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Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. This volume considers the techniques of mind reading within a wider perspective of discussions about technological innovation within neuroscience, the juridical system, “occult” practices and discourses within the wider field of parapsychology and magical beliefs. The authors address the practice of, and discourses on, mind reading as they form part of the consolidation of modern governmental...
Troubling the Social
These papers, from the annual Summer/Spring School of the IRTG, revolve around the theme of “troubling the social”, exploring the complex relationships between religion, social worlds and transformation from the vantage point of the postcolony—not so much as a geographical location, but rather as a way to understand the world. The contributions examine the coloniality inherent within the academic enterprises related to religion, but also what, how, and why religious experiences, worldviews and engagements count as knowledge and the implications this has for understanding, examining, and activating social transformation processes. Processes of transformation have been prominent within t...
Governed by Affect
Why do ordinary people turn to psychology in the hopes of making themselves healthier, wealthier, and happier? Governed by Affect offers a multi-sited history of psychology and its role in American public life. Focusing on a series of transformations since the 1970s, the book examines the rise of psychology as a health science and the discipline's growing entanglements with public policy inspired new theories of inattentive and unconscious affect, which have come to structure health care, education, the economy, and how we understand ourselves.
Minor Universality / Universalité Mineure
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and s...
Universality After Universalism
The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; today, it is also the target of nationalist attacks. What remains of it? Now available in English, Markus Messling's critically acclaimed study shows how contemporary Francophone literatures seek, after European universalism, approaches to a new universality, without which knowledge and justice cannot be organised in world society. With a foreword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
tabula rasa
Die Societe des observateurs de l'homme, die Gesellschaft der Menschenbeobachter, wurde im Jahr 1799 mit dem Ziel gegrundet, eine "vergleichende Anthropologie" zu etablieren. Sie wollte die spekulativen Ansatze der Erforschung des Menschen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert durch eine empirische Wissensform ersetzen. Diese sollte im napoleonischen Frankreich dazu beitragen, eine sichere, dauerhafte und wissenschaftliche Basis fur die Regierbarkeit der Menschen zu schaffen. Die Kenntnis des menschlichen Geistes, seines esprit und seiner Neigungen war ein integraler Bestandteil dieses Projekts. Laurens Schlicht untersucht, wie im Umfeld dieser gelehrten Gesellschaft Menschen zum Gegenstand der Forschung wurden und wie sich die Konstruktionen dieser Menschen als Forschungsgegenstande und als politische Akteure transformierten.
Freiheit von Wissenschaft
Die Wissenschaft als Leitinstanz der Wissensgesellschaft verspricht Fortschritt, Wohlstand und die Befreiung des Menschen, die weitestgehende individuelle Autonomie – wenn man ihr nur selbst ausreichend Freiheit gewährt. Doch das Dogma von der Wissenschaft als Heilsbringerin ist brüchig geworden. In seinem Essay zeigt Christian Bachhiesl negative Auswirkungen dieses Wechselverhältnisses auf: Was die Wissenschaft und im Verbund mit ihr die Technik uns an Fortschritt auch bringen, es wird neue Abhängigkeiten, normative Imperative und die Kontrolle von immer mehr Lebensvollzügen geben. Kaum ein Bereich unseres alltäglichen Lebens bleibt vom Einfluss der Wissenschaft verschont. Der Exzes...
Wie geht Wissenschaft?
Leitfäden zum Zitieren und Hausarbeitenschreiben gibt es viele. Diese Einführung ist anders: Sie bietet einen Einstieg in die Regeln wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, aber zugleich eine Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Denken. Studierende erhalten Hintergrundwissen und Denkanstöße, die bei Hausarbeiten und Referaten helfen, aber auch Orientierung sind für den Eintritt in die Wissenschaft.
The Epoch of Universalism 1769–1989 / L’époque de l’universalisme 1769–1989
2019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event of global importance that caught much less attention: the 250th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth. There is an undeniable historical and philosophical dimension to this coincidence. Napoleon’s appearance on the scene of world history seems to embody European universalism (soon thereafter in the form of a ‘modern’ imperial project); whilst scholars such as Francis Fukuyama saw in the events of 1989 its historical fulfilment. Today, we see more clearly that the fall of the Berlin Wall stands for an epistemic earthquake, which generated...
