666 research outputs found
Geyner versus Reiner. The issue of the doubtful co-author of the frescoes in the abbot Hochberg’s chapel in Wrocław.
No full textThe article deals with the question of authorship of the set of frescoes decorating the vaulting of the abbot Hochberg’s chapel in the former Premonstratensians church in Wrocław. In the literature which mentions the paintings Wenzel Lorenz Reiner is most often assumed to be their author, however not only once, a mysterious painter Martin Geyner (Geyer) was ascribed to create or co-create them. Analysing the reference literature we can presume that the name of Geyner came here as the result of a mistake made by Kundmann, who was the first to produce a short description of the painterly decoration of the chapel eleven years after it had been erected. What is surprising, Kundmann did not even mention the name of Reiner, ascribing the frescoes to Geyner and naming him ‘a famous painter from Prague’. The information about Geyner was repeated later by many researchers, although he was not regarded as the only author of the paintings. The publications however, caused in a significant way the birth of the myth of the frescoes authorship. The contract for the paintings execution, which has been preserved in the State Archive of Wrocław, leaves no doubts about their author. It was signed between the abbot Hochberg and Reiner on 16 July 1725, and its contents allows us to claim, with the highest probability, that Reiner was the only executor both of the design of all the paintings and the frescoes themselves. Furthermore, in regard to the paintings analysis based on the photographs this opinion seems to be right
Geyner versus Reiner. Kwestia wątpliwego współautora fresków w kaplicy opata Hochberga we Wrocławiu
No full textThe article deals with the question of authorship of the set of frescoes decorating the vaulting of the abbot Hochberg’s chapel in the former Premonstratensians church in Wrocław. In the literature which mentions the paintings Wenzel Lorenz Reiner is most often assumed to be their author, however not only once, a mysterious painter Martin Geyner (Geyer) was ascribed to create or co-create them. Analysing the reference literature we can presume that the name of Geyner came here as the result of a mistake made by Kundmann, who was the first to produce a short description of the painterly decoration of the chapel eleven years after it had been erected. What is surprising, Kundmann did not even mention the name of Reiner, ascribing the frescoes to Geyner and naming him ‘a famous painter from Prague’. The information about Geyner was repeated later by many researchers, although he was not regarded as the only author of the paintings. The publications however, caused in a significant way the birth of the myth of the frescoes authorship. The contract for the paintings execution, which has been preserved in the State Archive of Wrocław, leaves no doubts about their author. It was signed between the abbot Hochberg and Reiner on 16 July 1725, and its contents allows us to claim, with the highest probability, that Reiner was the only executor both of the design of all the paintings and the frescoes themselves. Furthermore, in regard to the paintings analysis based on the photographs this opinion seems to be right
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The politics of the police
No full textThis third edition of the popular and highly acclaimed text, The Politics of the Police, has been completely revised and updated to take account of recent and profound changes in the law, policy and organisation of policing. The Police and Magistrates Courts Act 1994, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the Police Act 1996 and the Public Order Bill have all had a major impact on policing in the UK during this period. The social and political context has also changed dramatically - not least with the election of a Labour government after 18 years of Conservative rule. All these factors have lead to a profound shift in the nature of policing. The author has retained the book's three-fold structure, covering the history of the police, the sociology of policing and the law and politics of the police. There is also and examination of the complex and highly-charged debates surrounding policing, including the various controversies and developments which have lead to a change in the public's opinion of the police in recent years - from the violent conflict of the miners' strike in 1984-85 to the Macpherson report on the Stephen Lawrence case in 1999. In addition, durrent proposals for reform are analysed and others proposed. This clear, insightful and up to date review of a complex and contentious subject will be essential reading for all those concerned with policing, whether students, researchers, or professionals
Pre-authorization : a novel decision-making heuristic that may promote autonomy
