Organized by Mario Wimmer, Rhetoric Department …read more
ABSTARCT: On January 6th 1795 the twenty-year-old Schelling, still a student at the Tübinger Stift, wrote to his friend and former roommate, Hegel: “I am now receiving the beginning of the detailed exposition by Fichte himself, the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre … Now I am working on an Ethics a …read more
Organized by the Working Group on Idealism and Theology (Gilad Sharvit) Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University) …read more
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Discussant: Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin) Abstract: This lecture presents a discussion and reading from The Kraus Project, Reitter’s recent collaboration with Jonathan Franzen. It includes translation and expansive commentary on two seminal instances of Karl Kraus’s early twentieth-century media criticism — “Heine and the Consequences” (1910) and “Nestroy and Posterity” …read more
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What exactly is total about the total work of art? This is a question that moves beyond the specific ways in which media relate to one another in the Wagnerian artwork, and instead drives towards a theory of what media are as such. It is thus no wonder that Friedrich …read more
GESELLIGKEIT. BILDUNGSKULTUR UND BÜGERLICHE EMANZIPATION ABSTRACT: In der deutschen Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte spielt die Geselligkeit, oft definiert als gepflegter Umgang unter gebildeten und kultivierten Menschen, die im zweckfreien Raum ein gemeinsames Interesse verbindet, eine besondere Rolle, weil die von ihr geförderte Kultur den von der Politik abgesonderten Bereich bürgerlicher und, schließlich ideologisiert, …read more
Barriers are an intrinsic element of society, and the ability to negotiate them forms the basis for progress, conflict or stagnation. But barriers are more than politics, nationality or ideology. In contrast to borders which establish a fixed partition between two or more objects, the barrier exists in a state …read more