humanities and cultural studies
The Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies combines English and American studies, philosophy, history, media studies, art studies, cultural studies, German studies and literature studies. In these areas, too, digitalization is increasingly changing the way we work. Digital publishing and image databases are already established elements. The Internet plays an essential role in the way knowledge is created, represented and communicated. You will find a wide range of questions, exciting topics and numerous publications with scientific relevance in this category. If you also want to publish your work, dissertation, bachelor thesis, master thesis or textbook in the field of humanities and cultural studies, then contact us.
Hanswurst, Kasper, Punch and Pierrot in the Wiener Gruppe's dramas
The crudely funny clown, the quick-witted Kasper, the violent Punch or the melancholic Pierrot - as playwrights, H. C. Artmann, Konrad Bayer and Gerhard Rühm staged one 'funny' character after the other in their mini-plays from the 50s and 60s . What is it all about when 'hanswurst' is having sexual fun on stage, when 'kasper' causes unrest in the midst of the military or police, when 'punch' curses at the audience and throws his child out of the window,...
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Theodor Fontane and black African authors of modern times
This work demonstrates the importance of pre-modern or irrational values (curses, superstition, myths, witches and natural healers versus doctors, fetishism) in a comparative perspective in the threatening experience of the globalizing process of modernization in Theodor Fontane and black African poets of the modern age. They bring solutions where the achievements of modern civilization alone cannot work. Both literatures therefore claim the primacy of these irrational values in a civilization-historical world in which metaphysical problems challenge the rational mind. In...
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Thus passed the glory of the world
The present studies should serve to make thoughtful people tempted to study Schopenhauer's work and his pessimism on the basis of the unillusioned and unembellished presented human condition as a thoroughly altruistic alternative to the naive and pernicious positivism of modern consumer society. Details Title: Thus Passed the Glory of the World Subtitle: 3 studies on Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher with uncomfortable truths Author: Dr. Bruno Schmitz Edition: 1st edition Published: 1st edition 26.11.2015 Department: Philosophy Product Type: Book (Hardcover)...
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The two faces of postmodernism. On the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism
The concept of postmodernism has become a central concept in the humanities discourse since the 1970s. Together with the term poststructuralism, it describes a departure from the basic intellectual assumptions of modernity. What is often overlooked, however, is that the term has a different meaning in the philosophical context than in the original literary context. While the concept of philosophical postmodernism was constituted in contrast to the ideas of the Enlightenment, the concept of postmodernism was originally used in literature...
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Problems and possibilities of a universal ethics
With this book, Klaus Behnam Shad presents a provocative reflection on the possibilities and limits of universal ethics, which, particularly in the form of human rights, currently serve to legitimize a wide range of humanitarian interventions. On the one hand, Behnam Shad goes beyond the usual ethnological concern with research-practical moral questions and, on the other hand, beyond the empirical investigation of moral problems of actors in the context of recent anthropology of morality. Rather, he exposes himself and the...
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