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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger as a Philosopher of Time. [PDF]

Ber Wiss, 2022
Abstract When Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger proposed the concept of epistemic things, he drew inspiration from the art historian George Kubler, who had considered the aesthetic object as resulting from problem‐solving processes in The Shape of Time (1962). Kubler also demonstrated that a sequence of objects could retrace the progress that led to a solution ...
Zimmermann MF.
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How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together. [PDF]

Addiction
Abstract Background and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half of the nineteenth century demonstrates the seriousness with which it was considered.
Smith I, Lock P.
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Global anaesthesia practice using inguinal hernia surgery as a tracer condition: a secondary analysis of an international prospective cohort study. [PDF]

Anaesthesia
Summary Introduction Restoration of surgical capacity is essential to post‐COVID‐19 recovery. This study explored the use and safety of anaesthesia options for inguinal hernia surgery, a common tracer condition, to describe current global practice and highlight opportunities to build the capacity of health systems.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries.
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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 335-352, October 2023., 2023
Abstract In this article we make a case for a synchronic and contextualizing perspective on the scaling of literary data, one which qualifies and expands the data points in terms of depth, or thickness, through the help of metadata on the social and historical conditions of the texts. Our case study is an investigation of the rise and impact of realism
Jens Bjerring‐Hansen, Matthew Wilkens
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“Human or machine?” performing androids, “Elektro‐Homos,” and the “Phroso” and “Moto Phoso” manias on the popular stage around 1900

The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 356-373, April 2023., 2023
Abstract “Human or Puppet?” A once popular, now forgotten performance routine explored this question on the popular stage. Concentrating on rare historical materials, this paper uncovers how “Human or Puppet?” performances looked like and how they built on and added to the early twentieth‐century cultural discourse, and trope, of the human machine ...
Anna‐Sophie Jürgens
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 337-358, September 2022., 2022
This article contributes to the body of research on fin‐de‐siècle Viennese and Austrian history, as well as the history of ideas and press history. It expands on the scholarship by focusing on one newspaper — the Catholic‐conservative Reichspost (affiliated with the Christian Social Party) — to analyse how it perpetuated the cult of personality ...
Chris O'Neill
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Every Sherlock needs a Dr. Watson: A theory of creativity catalysts in organizations

Journal of Organizational Behavior, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 840-857, June 2022., 2022
Summary This research investigates when certain coworkers can serve as “catalysts” to enhance the creative performance of others. We draw on social capital theory and the ability‐motivation framework to focus on the characteristics of potential catalysts and the facets of relationships between catalysts and creators.
Gamze Koseoglu, Christina E. Shalley, G. James Lemoine   +2 more
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How to Teach Manet's Olympia after Transgender Studies

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 342-369, April 2022., 2022
Addressed to art historians as both teachers and researchers, this essay reconsiders the well‐trodden case of Édouard Manet's Olympia (1863) to challenge the conventional assumptions about the nude as a sign for gender. Aligning itself with the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, the essay models one version of how art historians might ...
David J. Getsy
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SEARCH MOVEMENTS: LITERATURE AND POLITICS BETWEEN THE WARS AND A CASE STUDY OF ERNST TOLLER'S I WAS A GERMAN (1934)

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 190-202, April 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT The Weimar Republic opened up a new chapter for society within the borders of what was then called Germany. Ongoing financial difficulties due to the Treaty of Versailles overshadowed and stalled the development of the newly formed republic. But the democracy was not doomed to fail from the beginning. The search for orientation and perspective
Stefan Neuhaus
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Jürgen Habermas and the public intellectual in modern democratic life

Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper provides an overview of Jürgen Habermas's writings as a public intellectual and relates this work to recent debates about the proper relationship of theory to practice. In addition to being one of the most influential continental philosophers of the postwar era, Habermas is also the leading public intellectual of the Federal ...
Peter J. Verovšek
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