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Before arriving in the field of communication, Larry Gross was a psychology student at Brandeis University; Creativity: Process and Personality was Gross's undergraduate thesis at Brandeis, completed in 1964. This mediastudies.press edition is the initial publication of that undergraduate thesis, with a new preface by Gross himself. Creativity: Process and Personality finds Gross exploring the nature of creativity by interviewing some of the era's most noteworthy experts in psychology, including Herbert Simon, Milton Rokeach, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Jerome Bruner, and B. F. Skinner. The result of Gross's interviews is a nuanced and multi-perspectival set of interlocking chapters, each of which probes the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of creativity. Creativity: Process and Personality remains a provocative consideration of how creativity takes form, while also operating as a revealing snapshot of mid-twentieth century psychological thought.
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Long description: Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen Person sein, moralisch sein und der Frage nach dem guten Leben aufzuzeigen. So verweist die Frage der alten Griechen auf einen zentralen Aspekt unseres Personseins: Wir verfügen über Bewusstsein von uns selbst und unserem Leben. Daher haben wir auch unvermeidlich ein Interesse daran, zu wissen, wie wir möglichst gut leben können -- wir reflektieren und bewerten unser Handeln, Fühlen und Urteilen. Anhand der Theorie Harry G. Frankfurts wird dieses evaluative Selbstverhältnis als zentrales Merkmal des Personseins herausgestellt. Seine Konzeption der Sorge sowie der Begriff der volitionalen Notwendigkeit nimmt die Frage nach dem guten Leben in ihrer existentiellen Bedeutung auf. Die praktische Relevanz des Moralischen ist durch die Formulierung von moralischen Gesetzen, Rechten oder Pflichten nicht einfach gegeben, sondern hängt maßgeblich von der authentischen Aneignung moralischer Inhalte ab. Gute Gründe für moralische Ansprüche ergeben sich selten durch die Betrachtung moralischer Normen oder allgemeiner Prinzipien, sondern aus exemplarischen Narrativen des echten Lebens und den darin antizipierten Vorstellungen des Guten.
Personality. --- Ethics.
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Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a site of potential destruction, human as well as animal, but also as a site of potential openness. This is the first book to bring vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies. It is organised in four sections: 'Human/Animal'; Violence/Resistance'; 'Image/Narrative'; and 'Medium/Genre'. Each chapter considers the intersection of vulnerability and genre from a comparative perspective, bringing together a team of international contributors and editors. The book is in dialogue with the reflections of Judith Butler and others on vulnerability, and it questions categories of genre through an interdisciplinary engagement with different representational forms, including digital culture, graphic novels, video games, photography and TV series, in addition to novels and short stories. It offers new readings of high-profile contemporary authors of fiction including Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, as well as bringing lesser-known figures to the fore.
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Das anthropologische Konzept der Verletzlichkeit wird seit einigen Jahren als Alternative zu einem autonomie-zentrierten Zugang zur Medizinethik diskutiert. Was aber genau unter Verletzlichkeit bzw. Vulnerabilität zu verstehen ist, und worin die moralische Relevanz derselben besteht, bleibt eine kontrovers diskutierte Frage. In einem dreijährigen Diskursprojekt haben die Autor/-innen dieses Bandes sich in unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit dem Konzept der Verletzlichkeit des Menschen befasst. Der Band versammelt als Ergebnis dieses gemeinsamen Diskurses unterschiedliche philosophische, theologische und medizinethische Perspektiven, die sich mit anthropologischen und ethischen Grundlagen des Phänomens der menschlichen Verletzlichkeit, sowie mit seiner Funktion und Relevanz für konkrete medizinethische Fragestellungen befassen.
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Empowerment, Resilienz und Powersharing werden vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Gegenwart als wichtige politische Strategien in einer durch Pluralität geprägten demokratischen Gesellschaft verstanden. Diese explorative Studie befragt Empowerment, Resilienz und Powersharing auf theoretischer Ebene und eröffnet Einblicke in die Landschaft von Akteur*innen, deren Themen, Bedarfen sowie Praktiken und entwickelt Möglichkeiten der Förderung dieser Aktivitäten.
