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Jeffre Champlin. The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. 176 pp.
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- Goethe Yearbook 25
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- 16 May 2018
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- 30 June 2018, pp 303-304
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Jeffrey Champlin's intriguing new book, The Making of a Terrorist: On German Classic Rogues, represents a novel close reading of canonical works from late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature with the aim of explicating the appearance of excessive violence and its rhetorical and representational implications. Champlin identifies Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, Schiller's Die Räuber, and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas as texts that push understandings of terrorism and the political use of force to the limit by including passages that make the audience want to turn away. By dwelling on such acts and their ramifications, Champlin argues, these literary works confront their readers with the exercise of excessive violence, and thereby open up political and cultural discourses to new conceptualizations of violence and its justifications. Champlin does not, however, provide a guide according to which violent occurrences in literature can and should be identified as “terrorist”; instead, he understands and defines terrorism much more “as an indicator of a threat to political, aesthetic, and epistemological representation” (5). In this sense, Götz von Berlichingen, Karl Moor, and Michael Kohlhaas do not merely fit the description of terrorist because of the death and destruction they instigate; rather, the excessive nature of their actions radically disrupts traditional discursive conventions and representations in a way that can be understood as terrorism. In order to support his assertion that these texts represent at their very core a critique of violence and its practice, Champlin undertakes an extremely detailed rhetorical analysis of each work focused on the linguistic and literary depiction of excessively violent acts and the interpretational ambiguity they reveal.
In the first chapter of his work, Champlin thoroughly situates and contextualizes his understanding of terrorism as disruption in the light of political philosophical traditions ranging from Hobbes to the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Drawing on Hobbes and Robespierre, Champlin investigates the implementation and justification of excessive violence by the sovereign, a figure who represents the established power structure that attempts to dictate and monopolize all discursive meaning surrounding the exercise of violence. Turning then to Arendt and the manifestos of the RAF, Champlin interrogates the very utility of violence as a political tool.
Follow Up of GW170817 and Its Electromagnetic Counterpart by Australian-Led Observing Programmes
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- I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke, A. Acharyya, J. R. Allison, G. E. Anderson, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Baade, M. Bailes, K. Bannister, A. Beardsley, M. S. Bessell, F. Bian, P. A. Bland, M. Boer, T. Booler, A. Brandeker, I. S. Brown, D. A. H. Buckley, S.-W. Chang, D. M. Coward, S. Crawford, H. Crisp, B. Crosse, A. Cucchiara, M. Cupák, J. S. de Gois, A. Deller, H. A. R. Devillepoix, D. Dobie, E. Elmer, D. Emrich, W. Farah, T. J. Farrell, T. Franzen, B. M. Gaensler, D. K. Galloway, B. Gendre, T. Giblin, A. Goobar, J. Green, P. J. Hancock, B. A. D. Hartig, E. J. Howell, L. Horsley, A. Hotan, R. M. Howie, L. Hu, Y. Hu, C. W. James, S. Johnston, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, M. Kasliwal, E. F. Keane, D. Kenney, A. Klotz, R. Lau, R. Laugier, E. Lenc, X. Li, E. Liang, C. Lidman, L. C. Luvaul, C. Lynch, B. Ma, D. Macpherson, J. Mao, D. E. McClelland, C. McCully, A. Möller, M. F. Morales, D. Morris, T. Murphy, K. Noysena, C. A. Onken, N. B. Orange, S. Osłowski, D. Pallot, J. Paxman, S. B. Potter, T. Pritchard, W. Raja, R. Ridden-Harper, E. Romero-Colmenero, E. M. Sadler, E. K. Sansom, R. A. Scalzo, B. P. Schmidt, S. M. Scott, N. Seghouani, Z. Shang, R. M. Shannon, L. Shao, M. M. Shara, R. Sharp, M. Sokolowski, J. Sollerman, J. Staff, K. Steele, T. Sun, N. B. Suntzeff, C. Tao, S. Tingay, M. C. Towner, P. Thierry, C. Trott, B. E. Tucker, P. Väisänen, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, M. Walker, L. Wang, X. Wang, R. Wayth, M. Whiting, A. Williams, T. Williams, C. Wolf, C. Wu, X. Wu, J. Yang, X. Yuan, H. Zhang, J. Zhou, H. Zovaro
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 34 / 2017
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- 20 December 2017, e069
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The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In this paper, we present follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart SSS17a/DLT17ck (IAU label AT2017gfo) by 14 Australian telescopes and partner observatories as part of Australian-based and Australian-led research programs. We report early- to late-time multi-wavelength observations, including optical imaging and spectroscopy, mid-infrared imaging, radio imaging, and searches for fast radio bursts. Our optical spectra reveal that the transient source emission cooled from approximately 6 400 K to 2 100 K over a 7-d period and produced no significant optical emission lines. The spectral profiles, cooling rate, and photometric light curves are consistent with the expected outburst and subsequent processes of a binary neutron star merger. Star formation in the host galaxy probably ceased at least a Gyr ago, although there is evidence for a galaxy merger. Binary pulsars with short (100 Myr) decay times are therefore unlikely progenitors, but pulsars like PSR B1534+12 with its 2.7 Gyr coalescence time could produce such a merger. The displacement (~2.2 kpc) of the binary star system from the centre of the main galaxy is not unusual for stars in the host galaxy or stars originating in the merging galaxy, and therefore any constraints on the kick velocity imparted to the progenitor are poor.
