1370132
collection: c-11
ppn_swb: 1647722411
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-93158
language: eng
bibsort: LIVINGSTONHETTNERLEC2001
full_text_status: none
citation:   Livingstone, David  (2001) Hettner-Lecture 2001.  [Video]