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Luzifer-Amor, 2023
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2022
This essay critically engages with the view that governmentality defined the param- eters of psyc... more This essay critically engages with the view that governmentality defined the param- eters of psychotherapy in the late twentieth century. Even though different therapeutic schools embraced the values of autonomy, authenticity, and self-control, the meaning of these objectives varied, and gave rise to interpretations that were not confined to the goal of (“neoliberal”) self-optimization. While in some cases contemporaries asso- ciated psychotherapy with familiar (Enlightenment and middle-class) aims of sov- ereignty of reason and emotional restraint, in other instances they highlighted functionality and efficiency as desirable outcomes of therapy. The essay explores debates around personal self-actualization against the backdrop of psychoanalytic discourse in Germany between 1970 and 1990.
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Antisemitism Studies, 2022
This essay traces the recent critique of realistic conflict theory as it pertains to the study of... more This essay traces the recent critique of realistic conflict theory as it pertains to the study of antisemitism. In doing so, it will provide an overview of the arguments comprising the debate, outline the ways in which these arguments depend on specific psychological notions, and question whether the notions involved provide sufficient depth and detail to account for antisemitic behav- ior. The aim of this article is two-fold. First, it seeks to demonstrate that realis- tic conflict theory relies on psychological premises, in this case assumptions that approximate what social psychologists call social inference theory. Since realis- tic conflict theory relies so heavily on social inference, it is difficult to address “real conflict” without at the same time invoking long-term prejudice. Second, the article suggests that relative deprivation theory may contribute to the field of antisemitism studies by bridging the epistemological gap between “realistic conflict” and “psychological fantasy,” demonstrating how “objective” change occasions conflicting feelings of entitlement and equally conflicting percep- tions of social justice.
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The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2021
This article discusses recent work on German-Jewish agency between 1914 and 1938. To find out whe... more This article discusses recent work on German-Jewish agency between 1914 and 1938. To find out whether ‘agency’ might be a helpful category for examining the crises facing Central European Jewry in this period, the article addresses the subject from the perspectives of individual and collective agency, applying classifications that philosophers have employed to make sense of human conduct. As I hope to show, these delimitations are only a preliminary step in trying to determine the explanatory power of agency. Whether the latter can serve as a tool in future work on modern German-Jewish history depends on the suitability of more specific philosophies of agency. Here the work of Christine Korsgaard and especially Michael Bratman may prove helpful in reflecting both on the self-understanding of German Jews in the first decades of the twentieth century and on their ‘freedom of action’ once this self-understanding was called into question. There is reason to see planning structures—groun...
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The American journal of clinical hypnosis, 2017
The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onwar... more The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onward, demonstrating the variety of arguments advanced to account for the social relationship in the hypnotic setting well before the emergence of sociocognitive theory. Using Spanos's distinction between "happenings" and "doings," it shows how, in the case of the "social" in early 20th century German texts on (hypnotic) suggestion, the passive observer, recipient, or victim of hypnosis, a trope familiar to the discipline for many decades, was called into question. This image, however, was not called into question by scientists experimenting in laboratories. On the contrary, the neurologists, psychologists, and philosophers who proffered a new way of seeing suggestion, one that privileged the hypnotic as well as the reciprocity between hypnotist and hypnotic, were part of a wider movement within the social sciences (grounded in hermeneutics, phenomenology, a...
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Mente Y Cerebro, 2015
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies , 2022
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in Jennifer M. Kapczinski and Caroline A. Kita (eds), The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany (University of Michigan Press), 2022
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Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte / herausgegeben vom Institut für Deutsche Geschichte
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Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, 2021
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2021
This article discusses recent work on German-Jewish agency between 1914 and 1938. To find out whe... more This article discusses recent work on German-Jewish agency between 1914 and 1938. To find out whether 'agency' might be a helpful category for examining the crises facing Central European Jewry in this period, the article addresses the subject from the perspectives of individual and collective agency, applying classifications that philosophers have employed to make sense of human conduct. As I hope to show, these delimitations are only a preliminary step in trying to determine the explanatory power of agency. Whether the latter can serve as a tool in future work on modern German-Jewish history depends on the suitability of more specific philosophies of agency. Here the work of Christine Korsgaard and especially Michael Bratman may prove helpful in reflecting both on the self-understanding of German Jews in the first decades of the twentieth century and on their 'freedom of action' once this self-understanding was called into question. There is reason to see planning structures-grounded in the diachronic organization of our temporally extended selves-as basic to our individual and collective agency. Without 'planning agency', I will argue, 'agency' refers to mere action or choice. 'Human beings are condemned to choice and action', writes philosopher Christine Korsgaard. 1 And she continues: 'Maybe you think you can avoid it, by resolutely standing still, refusing to act, refusing to move. But it's no use, for that will be something you have chosen to do, and then you will have acted after all. Choosing not to act makes not acting a kind of action, makes it something that you do.' 2 'Agency', if we accept this account, is ubiquitous wherever and whenever entities 'act on each other and interact with each other'. 3 Insofar as German Jews in the first decades of the last century were entities like you and me, we might ask how the subject of 'German-Jewish agency' could be examined constructively.
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Page 1. DEMOCRATlZATlON AND THE JEWS MUN1CH, 1945-1965 ANTHONY D. KAUDERS Page 2. Page 3. Page 4.... more Page 1. DEMOCRATlZATlON AND THE JEWS MUN1CH, 1945-1965 ANTHONY D. KAUDERS Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. PUBL1SHED FOB THE V1DAL SAS5OON 1NTERNAT1ONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ANT1SEM1T1SM ...
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Gideon Reuveni and Diana Franklin (eds.), The Future of the German-Jewish Past: Memory and the Question of Antisemitism (Purdue University Press), 2021
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A B S T R A C T. The history of free will has yet to be written. With few exceptions, the literat... more A B S T R A C T. The history of free will has yet to be written. With few exceptions, the literature on the subject is dominated by legal and philosophical works, most of which recount the ideas of prominent thinkers or discuss hypothetical questions far removed from specific historical contexts. The following article seeks to redress the balance by tracing the debate on hypnosis in Germany from to . Examining responses to hypnosis is tantamount to recording common understandings of autonomy and heteronomy, self-control and mind control, free will and automaticity. More specifically, it is possible to identify distinct philosophical positions related to the question as to whether hypnosis could surmount free will or not. The article demonstrates that the discourse often centred on the perceived struggle, located within a particular 'personality', between an individual's 'character' or 'soul' and the infiltration by a foreign or hostile force. While one group (compatibilists) emphasized the resilience of the 'moral inhibitions', another group (determinists) doubted that these were sufficient to withstand hypnosis.
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The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onwar... more The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onward, demonstrating the variety of arguments advanced to account for the social relationship in the hypnotic setting well before the emergence of sociocognitive theory. Using Spanos’s distinction between “happenings” and “doings,” it shows how, in the case of the “social” in early twentieth-century German texts on (hypnotic) suggestion, the passive observer, recipient, or victim of hypnosis, a trope familiar to the discipline for many decades, was called into question. This image, however, was not called into question by scientists experimenting in laboratories. On the contrary, the neurologists, psychologists, and philosophers who proffered a new way of seeing suggestion, one that privileged the hypnotic as well as the reciprocity between hypnotist and hypnotic, were part of a wider movement within the social sciences (grounded in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and Gestalt theory) that distanced itself from “positivistic” methodologies and “scientistic” verities. The article, then, seeks to remind readers that the sociocognitive perspective does not define the sociopsychological study of hypnosis.
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