No full textFirst paragraphs: While the nature of autonomy has been debated for centuries, recent scholarship has been re-examining our conception(s) of autonomy in light of findings from the behavioral, cognitive, and neural sciences (Felsen and Reiner 2011; Blumenthal-Barby 2016). Blumenthal-Barby’s target article provides us with a timely and helpful framework for thinking about this issue in a systematic way, specifically in relation to the wide range of cognitive biases and heuristics that we employ in our decision making. Building on this, we wish to expand the framework beyond the article’s focus on the threat posed by biases and heuristics by suggesting that it is possible for at least some heuristics to promote autonomy. We hope to demonstrate this point by introducing the conceptual framework for a novel heuristic that we call pre-authorization. Blumenthal-Barby argues that biases and heuristics “pose a serious threat to autonomous decision-making and human agency” and that, consequently, efforts should be made to remove, mitigate, or counter them. While recognizing the autonomy-threatening potential of these ‘fast thinking’ mechanisms, as well as agreeing with the author about the types of cases in which this potential is likely to be actualized, we suggest that it does not capture the full range of interactions that are relevant to a balanced assessment of their impact on autonomy. If, as is widely acknowledged, at least some heuristics are adaptive responses to particular real-world decision-making situations (Gigerenzer 2008), the issue at hand becomes elucidating whether, and under what conditions, the cognitive influence of any particular heuristic is autonomy-threatening, autonomy-preserving, or even autonomy-promoting. Blumenthal-Barby focuses on the first of these categories; and, with respect to the component of absence of controlling or alienating influence, she contends that if the person’s attitude towards the influence is one of feeling controlled or alienated from her decision on account of the workings of a cognitive bias or heuristic, her autonomy is diminishe
Description of a trip taken by the author and his wife to visit E. B. White\u27s ho
No full textDescription of a trip taken by the author and his wife to visit E. B. White\u27s home in North Brooklin and town residents\u27 remembrances of the author. 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of White\u27s Charlotte\u27s Web
El retorno a Robert Reiner para pensar la cultura policial hoy. Tensiones en una experiencia de policía comunitaria
No full textThe present article aims to describe with detail some cultural features of the community policing experience in Santa Fe province using as a prism of analysis the work that Robert Reiner has done on police culture, an unavoidable author in the social studies of the police. It aims to shed light on particular characteristics of this police segment and discover continuities with the traditional police, placing itself at the core of theoretical developments on police culture. It is based on document analysis and on qualitative analysis of 53 semi-structured interviews conducted with community police officers in the city of Santa Fe between 2015 and 2018.El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de describir en detalle algunos rasgos culturales de la policía comunitaria de la Provincia de Santa Fe utilizando como prisma de análisis los trabajos que ha realizado Robert Reiner sobre la cultura policial, autor ineludible dentro de los estudios sociales de la policía. Pretende echar luz sobre algunas características particulares de este segmento policial y descubrir continuidades con la policía tradicional, ubicándose en el núcleo de los desarrollos teóricos sobre la cultura policial. Está basado en análisis de documentos y análisis cualitativo de 53 entrevistas semi-estructuradas realizadas a policías comunitarios en la ciudad de Santa Fe entre los años 2015 y 2018
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Reiner Kunze. Traductions et imitations : la fracture du trait
No full textDans l’anthologie Geisterstimmen (1998) où il regroupe certains apports personnels de ses anthologies précédentes Museum der modernen Poesie (1960) et Wasserzeichen (1985), Hans Magnus Enzensberger associe, sans pseudonyme mais en un dispositif où tout est fait pour déjouer le regard du lecteur, 164 traductions et 26 imitations. Un détour par la clarté des définitions et témoignages que Reiner Kunze propose de la traduction comme Nachdichtung ou réécriture poétique dans ses conférences d’esthétique de 1988 (Das weiße Gedicht), permet de comprendre l’enjeu de cette « fête des fleurs » d’un genre inédit que l’auteur fait passer « en contrebande » dans la langue poétique allemande : sous couvert de jeu de masques, sous les voix de ses « compagnons de lutte » et avec elles, retentit en creux, en filigrane, sur le mode rieur, la poétique d’Enzensberger et son enjeu utopique. Dans cette poétique à la fois sienne et autre, dans cet authentique Wasserzeichen, des résonances de Goethe, d’Adorno, de Pablo Neruda notamment, se fondent en une variante contemporaine, jouée sur le mode mineur de la fracture (Bruch), de la poétique nietzschéenne, si ce n’est hesséenne de l’allégresse.1998 erschafft Enzensberger eine Anthologie der « anderen » Art: in Geisterstimmen wird eine Auswahl von eigenen Übersetzungen und Imitationen der früheren Sammelwerke Museum der modernen Poesie (1960) und Wasserzeichen (1985) zwar ohne Pseudonym doch in hoher Spielkunst zu einem Irrgarten aufgebaut, dessen Verlauf die