Localization And Its Discontents

Author : Katja Guenther
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226288208

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Localization and Its Discontents by Katja Guenther Pdf

Both psychoanalysis and neurology have left equally prominent marks on the history of the twentieth century, yet they have been interpreted in vastly different ways. The two fields appear to manifest an insurmountable Cartesian dualism, one representing a psychological, the other a somatic approach to understanding personhood and subjectivity. Given this apparent opposition it is remarkable that both trace intellectual and practical roots back to the same "neuropsychiatry" that was dominant in the German-speaking world of the late nineteenth century. Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this historical connection, and in doing so not only reframes the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences but also provides resources for thinking about how they developed as independent fields. "Localization and Its Discontents "transforms how we think about their theory and practice. By understanding the historical connections and surprising parallels in their past development, we are newly positioned to reassess the assumptions that seem to determine their future.

Author : William Rasch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135327057

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Sovereignty and its Discontents by William Rasch Pdf

This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'. The notion of the political expounded here is explicitly 'realist' and anti-utopian - in large part because the author finds the consequences of attempting to think 'the good life' to be far more damaging than thinking 'the tolerable life'. The political is not thought of as a means to implement the good life; rather, the political exists because the good life does not. Indeed, if one sees 'globalization', with its emphasis on efficiency and economy, as a threat to the autonomy of the political, then one ought to be wary of political ideologies that reduce the political to species of moral or legal discourse. As laudable as the aims of human rights activists or political theorists like Rawls and Habermas may be, the consequences of their thought and actions further reduce the scope and possibility of political activity by, in effect, criminalizing political opposition. Once 'universal' norms are instantiated, political opposition becomes impossible. A fully legalized, moralized, and pacified universe is a thoroughly depoliticized one as well. Academics and advanced students researching and working in the areas of political theory, legal theory and international relations will find this book of great interest.

Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226693187

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Appetite and Its Discontents by Elizabeth A. Williams Pdf

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science. Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..

Author : Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527502574

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Translation, the Canon and its Discontents by Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Pdf

This collection addresses the complex process by which translation and other forms of rewriting have contributed to canon formation, revision, destabilization, and dismantlement. Through the play between version and subversion, which is inherent to any form of rewriting, these essays – focusing on translations since the sixteenth century down to the present day – stress the role of translation and adaptation as potentially transformative mediations, capable of shaping and undermining identities. Such manipulation is deeply ambivalent, since it can be used as a means of disseminating the ideology of oppressive regimes at the expense of the source text; but it can also serve to garner attention to marginalised texts. This tense interplay between political, social, and aesthetic purposes almost inevitably generates discontents, which may turn out to be the outcome of translation in general. However, discontent is a relational concept, depending on where one stands in the field of competing positions that is the canon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004182615

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Social Stratification in Chinese Societies by Anonim Pdf

The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226799599

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Neuromatic by John Lardas Modern Pdf

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history. In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion. What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.

Author : Thomas Schlich,Christopher Crenner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781580465946

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Technological Change in Modern Surgery by Thomas Schlich,Christopher Crenner Pdf

Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens and transcends the notion of technological innovation.

Author : Warren Breckman,Peter E. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107097780

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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Warren Breckman,Peter E. Gordon Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Author : Peter E. Gordon,Warren Breckman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108645171

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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Peter E. Gordon,Warren Breckman Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Author : Leah Sinanoglou Marcus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071913

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Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Sinanoglou Marcus Pdf

Author : Flora Lysen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501378744

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Brainmedia by Flora Lysen Pdf

Will we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts, brains hooked up to computers and experiments with “brain-to-brain” synchronization. Drawing on archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of “live brains,” arguing that practices of-and ideas about-mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research, Brainmedia casts new light on popularization practices, placing them at the heart of scientific work.

Author : Katja Guenther
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691237251

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The Mirror and the Mind by Katja Guenther Pdf

How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, exploring how researchers from a range of disciplines—psychoanalysis, psychiatry, developmental and animal psychology, cybernetics, anthropology, and neuroscience—came to read the peculiar behaviors elicited by mirrors. Investigating the ways mirrors could lead to both identification and misidentification, Guenther looks at how such experiments ultimately failed to determine human specificity. The mirror test was thrust into the limelight when Charles Darwin challenged the idea that language sets humans apart. Thereafter the mirror, previously a recurrent if marginal scientific tool, became dominant in attempts to demarcate humans from other animals. But because researchers could not rely on language to determine what their nonspeaking subjects were experiencing, they had to come up with significant innovations, including notation strategies, testing protocols, and the linking of scientific theories across disciplines. From the robotic tortoises of Grey Walter and the mark test of Beulah Amsterdam and Gordon Gallup, to anorexia research and mirror neurons, the mirror test offers a window into the emergence of such fields as biology, psychology, psychiatry, animal studies, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The Mirror and the Mind offers an intriguing history of experiments in self-awareness and the advancements of the human sciences across more than a century.

Author : James R. Hamilton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470766101

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The Art of Theater by James R. Hamilton Pdf

The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

Author : Cate I. Reilly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231560399

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Psychic Empire by Cate I. Reilly Pdf

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings. Modernist works written in industrializing Central and Eastern Europe historicize the representation of consciousness as a quantifiable phenomenon within techno-scientific modernity. Looking beyond modernism’s well-studied relationship to psychoanalysis, this book tells the story of the non-Freudian vocabulary for mental illnesses that forms the precursor to today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Developed by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, this psychiatric taxonomy grew from the claim that invisible mental illnesses were analogous to physical phenomena in the natural world. Reilly explores how figures such as Georg Büchner, Ernst Toller, Daniel Paul Schreber, Nikolai Evreinov, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal understood the legal and political consequences of representing mental life in physical terms. Working across literary studies, the history of science, psychoanalytic criticism, critical theory, and political philosophy, Psychic Empire is an original account of modernism that shows the link between nineteenth-century scientific research on the mental health of national populations and twenty-first-century globalized, neuroscientific accounts of psychopathology and sanity.

Author : Sonja Boos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030828165

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The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel by Sonja Boos Pdf

The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?