scholarly journals Science popularization in nineteenth century France: Nérée Boubée (1806–1862) and the journal L'Écho du Monde Savant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
Intellectual Context

Simon-Suzanne-Nérée Boubée was born in Toulouse (France) in May 1806 and died in August 1862 in Luchon (France). This paper discusses Boubée's activities as a science popularizer exemplified through the journal L'Écho du Monde Savant , published in Paris from 1834 to 1846. L'Écho intended to ‘present a summary of the most important news taking place within the savant world’ to the public. In this journal Boubée published a broad range of topics, for example, advocating the crucial role and extent of geology, and the utmost value of industry and agriculture. The working hypothesis is that Boubée's convictions and profile, intertwined with some relevant trends within the French intellectual context—as manifested in science and technology matters—constituted the propelling force for his project to popularize science. Boubée's commitments to popular education, together with other aspects such as valuing the knowledge of workers, and praise for women's education and their scientific activity, were aligned with contemporary political and social movements. Like many practitioners of science hitherto unknown to historians, his work deserves deeper appreciation.

scholarly journals THINKING ABOUT A POPULAR EDUCATION IN SCIENCES?

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (175) ◽  
pp. 186-208
Author(s):  
Raúl Esteban Ithuralde
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Public System ◽  
The Public

Abstract In this article we reflect on Education in Natural Sciences, from our educational experiences with teachers in the public system, social movements and political organizations. These experiences serve as a base from which we can glimpse new paths, in a dialogue with a diversity of theoretical references from different disciplines and areas. We intend to continue thinking about a critical pedagogy in the natural and technological worlds with the objective of strengthening processes of social transformation.

TOWARD A CRITICAL HISTORICISM: HISTORY AND POLITICS IN NIETZSCHE'S SECOND “UNTIMELY MEDITATION”

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN J. EMDEN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Intellectual Context

Focusing on the close connection between Friedrich Nietzsche's historical thought and the discourse of German historicism in the second half of the nineteenth century, this article argues in a thick contextual reading that Nietzsche's second “Untimely Meditation,” Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben (1874), needs to be understood as a reflection on the political dimension of historical consciousness, outlining what I shall term a “critical historicism.” In contrast to the standard emphasis on Nietzsche's presumed aestheticism, he is shown to react to rather specific developments within the contemporary intellectual context, such as the establishment of specific historical foundation myths for a new German nation state, exemplified by the public monuments and commemorations of the 1870s, the effect of such foundation myths on the political imagination of historical scholarship, and the intellectual antagonism between Basel's “antimodernism” and the German nation state.

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