Die Macht des Wortes
Die Macht des Wortes

Author: Jenny Holzer

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Jenny Holzers Werke erreichen und berühren ein großes Publikum weltweit. In den 1980er Jahren zeigte die Künstlerin ihre aufrüttelnden politischen Texte auf LED-Anzeigentafeln und Laufbändern in Flughäfen oder Sportstadien. Für ihre jüngeren Lichtarbeiten benutzt sie Xenon-Scheinwerfer, mit denen sich Schriftzüge auf jede Gebäudefläche, aber auch auf Plätze oder Flüsse projizieren lassen. Die Publikation dokumentiert einen Querschnitt aus Jenny Holzers Lichtkunst-uvre, für den die Künstlerin im Rahmen der Duisburger Akzente 2004 Textbotschaften aus ihren berühmten Arbeiten Truisms (1977-1979), Inflammatory Essays (1979-1982), Survival (1983-1985) und Mother and Child (1990) auf die monumentalen Stahlskulpturen des Hochofens im ehemaligen Thyssen-Hüttenwerk sowie auf weitere markante Architekturen der Duisburger Innenstadt projizierte. Alle Texte der Xenon-Installationen erstmals in neuer deutscher Übersetzung.

Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820
Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820

Author: Horst Albert Glaser

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9789027234476

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This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a four-volume history of European literature from 1760-1820, and the first of these volumes, Des Lumières au Romantisme. Genres en Vers, appeared as long ago as 1982. The volumes Genres en Prose and Théâtre are still awaited. In their absence the present volume, Epoche im _berblick, attempts a more comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the period and its historiographical problems than was initially planned, providing the reader with an overview of sixty eventful years of European literary history — years in which German Classicism coincided with the birth, initially in Germany and England, of Romanticism. And at the centre of this turbulent period of European intellectual and literary history stands the French Revolution.

The Skin of the System
The Skin of the System

Author: Benjamin Robinson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0804762473

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The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity—that of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In this way, the study elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? To approach this question, Robinson turns to the remarkable writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to socialism. Fühmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By placing Fühmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social rupture, The Skin of the System wrests the brutal materiality of twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.

Language, Action, and Context
Language, Action, and Context

Author: Brigitte Nerlich

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9027245673

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The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration.It can be said that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. These early 'conceptions' of pragmatics are described in the first part of the book.The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground. The main stage was then occupied by a fact-hunting historical comparative linguistics on the one hand and a newly spiritualised philosophy on the other.In the last part the period between 1880 and 1930 is presented, when pragmatic insights flourished and were sought after systematically. This was due in part to a new upsurge in empiricism, positivism and later behaviourism in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Between 1780 and 1930 philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and linguists came to see that language could only be studied in the context of dialogue, in the context of human life and finally as being a kind of human action itself.

Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World
Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World

Author: Paul Mirecki

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9047400402

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This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptic and Islamic Egypt. The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth of scholarly approaches represented. The book begins with several papyrological studies presenting important new texts in Greek and Coptic, continuing with essays focusing on taxonomy and definition. The concluding essays apply contemporary theories to analyses of specific test cases in a broad variety of ancient Mediterranean cultures.