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The Aesthetic Contract
Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor since the outset of "the broader modernity", which the author sees as beginning with the decline of feudalism and the Church. As a work of intellectual history, it suggests that art and the conventions associated with the artistic constitute a secular institution that has supplanted pre-Reformation theology. From the perspective of the "subject," modernity has entailed a heightened sense of individuation, moral conflict, and pervasive loss and disaster. Yet the pitfalls that have earmarked personal experience have taken on positi...
Katerina's Windows
"Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives"--Provided by publisher.
Melos conspirant singuli in unum
In diesem Band werden in chronologischer Folge 129 Mitglieder aus den ersten hundert Jahren des 1644 gegrundeten Pegnesischen Blumenordens, einer der bedeutendsten Sozietaten des 17. Jahrhunderts, mit ihren Kurzbiographien und Werkverzeichnissen vorgestellt, darunter neben seinem Grunder, dem Nurnberger Patrizier Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, so namhafte Schriftsteller wie Johann Klaj, Sigmund von Birken, Michael Kongehl, Martin Kempe, Georg Neumark und Magnus Daniel Omeis wie auch unbekannte Poeten aus Nurnberg, den frankischen Markgraftumern, aus Regensburg, Schwaben und dem Ries, aus den Stadten des Kustenraums im Norden und Nordosten, aus Sachsen sowie aus Schlesien und Wien. Verfasst haben...
