NonFiction

With programs such as ChatGTP, artificial intelligence has reached a level at which it is now scarcely possible to distinguish a text written by a computer from one written by a human being. For example, can you be certain that the text you are reading right now was not written by an algorithm?

This represents a real turning point in the way we read the written word. If we are...

Long awaited and now available from the estate: Hans Blumenberg’s reviews, talks and lectures on international literature: Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Greene, Kafka, Jünger, Faulkner, Robbe-Grillet and many others.

»Although the laws of the last twelve years have made impossible any journalistic expression whatsoever in the same way as they have made impossible the...

Particularly in recent times, the term »hate« has made a career in public importance. In the journalistic and socio-historical critique of the reaction to the refugee crisis prevalent in Germany and Europe it moved to the forefront of the discourse alongside terms like »identity« and »racism«.

But Karl Heinz Bohrer’s study in twelve chapters searches for something entirely...

»Suddenness or epiphany – an expression of discontinuity and rupture – resists aesthetic integration. This argument is the centrepiece of Bohrer's collection of...

Empathy is considered the basis of moral action. But if we examine this more carefully, the ability to »empathize with other people« proves itself to be a prerequisite for deliberate...

He grasps both as related manners of thinking, darts in his short articles »with cheerful seriousness« between...

In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, poet Durs Grünbein deals with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since the moment he started to perceive his own position...

Proceeding on the observation that poetics that create norms and set benchmarks no longer existed, Grünbein traces his poetic career as a »sketch of a personal psychopoetics«.

This...