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The Urban Anthropologist as Flâneur; the Symbolic Pattern of Indonesian Cities [PDF]
, 2012 Cities are places full of symbols. In the past decades, Indonesian cities have become the cradle of urban symbolism studies. In this article, the author presents the results of these studies.
Nas, P. J. (Peter)
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German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 544-566, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Myths of a Near Past: Envisioning Finance Capitalism anno 2007 [PDF]
, 2009 This paper seeks to extend earlier work on particular features and manifestations of capitalism (De Cock et al., 2001). Our 2001 Myths of a Near Future paper offered ephemera readers a large depository of images concerning the New Economy.
De Cock, CJL, Fitchett, J, Volkmann, C
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Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris [PDF]
, 2016 The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19th ...
Wrigley, Richard
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DIE ARBEIT DES ÜBERSETZENS: RILKE UND MICHELANGELO („SE ’L MIE ROZZO MARTELLO‘‘)
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 194-216, April 2025.ABSTRACT This essay examines Rainer Maria Rilke's reception of the sculptor and poet Michelangelo in the context of interest in the Renaissance around 1900, focusing first on the Stundenbuch, the Florenzer Tagebuch and the story ʻVon einem, der die Steine belauschtʼ (from the prose collection: Geschichten vom lieben Gott).
Astrid Dröse, Jörg Robert
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Jumpstarting the future with Fredric Jameson: Reflections on capitalism, science fiction and Utopia [PDF]
, 2009 This paper turns around the key concern that it has become almost impossible to imagine a form of the future that is neither a prolongation of what already exists nor its apocalyptic demise.
De Cock, CJL
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De Verfall e Verkümmerung a Katastrophe: a modernidade em Walter Benjamin
Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 2022 O objetivo desse artigo é retomar uma série de conceitos-chave e noções de Walter Benjamin – na edição alemã de seus escritos – a partir da hipótese de que, através de seu preceito de den Pessimismus organisieren, há uma passagem do enfoque da ...
André Macedo
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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