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V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement (2016)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2016). V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 52(2), 99-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21775

In the early 20th century the child population became a major focus of scientific, professional and public interest. This led to the crystallization of a dynamic field of child science, encompassing developmental and educational psychology, child psy... Read More about V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s-1920s: “Objective Psychology” / “Reflexology” as a Scientific Movement.

Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2016). Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature. French Studies, 70(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knw004

Medieval libraries are studied as collections of books, but much less frequently as collections of ideas. They are somewhat neglected by literary scholars, who tend to define the parameters of their studies in terms of authors, genres, themes, tradit... Read More about Introduction: Medieval Libraries, History of the Book and Literature.

„Mag dies ein Illusionismus sein…“ (2016)
Journal Article
Philipsen, B., & Rys, M. (2016). „Mag dies ein Illusionismus sein…“. Orbis Litterarum, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12094

Stefan Zweig hielt 1932 in Florenz eine Rede, in der er sich über die aktuelle Idee einer von ihm erwünschten europäischen Einheit äußerte. Anhand eines die ganze Kulturgeschichte umfassenden historischen Abrisses und eines zum Teil auf Freud rekurri... Read More about „Mag dies ein Illusionismus sein…“.

The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature (2016)
Book
McCarthy, J., Hilger, S., Sullivan, H., & Saul, N. (Eds.). (2016). The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309036

This pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theor... Read More about The early history of embodied cognition 1740-1920 : the Lebenskraft-debate and radical reality in German science, music, and literature.

The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623391

This article scrutinises concepts of deregulation against the backdrop of the ‘New Capitalism’ as presented in the episode ‘Hamsterdam’ in the American TV series, The Wire: when the major in charge of the Western District of Baltimore secretly decide... Read More about The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire..

Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 37(3), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3599315

If human reproduction is a realm of future-making practice, its refusal or absence effects a reconceptualization of the future. The article examines three very different refusals of the child: the idealist antinatalism of Otto Weininger's Sex and Cha... Read More about Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész.