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Nineteenth-Century Germany (nineteenth-century + germany)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Civility, Male Friendship, and Masonic Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Germany

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2001
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Largely neglected by historians who assume that its heyday passed in Europe with the demise of the Old Regime, Freemasonry in fact became a mass phenomenon among German (and French as well as American) middle-class men in the nineteenth century. Masonic secrecy made possible a form of sociability which allowed men to experience intimate relations with each other. Within the lodge, men could experience the emotional drama of the rituals while, both in public and in the family, men increasingly sought to comply with the ideal of a man ruled by reason. Masonic rituals entailed the implicit message that the most important presupposition for civility, moral improvement and a ,brotherhood of all men' was male friendship. [source]

Imperialism from Below: Informal Empire and the Private Sector in Nineteenth-Century Germany

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2008
Matt Fitzpatrick
Far from being the product of atavistic feudal remnants within German society, nineteenth-century German imperialism stemmed from precisely the liberal milieu that had come to prominence during 1848-49. Through an analysis of imperialist texts dealing with Central and South America, and the social logic of these imperialist works, an understanding of the nature of private sector and civil society imperialistic projects emerges that sees liberal imperialists seeking out alternatives to statist solutions in the light of political blockages to their efforts. [source]

Theodor Lipps and the shift from "sympathy" to "empathy"

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2005
Gustav Jahoda
In the course of extensive philosophical debates on aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany, Robert Vischer introduced the concept of Einfühlung in relation to art. Theodor Lipps subsequently extended it from art to visual illusions and interpersonal understanding. While Lipps had regarded Einfühlung as basically similar to the old notion of sympathy, Edward Titchener in America believed it had a different meaning. Hence, he coined the term empathy as its translation. This term came to be increasingly widely adopted, first in psychology and then more generally. But the lack of agreement about the supposed difference between these concepts suggests that Lipps had probably been right. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Supremacy of the Constitution, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Review in Nineteenth-Century German Constitutionalism

RATIO JURIS, Issue 2 2003
Werner Heun
The conditions for such a hierarchical supremacy of the constitution were only partly fulfilled in nineteenth-century Germany. In addition, the concept of the separation of powers was rejected and the judiciary was in a weak position. Therefore the judicial review of ordinances was slow to develop. The judicial review of statutes began only at the end of the nineteenth century and was restricted to formal review as opposed to a review of the content of statutes. [source]