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The Words of Robotics addresses how the way we “tell” stories about robots cannot be reduced to a strictly logical discourse, but must involve the rhetorical aspects of “ethos” and “pathos.” The author focuses on the aspect of motion in order to analyze the relation between humans and robots, and show the opportunities and pitfalls of the popularization of academic discourses in using a rhetorical approach to talk about robots. This approach allows one to go beyond the reductionisms of either overstating the abilities and power of the robots or reducing the discourse to a specialized, mere technical language.

The idea of creating artificial humans can be found at the beginning of the human culture. Ancient myths contain the stories of artificial humans brought to life by gods. The word robot originates from a play that was about artificial humans made from artificial flesh that aims to serve real humans. With advancements in robotics, the materialization of this idea is more real than ever before. We are witnessing attempts to create humanoid robots that might be deployed in many spheres of our life - policing, healthcare, and even for love and sex.The book focuses on the ethical issues of human likeness of robots and human tendency to anthropomorphize. It is built on the assumption that design choices are not neutral, and they need to be discussed to align robots with human values. With robots operating in the physical world, they bring ideas and risks that should be addressed before widespread deployment. The book reviews specific issues and provides suggestions and recommendations for improving robots to serve humans better. It draws on literature from Human-Robot Interactions, ethics of AI and robotics, and the philosophy of technology.

Die Vermessung von Kunstwerken gehörte zu den wichtigsten Methoden der »Rassenwissenschaften« In der rassistischen Bildpropaganda völkischer und nationalsozialistischer Ideologen fallen die vielen Abbildungen von antiken Kunstwerken auf. Nicht nur griechische Götter- und Heroenstatuen, sondern auch Reliefs und Malereien aus Ägypten und dem Alten Orient wurden anthropometrisch vermessen und mit Fotografien moderner Populationen in Beziehung gesetzt. Dabei galten die ägyptischen Bildwerke in dieser Hinsicht als besonders authentisch, präzise und verlässlich. Doch hier handelte es sich keineswegs nur um einen pseudowissenschaftlichen Irrweg des völkischen Rassismus. Die anthropologische Lektüre antiker Bildwerke seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert war eine etablierte Praxis sowohl in den Rassen- als auch in den Kunst- und Altertumswissenschaften. Auf diese Weise schien es nicht nur möglich, kollektive historische Akteure (»Völker«) anthropologisch zu klassifizieren, sondern auch die Konstanz anthropologischer Typen durch die Zeit hindurch aufzuzeigen und die angebliche wissenschaftliche Legitimität des Rassenkonzepts zu untermauen. Felix Wiedemann untersucht Aufkommen und Verschwinden dieser Methode vor dem Hintergrund ihres politischen, kulturellen und epistemischen Kontextes.

Virtual-Reality-Technologie birgt große Potenziale, Forschung und Lehre geisteswissenschaftlicher Fächer nachhaltig zu bereichern. Ihr Einsatz in Hochschulen ist dabei längst nicht mehr nur eine technologische Fragestellung. Mit dem Medium Virtual Reality werden theorie- und methodenbezogene disziplinäre Praktiken aus einer neuen Perspektive befragt. VR wird schon heute für außergewöhnliche experimentelle Settings und zur Wissenserschließung bzgl. neuartiger multimodaler Erfahrungen eingesetzt. Die Beiträge des Sammelbands geben einen Einblick in aktuelle Studien diverser Disziplinen an verschiedenen Hochschulen Europas. Der Band leistet damit einen Impuls zur Nutzung und Untersuchung immersiver Technologien in digitalen Forschungs-, Lern- und Lebenswelten.

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics offers a lively, authoritative, up-to-date exploration of pressing ethical issues in our digital world. An international team of philosophers, some pioneers of digital ethics, others experts in related areas of philosophy, give critical appraisals of research in the this fast-growing field and locate it in the broader philosophical context. They push the discipline forward by exploring novel approaches and arguments that will shape the agenda on digital ethics for years to come. The Handbook gives readers tools to better understand problems which face us now in our digital lives, and which are likely to emerge in the future.

