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From Marx to Hegel and Back
The relation between Hegel and Marx is among the most interpreted in the history of philosophy. Given the contemporary renaissance of Marx and Marxist theories, how should we re-read the Hegel-Marx connection today? What place does Hegel have in contemporary critical thinking? Most schools of Marxism regard Marx's inversion of Hegel's dialectics as a progressive development, leaving behind Hegel's idealism by transforming it into a materialist critique of political economy. Other Marxist approaches argue that the mature Marx completely broke with Hegel. By contrast, this book offers a wide-ranging and innovative understanding of Hegel as an empirically informed theorist of the social, politi...
Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization
Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – these concepts point to ways in which we understand human beings to be violated in their dignity. Violations of human dignity are brought about by concrete practices and conditions; some commonly acknowledged, such as torture and rape, and others more contested, such as poverty and exclusion. This volume collates reflections on such concepts and a range of practices, deepening our understanding of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the surface interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values that are thereby shown to be in danger. In presenting a streamlined discussion from a negat...
Electric Seeing
What is the subject of video? Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of »Electric Seeing« that emerged in the 19th century as well as its curious relation to psychoanalysis and the contemporary discovery of the structure of the human psyche. In doing so, she exposes how this development laid the foundation of what we know today as »video«. This comprehensive theory of video entails a discussion of the technological, historical, and etymological roots, the media-theoretical concepts of medium and index, the philosophical and art-theoretical environment in which video emerged in the 1960s, the psychoanalytic concept of the phantasm, and artworks by artists such as Yael Bartana, Hito Steyerl, and Bjørn Melhus.
Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field
“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.
Herr und Knecht
Auf der Grundlage von Hegels Denkfigur erweitert Hannes Kuch die Anerkennungstheorie um die Kategorie der Macht: Mit der Figur von Herr und Knecht entpuppt sich das Streben nach Macht als Streben nach Anerkennung. Die Analyse der Macht im Horizont von Würdigung und Entwürdigung führt zu einem neuen Konzept der symbolischen Macht, das im Anschluss an die Transformationen von »Herr und Knecht« in der französischen Philosophie, in feministischen und postkolonialen Studien sowie in der Historiographie der Sklaverei ausgearbeitet wird.
As German as Kafka
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity put a clear stamp on German modernism. This book is the first to unfold literary parallels between these two riveting periods in German cultural history. Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, Özdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines a variety of literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity, while developing an overarching perspective on the ‘politics of literature’.
Wirtschaft, Demokratie und liberaler Sozialismus
Je ausgeprägter das Wissen um machbare Alternativen zum kapitalistischen Markt, desto wirkmächtiger die Kritik an dieser Wirtschaftsform. Von dieser Annahme ist Hannes Kuchs Studie geleitet, die eine neue Form der Kapitalismuskritik entwickelt und Alternativen zum Kapitalismus analysiert. Der kapitalistische Markt unterwandert das, was G. W. F. Hegel »Sittlichkeit« nannte: ein lebendiges, wirksames Ethos demokratischer Gerechtigkeit. Daraus ergibt sich die Forderung, dass demokratische Fähigkeiten bereits in der Wirtschaft eingeübt und wachgehalten werden müssen. Das ist die leitende Idee des liberalen Sozialismus. Die Umrisse dieser Wirtschaftsform werden in Auseinandersetzung mit der Idee einer Eigentümerdemokratie entfaltet, die John Rawls als Alternative zum Kapitalismus entwickelt.
Human Dignity
An analytical study of human dignity as the humanity of a person, as a constitutional value and a constitutional right.
Living with Dignity
By addressing gender equality as a fundamental expression of human dignity and justice on our continent, this collage of ? essays [by 14 women and 6 men], is meant to serve as a concrete alternative to aspects of gender inequality ? Its format is particularly devised for use in the classroom, and for critical-constructive group engagement. It is our sincere prayer that it will also be used in imaginative ways by clergy and in congregations as a necessary part of adult learning programmes.
