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The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.
Franz Baermann Steiner
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner’s concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death.
Urban Ethics as Research Agenda
This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities. Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens the lens to include other actors apart from powerful individuals or institutions, paying special attention to activists or civil society organizations that express concerns about collective life. The chapters provide fresh perspectives addressing the various scales that converge in the urban. The uni...
The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino
The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century’s key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.
H. G. Adler
The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to the prosecution in the trial of A...
The Social Origins of Thought
By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.
Ernst Jünger-Bibliographie. Fortsetzung
Die vorliegende Bibliographie zu Ernst Jünger führt den 2003 erschienenen Vorgängerband weiter und dokumentiert die komplexe Forschungsgeschichte bis zum Jahr 2015 in übersichtlicher Systematik: Monographien, Kongress-Schriften, Beiträge in Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken, versteckte Buchkapitel und Nachträge zum vorausgegangenen Berichtszeitraum. Der Registerteil bietet vielfältige Suchhilfen nach Namen, Begriffen und Werktiteln. Für die Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk Ernst Jüngers, der sich mittlerweile als Klassiker der Moderne etabliert hat, ist die neue Bibliographie ein unentbehrlicher Kompass.
Dichtung als Menschenwissenschaft
Tabea Dörfelt-Mathey beschreibt und analysiert anhand einer repräsentativen Auswahl aus den Gedichten das poetische Werk von Norbert Elias und verortet es im Gesamtkontext seines Denkens. Die Gedichte des Soziologen haben bisher weder in der Forschung zu seiner Person und seinem Werk, noch in der Literaturwissenschaft Beachtung gefunden. Auch die zahlreichen kunsttheoretischen Überlegungen, die sein wissenschaftliches Werk durchziehen, wurden bisher kaum unter diesem Aspekt beleuchtet. Dabei stellte für Elias das Dichten eine komplementäre Tätigkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Arbeit dar und Kunst als Kommunikationsform galt ihm geradezu als Paradigma von Kommunikation überhaupt. Neben den publizierten Gedichten und wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten von Norbert Elias zieht die Autorin poetologische Schriften und Gedichte aus dem Nachlass sowie Briefwechsel und Erinnerungen von Zeitzeugen für die Studie heran.
Wer hat zu entscheiden, wohin ich gehöre?
German-Jewish aphorists depict the self-understanding of German Jews in all its contradictory diversity, from Western Jewish liberalism to orthodoxy, from solidarity to demarcation, from straightforward assimilation to Zionism and Jewish-Israeli national consciousness. The biographical character in question portrays a tense and grievously experienced duality. The phenomenon concerning the reflection from the outside ought not to be neglected. As far as implication is concerned, aphorism is undoubtedly "not a Jewish invention" (Kunert). Nevertheless, many constitutive elements of the genre encounter a specific disposition: introspection, which feeds off the aggression of its surroundings, the provocative wit of the one who believes himself to have been deemed an outsider, scepticism and disillusionism, paradox and dialectics, as well as the relationship to writing and language.
