This paper focuses on ethnic, national, religious and ideological large groups. Large-group identity refers to persistent sameness of tens, hundreds of thousands or millions of individuals, most of whom will never meet during their lifetimes. Within the interactions of large groups, ‘otherness’ is very powerful and is both desirable and frightening. We can enjoy human diversity when we are not pre...... hiện toàn bộ
Peter Redman, Mechthild Bereswill, Christine Morgenroth
Alfred Lorenzer, a major figure in post-World War II German intellectual debate, is little known in the Anglophone world. As well as supplying biographical details, this short Introduction to the special issue on Lorenzer's work sketches the nature of his debt to Frankfurt School critical theory, highlights his attempt to place psychoanalysis on a materialist footing, and provides an overview of t...... hiện toàn bộ