Berz; Bitsch; Siegert (eds.): FAKtisch. Festschrift für Friedrich Kittler zum 60. Geburtstag (2003) [German]
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“Dieser Band würdigt das facettenreiche Werk Friedrich Kittlers, das sich von der Literaturwissenschaft über die Mediengeschichte und die Computerwissenschaft bis hin zur Mathematik, Kulturwissenschaft und Gräzistik erstreckt. Die Beiträge lassen die immense Vielfalt der Disziplinen und Gegenstände erkennen, die durch Kittlers Arbeiten Anregungen erhalten haben und nicht selten geradezu revolutioniert worden sind.”
Edited by Peter Berz, Annette Bitsch, Bernhard Siegert
Publisher Wilhelm Fink, Munich, 2003
ISBN 3770539168, 9783770539161
374 pages
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Comments (3)Domenico Losurdo: Liberalism: A Counter-History (2006/2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · history, history of philosophy, liberalism, philosophy, politics, totalitarianism
One of Europe’s leading intellectual historians deconstructs liberalism’s dark side.
In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.
Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.
First published in Italian as Controstoria del Liberalismo, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2006
Translated by Gregory Elliott
Publisher Verso Books, 2011
ISBN 1844676935, 9781844676934
375 pages
interview with the author, video (Pam Nogales and Ross Wolfe, The Platypus Review)
PDF (updated on 2012-7-29)
Comment (0)Veronika Fuechtner: Berlin Psychoanalytic. Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, art history, berlin, germany, history, modernism, psychoanalysis, psychology, weimar republic
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York—and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School—Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Döblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.
Publisher University of California Press, 2011
Volume 43 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
ISBN 0520258371, 9780520258372
248 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-18)
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