Winner of the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for the category of Addiction & Recovery.Written for millennials and Gen Z, this approachable guide reframes addiction and provides tools from psychotherapy to help the reader break harmful behaviour cycles.We are constantly seeking ways to excite, soothe or distract our overactive brains, and it's easy to get hooked in the process... on social media, shopping, alcohol or something else entirely! In this essential guide to getting unhooked, psychotherapist Talitha Fosh shares her own addiction story alongside tried-and-tested techniques for discovering healthier habits and reclaiming your freedom.Dismantle the stereotype of the “addict” and discover why you rely on external factors to change the way you feel.Explore the temporary highs of addiction and create coping strategies for the inevitable lows.Identify your own addictive behaviours and explore what they are distracting you from.Reflect on your healing journey through practical exercises and journaling.Hooked provides a supportive space for you to rediscover the life you want, and to take the essential steps to attaining it.

Examination Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, University of Leipzig (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: This thesis looks at the ongoing phenomenon of cringe comedy in British contemporary television. Taking a cultural studies perspective, it argues that cringe comedy affects toxic masculinity and the way one perceives masculinities. A close reading of the TV series Peep Show provides a number of examples that give insight into how masculinities are constructed in cringe comedy television and the ideology that comes with awkward jokes. Even though the viewing numbers have always been low for Peep Show, it can be considered a prime example of British comedic television and its recent developments. With increasing awareness of toxic masculinities and the increasing popularity of cringe comedy television formats that undoubtedly shape Western societies and cultures, it becomes relevant to investigate how humour affects gender stereotypes. When exploring the function of comedy and awkwardness in media, Kotsko (“Awkwardness”) and Middelton found that awkwardness creates a shift to self-reflecting formats, where the spectatorship is being irritated by the uncomfortableness they feel when their expectations are not met on television programs. Studying the meanings of jokes and gender is relevant to understanding how one interacts in cultures and how they use humour as a social tool. This paper contributes to the fields of cultural studies, media studies, and gender studies since humour is used to rationalise social norms in British society, directly its culture. I will argue that the sitcom Peep Show uses cringe comedy as a tool to uncover, create and criticise toxic masculinity characteristics within our society by evoking laughter in the audience.

Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, ‘privacy'has become the focus of competing definitions, leading some to denounce the ‘disarray'in the field. But as this book shows, disagreements about the role and value of privacy obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related ideas.

Der Diskurs um soziale Roboter erweckt den Eindruck, als stünde die Integration sozialer Roboter in unsere Alltagswelt unmittelbar bevor; die Beschreibung der Roboter und der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion durch die Wissenschaftler:innen begünstigt diese Vision. Die zur Beschreibung gewählten sprachlichen Mittel, deren Voraussetzungen und Implikationen werden in dieser Studie rekonstruiert. Leitend ist die Frage, inwieweit durch uneigentliche Rede, wie Metaphern, der Forschungsgegenstand'sozialer Roboter'konstituiert wird und wie sich die beschreibungssprachlichen Bestimmungen in den wissenschaftlichen Modellierungspraxen niederschlagen.

••Business Book Awards 2024: Specialist Business Book of the Year••Ever come away from a coaching session feeling it didn't quite hit the mark, despite your skills and knowledge?It's not just the words we use, it's the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity.Explore the human qualities that great coaches need to develop - humility, vulnerability, courage, and more - based on research from thousands of real coaching sessions, with stories, reflections, practical examples and tips on how to develop yourself and your work.This is a book for anyone who wants to deepen their work without adding more tools and techniques, and who is willing to do some deeper work in service of having more transformational conversations.

Shame is an important feeling. The more we understand it, the more we understand ourselves and others.

