Thomas Fuchs

Ein Mann mit Stil

Hemingway

111 Orte in Amsterdam, die man gesehen haben muss

Bianka Minte-König

Jungs & andere Katastrophen

Übersichtlich im Westen des Vaterlandes angeordnet, ohne Extreme in Höhe oder Niederungen und weitgehend entspannt – das Bild der Niederlande scheint klar und vertraut. Doch wussten Sie, dass nicht wenige Holländer vogelen zu ihrem Lieblingshobby zählen? Kennen Sie die wahre Geschichte von Frau Antje? Wissen Sie, was niederländische Fußballreporter vorteilhaft von ihren hiesigen Kollegen unterscheidet? Sind Sie gewappnet für die ganze erschütternde Wahrheit über Tulpen? Haben Sie eine Vorstellung davon, wie Holländer im – nun ja – Längenvergleich abschneiden? Und können Sie ertragen, was unsere Nachbarn wirklich über uns denken? In 55 erhellenden und erheiternden Kapiteln wird Thomas Fuchs Sie gründlich über alles aufklären, was man auf den ersten Blick oft übersieht. Ein humorvolles Porträt des großartigen kleinen Lands in aktualisierter und komplett überarbeiteter Neuausgabe

55 erhellende Einblicke in ein großartig(es) kleines Land

Was Sie dachten, NIEMALS über die NIEDERLANDE wissen zu wollen

Raoul Biltgen

Iny Lorentz

Petra Busch

Jürgen Seibold

Arno Strobel

Monika Bittl

Regine Kölpin

Nicola Förg

Sabine Trinkaus

Rudi Jagusch

Judith Merchant

Thomas Kastura

Wolfgang Burger

Tom Zai

Ivonne Keller

Eva Almstädt

Franz Zeller

Stefan Haenni

Gisa Pauly

Gert Anhalt

Bodo Manstein

Mario Ulbrich

Hilde Artmeier

Jean Bagnol

24 Weihnachtskrimis von der Ostsee bis zu den Alpen

Makronen, Mistel, Meuchelmord

LA MIGLIORE BIOGRAFIA DELL’ATTORE PIÙ ECLETTICO DI HOLLYWOOD Chi si nasconde in realtà dietro l’eccentrico capitano Jack Sparrow, il timido Edward mani di forbice, lo spaventoso Sweeney Todd?L’immagine di Johnny Depp presenta numerose sfaccettature: non è solo l’idolo delle teenager e il divo di fama internazionale, ma anche un artista ribelle, un musicista appassionato e un padre di famiglia premuroso. Eppure, di lui si sa poco. Come ha fatto a diventare un attore? Che cosa lo stimola e lo motiva? Che progetti ha per il futuro? La biografia scritta da Thomas Fuchs – che raccoglie una mole eccezionale di materiali, diversi dei quali inediti – ci offre per la prima volta un suo ritratto completo, che ci fa sentire vicini all’uomo Johnny Depp. Si narra di come la sua triste infanzia nel noioso Kentucky abbia sviluppato in lui lo spirito ribelle, del perché sia «fallito» come musicista, prima di diventare attore, e di come il suo precoce amore per la letteratura gli abbia insegnato che l’entusiasmo è più importante dei soldi. Johnny Depp è artista, musicista, amico, padre di famiglia e molto altro ancora. Ma soprattutto è un attore geniale che colpisce nel profondo il cuore dei suoi fan, come la sua biografia. Con stile scorrevole e accattivante, Fuchs ci consegna un ritratto vivido e profondo dell’uomo, al di là delle maschere assunte sullo schermo.

L'uomo dietro la maschera

Johnny Depp

Offers facts about the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the head of the Nazi Party, and, eventually, the German nation.

A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.

Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology

In Defence of the Human Being

Die Professionalisierung der wissenschaftlichen Praxis im 19. Jahrhundert führte zu einem weniger breit gefächerten öffentlichen Engagement von Universitätsangehörigen in außeruniversitären Bereichen. Die fortschreitende Vernetzung von Wissenschaftlern und die Möglichkeiten freundschaftlicher Beziehungen wie auch der wissenschaftliche Austausch bestimmten zunehmend die Motive bei der Wahl außeruniversitärer Betätigungen. Die Einbringung in themenferne Bereiche wurde durch die parallel stattfindende Professionalisierung weiterer Betätigungsfelder, wie der Politik, erschwert und führte zur Beschäftigung und Kommentierung dieser Themenbereiche vor dem eigenen fachlichen Hintergrund. Thomas Fuchs arbeitet diese Entwicklung am Beispiel der Universität Bonn und ihrer Dozenten heraus. In the 19th century, a general tendency towards professionalization and specialization in science and academia, but also in politics and other areas of society, has resulted in a decrease of non-academic activities by university members. Instead, academics focused on public activities within their respective research fields, commented on political and social development mostly from the perspective of their own scientific expertise and increasingly reached out to other scientists rather than to members of the general public. Thomas Fuchs describes the processes underlying the professionalization in academic research as well as within scientific associations using the example of members of the University of Bonn.

Außeruniversitäre Tätigkeitsfelder Bonner Hochschulangehöriger 1848–1914

Professoren und Vereine

Über den Fluss und in den Wald

Hemingway im Schwarzwald

Im August 1922 bereist der damals 23-jährige Ernest Hemingway, seit einem Jahr als Korrespondent des Toronto Star in Paris, mit seiner Frau Hadley für drei Wochen den Schwarzwald. Vor dem Hintergrund der Inflation und nur kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg trifft er auf Armut und Ausländerfeindlichkeit, aber auch einsame Täler und die ersehnten Fischwasser. Seine Reise führt ihn von Straßburg nach Triberg und ins Elztal sowie nach Freiburg. Thomas Fuchs folgt Hemingways Trip genau 100 Jahre später, dabei entfaltet er vor uns ein faszinierendes zeitgeschichtliches und biografisches Panorama. »Das Jahr war randvoll mit Ereignissen, deren Themen sich leitmotivisch durch sein ganzes Leben zogen. Es gab Triumphe, Tragödien und Tiefschläge.«

Christian Tewes

Gregor Etzelmüller

Das gegenwärtig zunehmende Auseinanderdriften von Kulturwissenschaft und Humanbiologie verdeutlicht das noch immer bestehende Desiderat einer integrativen Anthropologie, die dualistische ebenso wie reduktionistische Konzeptionen zu überwinden vermag. Der vorliegende Band, hervorgegangen aus einer interdisziplinären Projektgruppe an der Universität Heidelberg, lotet aus, welche Rolle das neue Paradigma der Verkörperung für die Fundierung einer solchen Anthropologie spielen kann. Aus der Perspektive so unterschiedlicher Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Theologie, Psychologie, Neurobiologie, Biomechanik und Paläoanthropologie untersuchen die Autoren, welche Bedeutung der konstitutionelle Aufbau des Leibes für zentrale anthropologische Forschungsfragen hat. Die Einheit von Wahrnehmung und Bewegung, die Entstehung von Sprache und Denken und die Evolution des Menschen stehen dabei im Vordergrund. Der Ansatz bei der Verkörperung des Menschen bildet belastbare Brücken zwischen den verschiedenen disziplinären Anthropologien und erschließt neue Perspektiven für die zukünftige anthropologische Forschung.

Verkörperung - eine neue interdisziplinäre Anthropologie

In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had. In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs begins by comparing the views of William Harvey [1578-1657] and Rene Descartes [1596-1650] on the heart and the circulation of the blood through the body. These two seventeenth-century scholars -- one a British medical doctor, the other a French philosopher and mathemetician -- differed substantially in their beliefs: they both accepted the idea of circulation of the blood, but differed on the action of the heart. Fuchs traces the ways the opposing views were received, revised, rejected, or renewed in succeeding generations by medical writers in various parts of Europe. He then examines Harvey's approach to cardiac and circulatory physiology, mainly through an examination of Harvey's book De motu cordis: he follows with a discussion of the background in Aristotelian philosophy that was the requirement for all studies in medicineand how that affected Harvey's beliefs. Fuchs then turns to Descartes's presentation of Harvey's views and shows how his view, rather than Harvey's, was accepted in Europe at that time. Marjorie Grene brings to the translation herdistinguished background in philosophy and her keen insights into medical philosophy. Thomas Fuchs teaches psychiatry at the Rupert-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg. MarjorieGrene is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California at Davis, and Adjunct Professor and Honorary Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech University.