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The present book includes several contributions aiming a deeper understanding of the basic processes in the operation of CO2 lasers (lasing on non-traditional bands, frequency stabilization, photoacoustic spectroscopy) and achievement of new systems (CO2 lasers generating ultrashort pulses or high average power, lasers based on diffusion cooled V-fold geometry, transmission of IR radiation through hollow core microstructured fibers). The second part of the book is dedicated to applications in material processing (heat treatment, welding, synthesis of new materials, micro fluidics) and in medicine (clinical applications, dentistry, non-ablative therapy, acceleration of protons for cancer treatment).
Optimism. --- Personality --- Philosophy --- Cheerfulness --- Laser physics
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Character can be defined as self-aware knowledge that helps the individual to set goals, values and ethical principles (Cloninger, 2004). This meta-cognitive dimension of human personality involves ‘Theory of Mind’, and is positively related to measures of well-being, mental health, and constructive behavior patterns. Research from at least three different fields, cultural (Shweder, Much, Mahapatra & Park, 1997), personality (Cloninger, 2004), and social psychology (Abele & Wojcizke, 2007) suggest that character can be organized along three broad principles: agency, which is related to the autonomy and the fulfillment and enhancement of the self; communion, which is related to engagement in the protection and relations to others such as families, companies or nations; and spirituality, which is related to the human ability to transcend the self and find and interconnection with all life and appreciation of the whole world around us (Haidt, 2006; Cloninger, 2013). Using the Temperament and Character Inventory (Cloninger, Svrakic & Przybeck, 1993) researchers have found that agentic (i.e., Self-directedness) and communal (i.e., Cooperativeness) values are associated to high levels of happiness, psychological well-being, and less violent behavior. Moreover, low Self-directedness and Cooperativeness is recurrent among individuals with all types of mental health problems, such as, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and et cetera. Spirituality, in coherence with agency and communion, guides the individual to seek self-realization in harmony with others and nature in the changing world (Cloninger, 2013). Seeing character as self-awareness of the self in three dimensions has also been associated to human responsibility and empowerment. This Research Topic will focus on all article types that put forward findings regarding: •Character as a protective factor against mental illness •Character’s association to conduct disorders and violent behavior •Character as a promoter of happiness, life satisfaction, and well-being •The etiology of character •Longitudinal studies on character •Agency, communion, and spirituality as broad dimensions for the conceptualization of positive measures of mental health •Innovative methods to measure or conceptualize character •Non-linear effects of character on mental health •Character as a measure/conceptualization of responsibility •Character in school and work place settings •Character in relation to empowerment.
Well-being --- Character --- responsibility --- Personality --- Virtues
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A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields, the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices, practice effectively, and find meaning in planning work. Built around concepts of idealism and realism, the book takes on the gap between the expectations and the constraints of practice. How to make an impact? How to decide when to compromise and when to fight for a core value?. The book provides processes for "launching" planning careers, include addressing doubt, decision-making, and assessing types of work and work settings. Then it explains principled adaptability as professional style. Subsequent chapters address career planning, being right, avoiding wrong, navigating managers, organizations and teams, working with mentors, and understanding the career journey. Underpinning these dimensions is a call for planners to reflect on what they are doing as they are doing it. The advice provided is based on the experience of a planning professor who has also practiced planning throughout his career. The book includes personal anecdotes from the author and other planners about how they launched and managed their careers.
Planning --- Personality and occupation. --- Vocational guidance.
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S'inscrivant dans la lignée de l'histoire culturelle, cet ouvrage collectif aborde les représentations de l'histoire, son écriture, de l'ego-histoire aux Grands Récits à travers les diverses postures : acteurs, témoins, historiens, où se rencontrent l'individu et le récit de l'histoire. L'ouvrage s'appuie sur la notion d'« identité narrative » proposée par Paul Ricœur. Il s'articule, dans un premier volet, autour des « Expériences de soi et écritures de l'histoire », afin d'interroger les relations du sujet historien au récit que celui-ci produit de l'histoire. Le second volet, « Le moi face à l'histoire », se déplace de la démarche historiographique vers la réception ou la narration de l'histoire par ses acteurs ou témoins, ordinaires ou reconnus. Les expériences, souvent fortes, montrent alors à quel point l'histoire dialogue inévitablement avec la constitution intime du sujet. Ainsi, la question transversale est bien de savoir comment le récit intime s'articule aux récits historiques et comment il est travaillé par des représentations de l'histoire.
Personality and history --- History --- Historiography --- Philosophy --- History and personality --- individu --- historiographie --- narration --- première personne --- témoignage historique
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