Coalition – creation – church*

Taking the recent UN Report about extreme poverty in the UK as a point of departure, this article analyses and assesses William Cavanaugh’s political ecclesiology. Drawing on the interpretation of Martin Luther’s concept of creation in Scandinavian Creation Theology, I argue that creation destabilises the distinction Cavanaugh draws between what he considers to be church and what he considers not to be church. I account for creation as a web of vulnerability in which all creatures are vulnerable to both creature and creator. In contrast to Cavanaugh’s strong and stable church, I advocate for what I call “coalitional church”: a church that can enter into coalitions with Christians and non-Christians in order to call for conditions under which vulnerable life is liveable. The public and political task of churches is not necessarily to fight the state, but to hold the state accountable to its citizens, whether they are Christian or non-Christian.     

Charakterpathologie – Persönlichkeitsorganisationen – Strukturniveaus

Following the recent development of special treatment for people with defective ego structures, the diagnosis of ego structures has become highly relevant. Four models, developed during the last 40 years for the differentiation of particular levels of the ego structure are presented: the classification of character pathology (Kernberg 1966), the personality organisations (Kernberg 1977 and 1996), the structure axis of the OPD (Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis 1996) and the personality organisations of the STIPO (2006). Because the levels of character pathology, the personality organisations as well as the structural levels of the OPD are widely used and the last two often even in parallel, it is worthwhile comparing them concerning their strengths, weaknesses and compatibility. It turns out that especially the categories between the neurotic and the borderline personality organisation (Kernberg 1977) show significant differences. The fact that the OPD as well as the STIPO pay much more attention to these levels as the models of personality organisations also do, is to be considered because of its great clinical significance as an advantageous innovation. In addition, both instruments offer the possibility to assign different structural levels to particular dimensions and, due to their operationalization, assure comparability and allow change measurement.     

Leonid Stolovich,Filosofija – Estetika – Smekh

Studies in East European Thought -     

Verachtung – eine Gefühlsbestimmung – Teil 2

Es scheint beliebtere Gefühle zu geben: beispielsweise den Ekel – bemisst man Beliebtheit an der Publikationst?tigkeit zum Thema. Das Gefühl der Verachtung hingegen findet vergleichsweise wenig explizite Resonanz in der Fachliteratur und bietet auch physiologisch wenig Erkl?rungsans?tze. Dieser Text tr?gt in zwei Teilen Beschreibungen, Erkenntnisse und überlegungen zusammen, um kaleidoskopisch Aspekte dieses Themas aufscheinen zu lassen.     

Verachtung – eine Gefühlsbestimmung – Teil 1

Es scheint beliebtere Gefühle zu geben, beispielsweise den Ekel – bemisst man Beliebtheit an der Publikationst?tigkeit zum Thema. Das Gefühl der Verachtung hingegen findet vergleichsweise wenig explizite Resonanz in der Fachliteratur und bietet auch physiologisch wenig Erkl?rungsans?tze. Dieser Text tr?gt in zwei Teilen Beschreibungen, Erkenntnisse und überlegungen zusammen, um kaleidoskopisch Aspekte dieses Themas auf-scheinen zu lassen.     

Einige Beiträge Zum Problem Der Teleologie Und Der Analyse Von Systemen Mit Zielgerichteter Organisation

Ohne ZusammenfassungContribution in honor of Professor Rudolf Carnap's seventieth birthday, received after Vol. XII no. 4 had been published (editor's note).     

Zwangsbehandlung – eine Zwischenbilanz

Each medical treatment encroaches on patient rights; therefore, every patient has the right to freely decide whether to be treated or not and has the freedom to refuse treatment even if it is unreasonable from a medical perspective. The law acknowledges this freedom even if the patient is incapable of responsible self-determination as a result of (mental) illness. Treatment contrary to the patient’s declared intentions (“Zwangsbehandlung”—compulsory treatment) is allowed only under specific, strict circumstances. These requirements must be legally established in a clear and precise manner. On the basis of a number of cases concerning compulsory treatment with drugs of patients in a forensic psychiatric hospital, the Federal Constitutional Court therefore established specific guidelines. The Federal legislators and some state legislators have generally implemented these guidelines, even with reference to partly different settings, but considering the fact that these guidelines were related to a special treatment situation they also found differing solutions to some extent. Nevertheless, there are significant regulatory gaps remaining which in particular relate to the treatment of somatic diseases of psychiatric patients.     

Die Wüste Des Realen: Slavoj Žižek Und Der Deutsche Idealismus

Part of Slavoj iek's philosophical background is located in German idealism. In this article, his relation to German idealism is critically assessed, and the key to this assessment is found in iek's favorite medium: film. In film, reality can only appear as a new image, replacing an old reality as fictitious, the real itself, however, remains unreachable by thought. At this point, a parallel with German idealism appears: it was Kant who turned reality into a desert, and Hegel and Schelling who tried to retrieve it. Siding with Adorno and Heidegger, iek reaches a negative conclusion that does justice to neither German idealism nor indeed Schelling. His use of German idealism is one-sided and selective, regardless of the fact that it allows him to formulate an adequate critique of Western society. Perceiving a parallel between iek's conception of cinema and Kantian imagination [Einbildungskraft], the final conclusion is that he approaches German idealism not in terms of its conceptual system-character, but in terms of sensual multiplicity, not seeking unity in it, but precisely fragmentation.