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Author: Goerdt Abel Publisher: Europa Edizioni ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 574
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It seems to most people who are inundated with news from the press, television or the internet that the problems in their own country or in the world are getting bigger and bigger and that politics and politicians are getting worse and worse. Politicians are unable to solve the problems at hand, or can only do so poorly. They lack a focus on the common good of all citizens, and their actions frequently constitute the root cause of the issue. Almost everyone is aware that only “bad” news sells well, but they are usually unable to free themselves from this misjudgment. Maybe this book can help people overcome this trap of thought and point out ways to make positive changes in the future. Indeed, by analyzing the social development of Homo Sapiens since the acquisition of the ability to write, this work, aims to demonstrate ways in which our political culture can be improved through a more effective selection of politicians and, in so doing, avoiding potentially catastrophic misappointments.
Author: Goerdt Abel Publisher: Europa Edizioni ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 574
Book Description
It seems to most people who are inundated with news from the press, television or the internet that the problems in their own country or in the world are getting bigger and bigger and that politics and politicians are getting worse and worse. Politicians are unable to solve the problems at hand, or can only do so poorly. They lack a focus on the common good of all citizens, and their actions frequently constitute the root cause of the issue. Almost everyone is aware that only “bad” news sells well, but they are usually unable to free themselves from this misjudgment. Maybe this book can help people overcome this trap of thought and point out ways to make positive changes in the future. Indeed, by analyzing the social development of Homo Sapiens since the acquisition of the ability to write, this work, aims to demonstrate ways in which our political culture can be improved through a more effective selection of politicians and, in so doing, avoiding potentially catastrophic misappointments.
Author: Marco Brusotti Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110605236 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 420
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Nietzsche says "good Europeans" must not only cultivate a "supra-national" view, but also "supra-European" perspective to transcend their European biases and see beyond the horizon of Western culture. The volume takes up such conceptual frontier crossings and syntheses. Emphasizing Nietzsche's genealogy of European culture and his reflections upon the constitution of Europe in the broadest sense, its essays examine peoples and nations, values and arts, knowledge and religion. Nietzsche's apprehensions about the crises of nihilism and decadence and their implications for Europe's (and humankind’s) future are investigated in this context. Concerning the crossing of notional frontiers, contributors examine Nietzsche’s hoped-for dismantling of Europe’s state borders, the overcoming of national prejudices and rivalries, and the propagation of a revitalizing "supra-European" perspective on the continent, its culture(s) and future. They also illuminate lines of syntheses, notably the syncretism of the ancient Greeks and its possible example for the European culture to-be. Finally certain of Europe's current problems are considered via the critical apparatus furnished by Nietzsche's philosophy and the diagnostic tools it provides.
Author: Karin Baumgartner Publisher: Camden House (NY) ISBN: 1640140115 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 286
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The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates. The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing. The fourteen essays in Anxious Journeys redress this situation. They analyze texts by leading authors such as Felicitas Hoppe, Christoph Ransmayr, Julie Zeh, Navid Kermani, Judith Schalansky, Ilija Trojanow, and others, as well as topics such as Turkish-German travelogues and the relationship of comics to travel writing. The volume examines how writers engage with classic tropes of travel writing and how they react to the current sense of crisis and belatedness. It also links travel to ongoing debates about the role of the nation, mass migration, and the European project, as well as to Germany's place in the larger world order. Contributors: Karin Baumgartner, Heather Merle Benbow, Anke S. Biendarra, John Blair and Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Carola Daffner, Christina Gerhardt, Nicole Grewling, Gundela Hachmann, Andrew Wright Hurley, Christina Kraenzle, Magda Tarnawaska Senel, Monika Shafi, Sunka Simon. Karin Baumgartner is Professor of German at the University of Utah. Monika Shafi is Elias Ahuja Professor of German at the University of Delaware.
Author: Heike Schwarz Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839424887 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 457
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This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.
Author: Geoffrey Underwood Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080550797 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 635
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Just as our transport systems become more and more important to our economic and social well-being, so they become more and more crowded and more at risk from congestion, disruption, and collapse. Technology and engineering can provide part of the solution, but the complete solution will need to take account of the behaviour of the users of the transport networks. The role of psychologists in this is to understand how people make decisions about the alternative modes of transport and about the alternative routes to their destinations, to understand how novice and other vulnerable users can develop safe and effective behaviours, how competent users can operate within the transport system optimally and within their perceptual and cognitive limitations. The contributions to this volume address these issues of how the use of our transport systems can be improved by taking into account knowledge of the behaviour of the people who use the systems. Topics discussed include driver training and licensing, driver impairment, road user attitudes and behaviour, enforcement and behaviour change, driver support systems, and the psychology of mobility and transport mode choice. This work will be of value not only to psychologists but to all transport professionals interested in the application of psychology to traffic.
