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Freiheit. Bewusstheit. Verantwortlichkeit.
Der Band Freiheit. Bewusstheit. Verantwortlichkeit erscheint zum 60. Geburtstag des Philosophen und Religionswissenschaftlers Volker Zotz, der mit Büchern wie "Geschichte der buddhistischen Philosophie" (1996), "Auf den glückseligen Inseln" (2000), "Der Konfuzianismus" (2015) und "Mit Buddha das Leben meistern" bekannt wurde. Teil 1 enthält Beiträge zu seinem geistigen Werdegang und einzelnen Facetten seines Schaffens. Teil 2 ist dem deutsch-indischen Schriftsteller und Künstler Lama Anagarika Govinda (1898-1985) gewidmet, dessen Schüler Volker Zotz war. Teil 3 enthält Beiträge zu Fragen des Buddhismus und seiner Rezeption in Indien und Europa. Teil 4 geht auf Aspekte des religiösen...
Die Aufhebung der Lyrik
Die Aufhebung der Lyrik, so der Autor, steht unmittelbar bevor, denn – hier folgt er Oswald Spengler – der Untergang des Abendlandes ist unumgänglich. Jeder Widerstand gegen das Verblühen bleibt zwecklos. Fördert man es hingegen, findet man sich im Einklang mit dem notwendigen historischen Prozess. Der einleitende Essay "Das Nirwana der Poesie" belegt theoretisch die Unumgänglichkeit des Erlöschens europäischer Kultur. Der praktische Teil des Buchs belegt mit zahlreichen Beispieldichtungen den sicheren Niedergang der Lyrik. Neben Oswald Spengler sind u.a. Werk und Wirken von Hermann Conradi, Mao Zedong, Friedrich Nietzsche, Novalis, Claas Relotius und Josip Bros Tito Bezugspunkte der Poetologie Ernst-Steffen Blechkolbes.
Luise Rinser und Ernst Jünger Briefwechsel 1939 - 1944
Leben und Werk Luise Rinsers (1911 - 2002) können, dem Grundverständnis ihres Biografen José Sánchez de Murillo folgend, exemplarisch als epochaler Versuch der Verwirklichung des Menschlichen vom Weiblichen her verstanden werden. Zu den Grundbedingungen dieses Versuches gehört es, Geist und Eros in eine fruchtbare Spannung zu bringen. Bedeutende geistvolle Männer spielen daher im Leben Luise Rinsers immer wieder eine wichtige Rolle, einige von ihnen vor allem als Briefpartner. Zu diesen gehört neben Franz Seitz und Hermann Hesse in den frühen Jahren auch Ernst Jünger. Mit wem, wie, warum, zu welchem Zeitpunkt, zu welchem Zweck sucht Luise Rinser den brieflichen Kontakt? Was weiß si...
West Germany and the Global Sixties
The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with profound effects on German society. Timothy Scott Brown examines the unique synthesis of globalizing influences on West Germany to reveal how the presence of Third World students, imported pop culture from America and England, and the influence of new political doctrines worldwide all helped to precipitate the revolt. The book explains how the events in West Germany grew out of a new interplay of radical politics and popular culture, even as they drew on principles of direct-democracy, self-organization and self-determination, all still highly relevant in the present day.
The Wolf at the Door
The country needs a strong king in this thrilling historical adventure of The Crusader Knights As Richard Coeur de Lion’s empire crumbles and castle after castle falls to the French, there is one man who can save England – but King John will not send for him. England is in disarray: William Marshal, the King’s battle-scarred champion is left to dally at home with his new wife. King John himself is newly wed to Isabell of Angoulême, who will vie to outdo her husband with cruelty and spite. Called Lackland by some, as a measure of his wealth, Soft-sword by others, as the measure of his military prowess, King John is reckoned a poor choice to succeed his heroic brother, Richard the Lionhearted. But his terrible cunning can strike fear into the heart of the most courageous of men... The fifth fascinating instalment of The Crusader Knights Cycle is perfect for fans of David Gilman and Bernard Cornwell. ‘Vivid visual moments and all the technology of medieval warfare’ Observer
Reading Heinrich Heine
This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws fresh light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics. Through his critical relationship with Romanticism, Heine confronted the problem of modernity in startlingly original ways that still speak to the concerns of post-modern readers. Phelan highlights the importance of Heine for the critical understanding of modern literature, and in particular the responses to Heine's work by Adorno, Kraus and Benjamin. Heine emerges as a figure of immense European significance, whose writings need to be seen as a major contribution to the articulation of modernity.
A Foreign Affair
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low.
Adorno
'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biography ranges across the whole of Adorno's life and career, from his childhood and student years to his years in emigration in the United States and his return to postwar Germany. At the same time, Muller-Doohm examines the full range of Adorno's writings on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, music theory and cu...
Material Change
The long nineteenth century (c.1780–c.1920) in Western Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the production and possession of material goods. The material culture diversified and led to a rich variety of expressions. Dovetailing with a process of confessionalisation that manifested itself quite simultaneously, material religion witnessed its heyday in this period; from church buildings to small devotional objects. The present volume analyses how various types of reform (state, societal, and ecclesiastical) that were part of the process of modernisation affected the material devotional culture within Protestantism, Anglicanism, and Roman Catholicism. Although the contributions in this book st...
The Inability to Love
The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.
