englischThe discourse about several worlds is richly illustrated by science fiction and computer games. It seems evident that people have the desire to imagine astounding realities. However, 'alternative worlds' are not only fictions, but are discussed rationally in the scientific community: [...]

englischHardly any literary work of Classical Modernism is as well documented in its genesis as that of the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). This workshop report is the first to systematically examine the diverse textual interrelationships in the author's oeuvre. Three case studies on [...]

englischArthur Schnitzler’s relationships to the visual arts are examined for the first time systematically and in source-based special studies in the fourteen articles in this volume. Schnitzler’s staging of authorship in portrait art and photography, his aesthetic preferences in the acquisition of [...]

englischIn this meta-essay, the author, a visionary inspired by cybernetics, probes the causes of intelligence in our world, with some old questions revealing surprising answers. He advocates a humanistic social order that he calls sapiocracy and, in a ‘Buberian Dialogue’, outlines his comprehensive [...]

englischHow did intellectual elites, who had acquired their position and formed their self-conception within the Ottoman Empire, deal with its loss and change? This question is discussed by looking at their representations of Southeast Europe in Ottoman and Turkish travel literature. The study [...]