Social Sciences & Psychology

'Lesen Sie bitte dieses Buch, es ist hinreißend. Ich habe so viel Neues erfahren, über die Liebe, die Kunst und das Grauen.' Ferdinand von Schirach'Absolut mitreißend: Auf jeder Seite gibt es etwas Neues zu entdecken.' Daily TelegraphIn einem virtuosen Epochengemälde erweckt Florian Illies die dreißiger Jahre, dieses Jahrzehnt berstender politischer und kultureller Spannungen, zum Leben.Als Jean-Paul Sartre mit Simone de Beauvoir im Kranzler-Eck in Berlin Käsekuchen isst, Henry Miller und Anaïs Nin wilde Nächte in Paris und 'Stille Tage in Clichy' erleben, F. Scott Fitzgerald und Ernest Hemingway sich in New York in leidenschaftliche Affären stürzen, fliehen Bertolt Brecht und Helene Weigel wie Katia und Thomas Mann ins Exil. Genau das ist die Zeit, in der die Nationalsozialisten die Macht in Deutschland ergreifen, Bücher verbrennen und die Gewalt gegen Juden beginnt.1933 enden die 'Goldenen Zwanziger' mit einer Vollbremsung. Florian Illies führt uns zurück in die Epoche einer singulären politischen Katastrophe, um von den größten Liebespaaren der Kulturgeschichte zu erzählen: In Berlin, Paris, im Tessin und an der Riviera stemmen sich die großen Helden der Zeit gegen den drohenden Untergang. Eine mitreißend erzählte Reise in die Vergangenheit, die sich wie ein Kommentar zu unserer verunsicherten Gegenwart liest: Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses.'Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte in Zweier- und Dreierbeziehungen. Indiskret, schonungslos und aufregend. Desillusionierend und anrührend zugleich. Ein Bravourstück.' Harald Jähner

Do you want to read the Second Treatise of Government? If so then keep reading… At the time these treatises were written, English politics had undergone decades of upheaval in the wake of the English Civil War. When Dutch monarch William of Orange ascended to the English throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, burning questions over the best form of governance for England were prominent in the intelligentsia of the era. It was a time when England grappled with its incremental transition from monarchy to early forms of democracy and right to vote, where dynastic monarchy and religious theory still held considerable power over the formation of the state. What are you waiting for Second Treatise of Government is one click away, select the "Buy Now" button in the top right corner NOW!

Bourke Street, My View from Here follows the untold story of street community member Tony Brooks through a life journey that tells the personal truth of an ordinary life landed in extraordinary circumstances - and the perplexing personal choices that followed, and their dire consequences. Jen converses with the man people call 'The Mentor of Bourke Street' about tattoos, his past - drugs, gaol, family, release - and contemporary street life and its complex community. It is a tale of challenge, change and acceptance. Tony talks - about it all.The reader is offered an analysis of another culture on our city streets, set in Melbourne . This could be any major town or city, anywhere in the world. Despite his struggles, Tony remains an uplifting charmer on Bourke Street to hundreds who know him, and a friendly stranger with a ready smile to those who don't.

Feminismus 1848 - 1919: Die frühe Frauenbewegung und ihre ErfolgeJanuar 1919: Erstmals dürfen Frauen im Deutschen Reich wählen. Dieser historische Moment war kein Geschenk, sondern das Ergebnis eines über siebzigjährigen Kampfes um politische Rechte und Freiheiten. Die Historikerin Bianca Walther ("Frauen von damals") lässt die Pionierinnen der ersten deutschen Frauenbewegunglebendig werden - von den Revolutionärinnen von 1848 bis zu Marie Juchacz' erster Rede vor der Nationalversammlung im Jahr 1919. Entlang der Lebenswege und Netzwerke von Helene Lange, Minna Cauer, Alice Salomon, Clara Zetkin und vieler weiterer Aktivistinnen zeichnet sie ein facettenreiches Bild einer Bewegung, die sich trotz massiver Widerstände Gehör verschaffte, Bündnisseschmiedete und leidenschaftlich debattierte - auch miteinander. Ein mitreißendes Porträt einer Bewegung und eine Inspiration für einen Kampf, der noch lange nicht vorbei ist.

