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East West Mimesis
East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations. Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts—figura as a way of conceptualizing history and mimesis as a means of representing reality—to show how Istanbul shaped Mimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.
Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009)
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture" that was published in Religions
Exile and Otherness
In recent years Culture Studies, Anthropology, German Studies, History, Political Psychology, and other fields have used the concept of 'exile' in close connection with terms like migration, border crossing, identity, and transnationality. Views of a homogeneous culture and of centricity collide with ideas like multiculturalism, pluralism, creolization, and the globalization of differences. A transit-culture, inhabited by the flaneur and the nomad, is supposed to have replaced citizenship in a nation. At the same time, there can be no doubt that the experience of those writers, artists and intellectuals who were driven out of Germany and Europe by the Nazis was in many ways unique. This book...
Time, History, and Literature
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. This book presents a selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world.
The Pen Confronts the Sword
During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history.
Die Konskription der Eigenbehörigen der Stadt Wiedenbrück 1602 bis 1734
Die Stadt Wiedenbrück hatte mit 21 Höfen und Kotten eine nicht besonders große, jedoch im Vergleich mit den Nachbarstädten Rheda und Rietberg bzw. den von der Größe her vergleichbaren Städten des Münsterlandes schon recht umfangreiche Grundherrschaft. Die meisten Höfe lagen in der Bauerschaft Lintel gefolgt von den Bauerschaften Batenhorst und Röckinghausen, alle also im Kirchspiel Wiedenbrück, womit die hier vorliegenden familiären Angaben leicht anhand der Kirchenbücher nachvollziebar sind. Die 1602 begonnene und bis ca. 1734 fortgeführte Aufschreibung der Stadt Wiedenbrücker Eigenbehörigen gibt einen guten Einblick in das vielfältige familiäre Beziehungsgeflecht der ländlichen Bevölkerung über Guts- und Landesgrenzen hinweg. Gleichzeitig vermittelt sie aber auch die Schwierigkeiten einer etwas größeren Grundherrschaft, mit denen diese bei der Verwaltung ihrer Eigenbehörigen zu kämpfen hatte.
Wildwuchs
Rätselhafte Morde zeichnen eine Spur des Grauens. Was treibt den Serienmörder an? Welches Geheimnis trägt der Waldmörder in sich? Die Ermittler der Soko WALD werden unterstützt von der Polizeipsychologin Stefanie Wolter. Sie verfängt sich in einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel mit dem Psychopathen, der sein Unwesen in Bremen und Umgebung treibt. Eine Vielzahl hochrangiger Persönlichkeiten treibt ihre sexuellen Fantasien im Rotlichtmilieu aus und gerät in einen Sumpf von Gewalt und Erpressung von Clan-Kriminalität. Befindet sich das Phantom, der Waldmörder, unter ihnen? Ein mörderisches Spiel aus Psycho-Terror zieht seine Kreise.
Im Schatten des Bösen
Der ehemalige Bundeswehrsoldat und Fremdenlegionär Jürgen Ahrend hat nach Ausscheiden aus dem Dienst einen Kriminalroman-Bestseller geschrieben. Während seiner Buchlesereise, auf Inseln und in Städten an der Nordsee, kommt es zu mehreren Tötungsdelikten. Die Taten werden in einem bisher nicht veröffentlichten Buch des Autors beschrieben. Hauptkommissar Ole Hansen leitet die SOKO STRAND und ermittelt in alle Richtungen. Es führen Spuren und Indizien zu dem Autor, der in Polizeigewahrsam genommen wird. Sein Freund, ein Privatdetektiv, will den wahren Täter ermitteln. Was ist das Motiv des Phantom-Mörders? Geht es um eine noch offene Rechnung aus früheren Jahren? Gelingt es, das nahezu perfekte Verbrechen des Phantom-Mörders aufzuklären?
Ethnic Europe
Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas, separatist movements, and threats of terrorism. With Europe now a destination for global immigration, European countries are increasingly alert to the difficult struggle to balance minority rights with social cohesion. In pondering these dilemmas, the contributors to this volume take us from theory, history, and broad views of diasporas, to the particularities of neighborhoods, borderlands, and popular literature and film that have been shaped by the mixing of ethnic cultures.
Political Demonology
“The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of redemption governs not only every religion of salvation and redemption. It is immanently given in every world in need of change and renewal, inescapably and ineradicably. The lord of a world in need of change, that is, a misconceived world and the liberator, the creator of a transformed, new world cannot be good friends. They are, so to speak, enemies by definition.” Whether Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, or Erich Auerbach and Hans Blumenberg, Ernst Bloch and Jacob Taubes, or Carl Schmitt (cited above)—all of them have been more or less fascinated or awed by the dualistic theology of St. Paul’s disciple Marcion, and have as prominently and as differently referred to him. Already Adolf von Harnack, author of the Marcion monograph that even today sets the standard, was aware of the timeliness of his research object, in view of a modern Marcionism, right after the First World War.
