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It is actually also seeming to be asking the wrong question. Not why Göttingen, but why Germany. The universe may have been a natural attractor like big univers
by readthenotes1 2y ago
It is actually also seeming to be asking the wrong question. Not why Göttingen, but why Germany. The universe may have been a natural attractor like big universities everywhere, but if the country surrounding it were impoverished mentally, it would not have much to attract.
- baumschubser 2y agoOne answer given at the time by Heinrich Heine was that Germany didn’t have the revolution that put the new bourgeois class in power (like in France). Therefore censorship, political repression and the dead end of many „German“ micro states meant that philosophy and other disciplines where a way to work on the topics of the new age without getting in conflict with the extraordinary dimension of political backwardness. You could say England is the proof that it does not have to be that way, but they where pioneering capitalist economy, so that’s another case. Heinrich Heine hated Göttingen btw.