The Mental Aftermath

Prof. Klaus HentschelUniversity of StuttgartGermanyKlaus Hentschel has been teaching history of science since 1990 as assistant professor and guest professor at the Universities of Hamburg, Göttingen and Stuttgart, before he was appointed full professor and head of the section History of Science at the University of Stuttgart. With a senior research grant by the German National Research Association (DFG) and under the auspices of the University of Berne, Switzerland, he recently wrote a major study on the taxonomic arguments about the classification of radiant heat, light, and other forms of radiation between 1700 and 1900.

• 1. Scientists in Germany seen from the outside ; 2. Tensions with the Allies ; 3. Russian phobia ; 4. Sense of isolation and grief over the fragmentation of Germany ; 5. Bitterness about the "export of scientists" ; 6. Scapegoating the 'Aryan physics' movement ; 7. Forgetting ; 8. Shame, listlessness and lethargy ; 9. Self-justification and the guilt issue ; 10. Self-pity, sentimentality and selfishness ; 11. 'Propaganda-free day-to-day' and political apathy ; 12. New awareness of a scientist's responsibility ; 13. Workaholism: "If we want to live, we must rebuild" ; 14. Side-lining of emigres and critics ; 15. Insensitivity in communicating with emigres ; 16. Distrust and obduracy among emigres ; 17. The mental aftermath

Hentschel's book is also well written; originally publishes in German in 2005, its translation is very good.