Harvey and Descartes

The Mechanization of the Heart

Städtechroniken, Kirchenbücher und historische Befragungen in Hessen, 1500 bis 1800

Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung

Christoph Durt

The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological. Recent accounts of cognition attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional cognitive science by reconceiving cognition as enactive and the cognizer as an embodied being who is embedded in biological, psychological, and cultural contexts. Cultural forms of sense-making constitute the shared world, which in turn is the origin and place of cognition. This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection on the cultural context of embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological. The book brings together new contributions by some of the most renowned scholars in the field and the latest results from up-and-coming researchers. The contributors explore conceptual foundations, drawing on work by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, and respond to recent critiques. They consider whether there is something in the self that precedes intersubjectivity and inquire into the relation between culture and consciousness, the nature of shared meaning and social understanding, the social dimension of shame, and the nature of joint affordances. They apply the notion of radical enactive cognition to evolutionary anthropology, and examine the concept of the body in relation to culture in light of studies in such fields as phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psychopathology. Through such investigations, the book breaks ground for the study of the interplay of embodiment, enaction, and culture. Contributors Mark Bickhard, Ingar Brinck, Anna Ciaunica, Hanne De Jaegher, Nicolas de Warren, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Christoph Durt, John Z. Elias, Joerg Fingerhut, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Thomas Fuchs, Shaun Gallagher, Vittorio Gallese, Duilio Garofoli, Katrin Heimann, Peter Henningsen, Daniel D. Hutto, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Alba Montes Sánchez, Dermot Moran, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Matthew Ratcliffe, Vasudevi Reddy, Zuzanna Rucińska, Alessandro Salice, Glenda Satne, Heribert Sattel, Christian Tewes, Dan Zahavi

Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World

Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture

Michela Summa

Luca Vanzago

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible, perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual understanding can consistently be understood in terms of perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of imagination in such processes. It includes original works in philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of direct perception and imagination.

Approaches from Phenomenology and Psychopathology

Imagination and Social Perspectives

Sabine C. Koch

Cornelia Müller

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the forms and effects of therapeutic work with body memory, based on the integration of theory, empirical findings, and clinical applications. It focuses on trauma treatment and the healing power of movement. The book also contributes to metaphor theory, application and research, and therefore addresses metaphor researchers and linguists interested in the embodied grounds of metaphor. Thus, it is of particular interest for researchers from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and humanities as well as clinical practitioners.

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

Jens Corssen

Familienglück

Persönlichkeits-Coach trifft Kinderpsychologen. Jens Corssen und Thomas Fuchs kombinieren das Beste aus ihrer Arbeitspraxis zu einem neuen Coaching-Konzept für Eltern und Kinder: Sich im Hier und Jetzt um eine gute Gestimmtheit bemühen, anstatt eigene Wünsche und Erwartungen auf den Partner oder die Kinder zu projizieren, ist der eine Schlüssel für ein harmonisches Familienleben. Also: Mehr Gegenwart leben als Zukunft planen! Der andere ist, eine Geisteshaltung zu entwickeln, mit der es gelingt, Worte der Wertschätzung und Anerkennung zu verwenden und jede Form der Entwertung von Partnern und Kindern zu vermeiden. Auf unterhaltsame Art, fundiert und mit vielen prägnanten Beispielen aus ihrer therapeutischen Praxis vermitteln die Experten Wege für gelingende Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen. Sie möchten mehr zum Thema Familie und Work-Life-Balance lesen? Auf unserem Portal einfachganzleben.de finden Sie Tipps, um das Nebeneinander von Familien- und Berufsleben entspannter zu gestalten.

Wie wir durch Anerkennung eine erfüllte Eltern-Kind-Beziehung erreichen

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