Dialektik der Deprivation: Zu Idee und Praxis der Entsagung als Element des Autoritarismus und ihre Rekonfiguration in der Gegenwart:Gesellschaftstheoretische, psychologische und empirische Dimensionen und ihre Aktualität im Spiegel der Kritischen Theorie

As the recent growth of authoritarian movements shows, the more complex society becomes and the more certain groups react to their feelings of powerlessness with authoritarian dispositions, the more necessary psychologically based social analysis becomes. The social-character concept of Fromm and Adorno is a fading method for understanding the dynamic interaction of socio-economic social structure and psychological structure. One of its most prominent types is the "authoritarian character". Today, more than 70 years after the emergence of this theory, the question arises as to the topicality of the theoretical explanatory model. This study not only clarifies the topicality of this model, but also traces its reconfigurations in late modernity. Asceticism, deprivation and renunciation, serve as key analytical concepts for understanding Western culture and its connections to authority: from Odysseus chained to the mast, to the expulsion from paradise in Genesis, from the extra-worldly asceticism in medieval monasteries, to inner-worldly asceticism and its connection to the spirit of capitalism, to neo-asceticism in the late-modern meritocracy. This culminates in the new affirmative social character, which, today, embodies the tendency to uncritically accept the existing conditions, the tendency to affirm these conditions, the impossibility of contradiction, the impossibility of transcendence, the impossibility of transcending existing society to qualitatively new forms of existence. The empirical part of this study identifies the new affirmative social character (274 Pb; 26.1 % / sample) and also tests the F-scale (inclination to fascism) on a new sample in the 21st century. As a result, a socially relevant phenomenon emerges, which necessitates further research

Sprache im kommunikativen, interaktiven und kulturellen Kontext

The volume surveys the current state of research on the communicative use of language, its role in interaction, and relationship to culture. The essays present the theoretical foundation and historical development of each research area, illustrated with empirical findings, and propose future directions for linguistics research

Alte und sehr alte Landkarten

Neuss: Bruno Buike 2020, 822p. - E52 - full title: Alte und sehr alte Landkarten - 800 Seiten Materialien - Reste eines Computercrashs mit Datenverlust - ENGLISH title: Old and vey old maps, 800p. material