Heikki Lempa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heikki Lempa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heikki |
| FAMILY NAME | Lempa |
| SIGNATURE | LEMPA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moravian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4595-2692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing the History of Emotions. Concepts and Practices, Economics and Politics, written by Frevert, Ute
Eingegangene Bücher
From Honour to Bildung. Rethinking the Body in Making German Civil Society, 1750–1850
With his concept of neuständische Gesellschaft, Reinhard Blänkner suggests that education or, rather, Bildung, becomes the practice that defines one's social status in the German lands between 1750 and 1850. I build on this argument by pursuing two separate but closely intertwined ideas: first, that Bildung stems from and, at the same time, displaces an older foundation of social status, honour; and second, that in this displacement the practices…
Sander L. Gilman. Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture
Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture is a book on the history of the body, and in Sander L. Gilman’s expansive oeuvre, the body makes a significant theme. Over the past forty years, he has made interventions, among others, in the history of health, illness, madness, sexuality, race, gender, the Jewish body, beauty, and obesity. All these studies speak to the productivity and stimulating imagination of the author. They also speak to the fragmen…
Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls
Within Walls
Paul Betts has written a study of everyday life in the GDR. I am not a historian of the GDR. My expertise is confined to the history of German everyday life from 1700 to 1914. Yet Betts’s book has ramifications on the ways the history of everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany can be written. This review has been written mainly in view of those wider ramifications. Betts contests the traditional division of the history of the G…
Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity
Journal Article Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity Get access Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity. By Michael Cowan. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2008. xii + 343 pp. $65.00 (hardback). Heikki Lempa Heikki Lempa Moravian College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Patriarchalism and Meritocracy
This study probes the ways in which a meritocratic system of student evaluation emerged in German educational institutions in the late eighteenth century. By probing the case of the Schnepfenthal Institute, founded in 1784 by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, the author suggests that the system of assessment was not only an outcome of meritocratic rationalization but also was influenced by traditional forms of domination. Rather than describing the tr…
Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
The Spa
In 1835, Ferdinand Gustav Kühne, a Saxon writer and teacher, estimated that the Germanic realm was inundated with spas and that nowhere else were there as many as in Central Europe. In France there were “only ten springs, in Italy eight, Hungary had twelve, Sweden three, Spain two, England two, in Denmark and in vast Russia there was only one mineral spring of note in each, whereas in German-speaking countries, that is, including Bohemia and Swit…
The Spa
In 1835, Ferdinand Gustav Kühne, a Saxon writer and teacher, estimated that the Germanic realm was inundated with spas and that nowhere else were there as many as in Central Europe. In France there were “only ten springs, in Italy eight, Hungary had twelve, Sweden three, Spain two, England two, in Denmark and in vast Russia there was only one mineral spring of note in each, whereas in German-speaking countries, that is, including Bohemia and Swit…
Patriarchalism and Meritocracy
This study probes the ways in which a meritocratic system of student evaluation emerged in German educational institutions in the late eighteenth century. By probing the case of the Schnepfenthal Institute, founded in 1784 by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, the author suggests that the system of assessment was not only an outcome of meritocratic rationalization but also was influenced by traditional forms of domination. Rather than describing the tr…
The Spa
In 1835, Ferdinand Gustav Kühne, a Saxon writer and teacher, estimated that the Germanic realm was inundated with spas and that nowhere else were there as many as in Central Europe. In France there were “only ten springs, in Italy eight, Hungary had twelve, Sweden three, Spain two, England two, in Denmark and in vast Russia there was only one mineral spring of note in each, whereas in German-speaking countries, that is, including Bohemia and Swit…
Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
Patriarchalism and Meritocracy
This study probes the ways in which a meritocratic system of student evaluation emerged in German educational institutions in the late eighteenth century. By probing the case of the Schnepfenthal Institute, founded in 1784 by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, the author suggests that the system of assessment was not only an outcome of meritocratic rationalization but also was influenced by traditional forms of domination. Rather than describing the tr…
Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity
Journal Article Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity Get access Cult of the Will. Nervousness and German Modernity. By Michael Cowan. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2008. xii + 343 pp. $65.00 (hardback). Heikki Lempa Heikki Lempa Moravian College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Within Walls
Paul Betts has written a study of everyday life in the GDR. I am not a historian of the GDR. My expertise is confined to the history of German everyday life from 1700 to 1914. Yet Betts’s book has ramifications on the ways the history of everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany can be written. This review has been written mainly in view of those wider ramifications. Betts contests the traditional division of the history of the G…
Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls
Sander L. Gilman. Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture
Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture is a book on the history of the body, and in Sander L. Gilman’s expansive oeuvre, the body makes a significant theme. Over the past forty years, he has made interventions, among others, in the history of health, illness, madness, sexuality, race, gender, the Jewish body, beauty, and obesity. All these studies speak to the productivity and stimulating imagination of the author. They also speak to the fragmen…
Eingegangene Bücher
From Honour to Bildung. Rethinking the Body in Making German Civil Society, 1750–1850
With his concept of neuständische Gesellschaft, Reinhard Blänkner suggests that education or, rather, Bildung, becomes the practice that defines one's social status in the German lands between 1750 and 1850. I build on this argument by pursuing two separate but closely intertwined ideas: first, that Bildung stems from and, at the same time, displaces an older foundation of social status, honour; and second, that in this displacement the practices…
Writing the History of Emotions. Concepts and Practices, Economics and Politics, written by Frevert, Ute
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