Historians are showing increasing interest in scientific internationalism, the notion that science transcends national differences and hence advances peace and cooperation. This notion became particularly popular in the decades around 1900, the heyday of the universal expositions and the so-called first era of globalization. In this article I argue that in order to properly historicize scientific internationalism, it is imperative to understand how actors imagined science to have pacifist effects, and to relate their technoscientific to their geopolitical imaginaries. To illustrate this, I analyze the 1911 novel Der Menschheit Hochgedanken (translated as When Thoughts Will Soar) by the famous Austrian pacifist Baroness Bertha von Suttner. It tells the story of a scientific conference whose participants, by the sheer brilliance of their thought, ward off war and preserve world peace. Relating the novel to von Suttner's own life experiences, I situate her internationalism in the social texture and international relations of the late Habsburg Empire. It appears that von Suttner mobilized notions of the pacific effects of science with an eye to preserving both the European system of states and the position of the aristocracy.

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会议上的公主：科学、和平主义和哈布斯堡社会

历史学家对科学国际主义越来越感兴趣，即科学超越国家差异从而促进和平与合作的概念。这个概念在 1900 年左右的几十年里变得特别流行，这是世界博览会的鼎盛时期和所谓的全球化的第一个时代。在本文中，我认为，为了正确地将科学国际主义历史化，必须了解参与者如何想象科学具有和平主义效果，并将他们的技术科学与他们的地缘政治想象联系起来。为了说明这一点，我分析了著名的奥地利和平主义者伯莎·冯·苏特纳男爵夫人 1911 年的小说《Der Menschheit Hochgedanken》（译为《当思绪翱翔》）。它讲述了一个科学会议的故事，会议的参与者凭借他们的思想才华，避免战争，维护世界和平。将小说与冯·苏特纳本人的生活经历联系起来，我将她的国际主义置于哈布斯堡帝国晚期的社会结构和国际关系中。看来冯·苏特纳 (von Suttner) 调动了科学的太平洋影响的概念，着眼于维护欧洲国家体系和贵族的地位。