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Author : Gerald Sommer
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 3826029216
Pages : 536 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (29 users)
Download Gassen und Landschaften PDF Full or another Format written by Gerald Sommer and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Rathkolb
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9783899716665
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (899 users)
Download Das Jahr 1968 - Ereignis, Symbol, Chiffre PDF Full or another Format written by Oliver Rathkolb and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The year 1968 remains a central topic of public debate and of contemporary history with special focus on myth building and myth deconstruction. Both the 1968er generation and their opposing groups tried to influence and dominate politics. 1968 is a symbol of a decade between revolution and rebellion, shaped by resistance against open and structural violence of the social and political establishment - a concrete utopia of an other society. In this anthology, the year 1968, still highly disputed among contemporary historians and political scientists, is analyzed from an interdisciplinary and international perspective with intense descriptions and comparative approach: singular events are discussed within a context, the loaded symbols are interpreted, ambivalent codes are decoded and relevant historiography is expounded - influenced by legitimization efforts and fundamental critique. German text. German description: Das Jahr 1968 bleibt Gegenstand offentlicher Debatten und der zeitgeschichtlichen Historiografie zwischen Mythos-Pflege und kritischer Rekonstruktion. Diese Historiografie hat den Anspruch, die 68er-Generation und legitimatorische Strategien pro und contra 1968er-Bewegung aus gegenwartiger Sicht zu deuten. 1968 steht international als Symbol fur eine Dekade zwischen Revolution und Rebellion, den Widerstand gegen die offene und strukturelle Gewalt des gesellschaftlichen und politischen Establishments - als konkrete Utopie von einer anderen Gesellschaft. Das bis heute in der Zeitgeschichte kontrovers dargestellte Jahr 1968 wird in diesem Band aus interdisziplinarer und internationaler Perspektive in Form von dichten Beschreibungen und Analysen vergleichend behandelt: Die singularen Ereignisse werden kontextuell beschrieben, die aufgeladenen Symbole interpretiert und die mehrdeutigen Chiffren dekodiert. Nicht zuletzt wird dessen Historiografie zwischen Legitimation und Fundamentalkritik problematisiert.
Author : Kai Luehrs-Kaiser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 3110151987
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (151 users)
Download "Excentrische Einsätze" PDF Full or another Format written by Kai Luehrs-Kaiser and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his novels, the Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer attempts to show how an insight into the way everything in the world is connected can still be maintained together with the assumption that everything is open to narration. This international collection of papers on all of Doderer's important works reveal him as an author who attempts to given independent and original specific questions of the modern age, such as the subject's lack of orientation, society's entaglement and the loss of link with the past.
Author : Elisabeth Röhrlich
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Release Date : 2016-05-09
ISBN 10 : 9783205202585
Pages : 530 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (25 users)
Download Migration und Innovation um 1900 PDF Full or another Format written by Elisabeth Röhrlich and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In den Jahrzehnten um 1900 entwickelte sich Wien zu einer der größten Städte Europas. Die Zuwanderung aus allen Teilen der Habsburgermonarchie bedingte jene Diversität, welche die Großstadt Wien erst zur Metropole werden ließ. Viele Protagonisten des kulturellen Booms der Jahrhundertwende waren Zuwanderer der ersten und zweiten Generation. Der Band versammelt Beiträge von österreichischen und internationalen Forschern und Forscherinnen, die sich dem Zusammenhang von Migration und Innovation während der Wiener Jahrhundertwende widmen. Sie beleuchten die diversen Entwicklungen in Kunst, Kultur, Theater, Musik, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik und geben detaillierte Einblicke in die unterschiedlichen Zuwanderungsgeschichten, welche das Fin de Siècle prägten. Dabei werden Fragen von Identitätskonstruktionen, Netzwerken und kulturellen Transfers neu in den Blick genommen.
Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-11
ISBN 10 : 9781135941222
Pages : 1136 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (135 users)
Download Encyclopedia of German Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David S. Luft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9780226496481
Pages : 271 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (226 users)
Download Eros and Inwardness in Vienna PDF Full or another Format written by David S. Luft and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human beings as bisexual and applied this theme to issues of creativity and morality. Robert Musil developed a creative ethics that was closely related to his open, flexible view of sexuality and gender. And Heimito von Doderer portrayed his own sexual obsessions as a way of understanding the power of total ideologies, including his own attraction to National Socialism. For Luft, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world-a process that continues to engage artists, writers, and thinkers today. Eros and Inwardness in Vienna will profoundly reshape our understanding of Vienna's intellectual history. It will be important for anyone interested in Austrian or German history, literature, or philosophy.
Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
ISBN 10 : 9781316510377
Pages : 757 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (316 users)
Download Jacob & Esau PDF Full or another Format written by Malachi Haim Hacohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.
Author : Andrew Barker
Publisher : Camden House
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 : 9781571135315
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (571 users)
Download Fictions from an Orphan State PDF Full or another Format written by Andrew Barker and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied, vivid view of the literary culture of the often-neglected interwar Austrian republic.
