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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...
Forensic Psychology in Germany
This book examines the emergence and early development of forensic psychology in Germany from the late nineteenth century until the outbreak of the Second World War, highlighting the field’s interdisciplinary beginnings and contested evolution. Initially envisaged as a psychology of all those involved in criminal proceedings, this new discipline promised to move away from an exclusive focus on the criminal to provide a holistic view of how human fallibility impacted upon criminal justice. As this book argues, however, by the inter-war period, forensic psychology had largely become a psychology of the witness; its focus narrowed by the exigencies of the courtroom. Utilising detailed studies of the 1896 Berchtold trial and the 1930 Frenzel trial, the book asks whether the tensions between psychiatry, psychology, forensic medicine, pedagogy and law over psychological expertise were present in courtroom practice and considers why a clear winner in the “battle for forensic psychology” had yet to emerge by 1939.
Faces of Community in Central European Towns
This collection examines symbolic communication and the role of visual experience in Central European urban communities in the late medieval and early modern periods. The contributors analyze how images, monuments, and rituals both reflected and affected identity formation, conflict, and networks of power.
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
"Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), told from her perspective as a child interned in three Nazi concentration camps from age nine to fifteen. Written by a child survivor much later in life, the memoirs offer insights into the nexus of narrative and extreme trauma, expressing the full spectrum of human emotions: fear and sorrow at losing loved ones; joy and relief when reconnecting with family and friends; desire to preserve some memories while attempting to erase others; horror at acts of genocide, and hope arising from dreams of survival.In addition to annotated ...
Problemfelder der Kriminalwissenschaft
Debatten um Schuld und Strafe, um Willensfreiheit und Zurechnungsunfähigkeit stellen zentrale Problemfelder der Kriminalwissenschaft dar. In epistemologischer Hinsicht lässt sich an ihnen auch die Verschränkung von Kriminologie und Kriminalistik aufweisen. Ausgehend vom Wirken des Hans Gross und der Österreichischen Schule der Kriminologie, bieten die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes Einsichten in diese Problemfelder. Dabei zeigen sie aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Konstanten und Veränderungen in der Entwicklung der Kriminalwissenschaft gleichermaßen auf.
Die Vermessung der Seele
Erkenntnistheoretisch gesehen ist es fraglich, ob mentale Zustände, also Qualia, materialisiert und quantifiziert werden können. Dennoch machen sich vor allem die Naturwissenschaften mit Feuereifer an die Quantifizierung von Qualia, an die Vermessung der Seele sozusagen. In diesem Band werden - aus historischer wie aktueller Perspektive - natur- und geisteswissenschaftliche Zugänge vorgestellt, interdisziplinär miteinander in Relation gesetzt und einer gründlichen epistemologischen Reflexion unterzogen.
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...
The Culture of the Case
How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed. In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with...
Forensic cultures in modern Europe
This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries. The contributors show how modern forensic science and technology are inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms and changes in the law and legal systems. Discussing fascinating case studies, they highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes has affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and on their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices.