Research has shown that having a diverse organization only improves and enhances businesses. Forbes and Time report that diversity is an $8 Billion a year investment. However, poorly implementing diversity programs have damaging effects on the organization and the very individuals these programs attempt to help. Poorly implemented programs can cause peers and subordinates to question decisions and lose faith in leadership. In addition, it can cause even the most confident individuals to doubt their own skillset and qualifications. Many organizations have turned to training to solve this complex issue. Yet still, other organizations have created and filled diversity and inclusion positions to tackle the issue. The effects of these poorly implemented programs are highlighted during strenuous times such as the latest COVID-19 pandemic. Marginalized people are more marginalized, and resources and support do not reach everyone. Tasks such as providing technical support, conducting large group meetings, or distributing work obligations without seeing employees on a daily basis becomes more challenging. Complex problems cannot be solved with simple solutions. Using organization development (OD) to develop a comprehensive change initiative can help. This book outlines how properly conducting an OD change initiative can effectively increase an organization's diversity and inclusion -- it is grounded in research-based literature on diversity and OD principles. Many organizational leaders realize the key importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and multiculturalism in modern organizations. It is only through such efforts can organizations thrive in a networked world where much work is done virtually—and often across borders. But a common scenario is that leaders, recognizing the need for a diversity program, will pick someone from the organization to launch it. Perhaps the person identified for this challenge is in the HR department but has had no experience in launching diversity efforts—or even in managing large-scale, long-term, organization wide change efforts. But these are the challenges to be faced. This book quickly identifies some reasons why diversity programs fail and how to avoid those failures. The majority of the book highlights how to use OD to improve organization culture and processes to not only increase diversity and inclusion but develop overall organization talent and prevent personal preferences and biases from hindering the selection of the best talent for positions.

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call “work,” what does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?Both philosophically brilliant and deeply personal, Comedy Against Work demonstrates how laughing about work can puncture the pretensions of tyrannical bosses while uniting us around a commitment to radically new ways of making the world together. At the same time, Lane-McKinley exposes a war at the heart of contemporary comedy between those who see comedy as a weapon for punching down and those whose laughter points to social transformation. From stand-up to sitcoms, podcasts to late night, comedy reveals our longing to subvert power, escape the prison of work, and envision the joys of a liberated world.

Mechanisms are frequently brought up across the natural and social sciences as supplements to laws and empirical regularities. Recent decades have seen an explosion in mechanistic explanations in which philosophers of science, natural scientists, and social scientists have advocated, debated, and criticized the usage of mechanisms in their respective disciplines. As the intensity of these debates has increased, our understanding of the historical origin of mechanisms remains incomplete. Of the explanations that have been put forward, it has been argued that the roots of mechanisms are to be found in mechanical philosophy. This book demonstrates that an important set of factors have been overlooked in our understanding of the ontology of mechanisms. In shifting attention to a never-before-explored terrain in the etymological and semantic evolution of what arguably is the most commonly used scientific term, “the mechanism,” this text discovers that the origin of mechanisms is to be witnessed in ideas about social causality that arose within Ancient Greek tragedy and theater. It takes readers on a journey through socio-cultural settings and changes in Ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Roman Empire, and the Middle Ages, as well as the rise of science and modernity, and finishes in our current era of digital technology. As such, the book reveals how understandings of mechanisms have changed and evolved across time.

This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitor's point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by critically appraising Germany's often celebrated memory culture. Based on visitor observations and exit interviews, this book examines how domestic and international visitors negotiate their visits to the concentration camp memorials Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg, the House of the Wannsee Conference and the former Stasi prison Bautzen II. It argues that memorial sites are melting pots where family, national and global narratives meet. For German visitors, the visit to memorial sites is a confrontation with Germany's responsibility for the two dictatorships while for international visitors it can be a form of'seeing is believing'. Ultimately, it is the immediacy of the space that is the most important part of the visit.Rooted in an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to academics and students in German Studies, Tourism and Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, Public History, and Memory Studies.

This book celebrates Don Kiraly's scholarly work. In 20 contributions, colleagues and friends tackle issues closely related to his research interests in translation didactics and translation studies. The result is a colourful kaleidoscope reflecting the many strands of research questions that Don Kiraly has helped to advance over the past decades.

