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The Public Realm and the Public Self

Author : Shiraz Dossa
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1989-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0889209677

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On pp. 28-36, "The Holocaust, " and pp. 125-141, "Eichmann, " discusses a reinterpretation of the controversy over Arendt's views on the origins of totalitarianism, the "guilt" of the Jews and the "evilness" of Eichmann. Suggests that one has to interpret Eichmann's behavior as that of a "private" man entering the public realm, aiming to achieve private self-interests. Contends that use of this terminology and way of thinking can explain Arendt's apparent inconsistencies in her views on the Holocaust.

Perspectives on Gender in Post-1945 German Literature

Author : Georgina Paul
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571134239

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Rooted in Enlightenment rationalism, modernity tends to privilege masculine-connoted characteristics -- conscious subjective agency, rational control and self-containment, the subjugation of nature -- and has generated a conceptualization of human subjectivity emphasizing these qualities. Yet the costs of this conception of human selfhood are high, and at modernity's most acute moments of historical crisis writers and artists can be seen turning to feminine-connoted figurations -- nature, tradition, myth and spirituality, intuition, relationality, flux. In recent decades studies have examined the cultural crisis of German modernity, notably at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as a crisis of masculinity. Feminist critiques, meanwhile, have viewed cultural history as male-generated and "phallocentric," in need of a feminine corrective. The innovation of this book is to examine these two gendered perspectives side by side, investigating the culturally symbolic significance of gender in post 1945 German language literature via a sequence of paired readings of major, thematically related texts by male and female authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina (1971) and Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964); Frisch's Homo Faber (1957) and Christa Wolf's St rfall (1987); Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin and Rainald Goetz's Irre (both 1983); and Heiner M ller's Die Hamletmaschine (1977) and Christa Wolf's Kassandra (1983). Finally, Barbara K hler's eight-poem cycle "Elektra. Spiegelungen" (written 1984-85; published 1991) is considered as offering a way past the "impasse" of the male and female viewpoints. Georgina Paul is University Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Hilda's College.

Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene

Author : Maria Paula Diogo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1351170236

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This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.

Power, Knowledge, and Dissent in Morgenthau's Worldview

Author : Felix Rösch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113739529X

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This book provides a comprehensive investigation into Hans Morgenthau's life and work. Identifying power, knowledge, and dissent as the fundamental principles that have informed his worldview, this book argues that Morgenthau's lasting contribution to the discipline of International Relations is the human condition of politics.

Turning Operations

Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415932455

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Praise of Antiheroes

Author : Victor Brombert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226075525

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A book tracing the rise of the antihero in modern literature. The author defines him as someone whose courage displays our own needs and deficiencies. For example, he achieves dignity through humiliation, or suffers a reversal through his honesty.

Evolution and Social Life

Author : T. Ingold
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521289559

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This book examines evolution being handled in anthropology from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Volker Schlondorff's Cinema

Author : Hans Bernhard Moeller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809324514

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Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the “Movie-Appropriate”examines the work of major postwar Germandirector Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. . In spite of Schlöndorff’s successes with films like The Lost Honor ofKatharina Blum and The Tin Drum, as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men and The Handmaid’s Tale, this is the first in-depthcritical study of the filmmaker’s career.

International Education

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136357513

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A study of the principles and practices of international education. Each chapter of this volume addresses a key issue in international education, seeking to blend practical issues with leading research. This revised edition includes a new introduction by the editors.

Homo Faber

Author : Max Frisch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014194434X

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The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.