Bad Science-Toxic Intersections Between Cultural Politics & Intellectual History in German Tradition

3 units · Undergraduate

Developments in science and technology raise key political questions and often reveal global fault lines - recent debates around AI, climate change, pandemics and public health show this. This course delves into the sometimes-toxic cultural politics of science historically, surveying key case studies (in biology, linguistics, medicine and more) from German history between 1780 and 1940.