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In the Blink of an Eye
From monocles to pince-nez and goggle-eyes, a cultural and technological history of glasses in fact and fiction. This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art, and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched gladiator fights to Benjamin Franklin’s homemade bifocals, and from Marilyn Monroe’s cat-eye glasses to the famed four-eyes of Emma Bovary and Harry Potter. Spectacles are objects that seem commonplace, but In the Blink of an Eye shows that because they fundamentally changed people’s lives, glasses were the wellspring of a quiet social, cultural, and economic revolution. Indeed, one can argue that modernity itself began with the paradigm shift that transformed poor eyesight from a severely limiting disease—treated with pomades and tinctures—into a minor impairment that can be remedied with mechanisms constructed from lenses and wire.
Gertrude Stein
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Die Welt als Exil
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) galt als Papst der Popkunst; mit Bildern von Produkten der Lebensmittel- und Unterhaltungsindustrie wurde er zum Star der internationalen Kunstszene, mit Filmen zum Meister des experimentellen Kinos, mit Porträts zum Liebling des Jet-set. Warhols künstlerische Entwicklung sinkt ab von der Erfindung avantgardistischer Darstellungsformen zur Routine gefälliger Verkaufskunst, sein Lebensweg steigt auf aus der Armut seiner Pittsburgher Jugend zum Glanz seiner New Yorker «Factories». Das Bildmaterial der Printausgabe ist in diesem E-Book nicht enthalten.
Dante. 100 Seiten
"Dante ist der italienische Nationaldichter schlechthin, mit seiner 'Komödie' beginnt die italienische Literatur." Dante: Superstar der Kulturgeschichte und europäische Identifikationsfigur. Seine "Commedia" zählt ähnlich wie die Bibel zum Grundinventar unseres kulturellen Gedächtnisses. Doch worin gründet Dantes unsterblicher Ruhm? Was fasziniert an seinem Œuvre bis heute? Stefana Sabin porträtiert Dante, seine Zeit und sein Werk, von den politischen Wirren in seiner Heimatstadt Florenz, die dazu führten, dass er lange Jahre im Exil verbringen musste, bis zu seiner ungeheuren Wirkung auch im 21. Jahrhundert.
BOB DYLAN 5 SONGS
'I've always painted. I've always held on to that one way or another.' (Bob Dylan) The ability to combine sensations and to express these in different ways: this is the extraordinary talent of Bob Dylan. The genres flow seamlessly into another, moved by incredible creativity: of sounds, words and images. In Dylan's well-received exhibition in 2007/2008 in Chemnitz, Germany. The Drawn Blank Series, watercolour and gouache works by the singer were shown for the first time anywhere in the world. This publication documents the series of talks that accompanied the exhibition: for each decade of Dylan's creative practice, a particularly significant song was selected by a famous expert and interpreted in depth. This is a unique storybook - for old and new fans - providing a fascinating insight into the work and creative practice of Bob Dylan. English and German text.
The Dark Mirror
"Lutz Koepnick's The Dark Mirror provides one of the finest, most compelling and suggestive accounts to date of the multiple locations of German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Charting the shifting relationships between institutional contexts and individual acts of reception, Koepnick persuasively shows how the German cinema and its filmmakers—both in exile and in Nazi Germany—contributed to a fragile, stratified, indeed, "nonsynchronous" public sphere."—Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "Lutz Koepnick's brilliant study debunks the received wisdom concerning Nazi German and Hollywood film of the 1930s and 40s. Using detailed analyses of 8 films, with special focus on sound and music, he insists upon the disjointed contexts and uneven relationships of American and German filmmaking. Historically nuanced and theoretically savvy, this remarkable book offers something for everyone: Americanists, Germanists, historians, students of cinema sound and music, those interested in debates between art and popular forms, and European and Hollywood production."—Caryl Flinn, author of Strains of Utopia
Religious apologetics - philosophical argumentation
"The dialog between the religions and various cultures has shown their common ground and emphasized the differences which characterize the individual religion or cultural identity. This volume shows how the boundaries between the talk of apologetics and philosophical argumentation fade and it combines historical and contemporary case studies from Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Contents include: On the Conditions for Systematic Theology in a Global Public, In the Name of the One and of the Many: Augustine and the Shaping of Christian Identity, An Apology for Mr. Toland in a Letter to Himself, Autobiography as Self Apology. From Deism through Transcendentalism to Atheism: Benjamin Franklin, ...
Modernity and Its Discontents
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.
Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer
One century after Gustav Landauer’s death, in a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern politics, the volume proposes a fascinating overview of the articulation between skepsis and antipolitics in his multifaceted unconventional anarchism.