Author: Siegfried Mews Publisher: Camden House ISBN: 1571130624 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 435
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A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works. When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled thepostwar rebirth of German letters, auguring "a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction." Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with The Tin Drum, Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. SiegfriedMews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in publicdiscourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additionalinsight into the reception of Grass's works. Siegfried Mews is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Author: Marcus Steinweg Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262534355 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 143
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Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. —Inconsistencies These 130 short texts—aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing—target a perennial philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of reality are inconsistent, fragmentary, and unstable; God is dead, and our identity as subjects discordant. How can we establish a new mode of thought that does not cling to new gods or the false security of rationality? Marcus Steinweg, as he did in his earlier book The Terror of Evidence, constructs a philosophical position from fragments, maxims, meditations, and notes, formulating a philosophy of thought that expresses and enacts the inconsistency of our reality. Steinweg considers, among other topics, life as a game (“To think is to play because no thought is firmly grounded”); sexuality (“wasteful, contradictory, and contingent”); desire (”Desire has a thousand names; It's earned none of them”); reality (“overdetermined and excessively complex”); and world (“a nonconcept”). He disposes of philosophy in one sentence (“Philosophy is a continual process of its own redefinition.”) but spends multiple pages on “A Tear in Immanence,” invoking Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and others. He describes “Wandering with Foucault” (“Thought entails wandering as well as straying into madness”) and brings together Derrida and Debord. He poses a question: “Why should a cat be more mysterious than a dog?” and later answers one: “Beauty is truth because truth is beauty.” By the end, we have accompanied Steinweg on converging trains of thought. “Thinking means continuing to think,” he writes, adding “But thinking can only pose questions by answering others.” The question of inconsistency? Asked and answered, and asked.
Author: Damien François Publisher: Editions Publibook ISBN: 2748337972 Category : Anthropology Languages : en Pages : 582
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Voilà désormais plus de 10 000 ans que la civilisation occidentale s'est installée et voilà 10 000 ans qu'elle viole le sens même de la nature : la vie. En s'appropriant sans concession ce qui l'entourait, l'homme de l'Ouest a vu son horizon ployer sous la charge de la destruction qu'il lui avait lui-même réalisée. Sommes-nous des lycanthropes ou des vampires? Ces monstres si terrifiants qui sortent de notre imagination sont-ils en réalité la copie de notre comportement dévastateur? Prédateurs, nous pompons sans remords les énergies qui nous entourent. Jusqu'où ira-t-on?.
Author: Necia Chronister Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111352242 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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This volume casts a critical light on one of Germany’s bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh’s literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent years and in the wake of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Zeh’s output has only increased, though her most recent work, Unterleuten (2016), Über Menschen (2021), and Zwischen Welten (2023; co-written with Simon Urban), has evolved away from the literary and philosophical thought that informed her more nuanced earlier work and towards a more conservative representation of contemporary social dynamics. While her work continues to garner prestigious awards, Zeh herself, who is an honorary judge at the Brandenburg constitutional court and a seemingly omnipresent public intellectual, has taken increasingly libertarian positions in recent political debates -- whether about Germany’s public health measures in response to the pandemic, or the country’s role in the Ukraine war. This volume traces the development and broad impact of Zeh’s writing while reflecting on the responsibility of the scholars who read and teach it to confront her ambiguous and sometimes troubling politics.
Author: Marlis Prinzing Publisher: Herbert von Halem Verlag ISBN: 3869622393 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : de Pages : 914
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Was kennzeichnet den politischen Journalismus? Er ist gewissermaßen die ›Mutter aller Journalismen‹. Er bestreicht ein breites Feld – vom Lokal- und Regionaljournalismus über die Parlaments-, Parteien-, Regierungs- und Wahlberichterstattung aus den Hauptstädten bis zur europäischen und globalen Diplomatie-Berichterstattung und zur Konflikt- und Kriegsberichterstattung. Er steht unter Druck: Der Vorwurf der ›Lügenpresse‹ trifft vor allem ihn, und er wird bedrängt durch die Herausforderungen des im Netz mitdiskutierenden Publikums, der politischen Akteure und der PR. Neue Kommunikatoren zwingen ihn zum Wandel. Das Handbuch will das Wissen über den politischen Journalismus erweitern und ihn – auch international vergleichend – ergründen und erläutern.
Author: Goerdt Abel
Author: Goerdt Abel
Author: Marco Brusotti
Author: Karin Baumgartner
Author: Heike Schwarz
Author: Geoffrey Underwood
Author: Siegfried Mews
Author: Marcus Steinweg
Author: Damien François
Author: Necia Chronister
Author: Marlis Prinzing