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Nedenselliğin Kültürel Tarihi: Bilim, Cinayet Romanları ve Düşünce Sistemleri
Bir şeyleri anlama, bir şeyleri birbirine bağlama ihtiyacıyla adeta istemsizce sorduğumuz, sormaktan kendimizi alamadığımız bu soruyu insan deneyiminin en temel sorusu addediyor Kern. Çalışmasında başta cinayet romanları olmak üzere pek çok klasik ve modern edebiyat eseri aracılığıyla Viktorya dönemindeki ve modern dönemdeki nedensellik anlayışının izini sürüyor. Bilgi içeriği, akıcı anlatımı ve geniş edebiyat yelpazesiyle, cinayet romanlarının sürükleyiciliğine sahip doyurucu bir çalışma.
YAZAR HAKKINDA: Uzun yıllar Northern Illinois Üniversitesi'nde hizmet veren, Michigan ve Northwestern üniversitelerinde konuk profesör olarak görev yapan Stephen Kern, 2004 yılından beri Ohio Devlet Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapıyor. Uzmanlık alanı Avrupa'nın kültür ve düşünce tarihi olan Kern, araştırmalarında özellikle psikanaliz, fenomenoloji, beden ve cinsellik, zaman ve mekân, aşk, nedensellik ve cinayet konularına eğiliyor.
YAZAR HAKKINDA: Uzun yıllar Northern Illinois Üniversitesi'nde hizmet veren, Michigan ve Northwestern üniversitelerinde konuk profesör olarak görev yapan Stephen Kern, 2004 yılından beri Ohio Devlet Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapıyor. Uzmanlık alanı Avrupa'nın kültür ve düşünce tarihi olan Kern, araştırmalarında özellikle psikanaliz, fenomenoloji, beden ve cinsellik, zaman ve mekân, aşk, nedensellik ve cinayet konularına eğiliyor.
536 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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January 10, 2022
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6.
by Stephen Kern (no photo)
Finish date: 09 January 2022
Genre: cultural history
Rating: C
Review:
Stephen Kern is an Distinguished Research Professor so I should not have been surprised how academic/scholarly this book was. But I was still a bit bushwhacked. My rating is still C because the book delivered exactly what was intended but it was a difficult read.
Good news: Kern examines a specific factors or motives for murder.
Insightful to read the differences between
19th C Victor Hugo/Charles Dickens:
overbearing religious training producing killers like Frollo Hunchback of ND and Headstone Our Mutual Friend
20th C Patricia Highsmith/André Gide protecting loss of identity (Tom kills Dickie Greenleaf) in The Talented Mr. Ripley desire to commit a 'motiveless crime' (Lafcadio pushes man to his death on a train ...for nothing. In other words: "I kill, therefore I am!") in Lafcadio .
Bad news Not really bad....but you should be warned this book is not for the fainthearted!
Personal There is a lot to be learned in this book and if you see it in the library....take a look!
The best advice I can give is to skim the chapters and select the items that refer to a books (literature) that catch your eye. I will certainly look more carefully in CF, detectives and novels for the
true motive (class difference, greed, fear, revenge, hatred, sexually repressed, traumatic childhood) for murder!
6.
by Stephen Kern (no photo)Finish date: 09 January 2022
Genre: cultural history
Rating: C
Review:
Stephen Kern is an Distinguished Research Professor so I should not have been surprised how academic/scholarly this book was. But I was still a bit bushwhacked. My rating is still C because the book delivered exactly what was intended but it was a difficult read.
Good news: Kern examines a specific factors or motives for murder.
Insightful to read the differences between
19th C Victor Hugo/Charles Dickens:
overbearing religious training producing killers like Frollo Hunchback of ND and Headstone Our Mutual Friend
20th C Patricia Highsmith/André Gide protecting loss of identity (Tom kills Dickie Greenleaf) in The Talented Mr. Ripley desire to commit a 'motiveless crime' (Lafcadio pushes man to his death on a train ...for nothing. In other words: "I kill, therefore I am!") in Lafcadio .
Bad news Not really bad....but you should be warned this book is not for the fainthearted!
Personal There is a lot to be learned in this book and if you see it in the library....take a look!
The best advice I can give is to skim the chapters and select the items that refer to a books (literature) that catch your eye. I will certainly look more carefully in CF, detectives and novels for the
true motive (class difference, greed, fear, revenge, hatred, sexually repressed, traumatic childhood) for murder!
January 28, 2023
Philosophy and science!
Since man began to ask such questions as "what am I", "where am I", "why" into his existence, philosophy and science have begun to constantly change and develop. While science constitutes the explainable part of the causality of our existence, the part that we have not yet been able to explain is the battleground of philosophy.
Does a person go after clear answers because he doesn't like uncertainty, or do the answers he thinks he's looking for and found push him into uncertainty? The book, in essence, pushes a person to think about this question. Of course, not to look for an answer, but to understand its causality. Because every answer sought brings with it the common component at the source of psychological disorders, that is, anxiety, and drowns people in contradictions...
Ambiguity and contradictions are life itself. After accepting this unchangeable situation, we can realize how much we do not know with each new information we learn about life and relieve the deep pains of our existence just as much.
In the book, he describes the effects of this principle of causality in both novels, literature, art and science, describing the answers that thinkers are looking for, thoughts on the subject and ways of questioning. But in the end, the confusing effect of the question of Why does not bring the end of the book. It just ends at some point.
A tremendous book that pushes people to thoughts in every way. I can say that his fluency also led to this. I recommend it for philosophy readers, have a pleasant reading.
Since man began to ask such questions as "what am I", "where am I", "why" into his existence, philosophy and science have begun to constantly change and develop. While science constitutes the explainable part of the causality of our existence, the part that we have not yet been able to explain is the battleground of philosophy.
Does a person go after clear answers because he doesn't like uncertainty, or do the answers he thinks he's looking for and found push him into uncertainty? The book, in essence, pushes a person to think about this question. Of course, not to look for an answer, but to understand its causality. Because every answer sought brings with it the common component at the source of psychological disorders, that is, anxiety, and drowns people in contradictions...
Ambiguity and contradictions are life itself. After accepting this unchangeable situation, we can realize how much we do not know with each new information we learn about life and relieve the deep pains of our existence just as much.
In the book, he describes the effects of this principle of causality in both novels, literature, art and science, describing the answers that thinkers are looking for, thoughts on the subject and ways of questioning. But in the end, the confusing effect of the question of Why does not bring the end of the book. It just ends at some point.
A tremendous book that pushes people to thoughts in every way. I can say that his fluency also led to this. I recommend it for philosophy readers, have a pleasant reading.
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