Association Ernst Mach

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The General Scientific Educational Association Ernst Mach (Abbreviation Verein Ernst Mach , VEM ), founded in Vienna in 1928 by the Freethinkers' Association of Austria , had the subtitle Association for the Dissemination of Knowledge of the Exact Sciences. Based on the namesake Ernst Mach , under the chairmanship of Moritz Schlick, it was part of the Viennese workers' education movement and at the same time the distribution organ of the Vienna Circle .

Idea and implementation

The UEM served two reciprocal functions: On the one hand, it spread the scientific theoretical ideas of logical empiricism not only in university circles but also in broad social circles. He combined ideas of the two Viennese educational movements and tried to make scientific and epistemological knowledge accessible in a popular way. With this thematic focus, the UEM turned to workers and progressive intellectuals in order to ultimately take account of a socialist worldview and lifestyle.

On the other hand, the contents conveyed here corresponded to those discussed in the Vienna Circle. In this respect, the UEM became the popularization organ of the Vienna Circle. He carried the epistemological discussions out of the purely academic circle and gave one of the most formative theories of science of the 19th century systematic and institutional first social resonance.

Media and methods

The UEM offered courses, lectures, lectures and tours, organized excursions, ordered specialist literature and established contacts with scientists. Furthermore, from 1930 onwards, the UEM published congress lectures, lectures held in the UEM and fundamental scientific theoretical discussions in the journal Knowledge .

Board

Members of the left wing of the Vienna Circle took on not only lectures and other educational events, but also functions on the board of the UEM: Moritz Schlick was first chairman, Hans Hahn became deputy chairman, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap became secretaries, Edgar Zilsel was an assessor.

termination

Due to the strong objective links with the political left of Vienna, the UEM was dissolved by the Austro-fascist Dollfuss government in 1934, which also banned the Social Democratic Party.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geier, Manfred: The Vienna Circle . Hamburg 1995, p. 83ff
  2. ^ Stadler, Friedrich: Vienna - Berlin - Prague. To the rise of scientific philosophy. In: Vienna - Berlin - Prague. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, ed. Rudolf Haller and Friedrich Stadler, 11–37. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. Vienna 1993, p. 14f
  3. ↑ Groß, Angelique: The image pedagogy Otto Neuraths. Methodical principles of the presentation of knowledge. Publications of the Vienna Circle Institute. Jumper. Heidelberg 2015, p. 65
  4. ^ Geier, Manfred: The Vienna Circle . Hamburg 1995, p. 83f
  5. ↑ Groß, Angelique: The image pedagogy Otto Neuraths. Methodical principles of the presentation of knowledge. Publications of the Vienna Circle Institute. Jumper. Heidelberg 2015, p. 65
  6. ^ Geier, Manfred: The Vienna Circle . Hamburg 1995, p. 83ff
  7. ^ Geier, Manfred: The Vienna Circle . Hamburg 1995, p. 84
  8. ^ Stadler, Friedrich: Vienna - Berlin - Prague. To the rise of scientific philosophy. In: Vienna - Berlin - Prague. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, ed. Rudolf Haller and Friedrich Stadler, 11–37. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. Vienna 1993, p. 26
  9. ↑ Filla, Wilhelm: Science for all - a contradiction? Knowledge transfer close to the population in Viennese modernism. A historic adult education center model. Studies publishing house. Innsbruck 2001, p. 425