Acknowledgments |
Archival Abbreviations |
Introduction / Part I: |
Science and the Public Sphere / 1: |
Strategy and Approach |
Outline |
Tracking Heisenberg / 2: |
Culture / Part II: |
The Scientist as Bildungsbürger / 3: |
Bildung and Science |
Performing Bildung: Theory |
Performing Bildung: Praxis |
Enter Heisenberg |
First Lectures |
Transformations in the Foundations |
Accommodating Culture to Politics |
Public and Private |
World Pictures and Public Roles |
Physics as Philosophy / 4: |
Early Work: Fabricating Quantum Mechanics |
Making Sense of a Theory |
The Hidden Meaning of Quantum Field Theory |
The Philosophy of the Fundamental Length |
Revisiting Helgoland |
A Theory of Science |
Quantum Theory after 1945 |
The Philosophy of the Future Theory |
Philosophy and Science in a World-Historical Moment |
The Culture of the Event / 5: |
Mechanics: Securing the Speaker |
Performance; Science and Bildung (1949) |
Mechanics: Staging |
Performance: World Pictures on Display (1953) |
Mechanics: Amplification |
Performance: World Formulae (1958) |
Mechanics: Defining a Frame |
Performance: Goethe (1967) |
Mechanics: Multiple Meanings |
Performance: Religion and Science (1973) |
Science as Bildung: Cultural Constancy |
Bildung ah Konsumgut: Dilemmas of the Literary Public Sphere / 6: |
Publishing: Brave New World |
The Media Complex: Stars and Spectacles |
The Memoirs |
Countercultural Resonances |
Science in the Public Sphere |
Politics / Part III: |
Science, Politics, and Power: Initial Orientations / 7: |
The Research System |
The Scientist |
Heisenberg on the Spot |
The Atomic Age |
A New Research System / 8: |
Postwar Boundary Conditions |
Inside the Institute |
The Max Planck Society |
National Science Policy |
International Relations |
The Postwar Settlement |
Science Policy in the Atomic Age / 9: |
Boosting Atomic Physics |
Starting on a Reactor |
Industry, the State, and the Max Planck Society |
Uncooperative Partners and the Problem of a Site |
Decisions, Mechanisms, and Consequences |
Roles, Responsibilities, and Political Concerns |
Science Policy in the Small |
Atomic Physics and Political Order |
Expansion and Uncertainty / 10: |
Not an Institute Director in the German Sense |
Structural Transformation: The Max Planck Society |
The MPG and Its Flinders |
Hopes for Reform |
Supporting Science: Budget Growth and Budget Cuts |
Public Relations |
Planning: Accelerator Physics |
Projecting a Future: Conflict and Avoidance |
The End of Physics? |
Out of Heisenberg's Era |
Governance: Some Conclusions |
Science Policy and the Postwar Order |
Politics in the Public Sphere / 11: |
Postwar Beginnings |
Göttingen: Small Public |
The Nuclear Threat |
The Göttingen Manifesto |
Looking beyond Adenauer |
Scientists and Intellectuals |
To 1968 and Beyond |
A Scientist in the Public Sphere |
Speaking of the Third Reich: Denazification / 12: |
Denazification |
"Aryan Physics" |
Aside: "Resistance" |
Reconstructing Public Life |
Reconstructing Speech |
Speaking of the Third Reich: War Work / 13: |
Farm Hall: Discussing |
Farm Hall: Drafting |
The Naturwissenschaften Report: Narrative |
The Naturwissenschaften Report: Conclusion |
Readings at Home |
Readings Abroad |
Things Said and Unsaid |
Talking with Bohr |
Speaking of the Third Reich: Into the Public Sphere / 14: |
Into the Public Sphere: Jungk |
Not Talking with Bohr |
Opening Up |
War Work in Context? Speaking of the Third Reich |
Writing the Memoirs |
Situating the Memoirs |
The World-Historical Frame |
Scientific Reason in the Public sphere / Part IV: |
The Public Read of Reason after 1945 / 15: |
Predicting, Controlling, and Mastering Nature |
Politics in the Scientific-Technical World |
Limits t Progress, Limits to reason |
Science and the Self |
The Problem of Values |
Interpreting Scientists and Interpreting science |
Epilogue |
Bibliography |
Index |