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Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society.

Abnormalities, Human --- Social aspects. --- early modern, culture, monstrosity, bodies, normalization.

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Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit substance world-wide, with international estimates indicating that 2.8%-4.5% of the global population use cannabis each year. This prevalence rate has not changed substantially in the past decade and there is no indication that it will do so in the next decade. In line with this, many prominent organisations and individuals have acknowledged that the “war on drugs” has failed and are now calling for a rethink on drug-related policy and legal frameworks. With a growing number of jurisdictions across the world heeding this call and introducing legislation to decriminalize or legalize cannabis use, it is essential that any changes to legal frameworks and public health policies are based on the best available scientific evidence.

Psychiatry. --- Cannabis --- Cannabinoids --- Affective disorders anxiety --- Addiction --- normalization --- marijuana --- legalization --- drug policy --- psychosis

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Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit substance world-wide, with international estimates indicating that 2.8%-4.5% of the global population use cannabis each year. This prevalence rate has not changed substantially in the past decade and there is no indication that it will do so in the next decade. In line with this, many prominent organisations and individuals have acknowledged that the “war on drugs” has failed and are now calling for a rethink on drug-related policy and legal frameworks. With a growing number of jurisdictions across the world heeding this call and introducing legislation to decriminalize or legalize cannabis use, it is essential that any changes to legal frameworks and public health policies are based on the best available scientific evidence.

Psychiatry. --- Plant Sciences --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Cannabis --- Cannabinoids --- Affective disorders anxiety --- Addiction --- normalization --- marijuana --- legalization --- drug policy --- psychosis

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This Master's thesis examines the role of the European Union (EU) as a mediator through the prism of rational choice theory (RCT) in the context of the normalization of relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia from 2011 until 2021. In this respect, it emphasizes first the different types of mediation and the positions adopted by the three actors involved, especially since their respective position strongly affect their understanding of the concept of normalization. On the one hand, both Kosovo and Serbia seek to defend their own interests in the process, a situation that may be illustrated by the largely known “prisoner’s dilemma”. On the other hand, the EU establishes a series of political conditionalities to both parties and has invited Kosovo’s and Serbia’s authorities to conclude a series of, firstly technical, and secondly political agreements, whose most illustrative example appears to be the Brussels agreement (2013). However, the Union’s approach of mediation remains challenged to date by its ambiguity, its lack of transparency and of unity, and the divergences with the recent economic normalization of relations led by the United States of America (USA).

Normalization of relations, recognition, mediation, European Union, Kosovo, Serbia. --- Droit, criminologie & sciences politiques > Sciences politiques, administration publique & relations internationales

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Welche Kriterien bestimmen, wer erwachsen ist? Erfolg, der Lebenswandel, das Alter oder die Fähigkeit zur Selbstkontrolle? Was erzählen dann literarische Träume vom Kontrollentzug über das Erwachsensein? Diese Studie vergleicht erwachsene Romanfiguren, die wieder zu Kindern werden, und greift damit ein Thema auf, das bisher in der Literaturwissenschaft wenig Resonanz gefunden hat. Mit sechs poststrukturalistisch grundierten Denkfiguren, die sich an Judith Butlers Normenverständnis, Michel Foucaults Machtbegriff und Bernhard Waldenfels' Plädoyer für den Kontrollverlust anlehnen, werden gängige Definitionen hinterfragt und vier Romane aus dem amerikanischen, deutschen und französischen Sprachraum analysiert. Zentral ist Foucaults Traumkonzeption, die das Erwachsensein als Drahtseilakt zwischen Intimität und Sozialität erscheinen lässt.

Romain Gary --- Thomas Mann --- Philip Roth --- Lutz Seiler --- La vie devant soi --- Doktor Faustus --- The Human Stain --- Kruso --- Foucault --- Butler --- Waldenfels --- Hierarchy --- Normalization --- ambivalence --- grown-up --- regression --- seduction --- sexual identity --- 20th century --- 21st century