Abstract
Underground science, re-read (and rewritten) Friedrich Caina goes beyond the existing reconstructive and factual descriptions of underground science. He focuses on three, broadly defined areas: social sciences (mainly sociology), medicine, as well as physics, astronomy and technical sciences. They provide a starting point for related issues and case studies. Taking into account both macro and micro levels, the author focuses on individual issues, phenomena and characters, reconstructing contexts, motivations, limitations and frameworks for action, risks and benefits, daily practices and the functioning of social networks, etc. He defines and contextualises ‘underground science’ in an innovative way, pointing to its psychological, material or political determinants. Scholarly work made it possible, on the one hand, to regain a sense of subjectivity and agency destroyed by the occupiers, and on the other involved compromises, entering spaces that were associated with collaboration, such as Rudolf Weigl’s anti-typhus institute in Lviv or work at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków. At the same time Cain sees underground science as an important form of resistance.
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