Von den Grenzen einer frühneuzeitlichen Biographie: Melchior Adams Vita Helii Eobani Hessi und ihre Quellen

Daphnis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-426
Author(s):  
Klaus-Dieter Beims
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Insight Into

Melchior Adam’s collection of biographies offers a unique insight into the intellectual history of the German-speaking cultural world from the late 15th century onwards. Using the Vita Helii Eobani Hessi as an example, this article examines the different sources available to Adam. Furthermore, the article analyses the selection and literary transformation of these sources in Adam’s biography. The image of Hessus in Adam’s main source already shows all the evidence of being just a construction; the essay examines if Adam is checking the construction in a critical manner or if he just accepts it. By comparing the sources that Adam used, the limits of the biography’s historical content are revealed.

Authoritarianism in Modern Germany History

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
Michael Meng
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
German History ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of

Why study the history of modern German-speaking Central Europe? If pressed to answer this question fifty years ago, a Germanist would likely have said something to the effect that one studies modern German history to trace the “German” origins of Nazism, with the broader aim of understanding authoritarianism. While the problem of authoritarianism clearly remains relevant to this day, the nation-state-centered approach to understanding it has waned, especially in light of the recent shift toward transnational and global history. The following essay focuses on the issue of authoritarianism, asking whether the study of German history is still relevant to authoritarianism. It begins with a review of two conventional approaches to understanding authoritarianism in modern German history, and then thinks about it in a different way through G. W. F. Hegel in an effort to demonstrate the vibrancy of German intellectual history for exploring significant and global issues such as authoritarianism.

Between Ideology and Identity: Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine (1918–1948)

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eran J. Rolnik
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Sphere

The reception of psychoanalysis outside the German cultural sphere is an important chapter in the historiography of psychoanalysis as well as in the social and intellectual history of many societies. This paper attempts to historicize the reception of the Freudian paradigm in Palestine under the British Mandate by locating two of its main historical contexts: the socialist foundations of the budding Jewish society and the migration of German-speaking psychoanalysts following the Nazi accession to power.

Globalizing the Intellectual History of Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Samuel Moyn ◽  
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Samuel Moyn provides insight into how the history of democracy can continue its globalization. There is a growing belief that the currently acceptable fund of ideas has not served the recent past well which is why an expansion, a planetary one, of democracy’s ideas is necessary – especially now as we move deeper into the shadow of declining American/Western imperialism and ideology. Deciding which of democracy’s intellectual traditions to privilege is driven by a mix of forced necessity and choice: finding salient ground for democracy is likely only possible in poisoned traditions including European ones.

Of Mandarins, Legal Consciousness, and the Cultural Turn in US Legal History: Robert W. Gordon. 1984. Critical Legal Histories. Stanford Law Review 36:57–125

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 167-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna L. Blumenthal
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
History Of Doctrine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Central Claim

This article traces the impact of Robert Gordon's “Critical Legal Histories” on scholars writing at the intersection of law and history. While Gordon's central claim about the constitutive character of the law has come to serve as a working assumption in the field, the case he made for the intellectual history of doctrine as articulated by legal mandarins has proven less influential in the twenty-five years since the article was published. Instead, legal historians have focused their attention on the interaction between official and lay forms of law-making with a decided emphasis on popular legal consciousness. For precisely this reason, the time may be ripe for reconsideration of mandarin materials, not only for what they have to tell us about the dynamics of cultural change, but also as sources of insight into basic puzzles of the human condition that have tended across time to be expressed in and through legal forms.

scholarly journals Jenseits von Kiel: Zu einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte der quantitativ-theoretischen Wende in der deutschsprachigen Geographie

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
Boris Michel ◽  
Katharina Paulus
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract. This editorial provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the themed issue “Raum. Gesetze. Daten.”. The article calls for a broader historiographic analysis of the quantitative-theoretical turn in German-speaking geography. We propose a research agenda that aims at writing a history of science beyond monumental history and classical intellectual history, that focuses on the messiness of history and takes the historicity of systems of thought into account. The endeavour is part of a growing interest in the history of science in the context of the cold war, cybernetic thinking and post-Fordist capitalism.

