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Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments
Year of Publication: 1994
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1994

Posthumous Writings. Section I: Fragments

Volume 3: Current of Music. Elements of a Radio Theory
The extensive edition of Adorno’s posthumous writings expands the Collected Writings and together with the fragmentary works collects editions of his lectures, papers, and discussions as well as...
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Collected Writings in 20 Volumes
Year of Publication: 1997
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1997

Collected Writings in 20 Volumes

As the primary figure behind Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, as an essayist and critic of society, a music theorist and composer, a sociologist and high-school teacher, Adorno made a...
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Writing
Year of Publication: 2021
Carolin AmlingerYear of Publication: 2021

Writing

A Sociology of Literary Work
There is no need to fear the end of literary culture – but the way by which books are made is changing. With a focus on the recent history of the book market, Carolin Amlinger provides a comprehensive inventory of aesthetic economies that also allows a glimpse into the future of the book business. At the same time, the study condenses the diverse working and living environments of...
Sources, Streams, Icebergs
Year of Publication: 2012
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2012

Sources, Streams, Icebergs

Reflections on Metaphors
In order to escape the overwhelming burden of reality, humans invent myths and metaphors, metaphysical and cultural systems, which offer a point of orientation even though it is all but impossible to...
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Writings on Literature 1945-1958
Year of Publication: 2017
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 2017

Writings on Literature 1945-1958

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

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Shipwreck with Spectator
Year of Publication: 1979
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 1979

Shipwreck with Spectator

Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence
This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year...
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English world rights (MIT Press), France (L'Arche), Sweden (Faethon), Korea (Saemulgyul), Hungary (Atlantisz), Slovenia (Krtina), Turkey (Alfa), Greece (Antipodes), Israel (Shalem Press); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (A. Machado Libros), Italy (Il Mulino), Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij), Japan (Tetsugako Shobo)

The Appearance of Dionysus
Year of Publication: 2015
Karl Heinz BohrerYear of Publication: 2015

The Appearance of Dionysus

Classical Mythology and Modern Metaphor
Has Dionysus only become Dionysian in the course of modernity? Dionysus, son of Zeus, god of ecstasy, has been ascribed many characteristics. But only one of them discerns him from all the other gods: his sudden »appearance«, that mysterious eventfulness that is connected to his entrance and which was already thematised in the Greek texts. In his new book, Karl Heinz Bohrer explores the...
Suddenness
Year of Publication: 1981
Karl Heinz BohrerYear of Publication: 1981

Suddenness

On the Moment of Aesthetic Appearance

Suddenness or epiphany – an expression of discontinuity and rupture – resists aesthetic integration. This argument is the centrepiece of Bohrer's collection of essays […]. The study...

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Speaking with Daggers
Year of Publication: 2019
Karl Heinz BohrerYear of Publication: 2019

Speaking with Daggers

The Literary Hate Effect

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...

The Dark Sides of Empathy
Year of Publication: 2017
Fritz BreithauptYear of Publication: 2017

The Dark Sides of Empathy

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...

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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Hungary (Typotex)

Year of Publication: 2009
Fritz BreithauptYear of Publication: 2009

Cultures of Empathy

Most theories of empathy assume that the primary scene of empathy involves two people: One who has empathy with another. The author's hypothesis, however, is that human empathy derives from a scene...
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Year of Publication: 2011
Fritz BreithauptYear of Publication: 2011

Culture of the Excuse

Why do people tell each other things? Why did they learn to tell stories? What cultural achievements are linked to telling stories? And what is story telling in the first place? Fritz Breithaupt gives us an astounding answer to this question.

Telling stories allows us to present excuses. With an excuse, one can remove one’s head from the noose. The essence of an excuse...
Year of Publication: 2008
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2008

Discreet Continuity

Poetry and Mathematics
»A mathematician who is not also to some extent a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.« (Karl Weierstraß, mathematician)

Conversely, lyric poet Oswald Egger conducts basic research into the interaction between mathematics and poetry:


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

Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2009

Skirmishes and Scholia

On Literature
They remained unpublished for decades: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Frankfurt lectures on poetry from the winter semester of 1964/65. Using these extensive texts, Enzensberger's writings on...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Amir EshelYear of Publication: 2012

Futurity

Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century’s catastrophes at the expense of literature’s prospective vision. 


Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues...
Year of Publication: 2020
Durs GrünbeinYear of Publication: 2020

For the Dying Calves

Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures

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...

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Year of Publication: 2008
Durs GrünbeinYear of Publication: 2008

The Cartesian Diver

Three Meditations
René Descartes’ most ambitious project was his expansive oeuvre Le Monde. His intention: to weave all the divided strands of knowledge into a fabric that is so dense that it allows you to...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Durs GrünbeinYear of Publication: 2010

The Vocation of Poetry

Frankfurt Lecture on Poetry 2009

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...

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Year of Publication: 2025
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2025

Lives of the Voice

An Essay on Closeness

When it comes to understanding the ontology of individual existence—that is, the everyday behaviors that we all perform and hardly ever think about—the voice has a particularly complicated status....

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Year of Publication: 2005
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtYear of Publication: 2005

In Praise of Athletic Beauty

There is no more widespread or intense fascination in present-day culture than sports (both as an active physical practice, and as spectator sports) but, quite astonishingly, the reaction of...
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