„Klassisches“

“Classical” works have lost their culture-shaping model character. Nevertheless, they still act as landmarks with radiant power for the present. The failure of their claim necessitates a cultural comparative revision of our own habits of thought. - In methodological, conceptual and art-historical studies, specialists from West and East seek to identify Eastern equivalents to the Western concept of the classical and also present original works on recognized cultural treasures (Yijing, Lao Tzu, Genji monogatari,...) that continue to inspire anew. How and in what sense does an inevitably interpretative reception gain or lose unifying and binding value for us?

With contributions by
Tilman Borsche | Wiebke Denecke | Mechthild Duppel-Takayama | Fabian Heubel | Henrik Jäger | Shuangzhi LI | Ahn Mun-Yeong | Tanehisa Otabe | Heiner Roetz | Hermann-Josef Röllicke | Naoki Sato | Wolfgang Christian Schneider | Teruaki Takahashi | Prorsan Watanangura | Anna Zschauer