An urgent rethinking of the Western approach to mental health, which treats the symptoms rather than the exploitative systems causing our distress—by a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical School physician-anthropologist—offering lessons from the rest of the world.<BR><BR>What if the mainstay of mental health care involved cancelling onerous debt, giving poor people free housing, and paying reparations to the descendants of slavery and colonialism? In Empire of Madness, Dr. Khameer Kidia re-evaluates the Western approach to mental health, which medicates symptoms instead of changing the structures that harm the human psyche. A physician and researcher whose own family suffers from the psychological effects of colonialism, Kidia highlights the limitations of the Western mental health model by reporting from the front lines of mental health crises at home, in the clinic, and during a decade of fieldwork.<BR><BR>Clear-eyed and openhearted, Kidia asks the nuanced questions unaddressed by our current mental health model: How do history, culture, and politics shape mental distress? Are hoarding and burnout medical diagnoses or social problems? Why are schizophrenia outcomes sometimes better in poor countries without antipsychotics? Can a traditional healer treat mental illness better than a Western-trained clinician? For those living in poverty, can cash replace pills?<BR><BR>With rigorous research, cutting analysis, and illuminating prose, Kidia invites us to reimagine mental health as a global idea where our wellbeing is mutual and everyone’s voice—patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers alike—matters.

Zurecht gehört die Kurzprosa Walter Benjamins zum Kanon der Klassischen Moderne. Seine berühmten Denkbilder, die vordergründig meist Unscheinbares und Alltägliches in den Blick nehmen, zielen immer auf ein tieferes Verständnis der Zeitläufte und beschwören dabei die Ängste wie Hoffnungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts herauf. Benjamins biografisches Werk 'Berliner Kindheit um 1900' spiegelt anhand von einzelnen bruchstückhaften Erinnerungen meisterhaft die unwissende Sicht des Kindes auf eine unüberschaubare, sich langsam öffnende Welt. - 'Über Walter Benjamin ist wahnsinnig viel geschrieben worden, über seine Ideen und Theorien vor allem. Unter seinen Werken gibt es eins, das besonders gut zugänglich und einfach sehr, sehr schön ist: sein Buch ¿Berliner Kindheit um 1900¿' Deutschlandfunk- Ausgehend von Orten und Gegenständen verwebt Benjamin persönliche Erinnerung und philosophische Reflexion zu einem faszinierenden Panoramabild- Vom Tiergarten bis zum Telefon in der elterlichen Wohnung in der Kurfürstenstraße 154, von der Siegessäule bis zur Sorge, zu spät zur Schule zu kommen

Wie ist es, seit fünfzig Jahren mit einem Pfeifton im Ohr zu leben? Und: Woher kommt er überhaupt? Wie kann eine Einladung zum 'Literarischen Quartett' zu einer Knieverletzung führen? Wie bricht man sich beim Meditieren einen Knochen?Axel Hacke weiß es und erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte und Geschichten seines eigenen Körpers, vom Standpunkt eines Mannes in der zweiten Hälfte der Sechziger aus gesehen: Es geht um die Gebrechen, aber auch um die Triumphe des Körpers und um das große, nie nachlassende Staunen über das Funktionieren desselben. Axel Hacke sucht nach Antworten auf einige alte Fragen - Habe ich einen Körper oder bin ich mein Körper? Und wem gehört dieser eigentlich? Dem, der drin wohnt? - und gewährt Einblicke in das Banale und das Geheimnisvolle, das Rührende und das Großartige, das Lustige und das Fürchterliche, das Schöne und das Abstoßende seines eigenen und letztlich unser aller Körper.

Beyond Good and Evil: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author.[1][2]Acco is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author.[1][2]According to translator Walter Kaufman, the title refers to the need for moral philosophy to go beyond simplistic black and white moralizing, as contained in statements such as "X is good" or "X is evil".[1] At the beginning of the book (§ 2), Nietzsche attacks the very idea of using strictly opposite terms such as "Good versus Evil".[1]In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI am not a man, I am dynamiteWeeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life's work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including 'Why I Am So Wise' and 'Why I Write Such Good Books', it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, strange examples of the genre ever written.

Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the anonymous ingathering of city dwellers.

