More than twenty years after Ernst Jünger's death in 1998, the controversial German writer's work continues to compel the attention of readers, critics, and scholars. In early 2019, Jünger's diaries, the Strahlungen, written while he was an officer in occupied Paris during World War II, were published in English to wide acclaim. These intimate accounts, of high literary and philosophical quality, reveal Jünger negotiating compliance with acts of subversion and resistance against the Nazi regime. His life is evidence that history can be both real and unrealistic at once, crystallising something essential about a twentieth century that witnessed the rise of total mobilisation, global war, and unprecedented technologies of mass extermination.This volume presents four new essays by established and emerging scholars on Jünger's work and legacy. Together, they provide biographical, philosophical, psychological, and aesthetic access-points to a major twentieth century German intellectual who, like few others, invites us to investigate the ambiguities, constraints, and imperatives of our own times.

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to interdisciplinarity, the authors outline a methodology for approaching translation history and intercultural mediation from three discrete, concurrent perspectives on trust and translation: the interpersonal, the institutional and the regime-enacted. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as historians working on mediation and cultural transfer.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their often radical engagements with the genre, the book scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers including Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Alfred Döblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen and psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. The results are important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity.

Pourquoi dit-on toujours " oui " au gens gentils ? Pourquoi surestime-t-on systématiquement nos compétences et nos savoirs ? Pourquoi préférons-nous avoir un plan de ville erroné plutôt que pas de plan du tout ?... Notre cerveau n'est pas infaillible, loin de là. D'ailleurs il nous conduit souvent, sans même que nous nous en rendions compte, à commettre des erreurs de jugement et à prendre de mauvaises décisions, que ce soit dans notre vie professionnelle ou personnelle.Avec juste ce qu'il faut d'humour, Rolf Dobelli nous apprend, en 52 textes courts et subtilement illustrés, à repérer et à déjouer les "biais cognitifs", ces pièges de la pensée dans lesquels nous sommes tous susceptibles de tomber un jour ou l'autre.

Ben shu shou ji le 52 ge zai ri chang sheng huo huo gong zuo zhong chu xian de si kao cuo wu, Bing zhu yi ti gong jie jue de liang fang, Rang ni ming bai zi shen de ruo dian, Yong gan di yu zi ji de fei li xing dui kang, Bu zai zhi kao zhi jue ding yi qie!

Unser Gehirn ist für ein Leben als Jäger und Sammler optimiert. Heute leben wir in einer radikal anderen Welt. Das führt zu systematischen Denkfehlern - die verheerend sein können für Ihr Geld, Ihre Karriere, Ihr Glück. Wer weiß, wie leicht man sich irren kann, ist besser gewappnet: Rolf Dobelli nimmt die tückischsten "Denkfallen" unter die Lupe, in die wir immer wieder tappen. Und so erfahren wir, - warum wir unser eigenes Wissen systematisch überschätzen (und andere für dümmer halten, als sie sind), - warum etwas nicht deshalb richtiger wird, weil Millionen von Menschen es für richtig halten, - warum wir Theorien nachhängen, selbst wenn sie nachweislich falsch sind.

Many of those who need and receive social-education offers have in fact mental disorders. For this reason it is important to keep the psychiatric perspectives in mind in order to provide optimal care.This handbook is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to the commonalities and differences in the theory, profession and practice of social education and psychiatry. The situations and social problems of people in all phases of life, from early childhood to old age, are presented here. The authors make the case for developing a common understanding of such cases, which would equally benefit both disciplines and professions. Applied models of multiprofessional cooperation are presented for selected syndromes and problem areas.

We live in an ageing society. This means not only that there are increasing numbers of people in need of care, but also that a strong increase in the numbers of visually impaired senior citizens can be expected in the coming years, as visual impairment is a phenomenon associated with ageing in Germany. Providing support for this group of people will become a major task. This textbook provides advice and guidance for recognizing and classifying visual impairments and acting accordingly. Impairment of visual perception acquired in old age has widely differing and individual effects in all areas of life. Authors from a variety of specialist disciplines offer insights here into this complex topic and indicate practical ways of providing targeted counselling and empowerment for visually impaired senior citizens.