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The book review deals with the topic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. It is pointed out that the scientific investigation of this abuse is mainly carried out by medical professionals, psychologists, criminologists, and social scientists. Historians, psychologists, and educators examine the internal and societal causes of the perpetrators' misconduct and the leadership's behavior. The interdisciplinary volume contains contributions from various experts and documents a conference on addressing the abuse. It is emphasized that the insights and consequences from this investigation can be painful and provoke resistance. The text deals with the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and emphasizes that scandals are places of confrontation where power structures collide. Abuse in religious contexts is considered particularly serious because the victims have a spiritual dependence on the perpetrators. The church's reactions to abuse cases have often been characterized by cover-ups and a lack of care for the victims. The author emphasizes that the church can only regain its credibility if it fundamentally reconsiders its self-image and hierarchy and does not abandon the victims. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Criticism as Art Criticism - Flight Lines of Aesthetic Education" by Martina Lütke-Harmann deals with the question of the relationship between the subject and knowledge in the field of aesthetics. In their anthology "The End of Art Education," authors Jörg Ruhloff and Wolfgang Fischer examine the justifiability of pedagogical knowledge in the field of aesthetics. They argue that contemporary art represents a dialectic of withdrawal and blurs the boundaries between art and objecthood. The authors argue that art education should engage with this transformation of form and address the diffusion of boundaries between art and objecthood. Art critics Michael Fried and Georges Didi-Huberman respond to the challenge posed by these works by adapting and correcting aesthetic concepts. The text discusses how anti-aesthetic art can be evaluated when it refuses to be aesthetically conventional in the traditional sense. The authors argue that contemporary art breaks the formal conventions of modern aesthetics and involves the viewer at the center of the art. The text discusses aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and its relationship to epistemology and moral philosophy. It argues that aesthetics examines a specific form of cognition and judgment and that art is a doctrine of laws. The authors emphasize the importance of objectivity and the claim to objectivity mediated by validity theory in art. It also addresses the anti-aesthetic direction of contemporary art and points out that the production of meaning in art is now left to the arbitrariness of the viewers. The authors criticize the substitution of aesthetics by the transcendental-critical method and argue that this leads to the marginalization of aesthetics. The text deals with the topic of criticism of contemporary art and its relationship to aesthetics. It points out the critical function of art in revealing the inadequacy of the rational and social conditions. It also discusses art criticism and theory after 1960, particularly Michael Fried's criticism of theatricality and Georges Didi-Huberman's re-auratization of art in the objects of Minimal Art. It emphasizes that the contemporary art form is formally conditioned and emphasizes the viewer's perspective. Fried's central criticism refers to the theatrical effect of minimalist objects. These objects divert the viewer's attention away from themselves and towards the overall situation in the exhibition space. Unlike works of aesthetic modernism, they have lost the character of an autonomous entity and depend on the viewer's activity and reflection on the overall situation. The minimalist objects have a phantasmatic effect and can both attract and distance the viewer. They are inexhaustible in their meaning and resist a clear evaluation. The text criticizes Fried's analysis of the minimalist objects by Robert Morris, Tony Smith, and Donald Judd. Didi-Huberman argues that Fried discredits the indeterminacy and self-reversal of these objects as an anti-modernist strategy, while they actually represent a subtler level of gift and loss. Didi-Huberman suggests supplementing Fried's analysis with Walter Benjamin's concepts of aura and the dialectical image. [Extracted from the article]

The Journal for Individual Psychology publishes a list of authors. The authors include Reinhard Birk-Slepcevic, a social scientist and individual psychological analyst, Marga Günther, a professor of theories and methods of social work, Damaris Hofmann, a social worker specializing in mental illnesses, and Holger Kirsch, a specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. Additionally, Aleš Vápenka, a psychoanalyst and group analyst, and lecturer at various institutes in Berlin, are listed. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a report from a June 11-13, 2015 human rights and humanitarianism conference in Cologne, Germany hosted by the Fritz Thyssen endowment and the 20th-century human rights research society. Topics of presentations delivered included humanitarianism in the Biafra conflict, the relationship between French citizens and their government, and the roles of American social scientists in U.S. military operations apart from war.

The article discusses the involvement of materiality or nature to the tasks of human geographers or cultural and social scientists. It presents the theoretical conception of physical geography. It notes the emergence of earth scientists and physical geographers characterizing their doing as a conversation with the earth. It also demonstrates the transitional formations of physical geography's natural appearances.