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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe - Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War (Hardcover)
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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe - Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has
sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative
but as a lofty ideal -- in politics by nations proclaiming their
peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in
journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a
professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other
intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated
above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This
volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and
culture and neutrality in politics. By analyzing the activities of
scientists, intellectuals, and politicians (sometimes overlapping
categories) of mostly neutral nations in the First World War and
after, it traces how an ideology of neutralism was developed that
soon was embraced by international organizations. This book
explores how the notion of neutrality has been used and how a
neutralist discourse developed in history. None of the
contributions take claims of neutrality at face value -- some even
show how they were made to advance partisan interests. The concept
was typically clustered with notions, such as peace,
internationalism, objectivity, rationality, and civilization. But
its meaning was changeable -- varying with professional,
ideological, or national context. As such, Neutrality in
Twentieth-Century Europe presents a different perspective on the
century than the story of the great belligerent powers, and one in
which science, culture, and politics are inextricably mixed.
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