poetischen Grundzüge des Autors verzerrt widerspiegelt. Der Umweg über das Klare der Definitionen und Zeugnisse, die Reiner Kunze in seinen Poetikvorlesungen der « Nachdichtung » widmet, lässt das Poetologische an diesem « Blumenfest » aufleuchten, das Enzensberger in die deutsche Sprachkunst hineinschmuggelt: unter den fremd-heimischen Namen und Stimmen seiner « Mitstreiter » bricht filigran die eigene Poetik durch, ihr utopischer Schall klingt an Goethe, Adorno und Neruda an, um eine zeitgenössiche Variante in Moll des « Bruchs » von Nietzsches, wenn nicht Hesses Poetik der Heiterkeit aufzuspielen.With his Geisterstimmen, Enzensberger conceives in 1998 a new kind of anthology: some of his own translations and imitations from the former anthologies Museum der modernen Poesie (1960) and Wasserzeichen (1985) are artfully combined to build a labyrinth reflecting the distorted features of the author himself. Clear and lucid as they are, the definitions and testimonies that Reiner Kunze gives in his lectures of poetics (Das Weiße Gedicht) of translation as a free and sacrilegious rewriting, bring Enzensbergers “feast of flowers" to reveal itself as indirect poetics: behind the masks, under and with the voices of his “comrades-in-arms", the lyrical voice of the “smuggler"-translator breaks through with its utopical and political note. In this authentic watermark, consonances to Goethe, Pablo Neruda, also Adorno, melt into a contemporary variant of the poetics of joy (Heiterkeit) elaborated by Nietzsche or even Hermann Hesse
Optical Performance of Segmented Aperture Windows for Solar Tower Receivers
No full textSegmented quartz windows are a concept to build larger windows for receivers that require a closed aperture. Reflection losses are a significant loss factor for such solar receivers. Without any additional measures, the reflection loss can reach about 12%. One important measure to improve transmission is the application of anti-reflective coatings, which is beneficial in any case. Another option is modifying the window geometry, especially the edge surfaces of the glass segments. A certain fraction of the reflection losses are caused by a light-guide effect in the glass body, for rays entering through the front surface. Changing the cut surfaces in a way reducing the light-guide effect can significantly improve transmission of a segmented window. Several possible configurations are evaluated and discussed. The results of raytracing simulations verify the improvement. The final selection of the window configuration depends on the optical properties and on mechanical strength, anufacturing and cost considerations. This has to be evaluated for any specific receiver design
Briefe, Briefträger und Postbeamten in Reiner Kunzes Der Löwe Leopold – Fast Märchen, fast Geschichten
No full textZiel dieses Essays ist es, die Hauptmerkmale von Reiner Kunzes Poesie und Prosa in Beziehung zum Kinderbuch Der Löwe Leopold – Fast Märchen, fast Geschichten (1970) zu setzen, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf dem Thema Korrespondenz liegt, das in drei der vier Geschichten sowie im Gedicht Warum sind Löwenzahnblüte gelb? vorkommt. Im ersten Teil dieses Beitrags wird auf einige Ereignisse im Leben von Reiner Kunze, aufgrund denen er zu Ende der 1960er Jahre in Ostdeutschland zum Staatsfeind erklärt wurde, näher eingegangen. Des Weiteren werden die Hauptthemen von Kunze definiert (darunter auch sein Interesse für die Individualität der menschlichen Existenz sowie für politische Themen). Der zweite Teil widmet sich hauptsächlich dem Thema der Korrespondenz und beinhaltet einen ausführlichen Vergleich zwischen zwei Charakteren, die in den im dritten Teil analysierten Geschichten vorkommen: dem Postboten und dem Postbeamten. Der Schwerpunkt des letzten Teils liegt auf auch im Buch Der Löwe Leopold vorkommenden Hauptthemen von Kunzes Werken. Im Anschluss daran folgt eine eingehende Analyse der Elemente, die in den zwei Geschichten Der Löwe Leopold und Der Drachen Jakob einen Bezug zur Korrespondenz aufweisen.This essay attempts to relate the fundamental features of Reiner Kunze’s poetry and prose to the book for children Der Löwe Leopold – Fast Märchen, fast Geschichten (1970), with particular reference to the topic of the post, which can be found in three of its four stories, as well as in the poem Warum sind Löwenzahnblüten gelb? The essay opens with biographical events of the author, some of which led him to become an enemy of the State in East Germany by the end of the 60s. In the same section, thematic cores of Kunze’s works are defined (among those, his interest for the individual sphere of human existence and for political topics). The second part is largely dedicated to the topic of the post and contains a detailed comparison between the characters of the mailman and the mail clerk, which occur in the stories analyzed in the third section of the essay. Finally, the focus of the third section is on the recurrence of the main topics of Kunze’s works in the book Der Löwe Leopold. An in-depth analysis of the elements related to the post in the two stories Der Löwe Leopold and Der Drachen Jakob is also provided in the last part of the paper
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