Focusing on the mid-nineteenth century, the book examines the emergence of publicly funded art education as a counter to private institutions. It delves into how parliament members utilized Bentham's utilitarian philosophy to address issues of public taste, highlighting the cultural and educational shifts of the time.
Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
Exploring the interplay between knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn utilize recent research to offer a comprehensive examination of these concepts. The book delves into the complexities of understanding within psychoanalytic theory and its implications for related fields, encouraging readers to reflect on the nature of knowledge and the limits of understanding. Through this critical lens, the authors invite a reevaluation of established ideas and practices in the realm of psychoanalysis.
Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a boundary or liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual anaysis to issues of material culture and history.