Předkládaná publikace se zabývá problematikou emocionality, a to v interdisciplinární perspektivě. Nad problémem se sešli pedagogové, speciální pedagogové, historici, politologové, sociologové, ekonomové, estetici a fi losofové. K fenoménu emocionality je přistupováno z různých jeho aspektů a z různých metodických rámců. Tak si může čtenář porovnat nejenom to, co je viditelné v optice jednotlivých speciálních věd, ale též samotné vědecké přístupy a teoretické perspektivy v jejich různorodosti. Emocionalitu lze jen nepřímo učinit objektem zkoumání, neboť jakýkoliv objektivizující přístup ji zahaluje. S tímto problémem souvisí další, že totiž to, k čemu se emoce primárně vztahují, nejsou žádné předměty, ale daleko spíše celková souvztažnost člověka a světa. Právě úkolu otevřít přístup k možnosti promýšlení emocionality mimo objektivizující rámce se ujali fi losofové. A to jednak z tázání inspirovaného fenomenologií a Heideggerovým myšlením (Anna Hogenová, Zuzana Svobodová, Pavlína Kuklová, Aleš Novák, David Rybák, Jaroslav Bednář), fenomenologií inspirovaným existencialismem (Valentina Kuznetsova), a též radikálně-kritického myšlení události Alaina Badiou (Michael Hauser). Druhý oddíl monografi e umožňuje čtenáři nahlédnout emocionalitu z různých perspektiv z oblasti psychologie a společenských věd. Zastoupeny jsou příspěvky z primární pedagogiky (Helena Hejlová), estetiky (Helena Kafková, Leo Vaniš), psychologie (Filip Hlavinka), antropologie (Tomáš Samek), historie (Jan Županič) i ekonomie a ekonomického rozhodování (Milena Tichá).

Wie autonom ist die Wissenschaft? Diese Studie vertritt die These, dass der Anspruch auf die Unabhängigkeit der Forschung selbst einen politischen Einsatz darstellt. Sie zeigt auf, dass sich die rein wissenschaftliche »Macht des Wortes« den »Worten der Macht« noch nie gänzlich entziehen konnte – sowohl in nationalstaatlichen Projekten der Moderne als auch in der heutigen EU. Orientiert an Theorien »des Politischen« sowie einer Bourdieuschen Soziologie wird ein faszinierender Einblick in die Verbindung von europäischer Vergesellschaftung und akademischem Kapitalismus gewährt und die Frage nach dem politischen Charakter des Drittmittelwettbewerbs gestellt.

Religiösen und weltanschaulichen Überzeugungen kommt im Falle von Lebenskrisen eine große Bedeutung zu. Dieser Band nimmt dabei individuelle Krisen in den Blick, die im Kontext der Gesundheitsversorgung - vor allem der Palliativmedizin - auftreten. Medizinische, psychologische, philosophische und theologische Fachleute bearbeiten das Thema gemeinsam - ein interdisziplinärer Austausch, der im Krankenhausalltag und in der Forschung oft zu kurz kommt. Sie fragen dabei nach dem Resilienzpotential von Religion und Spiritualität und den Kompetenzen des Fachpersonals, immer bezogen auf den ganzheitlichen Umgang mit gesundheitlichen Krisen und den existenziellen Fragen, die diese aufrufen können.

Empathie hat sich zu einem Leitbegriff in den Kognitions-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften entwickelt. Die Linguistik hat sie bisher nur unzureichend thematisiert, obwohl Sprache und sprachliche Interaktion in menschlicher Kommunikation und Verständigung das grundlegende Mittel und Medium für Empathie sind. Empathie wird in diesem Band als eine komplexe kommunikative Praktik konzeptualisiert, die somatische, emotive, kognitive, konative und volitive Resonanzen einschließt und so eine holistische Simulation im Sinne einer differenzierbaren komplexen „Einfühlung“ in die situativ-existentiellen Befindlichkeiten, Dispositionen und Lebensvollzüge und Bedürfnisse jeweiliger Interaktionspartnerinnen und -partner oder -objekte ermöglicht.Der Band enthält grundlegende Beiträge aus Philosophie, Ethnologie, Psychologie und Linguistik in den Wissensdomänen Mensch-Tier-Kommunikation, Recht, Politik, Bildung, Wirtschaft, Medizin, Literaturwissenschaft, Kunst, Interkulturalität, Wissenschaftskommunikation und Sprachreflexion und umreißt so den Rahmen für eine zukünftige Linguistik der Empathie.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren gehen in einer interdisziplinären Perspektive dem Verhältnis von Psychologie und Kritik nach. Dabei stellen sie den historischen Transformationsprozess der Psychologisierung in den Vordergrund, der in der Nachkriegszeit einsetzte. Dieser Wandel umfasst nicht nur die Popularisierung psychologischen Wissens und die Verbreitung psychotherapeutischer Praktiken in der Alltagswelt. Vielmehr markiert die Psychologisierung auch eine Ausweitung der Disziplin „Psychologie“, die mit einer Wende hin zur Dominanz quantitativer Modelle sowie einer Marginalisierung theoriezentrierter Ansätze einhergeht. Schon in ihrer Formationszeit wurden beide Psychologisierungsprozesse von lautstarker Kritik begleitet.

