Alison Lewis

Joy Damousi

Birgit Lang

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their often radical engagements with the genre, the book scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers including Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Alfred Döblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen and psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. The results are important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity.

Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

A history of the case study

Elvira Berndt

Ich habe in der Jugendstrafanstalt Berlin junge Menschen getroffen, bei denen alles möglich ist. Ja, sie sind im Moment noch nicht richtig gut angekommen; irgendetwas haben sie falsch gemacht, dass sie da sind, wo ich sie getroffen habe. Aber es gibt Möglichkeiten, dass es noch gut wird. Ich habe andere Menschen getroffen, die hier verwurzelt sind und die den Jungen, die in der JSA gestrandet sind, eine hilfsbereite Hand hinhalten. Frauen und Männer von Gangway und der JSA-Berlin, die unermüdlich Ausschau halten nach Ertrinkenden, nach Möglichkeiten, einen Rettungsring auszuwerfen. Ob die dargebotene Hand genommen wird, ist jedes Mal ein Wunsch mit Fragezeichen. Viele sind orientierungslos. Sie haben zwar alles überlebt, sind aber aus irgendeinem Grund nicht richtig angekommen; ihre Erinnerungen gehen nur nach rückwärts in vergangenes Leben, zu Menschen, die sie geliebt haben und zurücklassen mussten. Für nach vorne haben sie oft noch keine Vorstellungen, sie brauchen jemanden, der ihnen einen Weg zeigt. "Ich hatte in der JSA das Gefühl, dass der Wille da ist, egal woher diese jungen Männer kommen, dass sie endlich ankommen wollen. Diese Anstalt ist für sie eine Zwischenstation. Und ich hatte den Eindruck, dass auch die Menschen von der helfenden Seite diesen Willen stärken wollen, wecken kann man ihn wohl nicht. Ein Funke muss bereits vorhanden sein; wenn jemand sich selbst aufgegeben hat, scheint es aussichtslos." (Root Leeb) Dieses Buch handelt von einem außergewöhnlichen Projekt. Es beschreibt seine Ansätze, seine Methoden und lässt die Jugendlichen vor allem mit eigenen Texten selbst zu Wort kommen.

Herkunft-Ankunft-Hinter Gittern-Zukunft?

ZwischenWelten

Anthony Pym

Andrea Rizzi

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to interdisciplinarity, the authors outline a methodology for approaching translation history and intercultural mediation from three discrete, concurrent perspectives on trust and translation: the interpersonal, the institutional and the regime-enacted. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as historians working on mediation and cultural transfer.

A Trust-Based Approach

What is Translation History?

Justin Clemens

Nicolas Hausdorf

Marilyn Stendera

Giles Fielke

More than twenty years after Ernst Jünger's death in 1998, the controversial German writer's work continues to compel the attention of readers, critics, and scholars. In early 2019, Jünger's diaries, the Strahlungen, written while he was an officer in occupied Paris during World War II, were published in English to wide acclaim. These intimate accounts, of high literary and philosophical quality, reveal Jünger negotiating compliance with acts of subversion and resistance against the Nazi regime. His life is evidence that history can be both real and unrealistic at once, crystallising something essential about a twentieth century that witnessed the rise of total mobilisation, global war, and unprecedented technologies of mass extermination.This volume presents four new essays by established and emerging scholars on Jünger's work and legacy. Together, they provide biographical, philosophical, psychological, and aesthetic access-points to a major twentieth century German intellectual who, like few others, invites us to investigate the ambiguities, constraints, and imperatives of our own times.

Philosophy under Occupation

Ernst Jünger

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their often radical engagements with the genre, the book scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers including Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Alfred Döblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen and psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. The results are important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity.

Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature

A History of the Case Study

Katie Sutton

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such, this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation, transnational exchange and influence, exploring the effects of forces such as war, migration, and internationalization. Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genre’s dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary, temporal, and national boundaries. In doing so, they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities.

Birgit Lang

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