Author : Jorg Kreienbrock
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : 9780823245284
Pages : 313 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (823 users)
Download Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Jorg Kreienbrock and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the relationship of objects and affects in literary and philosophical texts from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of objects, which refuse to disappear into their automatic, unconscious functionality, instead remaining conspicuous thereby causing humorous outbursts of anger and rage.
Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-03-09
ISBN 10 : 9780745694894
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (745 users)
Download An Introduction to Dialectics PDF Full or another Format written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the most systematic development of the dialectic in Hegel's philosophy, and its relationship to Marx, as well as elaborating his own conception of dialectical thinking as a critical response to this tradition. Delivered in the summer semester of 1958, these lectures allow Adorno to explore and probe the significant difficulties and challenges this way of thinking posed within the cultural and intellectual context of the post-war period. In this connection he develops the thesis of a complementary relationship between positivist or functionalist approaches, particularly in the social sciences, as well as calling for the renewal of ontological and metaphysical modes of thought which attempt to transcend the abstractness of modern social experience by appeal to regressive philosophical categories. While providing an account of many central themes of Hegelian thought, he also alludes to a whole range of other philosophical, literary and artistic figures of central importance to his conception of critical theory, notably Walter Benjamin and the idea of a constellation of concepts as the model for an 'open or fractured dialectic' beyond the constraints of method and system. These lectures are seasoned with lively anecdotes and personal recollections which allow the reader to glimpse what has been described as the 'workshop' of Adorno's thought. As such, they provide an ideal entry point for all students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in Adorno's work as well as those seeking to understand the nature of dialectical thinking.
Author : Nicholas Saul
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 3826015525
Pages : 388 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (15 users)
Download Schwellen PDF Full or another Format written by Nicholas Saul and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Beller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781782384786
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (782 users)
Download Rethinking Vienna 1900 PDF Full or another Format written by Steven Beller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to question the main paradigm of this school, i.e. the "failure of liberalism." This volume reflects not only a whole range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, most notably though the concept of "critical modernism" and the integration of previously neglected aspects such as the role of marginality, of the market and the larger Central and European context. As a result this volume offers novel ideas on a subject that is of unending fascination and never fails to captivate the Western imagination.
Author : Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Camden House
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 1571132767
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (132 users)
Download A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 PDF Full or another Format written by Anne Fuchs and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture.
Author : Reiner Stach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
ISBN 10 : 9781400865451
Pages : 696 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (4 users)
Download Kafka PDF Full or another Format written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before—the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924—a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with nearly cinematic precision, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a wider world blighted by World War I, disease, and inflation. In these years, Kafka was spared military service at the front, yet his work as a civil servant brought him into chilling proximity with its grim realities. He was witness to unspeakable misery, lost the financial security he had been counting on to lead the life of a writer, and remained captive for years in his hometown of Prague. The outbreak of tuberculosis and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire constituted a double shock for Kafka, and made him agonizingly aware of his increasing rootlessness. He began to pose broader existential questions, and his writing grew terser and more reflective, from the parable-like Country Doctor stories and A Hunger Artist to The Castle. A door seemed to open in the form of a passionate relationship with the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská. But the romance was unfulfilled and Kafka, an incurably ill German Jew with a Czech passport, continued to suffer. However, his predicament only sharpened his perceptiveness, and the final period of his life became the years of insight.
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9789004459984
Pages : 469 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (4 users)
Download Brussels 1900 Vienna PDF Full or another Format written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brussels 1900 Vienna examines the complex cultural networks between Austria and Belgium (1880-1930), and situates these interrelations within a wider European context. The collection covers various fields, including literature, translation, music, theatre, visual arts, café culture, and architecture.
Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-07-19
ISBN 10 : 9780226555027
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (226 users)
Download Climate in Motion PDF Full or another Format written by Deborah R. Coen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state—the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws—where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of “scaling”—that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-12
ISBN 10 : 9789004334137
Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (4 users)
Download The New Georgics PDF Full or another Format written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human condition in rural, provincial locations is once again gaining status as a subject of European ‘high fiction’, after several decades in which it was dismissed on aesthetic and ideological grounds. This volume is one of the first attempts to investigate perspectives on local cultures, values and languages both systematically and in a European context. It does so by examining the works of a variety of authors, including Hugo Claus, Llamazares, Bergounioux and Millet, Buffalino and Consolo, and also several Soviet authors, who paint a grim picture of a collectivized – and thus ossified – rurality. How do these themes relate to the ongoing trend of globalization? How do these works, which are often experimental, connect – in their form, topics, language and ideological subtext – to the traditional rural or regional genres? Far from naively celebrating a lost Eden, most of these ‘new Georgics’ reflect critically on the tensions in contemporary, peripheral, rural or regional cultures, to the point of parodying the traditional topoi and genres. This book is of interest to those wishing to reflect on the dynamics and conflicts in contemporary European rural culture.
