Herbert Spiegel, MD 1914-2009: art, science and poetry.

From Similarity to Homomorphism: toward a Pragmatic Account of Representation in Art and Science, 1880-1914

This paper explores the interplay between artistic and scientific representative practices between 1880 and 1914. I argue that science and technology challenged the concept of resemblance in art and that the rhythm of scientific and technological discoveries at the turn of the 20 century paralleled a shift from a notion of similarity to one of homomorphism in the conceptualization of artistic r...

Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran: an unesplored strategic opportiunity? (2009)

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

The Aesthetics of Lyric Poetry in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy

Both the ancient Greeks and the moderns, Friedrich Nietzsche notes in his first published work The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872), held Homer’s objective art of epics and Archilochus’s subjective art of lyric poetry in equally high esteem. However, if a work of art, according to the modern aesthetics of such figures as Kant, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer, must be “object...

Neurosurgery in Turkish poetry: three poets, two poems and two neurosurgeons.

Poems are essential in art and vital organs in literature. Similarly, surgery (and neurosurgery) is also regarded to be an art in medicine. From Hippocrates to nowadays, there is a debate on whether medicine -especially surgery- is a kind of an art or a field of science or a combination of both. This close relation becomes clearer during the practice of surgery, especially in neurosurgery. Here...

A Review of: "Spiegel, Herbert, & Spiegel, David. Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd edition). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004. Pp. xxvii + 545. $57.00 U.S."