(Dargis) ★ 'Hannah Arendt' (No rating, 1 53, in English and German) In this sharp, cerebral biopic, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa plays the great German thinker, captured in a moment of public controversy and intense thought in New York in the early 1960s.
(Andy Webster) ★ 'Hannah Arendt' (No rating, 1 53, in English and German) In this sharp, cerebral biopic, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa plays the great German thinker, captured in a moment of public controversy and intense thought in New York in the early 1960s.
(Holden) ★ 'Hannah Arendt' (No rating, 1 53, in English and German, with English subtitles) In this sharp, cerebral biopic, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa plays the great German thinker, captured in a moment of public controversy and intense thought in New York in the early 1960s.
Nevertheless, the bitter dispute that ensued, the so called imageless thought controversy, had a profound effect on the development of scientific psychology (and, very arguably, philosophy too).
This work of Titchener's (like other responses to the imageless thought controversy from America, Britain, and elsewhere) had relatively little impact in Germany, which, with some justification at that time, still regarded itself as very much preeminent in psychological science.
Although the rapid rise of Behaviorism in the United States in the early years of the 20th century certainly had multiple causes, social and institutional as well as intellectual (O'Donnell, 1985), the imageless thought controversy, and the questions it raised about introspection as a viable scientific methodology, was certainly prominent amongst the intellectual causes.
However, before long, and especially in the wake of the imageless thought controversy, doubts were beginning to emerge, in the work of philosophers such as Schlick (1918), Sartre (1936, 1940), Ryle (1949), and especially the later Wittgenstein, both about imagery's importance in cognition, and about whether the whole notion of "pictures in the mind" really made sense.
In Germany, some psychologists responded to the crisis engendered by the imageless thought controversy by turning away from the experimental study of "cognitive" questions about the workings of the mind in general, and moved instead toward an understanding of their subject as concerned with interpretive studies of persons, or the differences between them.
Thus began what became one of the major controversies in Confucian thought.
They searched out the 1968 Olympic sprinter John Carlos, no stranger to controversy, for his thoughts.
