Ernst Jüngers Werk hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine nachhaltige Renaissance erfahren, wobei vor allem rechte Kreise den aporetischen Duktus seiner Utopien und Staatskonzepte ignorieren.
Der Literaturwissenschaftler und -kritiker Niklas Bender untersucht an ausgewählten Beispielen der modernen und der Gegenwartsliteratur, wie das Lesen von Literatur heute dazu beitragen kann, das Leben sinnvoll zu gestalten.
An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societiesThanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information.
A compact introduction to the central subject-matter, approaches and research domains - attention is paid primarily to the most important issues and categories of literary studies, to the methodology of poetry, drama, narrative and media analysis, and to the most important elements of English and American literary history.
En esta serie de ensayos, Óscar Quezada Macchiavello construye una mirada que interpela el sentido de fenómenos socioculturales y textos artísticos desde la semiótica y la filosofía.
A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories.
Ausgehend von den Rändern der gegenwärtigen literarischen Praxis wirft Annette Gilberts komparatistische Studie neues Licht auf eine zentrale Kategorie der Literatur(wissenschaft): das Werk als pragmatische Instanz literarischer Kommunikation.
Ocho articulos academicos de Claudio Maiz, Maria Paula Pino Villar, Alejandro Paredes, Emiliano Matias Campoy, Pablo Ponza, Ramiro Esteban Zo y Gabriel Motali, sobre las redes intelectuales que se crearon en Latinoamerica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX en torno de las revistas culturales Crisis, Forja y Terra.
Las expediciones por tierras exóticas y el descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo hicieron que, entre los siglos xiv y xvii, la inclusión de mapas en las obras de ficción fuera cada vez más habitual, a pesar de las dificultades técnicas y económicas que implicaban.
Die hier versammelten Texte folgen keinem alternierenden Duktus, sie wechseln vielschichtig hin und her zwischen philosophischen Gedankenbewegungen und imaginativer Prosa.
Die bedeutende deutsch-amerikanische Denkerin Hannah Arendt, bekannt für ihre Analysen totalitärer Herrschaft, erfreut sich in den letzten Jahren wieder großen Interesses.
Se amplia el campo de la argumentacion con una precisa, autorizada e informada descripcion de las diversas posiciones o estilos en el tratamiento del tema, de enorme trascendencia por mostrar la posibilidad del uso de estas herramientas intelectuales y emotivas en la vida cotidiana de un pueblo.
An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?
How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from "e;the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.
A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics.
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Contemporary celebrations of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences often harbor a distrust of traditional disciplines, which are seen as at best narrow and unimaginative, and at worst complicit in larger forms of power and policing.
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republicand the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither.
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point.
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict?
Lecturas a través del espejo es un libro que recupera la mirada de Victoria Mora sobre la obra de algunos autores que considera insoslayables para cualquiera que ame la literatura.
To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation.
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading.
How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events.
A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.
A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States.
The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing.
