New Publication on Ludwig von Bertalanffy and the Viennese Zoology

The Vienna University Press published a new book entitled „Reflexive Innensichten aus der Universität – Disziplinengeschichten zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik“ within which the co-authors BCSSS Vize President Gerd Müller and Hans Nemeschkal , both members of the Department of Theoretical Biology, University Vienna, present Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the historical context of the Viennese Zoology. They introduce Bertalanffy as the first thinker of a „Biological Systems Theory“ in the framework of the Theorisation of Zoology.

The book is published in German, please find an abstract here.

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