Achilles' brain: philosophical notes on trauma

History of the Human Sciences 20 (3):85-103 (2007)
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The article investigates the relevance of the concepts of truth and truthfulness in culturalistic, psychoanalytical and neuro-biological theories of trauma from a philosophical point of view. The background for this is the recent claim of some brain scientists to produce an overall view of the human situation. This claim is shown to be false. The article comes to the conclusion that the subjective perception of a traumatic event is indispensable in order to understand the phenomena of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). History and other moral sciences are always concerned with the reconstruction of past internal perspectives. The example of trauma shows that this work is indispensable wherever brain research might lead us to

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original Michael, Hampe (2007) "Achilles' brain: philosophical notes on trauma". History of the Human Sciences 20(3):85-103

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Michael Hampe
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