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Motivation in Extreme Environments: A Case Study of Polar Explorer Pen
No full textThis study documents the motives of a polar explorer, Pen Hadow, during the period of a 64-day solo expedition in which he skied, without resupply by aircraft, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole. The framework of reversal theory (Apter, 1982) was used to provide a systematic and comprehensive structure for studying such motivation in an extreme environment. Quantitative data were obtained by using the Apter Record of Motivational States. Qualitative data came from interviews structured in terms of reversal theory. The main result was that the explorer needed at different times to call upon all the eight motivational states identified by reversal theory rather than being subject to only the one or two most obvious ones. The telic and autic states were the two that occurred most frequently. Implications for would-be explorers, and for extreme athletes and their coaches, are indicated
INTERVIEW WITH PROF. DR. EMILY APTER
No full textMy work for some years has centered on the politics of translation, on
“theorizing in untranslatables” (or what it means to “philosophize
in translation” as the French philosopher and translator Barbara
Cassin put it). Cassin and I collaborated on the English edition (APTER;
CASSIN, 2014) of the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, a
kind of new history of philosophy told from translation’s point of view. There
is no consensus on what an Untranslatable might be: (a mistranslation? A
non-translation? A constant re-translation? A word that runs interference?
A border zone/warzone in the world of language wars?), but such questions
lent impetus to several books: The Translation Zone: A New Comparative
Literature (APTER, 2005), Against World Literature: On the Politics of
Untranslatability (APTER, 2013), Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction,
Impasse and the Impolitic (APTER, 2018) and most recently What is Just
Translation?, a project on language inequality, social harming, reparative
translation, and the limits of translation as medium and praxis. For over
twenty years I have edited the Translation/Transnation series at Princeton
University Press, and worked in an editorial capacity with the journals
October, Political Concepts, Diacritics, Public Culture, Comparative Literature and PMLA. In addition to translation studies, my teaching at NYU covers comparative method (the history and theory of comparative literature as a discipline), continental philosophy, aesthetics across media, psychoanalysis, sexual politics, and literature (19th century to contemporary fiction and poetics).
I served two terms (2015-2022) as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU and will soon begin a term as Chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. In the past two years I worked closely with faculty in the School of Liberal Studies as well as colleagues in national language departments to develop a Translation Studies Undergraduate Minor and was involved in developing the CALAMEGS Certificate (Comparative Approaches to Literatures of Africa, the Middle East and the Global South) in the Ph.D. program at NYU. In 2017-18 I served as President of the American Comparative Literature Association. In 2019, I was the Daimler Fellow at the American
Academy in Berlin, in 2014 a Fellow at the Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004
Motivational Styles in Everyday Life: A Guide to Reversal Theory
No full textMichael J. Apter, PhD, is a research psychologist who has spent most of his career developing the theory--reversal theory--that is the subject of this book. He has published numerous papers and is the author or editor of 13 other books, which among them have been translated into eight languages. He has a doctorate from Bristol University in the United Kingdom and has taught at the University of Wales in Cardiff for 20 years. Subsequently, he has been a visiting professor at Purdue University, Northwestern University, and Yale University. He has traveled widely and held visiting positions in Canada, Spain, Norway, Belgium, and France. Dr. Apter is founder and director of Apter International, which is a management consultancy company serving clients worldwide. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Life Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/rtarchive-books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Apter, Andrew. – Beyond Words
No full textThis book consists of a collection of essays published from 1983 to 2005 in various academic journals by Andrew Apter, professor of anthropology and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Both the preface and the introduction set the tone of the demarche adopted in the book. Following a reflexive approach to his own work and intellectual route, the author presents the two interlinked major issues which have informed his long-standing anthropological interest, namely ritual-lang..
Book review: unexceptional politics: on obstruction, impasse, and the impolitic by Emily Apter
No full textIn Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic, Emily Apter investigates and offers a vocabulary for 'the microphenomenology of political life' - ways of thinking the political in its ‘messier everyday guises’ that have hitherto seemed to elude conceptual grasp and intelligibility in political theory. This is an impressive mapping that brings together different phenomena and writings, resisting an easy analysis but responding poetically and urgently to the pressures of the present, recommends Lilly Markaki
Vivre, Cellulairement – A la mémoire de Bernard Stiegler
No full textEmily Apter, « Vivre, Cellulairement – A la mémoire de Bernard Stiegler », in Amitiés de Bernard Stiegler, ed. Jean-Luc Nancy (Paris : Galilée)
Feminizing the Fetish
No full textShoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of "female fetishism" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing
Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
No full textShoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of “female fetishism” in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing
Apter David E., The political kingdom in Uganda. A study in bureaucratie nationalism.
No full textAgblemagnon F.N'S. Apter David E., The political kingdom in Uganda. A study in bureaucratie nationalism.. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1962, 3-3. p. 353
Reversal Theory: The Dynamics of Motivation, Emotion, and Personality, Second Edition
No full textRenowned psychologist Michael J Apter has taught and researched in a number of universities, including Yale, Georgetown, and Chicago in the United States, and Toulouse, Bergen, Cardiff, and Louvain in Europe. His revolutionary work on reversal theory led to the foundation of the Reversal Theory Society, and the organization of a biennial international conference. In 1998 he co-founded Apter International, a management consultancy firm offering products and services to businesses and organizations, which has resulted in the development of a worldwide network of management consultants and trainers. In the course of his career he has written or edited sixteen books and over 100 articles and book chapters, including Danger (Oneworld Publications, 2006) and Motivational Styles in Everyday Life (American Psychological Society, 2001), and his books have been translated into eight languages.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/rtarchive-books/1001/thumbnail.jp
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