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Kunst am Ende des Realsozialismus: Entwichlungen in den 1980er Jahren. Ed. Doris Boden and Uta Schorlemmer. Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik, no. 81. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2008. 346 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. €34.80, paper
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 209-211
ISSN: 2325-7784
TheCloserProject: Inviting Touch with Fashionable Technology
In: The senses & society, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 239-245
ISSN: 1745-8927
The art of ventroloquism: Feminism and the divided self in the works of Irmtraud Morgner
In: Australian Feminist Studies, Band 10, Heft 22, S. 31-58
ISSN: 1465-3303
The Twilight of the Public Intellectual: Germany
In: Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Band 1, Heft 2
ISSN: 1449-2490
This essay focuses on the questions of whether German unification resulted in a wholesale retreat of intellectuals from politics and engagement with social issues, as the rhetoric of failure would indicate, or whether the key debates of the period can be read instead as a sign that Germany is on the road to becoming a more 'normal' European nation. Before returning to these issuesat the end of this paper I first provide a broad historical and theoretical context for my discussion of the role of the concerned intellectual in Germany, before offering an overview of the respective functions of literary intellectuals in both German states in the post-war period. I then address a series of key debates and discussions in 1989 and the early nineteen-nineties that were responsible for changing the forms of engagement in intellectual debates in post-unification German society. I argue that the 1990s and early years of the new millennium hastened the disappearance of the writer as a universal intellectual and focused attention on the writer as an individualist and a professional. Today's youngest generation of writer in Germany is a specialist intellectual who intervenes in political and social matters from time to time but who is not expected to take a moral-ethical stance on most issues of national and international concern. S/he is one who frequently writes about personal subjects, but may also occasionally, as witnessed after September 11, turn his or her pen to topics of global concern as in terrorism and Islam. More often than not, however, writers now leave the work of commenting on political affairs to writers of the older guard and to other 'senior' specialist intellectuals.
The Twilight of the Public Intellectual: Germany
This essay focuses on the questions of whether German unification resulted in a wholesale retreat of intellectuals from politics and engagement with social issues, as the rhetoric of failure would indicate, or whether the key debates of the period can be read instead as a sign that Germany is on the road to becoming a more 'normal' European nation. Before returning to these issuesat the end of this paper I first provide a broad historical and theoretical context for my discussion of the role of the concerned intellectual in Germany, before offering an overview of the respective functions of literary intellectuals in both German states in the post-war period. I then address a series of key debates and discussions in 1989 and the early nineteen-nineties that were responsible for changing the forms of engagement in intellectual debates in post-unification German society. I argue that the 1990s and early years of the new millennium hastened the disappearance of the writer as a universal intellectual and focused attention on the writer as an individualist and a professional. Today's youngest generation of writer in Germany is a specialist intellectual who intervenes in political and social matters from time to time but who is not expected to take a moral-ethical stance on most issues of national and international concern. S/he is one who frequently writes about personal subjects, but may also occasionally, as witnessed after September 11, turn his or her pen to topics of global concern as in terrorism and Islam. More often than not, however, writers now leave the work of commenting on political affairs to writers of the older guard and to other 'senior' specialist intellectuals.
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The Twilight of the Public Intellectual: Germany's Literary Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War
In: PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 1-34
The Twilight of the Public Intellectual: Germany's Literary Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War
In: PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 1-34
Subnational Movements in South Asia
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 486-488
ISSN: 1354-5078
Developmental changes in children's understanding of the similarity between photographs and their referents
In: Developmental science, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 156-170
ISSN: 1467-7687
Abstract In a series of three experiments, we investigated the development of children's understanding of the similarities between photographs and their referents. Based on prior work on the development of analogical understanding (e.g. Gentner & Rattermann, 1991), we suggest that the appreciation of this relation involves multiple levels. Photographs are similar to their referents both in terms of the constituent objects and in terms of the relations among these objects. We predicted that children would appreciate object similarity (whether photographs depict the same objects as in the referent scene) before they would appreciate relational similarity (whether photographs depict the objects in the same spatial positions as in the referent scene). To test this hypothesis, we presented 3‐, 4‐, 5‐, 6‐, and 7‐year‐old children and adults with several candidate photographs of an arrangement of objects. Participants were asked to choose which of the photographs was 'the same' as the arrangement. We manipulated the types of information the photographs preserved about the referent objects. One set of photographs did not preserve the object properties of the scene. Another set of photographs preserved the object properties of the scene, but not the relational similarity, such that the original objects were depicted but occupied different spatial positions in the arrangement. As predicted, younger children based their choices of the photographs largely on object similarity, whereas older children and adults also took relational similarity into account. Results are discussed in terms of the development of children's appreciation of different levels of similarity.