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Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space
This volume focuses on the connection between modern design and architectural practices and the construction of "sacred spaces." Not only language and ritual but space, place, and architecture play a significant role in constructing "special" or "religious" spaces. However, this concept of a constructed "sacred space" remains undertheorized in religious studies and the history of art and architecture in general. This volume therefore revisits the question of a "modern sacred space" from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on religion, space, and architecture during the emergence of the modern period and up until contemporary times. Revisiting the ways in which modern architects and artists have endeavored to create sacred spaces and buildings for the modern world will addresses the underlying questions of how religious ideas--especially those related to esotericism and to alternative religiosities--have transformed the way sacred spaces are conceptualized today.
Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography
Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.) with techniques like montage and contemporary media (film, documentaries, video games, internet) where time-lines are being questioned through flashbacks and flashwords, historiography seems to have resisted such challenges. Most historiographical works (biographies, scholarly studies) still adhere to chronological narratives, even though the boundaries between history and literary fiction have been blurred over the past decades. Responding to 20th/21st c. attempts like Walter Benjamin’s prophetic historian, this volume asks: How to write history without following the chronologically oriented trajectory of time? The interdisciplinary contri...
Exchanging Peoples
The exchange of populations between Poland and Ukraine, which took place in the context of the modification of territories and the establishment of the new Soviet border in 1944-45, has never been addressed as such. The reconstruction of this migratory crossroads of one and a half million people sheds light on the ways in which the two states were involved, and on the lived experience of displacement, according to the places, destinations and temporalities of this period of upheaval. This book is based on research into the central archives of the Soviet State, the Soviet Republic of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland. It approaches the topic on different scales, from the most local to the in...
Goethe Yearbook 18
New essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcomingcontributions from scholars around the world. Volume 18 features a special section on Goethe and Idealism, edited by Elizabeth Millán and John H. Smith and including essays on Goethe and Spinoza; Goethe's notions of intuition and intuitive judgment; Novalis, Goethe, and Romantic science; Goethe and Humboldt's presentation of nature; Hegel's Faust; Goethe contra Hegel on...
Seizing the Square
This book discusses global dynamics behind the synchronous outburst of protests in China and Germany in 1989 and the local acts of dissent on the squares comparatively. It breaks with the national timelines protests in 1989 have so far been identified with and offers insights into the spatial manifestation of the global moment of 1989. Concluding on the importance of the "SpaceTime" on the seized squares in 1989, it also discusses more recent protests forming on city squares. Offering a global perspective on a phenomenon that itself became global in the last decades, the book provides a view on globalization processes operating from below that puts the occupied space on city squares at the heart of interest.
Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory
The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and historians together with the members of Jewish communities preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book.
Selbständigkeit im Denken
Die zentralen Begriffe der Bildungskonzeption Theodor Ballauffs werden in dieser Untersuchung erarbeitet und deren theoretisch-kritische Tragfähigkeit durch eine Analyse ihrer philosophischen Rückbezüge auf das Denken Martin Heideggers überprüft.
Zeit-Schriften der Moderne
Das Buch nimmt die (Re)Produktion der historischen Zeit in der kommerziellen Presse in den Blick – ein Medium, das von der Kategorie Zeit entscheidend geprägt wird. Die Analyse arbeitet Zeit als zentrale Ressource für die Verhandlung der Zugehörigkeit zur Moderne heraus Die polnischsprachige Gesellschaft der Teilungsgebiete bietet in dieser Hinsicht ein herausragendes Beispiel, das paradigmatisch für viele Gesellschaften in ihrer ‚Modernisierungsphase‘ gelten kann. Die Analyse der polnischsprachigen Zeitschriften zeigt sehr ambivalente Muster einer temporalen Selbstverortung als Nation in Europa, gegenüber den Nachbarn, sowie innerhalb der modernen Narrative von Fortschritt und Revolution. Diese Muster zeugen von den unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten und Einschränkungen, die das moderne Selbstverständnis von Gesellschaften charakterisieren. Semi-Peripherialität stellt dabei sowohl eine spezifisch-polnische als auch eine in viele andere soziale Konstellationen übertragbare Position des ‚Dazwischen-Sein‘ in der modernen Welt dar.
Environmental Philosophy as Social Philosophy
Selected papers from the Nineteenth International Social Philosophy Conference, sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and held in July of 2002 at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
