Mitchell G. Ash
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691135106
- eISBN:
- 9781400846788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691135106.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter describes the indeterminate place of professional psychology between the natural sciences and the humanities in the epoch, and the manner in which members of the discipline, especially ...
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This chapter describes the indeterminate place of professional psychology between the natural sciences and the humanities in the epoch, and the manner in which members of the discipline, especially the Gestalt theorists of the “Berlin School,” revealed a preoccupation with “holism” and the “immediately given” characteristic of other fields of thought in the contemporary moment of crisis. The discussion focuses on three topics: (1) definitions and institutional locations of Weimar-era psychology; (2) natural scientific and humanistic approaches to psychology in Weimar-era crisis talk; (3) trained intuition, psychological practice, and the cultural grounding of expertise. Unifying the discussions in parts two and three is the centrality of holistic thought—and the effort to establish alternative forms of scientific objectivity and expert practice compatible with holism.Less
This chapter describes the indeterminate place of professional psychology between the natural sciences and the humanities in the epoch, and the manner in which members of the discipline, especially the Gestalt theorists of the “Berlin School,” revealed a preoccupation with “holism” and the “immediately given” characteristic of other fields of thought in the contemporary moment of crisis. The discussion focuses on three topics: (1) definitions and institutional locations of Weimar-era psychology; (2) natural scientific and humanistic approaches to psychology in Weimar-era crisis talk; (3) trained intuition, psychological practice, and the cultural grounding of expertise. Unifying the discussions in parts two and three is the centrality of holistic thought—and the effort to establish alternative forms of scientific objectivity and expert practice compatible with holism.
Jaimey Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037986
- eISBN:
- 9780252095238
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037986.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of ...
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In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking. His combination of critical celebration and popular success underscores Petzold's singular cinematic achievement: the deliberate and shrewd negotiation of art cinema and popular Hollywood genre. This book frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. The book explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. The volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work.Less
In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany. The best-known and most influential member of the Berlin School, Petzold's career reflects the trajectory of German film from 1970s New German Cinema to more popular fare in the 1990s and back again to critically engaged and politically committed filmmaking. His combination of critical celebration and popular success underscores Petzold's singular cinematic achievement: the deliberate and shrewd negotiation of art cinema and popular Hollywood genre. This book frames Petzold's cinema at the intersection of international art cinema and sophisticated genre cinema. This approach places his work in the context of global cinema and invites comparisons to the work of directors like Pedro Almodovar and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who repeatedly deploy and reconfigure genre cinema to their own ends. These generic aspects constitute a cosmopolitan gesture in Petzold's work as he interprets and elaborates on cult genre films and popular genres, including horror, film noir, and melodrama. The book explores these popular genres while injecting them with themes like terrorism, globalization, and immigration, central issues for European art cinema. The volume also includes an extended original interview with the director about his work.