As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things – the'posthuman'has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism explores: - Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene - Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability - Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics - A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media.

Die Scham ist ein ganz wichtiges Gefühl. Sie regelt unseren Selbstwert und unser Sozialverhalten. Sie ist auch eine der unangenehmsten Emotionen, und wir können uns schwer von ihr befreien. In diesem Buch werden die vielfältigen Formen der Scham und der Schamabwehr erläutert und verständlich gemacht. Gezeigt wird auch, wie die Scham entsteht, von sehr früh an, und wie sie in unser Leben hineinwirkt, bis ins hohe Alter. Ein Schwerpunkt ist die pränatale Geschichte der Scham. Aktuelle und gesellschaftspolitische Einblicke vervollständigen das Bild dieses geheimnisvollen und vieldeutigen Gefühls. Viele Wege werden angeboten, wie wir uns aus den Fängen von krankmachenden und belastenden Formen der Scham befreien können. Wo die Scham wacht, achten wir auf die Würde unserer Mitmenschen. Wo die Scham weicht, tritt unsere eigene Würde in ihr Recht und bringt uns zurück zu unserer Kraft und Lebensfreude.

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating and watching The Office in particular?Whose mental models are involved in creating and watching The Office? How do these mental models relate to each other?How exactly do the creators of The Office and their audience engage in constructing, exchanging and coordinating mental models?How do mental models and their comic use relate to humour and humour theories and what is the nature of play in the deployment of mental models in comedy? The book is aimed at humour scholars from various backgrounds and at people interested in communication in general.

In dieser Open-Access-Publikation liefert Thomas Gehlert eine konsistente, auf aktuellen Experimenten und Theorien basierte, fundierte natur- und neurowissenschaftliche Theorie, die den zugrundeliegenden Prozess bei Intuition (Bauchgefühl) und System-Aufstellung beschreiben kann. Damit schließt er eine theoretische Lücke, die die breite Akzeptanz unzähliger experimenteller Ergebnisse in Entscheidungstheorie- und Intuitionsforschung verhinderte. Darauf aufbauend darf die System-Aufstellung als legitimierte Methode im Kontext von Unternehmensführung, strategischem Management und Entscheidungsfindung angesehen werden.

Weil Scham zumeist mit sozialer Schande oder narzisstischer Kränkung gleichgesetzt wird, genießt sie gemeinhin einen schlechten Ruf – doch zu Unrecht, wie Daniel Hell zeigt: Scham hat eine Warn- und Schutzfunktion, wenn unser Selbst gefährdet ist. Sie ist nicht die Ursache einer Selbstkrise, sondern deren Folge. Erst wenn uns das bewusst wird, erkennen wir, dass sich hinter dem Schamgefühl ein Verlust an Selbstachtung verbirgt. Daniel Hell geht der Bedeutung der Scham in der Kulturgeschichte und in der Entwicklung des einzelnen Menschen nach. Er charakterisiert verschiedene Formen des Schamgefühls in Abgrenzung zu Kränkungsreaktionen und zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus der Belletristik und seiner psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutischen Praxis konstruktive Umgangsweisen mit diesem schwierigen Gefühl. Dabei stellt Hell klar: Scham zu verdrängen, anstatt konstruktiv mit ihr umzugehen, erhöht die Gefahr von Narzissmus sowie von zwischenmenschlichen Kränkungen und fördert eine »Beschämungskultur«. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie wir dieser Gefahr erfolgreich und mit Gewinn entgegentreten können.

