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Florschuetz, Thomas: Are You Talking To Me? ; 1. Ed.
Steidl, Göttingen. 2004. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Paperback (as issued). 300 x 250 mm. 160 pages. 105 colour plates. With essays by Christoph Schreier, Mark Gisbourne and Aris Fioretos. Bilingual text (english/german). No one has ever seen the human body quite like Thomas Florschuetz. He brings parts of the body - legs, fingers, heels, arms - into view and composes them into photos full of visual impact and confusing vagueness. His own body serves as the motif. Not obviously posed or arranged, it supplies the banal photo fragments that reveal their sensual power once they've been turned into something artificial, unreal. Objects from daily life are also presented by Florschuetz in such a way that they transcend their normal function. He photographs portions of plants or buildings, windows and curtains, enlarges them into oversized photos with a three-dimensional quality and mounts them on triptychs or hangs them in groups. Handled in this way, the subjects of his photographs attain an aura of mystery, detached from the world. Are you talking to me? is the first comprehensive presentation of work made by the artist. Thomas Florschuetz, born in 1957, lived in East Berlin from 1981 until 1988, when he moved to West Berlin. In 2000 he was the Artist in Residence at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, California. His works are part of several public and private collections and have been exhibited many times. Florschuetz has been awarded numerous prizes, including the first prize for new European photography, the Dorothea von Stetten Prize and the German Critics' Award for Fine Arts.***************Steidl, Göttingen. 2004. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Paperback (wie erschienen). 300 x 250 mm. 160 Seiten. 105 Farbfotos. Mit Essays von Christoph Schreier, Mark Gisbourne und Aris Fioretos. Zweisprachiger Text (englisch/deutsch).

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Stoian, Valentin: Debates on the Existence of Historical Laws Historicism and its Critics, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, Januar 2012, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3847375881
Does Historicism lead to totalitarianism Were Popper, Hayek and Berlin correct in the scathing condemnation of historicism This is the central question which the thesis poses. It undertakes a rigorous analysis of the Popper-Hayek-Berlin argument and then engages in a work of intellectual history. Three major historicist philosophers are discussed: Condorcet, the enlightenment philosopher, Marx, the socialist, and finally Spengler, the despairing conservative. This work comes out of an M.A. thesis submitted under the supervision of professor Janos Kis.

NEUBUCH! Aufl. 2012. 80 S. 220 mm x 150 mm x 5 mm

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Rinere, Monique: Transformations of the German Novel. "Simplicissimus" in Eighteenth-Century Adaptations. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2009. ISBN: 978-3-03911-896-0
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. By the end of the century, the novel had eclipsed the epic poem as the most appropriate genre for depicting humankind and its preoccupations. The story of the novel's emergence as a respected and productive artistic genre is intimately bound up with the vicissitudes of the most popular of all German baroque works, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's (1621/22-1676) Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus: Teutsch (1668/69). Between 1756 and 1785, Simplicissimus quietly found its way into bookshops three times in radically different forms, in adaptations that were not, as critics have asserted, arbitrary, but quite purposeful. This investigation discusses the ways in which this canonical text was reworked to reflect the thinking of leading - and warring - Enlightenment aestheticians. At the genre war's end, the novel emerged triumphant and Simplicissimus adaptations had been instrumental in securing the victory; the multi-faceted Simplicissimus had served as a vehicle for reifying theoretical positions in the conflicts. For, as the social and aesthetic climate shifted radically, Grimmelshausen's work not only survived, but took on new life in the most important literary campaign of the century.

XVIII, 255 pp., 10 ill. Br. *neuwertig*

[KW: Germanistik]

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Owens, W. R. / Sim, Stuart (eds): Reception, Appropriation, Recollection. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress". Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2007. ISBN: 978-3-03910-720-9
The ten essays that make up this volume are drawn from papers delivered at the fourth triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society. A theme of the conference was the extraordinary reception history of The Pilgrim's Progress: how it has been translated, adapted, illustrated and read within different cultures over the past three centuries. As contributors here demonstrate, Bunyan's book has influenced - in sometimes unexpected ways - writers as diverse as Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, Mary Ward, William Hale White, Louis MacNeice and Samuel Beckett. Through the agency of missionary translators it circulated internationally, and in the process was transformed and read in a wide variety of ways by different groups of readers. Romantic critics including Southey, Scott and Macaulay established it as a 'classic' text, but illustrators, editors and publishers also figured importantly in the process of its literary canonisation. Bunyan even made a brief appearance in one of the most famous films of the Second World War, Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death. What the volume as a whole reveals is the extraordinary influence of The Pilgrim's Progress and its continuing capacity to inspire the imagination of all kinds of readers.

253 pp. Pb. *neuwertig*

[KW: Anglistik]

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