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Utopian Architecture Beyond the Concrete
When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, steel, and concrete, set in a meticulously landscaped park. What can we learn from this striking corporate architecture through which architect Eero Saarinen expressed that man had mastered nature and would solve all future problems? What can churches learn, which have also built striking concrete structures throughout the 1960s - buildings whose roofs are now leaking and whose heating systems are no longer operational? Christian Preidel argues that building today is not a symphony in glass and concrete but a social endeavour where people (and material) come together.
The Human Rights Dictatorship
Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.
Dissident Marxism and Utopian Eco-Socialism in the German Democratic Republic
Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the German Democratic Republic's ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in the West in the 1970s, the Party treated it as an ideological manoeuvre of the class enemy. The three dissidents saw things differently: they combined socialism and ecology, adopting a utopian perspective frowned upon by the state. In doing so, they created political concepts that were unique for the Eastern Bloc. In this sweeping study, Alexander Amberger introduces these concepts, relates them to each other, and poses the question of their relevance then and now.
Ambiguity and Narratology
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of litera...
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of schol...
Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic
No example demonstrates the fluidity of the past within the German Democratic Republic more powerfully than the history of the Prussian state. Initially attacked in East German official histories as the historical engine of German militarism and reaction, Prussia underwent a remarkabletransformation in official and public memory from around the end of the 1970s. This was the so-called 'Prussia-Renaissance', in which, for the first time, the East German state began to recognise and even celebrate figures from Prussian history who had not served a 'progressive' agenda. But the'Prussia-Renaissance' was also a political and cultural phenomenon with a wide public resonance. The 'Prussia-Renaissan...
Das schwere Erbe der marxistischen Nietzsche-Kritik
Der Band rekonstruiert und analysiert die Entwicklung der marxistischen Nietzsche-Kritik, die Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts einsetzte. Daneben kommen auch die Kritiker dieser Denkrichtung zu Wort. Weitere wichtige thematische Schwerpunkte sind Lukács' Nietzsche-Bild und die Nietzsche-Debatte der untergehenden DDR.
DDR-Geschichte im Klassenzimmer
Die DDR ist nach 1990 zu einem Gegenstand von Geschichtsunterricht geworden, der für viele Schülerinnen und Schüler so fern ist wie jeder andere. Zugleich aber ist die DDR für manche Lehrkräfte und Eltern gelebte Erinnerung. Was im Unterricht über sie gelernt werden soll, ist allerdings das Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher Debatten um Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung. In diesen dominiert ein "Diktaturgedächtnis", das den Erzählungen in Familie und Medien vom Alltag in der DDR häufig widerspricht. Anhand einer Analyse von konkretem Geschichtsunterricht, Lehrplänen, Schulbüchern, Geschichtsausstellungen und Interviews untersucht die vorliegende Studie, welche Erzählungen über und Deutungskonflikte um die DDR im Unterricht auftauchen und wie diese verhandelt werden. Der Unterrichtsvergleich zwischen Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main und Paris zeigt die Standortgebundenheit mancher Debatten, aber auch Anschlussmöglichkeiten für DDR-Geschichte an europäische Geschichte und die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung.