‘I think’ (the thoughts of others). The German tradition of apperceptionism and the intellectual history of schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Liesbet De Kock
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Aetiological Factor ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theories Of Subjectivity ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Insight Into

Although contemporary approaches to schizophrenia pinpoint ‘disturbances of the self’ as a central aetiological factor, historical insight into the link between accounts of schizophrenia and theories of subjectivity and self-consciousness is poor. This paper aims to overcome this gap by providing the outlines of a largely forgotten but crucial part of the intellectual history of schizophrenia. In particular, the impact of the German tradition of apperceptionism on nineteenth-century accounts of schizophrenia is unearthed. This tradition emerged from German Idealism, and culminated in Emil Kraepelin’s account of dementia praecox. In addition to filling an important gap in the historiography of psychiatry, this analysis contributes to ongoing efforts to correct some common misunderstandings regarding Kraepelin’s theoretical position.

scholarly journals Biedermeier man (Adalbert Stifter on happiness)

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 05004
Author(s):  
Svetlana Nikolajevna Averkina ◽  
Galina Ivanovna Rodina
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Adalbert Stifter ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Cultural World

The idea of an era is most often formed after a certain time after its end. This is the case with the Biedermeier era, the significance, and features of which have been appreciated only 50 years after its formal end. The name “man of the Biedermeier era” contains a provocation. The name refers us to the wonderful cultural period – the Renaissance, which formed the idea of “Titan-like personalities” and the greatest achievements. The Biedermeier era is a period of calm and peaceful life after the Napoleonic wars with no particular heroism or scale. The main plot of the works of this period is the search for social balance and personal happiness. However, upon closer examination, one can understand that this modest stage in the history of culture gives rise to a new type of genius who can see “the great in the small” (Adalbert Stifter, 1805-1868). The influence of this concept on the development of German literature can hardly be overestimated. The article deals with the work of the classic Austrian author, artist, and thinker A. Stifter, who is well-known to the German-speaking reader due to the creation of the concept of “the gentle law” (“das sanfte Gesetz”). The Russian reader is less familiar with the classic Austrian writer. This is because some of the codes and hidden meanings of Stifter’s texts significantly differ from the ideas accepted in the Russian cultural world. The purpose of the study is to clarify some of them (the concepts of “happiness” and “gentle law”). The objectives of the research are determined by the need to give a brief description of the Biedermeier era in its national Austrian version and, in particular, in connection with A. Stifter’s work. A hypothesis is put forward about the polystylistic nature of Biedermeier aesthetics, which influences the formation of the literary process in the German-speaking space. The novelty of the study consists in an attempt to look at the significance of the Austrian classic from a Russian perspective. This determines the theoretical framework of the study, built on the methods of comparative studies and conceptual text analysis.

Pioniere der Kinderchirurgie

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Surgery ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Insight ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Second World ◽  
Insight Into

This book provides interested readers a very personal insight into the history of German pediatric surgery. The experiences and perspectives of 10 retired pediatric surgeons in former leadership positions are complied in personal interviews. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is the availability of the audio files of the interviews, which can be accessed via weblinks and QR-codes. This provides an impressive, intimate connection to the history of pediatric surgery in German-speaking countries since the second world war.

scholarly journals Shadowlands of Objectivism and Comprehensiveness

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-262
Author(s):  
Jan Vrhovski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern China ◽  
General View ◽  
Republican China ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Modern China ◽  
Insight Into

The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang’s intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering a more concise picture of the main influences, developmental stages and finally also central ideas of Zhang’s thought. By offering a general view on the concrete confluences and dissonances between the keystones of Zhang’s philosophy on one side, and its alleged sources in Western and Chinese philosophy on the other, this study further aims at presenting a new insight into the unique characteristics of Zhang’s philosophy. At the same time, by setting the discussion on Zhang’s philosophy in a broader context of contemporary intellectual discourse, the article also endeavours to establish a tentative basis for the future critical analyses and potential revaluations of Zhang Shenfu’s role in intellectual history of modern China.

scholarly journals Witold Jedlicki (29 II 1929 – 7 IX 1995). Między samorealizacją a realiami

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Nina Kraśko
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Single Text ◽  
The Us ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Witold Jedlicki (1929–1995), an important, if somewhat disregarded Polish sociologist, began work at the University of Warsaw as the first assistant of professor Stanislaw Ossowski, member of Ossowski’s circle, also known as the Warsaw School of Sociology. Little, however, is known of Jedlicki’s life after he emigrated to Israel in 1962; in present day Poland he is remembered mainly as the author of a single text Chamy i Żydy published in 1962 in Kultura [Culture], a leading Polish emigré journal appearing in Paris. Through research of Polish and Israeli archives, study of publications in political and academic institutional history as well as interviews with Jedlicki’s brother Jerzy and Chanan Rapaport, at that time head of the National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences the author was able to partly reconstruct his career abroad in Israel and the US, including contributions to Kultura and later criticism of the political situation in Poland and Israel. Conversations with Jedlicki’s friends and acquaintances, his own texts (published and unpublished), and particularly his correspondence with Jerzy Giedroyc, editor in chief of Kultura provide a new psychological insight into the intellectual history of a scholar still quoted by the Polish school of sociology in discussions and interpretations of Polish society.

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