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German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 341-364, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella Der arme Spielmann.
Werner Michler
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Célébrer Cesare Lombroso (1906-1909)
Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2020 This article reconstructs the commemorations organised in 1906 for the thirty years of Cesare Lombroso's teachings in Turin, and for his funeral three years later.
Silvano Montaldo
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DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 394-409, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche to notions of genius in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the one hand, it considers the influence of idealised representations of Nietzsche (for example, in Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn) as a genius marked by loneliness, illness, and finally madness.
Sebastian Kaufmann
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Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 123-145, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Fernando Ortiz's proposal to replace the word acculturation with transculturation in Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (1940) has become an iconic statement affirming the distinctiveness of Latin American anthropology. This narrative includes a deeper thread that involves Bronisław Malinowski, who praised the neologism for its ...
Miguel Arnedo‐Gómez
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Sociology Compass, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic systems have been criticized for perpetuating bias, unjust discrimination, and contributing to inequality. Artificial intelligence researchers have remained largely oblivious to existing scholarship on social inequality, but a growing number of sociologists are now addressing the social ...
Mike Zajko
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Epilepsy, violence, and crime. A historical analysis
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 42-58, Winter 2022., 2022 Abstract In the 19th and early 20th century, epilepsy was one of the most investigated disorders in forensic psychiatry and psychology. The possible subsidiary symptoms of epilepsy (such as temporal confusion, alterations of consciousness, or increased aggression) played pivotal roles in early forensic and criminal psychological theories that aimed to ...
Júlia Gyimesi
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Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2021 El presente artículo rebate el enfoque aceptado por la crítica para definir la figura de Ricardo, protagonista de Crimen legal (1886) de Alejandro Sawa.
Daniel Docampo Jorge
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Theorising from the European South: Italy, Racial Evaporations, and the Black Mediterranean
, 2023 Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 77-89, December 2023.
Gabriele Lazzari
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Eugenics and the afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the spritualist purification of the race [PDF]
, 2007 No abstract ...
Ferguson, C.
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O arquivo e a prisão: a premissa de inferioridade dos indivíduos incômodos (Brasil, 1930 - ao tempo presente) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de História, 2023 RESUMO O cruzamento de teorias positivistas e eugênicas, marcadas pela definição biologizante de Cesare Lombroso, instituíram a premissa da inferioridade de grupos e dissidentes incômodos no século XIX e início do XX.
Viviane Borges
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