We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?<BR><BR>'Luminous' TLS<BR>'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader<BR>'I feel renewed and accompanied by Singh's tender self-explorations and insights' Amy Key<BR><BR>The celebrated psychoanalyst Marion Milner lived for the entirety of the twentieth century. By the age of ninety-eight she had written nine books revealing how free time and creativity are vital for a fulfilled life.Akshi Singh was born ninety years after Milner, in Rajasthan, over four thousand miles away from where Milner lived and worked. At first glance, the worlds of these two women seem entirely separate. Yet when Singh found herself standing at a crossroads in her life and grieving personal loss, she realised the questions and preoccupations Milner was exploring were her own.<BR><BR>In Defence of Leisure presents Marion Milner as a writer for our times. In asking the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? Milner developed a method for discovering her true likes and dislikes. As Singh follows Milner's approach - from keeping a diary to painting, building a home to travelling to the sea - she discovers the importance of rest, creativity and play in all of our lives, and how it can open the door to achieving what we truly desire.<BR><BR>'An exquisite, open-hearted celebration of desire, friendship and lives imaginatively lived' Marianne Brooker<BR><BR>'Astounding, generous, and quietly exhilarating' Daisy LaFarge<BR><BR>'Singh's verve and intelligence radiate from every page' Hannah Zeavin

This book will leave the reader not just smarter - but wiser. -- Professor Erik Angner, Stockholm University, author of How Economics Can Save the World<BR><BR>We live in the economy - and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. Avoiding climate catastrophe means changing economies so that they don't bake the world.<BR><BR>In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how the greatest economic thinkers - Karl Marx, Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek, among many others - have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better.<BR><BR>It shows that economic thinking emerged, long before there were economists - and that good economics is about much more than the economy, so everyone should understand these vital ideas.<BR><BR>Entertaining and educational, you'll soon be rethinking what you know about economics, especially when the book shows how women found a place in the development of ideas even when discrimination denied them any formal role.

'Die Psychoanalyse ist die Fortsetzung der Guerilla mit anderen Mitteln' Goldy Parin-Matthèy1911 in Graz geboren, früh in antifaschistischen (Künstler-)Kreisen aktiv, war sie emotionaler Mittelpunkt ihrer 'Brüdergemeinde', einer linken Horde, selbstverantwortlich und nie hierarchisch. Diese fand für sie ihre Fortsetzung im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg und bei den jugoslawischen Partisanen. Aber auch in den späteren Forschungsreisen mit Paul Parin sowie Fritz und Ruth Morgenthaler nach Westafrika und in ihrer späteren Tätigkeit als Psychoanalytikerin spiegelte sich ihre Haltung wider.Mit Paul Parin und Fritz Morgenthaler eröffnete sie 1952 eine bis heute legendäre psychoanalytische Praxis am Zürcher Utoquai. Die Forschungsergebnisse der Gruppe begründeten die Ethnopsychoanalyse im deutschsprachigen Raum. Das Buch umfasst neben 12 Texten von Goldy Parin-Matthèy vier Beiträge zu ihrer Biografie (Franz Josef Schober, Ute Sonnleitner, Günter Eisenhut, Clara Schliessler).

Ein packendes Lebens- und Epochenporträt zum 50. TodestagHannah Arendt hat die ganze Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts am eigenen Leib erlebt. Als Tochter aus einem großbürgerlichen Haus wächst sie in der Kant-Stadt Königsberg auf, studiert an der Universität Marburg, jenem Ort, an dem sich die geistige Produktivität der zwanziger Jahre auf einzigartige Weise verdichtet, und verliebt sich dort in den charismatischen Philosophen Martin Heidegger. Hitlers Machtergreifung treibt sie ins Exil, sie wird in Frankreich interniert, entkommt nach New York, wo sie wieder ganz von vorn anfängt. Sie entwickelt sich zu einer politischen Theoretikerin, die englisch schreibt, weiter deutsch denkt und sich dabei immer als Jüdin versteht. Mit ihrem Bericht vom Eichmann-Prozess erregt sie weltweit Aufsehen.Anschaulich und packend erzählt Willi Winkler das Leben Hannah Arendts als die Geschichte einer Frau voller Widersprüche, einer Frau, die sich nach Verfolgung und Vertreibung in Amerika eine neue Identität aufbaut, mit ihrem messerscharfen Verstand alle Männer ihrer Umgebung überstrahlt, dabei aber immer das 'Mädchen aus der Fremde' bleibt, als das sie sich selbst bezeichnet. - Die faszinierende Biographie einer der populärsten intellektuellen Ikonen und brillanten Beobachterin ihrer Zeit.

