englischUtopias can realize mankind's aspiration for a home, as Ernst Bloch programmatically claimed. After all, they are attempts to look beyond the horizon of the existing social order. This search for another, better world, beginning with Thomas More, is addressed in this volume in two essays, [...]

englisch"Jean Pauls Revolutionsdichtung" was first published in 1974 in East and West Germany. The book is Harich's attempt to clarify the connections between philosophy, literature and culture in Germany in the decade of the French Revolution. The spectrum of authors and theorists discussed ranges [...]

englischLogos = Word? This traditional translation at the beginning of the Gospel of John falls short. In 500 BC, early Greek thinker Heraclitus defined Logos as the universal basic principle that creates and guides everything. It marks the ancient Greek path "From Myth to Logos" and thus the first [...]

englischOriginating from the fields of anthropology and art history, research on the physically tangible object is gaining more importance as a direct carrier of meaning of material culture. Textile studies belongs to this interdisciplinary field. It is the basis of this examination with the aim of [...]

englischThe empty chair policy of 1965 marked a severe institutional crisis for the then European economic community. Was the cause of divergences in the European conceptions of the two main actors Charles de Gaulle and Walter Hallstein? And what role did the Luxembourg compromise, that resolved [...]

englischWith the intention of getting Gottfried Keller out of the ‘humorous corner’ and into the grotesque, the monstrous elements of his work are worked out. The result: catastrophes are Keller’s ‘day-to-day business’ and the grotesque is a systematic subject in his novels. The discomfort is shown [...]