Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna.
University of Erfurt.
Ber Wiss. 2021 Dec;44(4):339-351. doi: 10.1002/bewi.202100035.
What sounds like a laborious set up for a shallow joke actually hits the core of the problem this issue covers: What do the leading archaeologist of the former German Democratic Republic in re-unifying Germany, Bulgarian scientists in the late 1960s and some recent discussions about representations of Polish ancient history have in common? They all operate along fractures in the crust of scientific authority, they mark moments in time when classical figures of knowledge reach or breach authoritative status. They serve to study how authoritative speech bridged and manifested these relations and help identify areas where scientific authority is contested. This volume transcends this topological rhetoric with a praxeological take on scientific authority. Concentrating on authority figures, it brings specific margins and contestations into sight. The papers in this volume study cases from former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and thus examples that present us with the complexity of agonal relations within state socialism and post-socialist transformations that complicate matters of scientific authority in many ways, yet also offer illustrative examples of shifting constellations of (scientific) authority.
这听起来像是一个为了引出一个浅薄笑话而精心设计的开场白，但实际上却触及了这个问题的核心：前东德的首席考古学家、20 世纪 60 年代末的保加利亚科学家以及最近关于波兰古代史的一些讨论，这三者有什么共同点？它们都存在于科学权威的地壳裂缝中，标志着知识的经典人物达到或突破权威地位的时刻。它们有助于研究权威言论如何跨越和体现这些关系，并帮助确定科学权威受到质疑的领域。本卷以科学权威的实践论为切入点，超越了这种拓扑修辞。它集中研究权威人物，使具体的边缘和争议变得可见。本卷中的论文研究了来自中欧、东欧和东南欧前社会主义国家的案例，因此这些案例向我们展示了国家社会主义内部竞争关系的复杂性，以及后社会主义转型在许多方面使科学权威问题复杂化的情况，但也提供了（科学）权威不断变化的星座的说明性例子。
