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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
Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the fo...
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938. Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic diversity, the book offers a fresh perspective on Central European art and visual culture. It pays particular attention to Austria, a country often ignored in histories of modernism in Central Europe, yet one where the countryside gained high visibility as a part of modern culture between the wars. Examples from Czechoslovakia and Hungary also play an important role in comparison and challenge the national...
The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview, historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks. "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 twelve. 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 l...
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.
Vogelparadies Lavanttal
Das Lavanttal ist ein Paradies für die Vogelwelt: Bienenfresser und Zaunkönige, Turteltauben und Rotfußfalken, Habichtskäuze und Blauracken, Goldammern, Störche, Bergenten, Spechte und viele Vogelarten mehr tummeln sich in dieser Region im Osten Kärntens. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie nicht nur Wissenswertes über die heimischen Vogelarten und ihre Lebensweisen, sondern auch Spannendes über die Vögel in Religion und Mythologie, in Recht und Aberglauben, in Philosophie, Kunst und Musik. Seit jeher sind Vögel für Menschen eine Quelle der Freude – lassen auch Sie sich von den gefiederten Wesen inspirieren
