David J Lederer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4589947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Lederer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lederer |
| SIGNATURE | LEDERER D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5258-0228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Suicide: Historical Perspectives on Suicidology before Durkheim. An Introduction
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
"Sociology's "One Law: Moral Statistics, Modernity, Religion, and German Nationalism in the Suicide Studies of Adolf Wagner and Alexander von Oettingen
From the onset, moral statistics were influenced by religious discourse. During the nineteenth century, Adolf Wagner discovered the “One Law” of sociology: Protestants always kill themselves more often than Catholics. Deployed by his colleague, the Baltic nationalist theologian Alexander von Oettingen, it became a moral-statistical plank in the modernity thesis and supported a Prussian master narrative of history. Accordingly, it justified the un…
The Myth of the All-Destructive War: Afterthoughts on German Suffering, 1618-1648
A provocative question, perhaps, but taken to the superlative, it immediately caricatures several major theoretical and methodological problems of modern German historiography. Absurd as it seems on the surface, there is more to this rhetorical flourish than first meets the eye, and its ideological roots run deeper than one might expect. A partisan earnestness characterizing current discussions on victimization during the Second World War has giv…
The Politics of Suicide: Historical Perspectives on Suicidology before Durkheim. An Introduction
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
"Sociology's "One Law: Moral Statistics, Modernity, Religion, and German Nationalism in the Suicide Studies of Adolf Wagner and Alexander von Oettingen
From the onset, moral statistics were influenced by religious discourse. During the nineteenth century, Adolf Wagner discovered the “One Law” of sociology: Protestants always kill themselves more often than Catholics. Deployed by his colleague, the Baltic nationalist theologian Alexander von Oettingen, it became a moral-statistical plank in the modernity thesis and supported a Prussian master narrative of history. Accordingly, it justified the un…
The Myth of the All-Destructive War: Afterthoughts on German Suffering, 1618-1648
A provocative question, perhaps, but taken to the superlative, it immediately caricatures several major theoretical and methodological problems of modern German historiography. Absurd as it seems on the surface, there is more to this rhetorical flourish than first meets the eye, and its ideological roots run deeper than one might expect. A partisan earnestness characterizing current discussions on victimization during the Second World War has giv…
The Politics of Suicide: Historical Perspectives on Suicidology before Durkheim. An Introduction
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
"Sociology's "One Law: Moral Statistics, Modernity, Religion, and German Nationalism in the Suicide Studies of Adolf Wagner and Alexander von Oettingen
From the onset, moral statistics were influenced by religious discourse. During the nineteenth century, Adolf Wagner discovered the “One Law” of sociology: Protestants always kill themselves more often than Catholics. Deployed by his colleague, the Baltic nationalist theologian Alexander von Oettingen, it became a moral-statistical plank in the modernity thesis and supported a Prussian master narrative of history. Accordingly, it justified the un…
Political science (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)