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Die vorliegende qualitativ-hermeneutische Dissertation untersucht auf der Basis von 20 Interviews die Motivation von Patientinnen der Plastischen Alterschirurgie, die einen größeren Eingriff (Facelift) anvisieren oder bereits haben vornehmen lassen. Sie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass das bisher gängige Prozedere die psychologischen Risiken und Nebenwirkungen einer solchen Operation vernachlässigt. Nach Sichtung der bewussten Beweggründe der Patientinnen und des sozialen Kontextes ihrer Entscheidung für eine OP beleuchtet die Arbeit komplexe Fragen des persönlichen Selbst- und Weltbilds, der Emotionalität und neurotischer Fixierungen. Das häufige Vorliegen von maladaptivem Coping, narzisstischem Selbstwertmanagement, niedriger sozioemotionaler Kompetenz, fehlender Sinnressourcen, wie auch der Neigung zum Selbstbetrug wirft ein problematisches Licht auf die Indikation. Unter Abwägung der Chancen und Risiken einer OP aus psychotherapeutischer Sicht erscheint es zweifelhaft, ob ein verjüngender Eingriff die Probleme der Patientinnen beheben kann, ob er unter ungünstigen Umständen nicht sogar mehr schadet als nützt. Dieses grundsätzliche psychologische Dilemma könnte berücksichtigt und minimiert werden durch ein verbindliches psychologisches Beratungs- und Aufklärungsgespräch im Vorfeld der Operation. So schließt die Arbeit mit dem Vorschlag eines kombinierten chirurgisch-psychologischen Vorgehens zur ganzheitlich konzipierten Therapie der Altersängste der Patientinnen, eine Neuerung, die sowohl im Dienst der Patienten wie auch im Dienst des behandelnden Chirurgen stünde.
Die Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur Analyse des intensionalen semantischen Vokabulars von Gebrauchssprachen und formalen Sprachen. Die Frage danach, wann Ausdrücke sinnvoll sind bzw. eine Bedeutung haben, ist eine altehrwürdige. Vor allem in den letzten beiden Jahrhunderten haben Philosophen wie Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap und Quine versucht, Antworten auf sie zu finden. In der vorliegenden Schrift wird eine konsistente Menge von Prinzipien des Sinnvollseins herausgearbeitet, die in semantischen Theorien eingesetzt werden könnte. Dafür werden die folgenden Schritte unternommen:
• Bewertung und kritische Abwägung von einschlägigen Intuitionen,
• Präzisierung und Kritik der Vorschläge von logischen Empiristen,
• Würdigung von Vorschlägen jüngeren Datums,
• Begründung aller zentralen Behauptungen in einem formalen Rahmen,
• Untersuchung von Sinnlosigkeitsbehauptungen anhand von Beispielen.
Abstract
This article compares the use of calques modelled on anglicisms in different European languages, especially Spanish and German, which do not only show structural differences (e.g. with regard to the use of noun-noun compounds, which are more common in German) but also reflect different attitudes towards English. Aspects covered range from the factors generally favouring the coinage of such replacive forms, to the reasons for the emergence of different types of calques, to variations in their use and challenges concerning their identification. To unravel the main patterns and trends in calquing, this study includes numerous examples from written and oral language, i.e. items of different register affiliation, age, length, and semantic transparency. On a theoretical level, the article incorporates findings from the fields of lexicology, contact linguistics and sociolinguistics.
We all know the experience of different demands on ourselves. As a parent, we want to be there for our children, and in pursuit of our career, we want to invest as much time as possible. If we are committed to both being a good parent and pursuing a career, it may be impossible to satisfy the demands stemming from both commitments. It is in such moments in which our, what I call, practical identities are conflicted that our will is in a state of volitional disunity. In this dissertation, I discuss how a person may best cope with volitional disunity.
I define practical identities in line with Christine M. Korsgaard as self-descriptions under which a person finds her life worth living and her actions worth undertaking; examples of such self-descriptions are being a parent, an employee, a hobbyist pianist, the friend of Charlotte, etc. Practical identities provide the person with ideals that form a decision-making framework for her deliberations about what to do. The standard analysis of volitional disunity, is that it causes a person to not know what to do as her identities, as guides, point her in conflicting, even opposite, directions. The solutions proposed in the literature always include, what I call, the Unification Ideal: a person has to prioritize her identities by deciding which is more important to her. By unifying her identities in this way, she constitutes who she is and wants to be thereby providing herself with a clear decision-making framework regarding the question of what to do.
In this dissertation however, I argue that a person does not need to overcome her volitional disunity through unification per se. In order to know what to do, a person could also explore the disunity that defines her will, which includes that she could accept the volitional disunity as hers. I base this Exploration Ideal on two assumptions about human nature: 1) we have inner responses to how we act and 2) we are opaque to ourselves. Since a person cannot always know in advance whether she will be happy with a commitment by turning her attention inwards, she can explore who she wants to be and who she can be through the bodily, psychological, and emotive responses she has to her actions. These responses, however, are not the ultimate authority. This authority stays with her practical identities in light of which she can evaluate these inner responses. Thus, a person exposed to volitional disunity should strive to explore this disunity, how she wants it to define her and whether it is constitutive of who she is (Exploration Ideal) instead of trying to overcome the disunity by striving for unification (Unification Ideal).
Die Macht der Interpretation
(2019)
Abstract
The article treats the problem of interpretation in its respect to reality by example of Umberto Eco’s moderate ‚realistic‘ position and his criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche, the “father” of postmodernism. Here the strongest arguments on both sides are evaluated: Eco’s “negative realism” pointing out the impossibility of some interpretations and Nietzsche’s thinking out the absolute absence of a privileged position proceeding from which it would be possible to unequivocally identify what is real. The article argues that the crucial point why some interpretations may prove to be stronger or weaker is best described in terms of the concept of power. One however should avoid misconceptions, since power itself is interpretation which nevertheless allows for the gradation of reality, the mobility of its horizons, their shifting and even their potential availability. A much-disputed question of prehistoric times as well as that of death as a limit of interpretability is inter alia included in the analysis. Both classical anti-realistic positions, such as that of Wittgenstein, and the argumentation of contemporary advocates of realism, such as Quentin Meillassoux, are taken into consideration.
Die Macht der Interpretation
(2019)
Abstract
The article treats the problem of interpretation in its respect to reality by example of Umberto Eco’s moderate ‚realistic‘ position and his criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche, the “father” of postmodernism. Here the strongest arguments on both sides are evaluated: Eco’s “negative realism” pointing out the impossibility of some interpretations and Nietzsche’s thinking out the absolute absence of a privileged position proceeding from which it would be possible to unequivocally identify what is real. The article argues that the crucial point why some interpretations may prove to be stronger or weaker is best described in terms of the concept of power. One however should avoid misconceptions, since power itself is interpretation which nevertheless allows for the gradation of reality, the mobility of its horizons, their shifting and even their potential availability. A much-disputed question of prehistoric times as well as that of death as a limit of interpretability is inter alia included in the analysis. Both classical anti-realistic positions, such as that of Wittgenstein, and the argumentation of contemporary advocates of realism, such as Quentin Meillassoux, are taken into consideration.