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.As we interact more and more with animated characters and avatars in everyday media consumption, it has become vital to investigate the ways that animated environments influence our perception of the liberal humanist subject. This book is the first to apply recent research on the application of the embodied mind thesis to our understanding of embodied engagement with nonhumans and cyborgs in animated media, analyzing works by Émile Cohl, Hayao Miyazaki, Tim Burton, Norman McLaren, the Quay Brothers, Pixar, and many others. Drawing on the breakthroughs of modern brain science to argue that animated media broadens the viewer's perceptual reach, this title offers a welcome contribution to the growing literature at the intersection of cognitive studies and film studies, with a perspective on animation that is new and original.‘Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation'will be essential reading for researchers of Animation Studies, Film and Media Theory, Posthumanism, Video Games, and Digital Culture, and will provide a key insight into animation for both undergraduate and graduate students. Because of the increasing importance of visual effect cinema and video games, the book will also be of keen interest within Film Studies and Media Studies, as well as to general readers interested in scholarship in animated media.

Obwohl schon seit 1920 Kinder und Jugendliche als psychiatrische Patienten in der Universitätsnervenklinik Marburg aufgenommen wurden, beginnt die Geschichte der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie der Philipps-Universität Marburg im Jahr 1946, als Werner Villinger nach Marburg berufen wurde und seinen Mitarbeiter Hermann Stutte mitbrachte, der später der erste Ordinarius für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in Deutschland werden sollte. Nicht unerwähnt lässt der Autor die lnvolvierung der beiden Gründungsväter Villinger und Stutte im Nationalsozialismus während ihrer Tübinger Zeit. Nach dem Krieg gelang es ihnen, wieder Kontakt zur europäischen und internationalen Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie aufzunehmen und die Entwicklung des jungen medizinischen Faches in diesem Kontext bedeutsam mitzugestalten. Die weitere Entwicklung der Marburger Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie zeichnet Remschmidt bis in das Jahr 2017 nach, insbesondere, was neue Initiativen in der Versorgung, der Psychotherapie, der Forschung, der Qualifikation von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern und der Pflege internationaler Beziehungen betrifft. Although children have been admitted as psychiatric patients to the Universitätsnervenklinik Marburg (University Hospital for Psychiatry Marburg) in 1920, the history of the child and adolescent psychiatry of the Philipps-Universität Marburg began in the year 1946, when Werner Villinger was appointed to Marburg and brought his fellow Hermann Stutte along, who later became the first professor ordinarius for child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany. The author also considers the fact that the two founders Villinger and Stutte were involved in the national socialism during their time in Tübingen. After the war they were able to re-establish contact with the European and international child and adolescent psychiatry and to influence the young medical subject significantly. Remschmidt describes the development of the child and adolescent psychiatry in Marburg until the year 2017, especially regarding new programmes in care, psychotherapy, research, qualification of young scientists and the maintenance of international relations.

As cognitive scientists continue to probe into the nature of the human mind, it is increasingly clear that research into cognition cannot be dissociated from the context in which our mental activity occurs. The papers collected in this book testify to the growing interest in adopting a broad characterisation of what counts as relevant context. The vices of seeking essences behind complex phenomena should not go unnoticed, the primary, and possibly the most crucial, downside of this approach being a reductionist treatment of the human mind. With this book, the authors want to show that humans are not merely brains, minds, speakers, learners, readers, etc., but, first and foremost, complex beings who communicate within and beyond the contexts of their own cultures.

Nachhaltigkeit ist aufs Engste mit Wissen verbunden – ob in der Umweltpolitik, in öffentlichen oder privaten Forschungseinrichtungen, in Unternehmen, bei politischen Entscheidungsträgern oder in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Die komplexen Aufgaben der Wissensintegration und des Wissenstransfers stehen im Zentrum dieses Bandes: Dabei geht es nicht nur um Wissensproduktion, sondern vor allem auch darum, dass das Wissen unterschiedlicher Träger zusammengeführt und verfügbar gemacht wird. 17 Autorinnen und Autoren diskutieren dazu die Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung und Beratung, stellen die Herausforderungen dar – und sie zeigen Lösungswege für die Praxis auf.

Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash examines how women opposed to the feminist campaign for the vote in early twentieth-century Britain, Ireland, and Australia used shame as a political tool. It demonstrates just how proficient women were in employing a diverse vocabulary of emotions – drawing on concepts like embarrassment, humiliation, honour, courage, and chivalry – in the attempt to achieve their political goals. It looks at how far nationalist contexts informed each gendered emotional community at a time when British imperial networks were under extreme duress. The book presents a unique history of gender and shame which demonstrates just how versatile and ever-present this social emotion was in the feminist politics of the British Empire in the early decades of the twentieth century. It employs a fascinating new thematic lens to histories of anti-feminist/feminist entanglements by tracing national and transnational uses of emotions by women to police their own political communities. It also challenges the common notion that shame had little place in a modernizing world by revealing how far groups of patriotic womanhood, globally, deployed shame to combat the effects of feminist activism.

New York magazine's'Science of Us'editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable?Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker?Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's'Science of Us'website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, cringiest corners of our world. She chats with strangers on the busy New York City subway, goes on awkward friend dates using a'Tinder-for-friendship'app, takes improv comedy lessons, and even reads aloud from her (highly embarrassing!) middle school diary to a crowd of strangers.After all of that, she realizes: Awkward moments are opportunities to test yourself. When everyone else is pretending to have it under control, you can be a little braver and grow a little bigger--while remaining true to your awkward self. And along the way, you might find that awkward moments unite us in our mutual human ridiculousness.

Obwohl schon seit 1920 Kinder und Jugendliche als psychiatrische Patienten in der Universitätsnervenklinik Marburg aufgenommen wurden, beginnt die Geschichte der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie der Philipps-Universität Marburg im Jahr 1946, als Werner Villinger nach Marburg berufen wurde und seinen Mitarbeiter Hermann Stutte mitbrachte, der später der erste Ordinarius für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in Deutschland werden sollte. Nicht unerwähnt lässt der Autor die lnvolvierung der beiden Gründungsväter Villinger und Stutte im Nationalsozialismus während ihrer Tübinger Zeit. Nach dem Krieg gelang es ihnen, wieder Kontakt zur europäischen und internationalen Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie aufzunehmen und die Entwicklung des jungen medizinischen Faches in diesem Kontext bedeutsam mitzugestalten. Die weitere Entwicklung der Marburger Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie zeichnet Remschmidt bis in das Jahr 2017 nach, insbesondere, was neue Initiativen in der Versorgung, der Psychotherapie, der Forschung, der Qualifikation von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern und der Pflege internationaler Beziehungen betrifft. Although children have been admitted as psychiatric patients to the Universitätsnervenklinik Marburg (University Hospital for Psychiatry Marburg) in 1920, the history of the child and adolescent psychiatry of the Philipps-Universität Marburg began in the year 1946, when Werner Villinger was appointed to Marburg and brought his fellow Hermann Stutte along, who later became the first professor ordinarius for child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany. The author also considers the fact that the two founders Villinger and Stutte were involved in the national socialism during their time in Tübingen. After the war they were able to re-establish contact with the European and international child and adolescent psychiatry and to influence the young medical subject significantly. Remschmidt describes the development of the child and adolescent psychiatry in Marburg until the year 2017, especially regarding new programmes in care, psychotherapy, research, qualification of young scientists and the maintenance of international relations.

Performance, dramaturgy and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during performance. Drawing on sociological theory, cognitive psychology and embodiment studies, Edinborough analyses our seemingly paradoxical understanding of theatrical reality, guided by the contexts shaping relationships between performer, spectator and performance space. Through a range of examples from theatre, dance, circus and film, Theatrical Reality examines how the liminal spaces of performance foster specific ways of conceptualising time, place and reality.

This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world's leading epistemologists and ethicists—located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia—to explore in a global context what they are calling,'the virtue turn.'The 15 chapters have never been published previously and by covering topics that bridge epistemology and moral philosophy suggest a widespread philosophical turn away from Kantian and Utilitarian issues and towards character- and agent-based concerns. A goal of this volume is to show students and researchers alike that the (re-)turn toward virtue underway in the Western tradition is being followed by a similar (re-)turn toward virtue in Chinese philosophy.