Gabrielle Bersier, Wege des Heilens: Goethes physiologische Autobiographie Dichtung und Wahrheit. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. 253 pp.
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- Goethe Yearbook 22
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- 27 May 2021
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- 01 July 2015, pp 279-280
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As its title suggests, Bersier's comprehensive analysis utilizes physiology, as understood during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to examine Goethe's autobiography both textually and contextually. The purpose of this focus on physiology is twofold: it serves as a critique of the sometimes myopic and derivative scholarship on Goethe's autobiographical text and as an exploration of a previously unexamined avenue of interpretation. First, Bersier demonstrates in a brief yet thorough survey of scholarship that until recently an exegetical emphasis had been placed on reading the maturation of Dichtung und Wahrheit's autobiographical protagonist through the lens of Goethe's own botanical writings, leading many scholars to follow Georg Misch, who adapted the concept of entelechy from plant metamorphosis to human formation. Bersier contends that this perspective lacks the necessary textual support and can be effectively challenged by an investigation of Goethe's reception of, and participation in, the physiological debates of his age. Second, Bersier argues that such an investigation into Goethe's activity in the physiological discourse of his time shows that the first twelve books of Dichtung und Wahrheit were conceived as an autobiographical treatise on physiology with the aim of contesting many philosophical theories developed during late Romanticism.
The current volume is divided into three parts, the first of which extensively investigates the development of physiological research during Enlightenment and Romanticism. This examination highlights the predominance of physiology in the natural sciences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in addition to providing insight into the theories and debates that had a formative effect on Goethe's scientific and autobiographical writings. Bersier also shows that Goethe's participation in this discourse did not confine itself to mere intellectual curiosity. Reflecting his interest in physiological theories posited by the likes of the zoologist Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, Goethe exercised his administrative influence over the University of Jena by arranging an academic position for the young natural philosopher F. W. J. Schelling. Schelling's early scholarship supported Goethe's own belief that human physiology was based on the balancing and mediation of three influences: irritability, sensitivity, and the reproductive drive. Bersier adeptly connects these historical and discursive threads in order to establish the extent to which Goethe relied on the physiological discourse of the time while fashioning the narrative of his early life.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
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- 06 July 2010
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- By Robert S. Agnew, Lara M. Belliston, Daniel M. Blonigen, Michel Boivin, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Andrew Canastar, Noel A. Card, Emil F. Coccaro, Nicki R. Crick, Linda L. Dahlberg, Garth Davies, Scott H. Decker, Kenneth A. Dodge, Dorothy L. Espelage, Jeffrey Fagan, Albert D. Farrell, David P. Farrington, Daniel J. Flannery, Mark S. Fleisher, Vangie A. Foshee, Holly Foster, Richard J. Gelles, Denise C. Gottfredson, Gary D. Gottfredson, Michael R. Gottfredson, Richard E. Heyman, James C. (Buddy) Howell, Megan Q. Howell, Li Huang, L. Rowell Huesmann, Cynthia Irvin, Gary F. Jensen, Yoshito Kawabata, Lucyna Kirwil, Jeff M. Kretschmar, Robert F. Krueger, Markus J. P. Kruesi, Benjamin B. Lahey, Royce Lee, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Todd D. Little, Anne Martin, Rebecca A. Matthew, Stephen C. Maxson, Jacquelyn Mize, Terrie E. Moffitt, Daniel S. Nagin, Jamie M. Ostrov, Christopher J. Patrick, Bowen Paulle, Gregory S. Pettit, Adrian Raine, Soo Hyun Rhee, Angela Scarpa, Jean R. Séguin, Michelle R. Sherrill, Mark I. Singer, Amy M. Smith Slep, Kevin J. Strom, Patrick Sylvers, Patrick H. Tolan, Elizabeth Trejos‐Castillo, Richard E. Tremblay, Manfred van Dulmen, Johan van Wilsem, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Edelyn Verona, Frank Vitaro, Monique Vulin‐Reynolds, Irwin D. Waldman, Mark Warr, Stanley Wasserman, Deanna L. Wilkinson
- Edited by Daniel J. Flannery, Kent State University, Ohio, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Auburn University, Alabama, Irwin D. Waldman, Emory University, Atlanta
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
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