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology<BR>  <BR> Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studies of variations across societies were aimed at demonstrating that cultures and peoples were not shaped by biological predispositions. This book traces Boas’s life and intellectual passions from his roots in Germany and his move to the United States in 1884, partly in response to growing antisemitism in Germany, to his work with First Nations communities and his influential role as a teacher, mentor, and engaged activist who inspired an entire generation.<BR>  <BR> Drawing from Boas’s numerous but rarely read writings, Noga Arikha brings to life the man and the ideas he developed about the complex interplay of mind and culture, biology and history, language and myth. She provides a comprehensive picture of the cultural contexts in which he worked, of his personal and professional relationships, and of his revolutionary approach to fieldwork. He was celebrated in his lifetime for the cultural relativism he developed and the arguments he marshaled against entrenched racialism. But his was a constant battle, and Arikha shows how urgently relevant his voice and legacy have become again today.

Shortlist, Cundill History Prize<BR><BR>"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson." -Wall Street Journal<BR><BR>"A vivid shaggy-dog story about a curio that illuminates the possibilities (and perils) of studying the psychological soundness of presidents-a discipline as relevant as ever." -The Atlantic<BR><BR>"Excellent...Nearly a century since Wilson's death, Weil's monograph is the first to offer a comprehensive historical account of Bullitt's career-long engagement with Wilson." -American Literary History<BR><BR>When the fate of millions rests on the decisions of a mentally compromised leader, what can one person do? Alarmed by President Woodrow Wilson's irrational handling of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a US diplomat named William C. Bullitt asked this very question. With the help of his friend Sigmund Freud-and the cooperation of interviewees in Wilson's inner circle-Bullitt set out to write a psychological biography of a troubled president. In¿The Madman in the White House, Patrick Weil resurrects this forgotten portrait.<BR><BR>The manuscript was completed in 1932, but the book was not published until 1966, in a heavily redacted edition. By that time, the mystique of psychoanalysis had waned and Wilson's legacy was unassailable. Critics panned the book, and Freud's descendants denied his involvement. But in 2014, Weil discovered the original manuscript, which leaves no doubt as to Freud's role-or the significance of Bullitt and Freud's analysis. Reassessing the notorious psychobiography, Weil finds a powerful warning about the influence a single unbalanced personality can have on the course of history.

Der Psychoanalytiker Harald Schultz-Hencke (1892-1953) schuf - neben S. Freud, C. G. Jung und A. Adler - eine vierte Neurosenlehre, die er in ihren wesentlichen Inhalten in der Monografie "Schicksal und Neurose" (1931) veröffentlichte und dann bis zu seinem Tod fortentwickelte. Schultz-Hencke verblieb während der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur in Deutschland, wurde hier zum wohl prominentesten Vertreter der Psychoanalyse. Unter Psychoanalytikern hat sich in den vergangenen 40 Jahren ein Bild etabliert, wonach Schultz-Hencke nationalsozialistische Werte vertreten und insofern die Psychoanalyse verraten habe. Der Autor Steffen Theilemann hat diese These erstmals umfassend untersucht. Sein Buch stellt klar: Schultz-Hencke war weder ein Nationalsozialist noch ein Opportunist. Er war ein Gegner des Nationalsozialismus.

The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotations<BR><BR>C. G. Jung (1875–1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion, and terms such as complex, archetype, individuation, and the collective unconscious. He stressed the primacy of finding meaning in our lives.<BR><BR>The Quotable Jung is the single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled. It is the essential introduction for anyone new to Jung and the Jungian tradition. It will also inspire those familiar with Jung to view him in an entirely new way. The Quotable Jung presents hundreds of the most representative selections from the vast array of Jung's books, essays, correspondence, lectures, seminars, and interviews, as well as the celebrated Red Book, in which Jung describes his own fearsome confrontation with the unconscious. Organized thematically, this collection covers such topics as the psyche, the symbolic life, dreams, the analytic process, good and evil, creativity, alchemical transformation, death and rebirth, the problem of the opposites, and more. The quotations are arranged so that the reader can follow the thread of Jung’s thought on these topics while gaining an invaluable perspective on his writings as a whole.<BR><BR>Succinct and accessible, The Quotable Jung also features a preface by Judith Harris and a detailed chronology of Jung’s life and work.<BR>- The single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled- Features hundreds of quotes- Covers such topics as the psyche, dreams, good and evil, death and rebirth, and more- Includes a detailed chronology of Jung’s life and work- Serves as the ideal introduction to Jung and the Jungian tradition

'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver Sacks<BR><BR>An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its creator.<BR><BR>Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic depression (bipolar disorder), but she has also experienced its terrors and cruel allure first-hand. While pursuing her career in medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic lows that afflicted many of her patients. From her jubilant childhood to the disquiet that has dominated her adult life, she charts a journey through her own mind, and those of others.<BR><BR>'Invaluable' - New York Times Book Review<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.