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“WHAT HAS POSTERITY EVER DONE FOR ME?”: FUTURE GENERATIONS, INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF DISTANT FUTURES

History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 66-85, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT “Future generations” play a key role in current political debates. In the context of the climate crisis especially, political controversies are often framed as moral problems of “intergenerational justice.” This article aims to historicize the use of the concept of “future generations” in modern political discourse and to uncover its long—and ...
Benjamin Möckel
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Women's Rights as Human Rights after the End of History

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 862-880, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article is based on the 2022 Gender & History annual lecture. It reconsiders the recent history of women's rights as human rights. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union brought to an end a twentieth‐century discourse of women's rights, understood not only as legal norms, but as a political language harnessed to ...
Celia Donert
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‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 474-488, July 2023., 2023
This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
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The tragedy of being a historical creature: Gender and history in Nicolas de Montreux’s La Sophonisbe (1601)

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 31-44, February 2023., 2023
This article explores the relationship between gender and history in Nicolas de Montreux’s historical tragedy La Sophonisbe (1601), specifically how the drama uses the historical female figure of Sophonisbe to negotiate what it means to take part in history.
Anastasia Ladefoged Larn
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“And Yet It Moves”: Dream and Reality of the Ecumenical Movement

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 16-32, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This article offers an overview of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which met in Karlsruhe, Germany, in August–September 2022. It sets out the context in which the assembly took place, the main issues discussed, and perspectives for the future.
Dietrich Werner
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Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 3, Page 515-524, September 2022., 2022
Abstract In this article, I analyze practices of self‐formation among European climate activists. I develop the concept of regenerative cultures as a lens to capture nonspectacular practices that embody intimate forms of activism. Drawing on ethnographic research among climate activists, I show that regenerative cultures employs recursive circuits of ...
Arne Harms
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NEUE MENSCHEN, NEUE POETEN: EXPRESSIONISMUS, GENIE UND ARBEITERDICHTUNG

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 430-447, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT While the German Expressionists announced an end to bourgeois art, hopes of a literary revolution also rose in the labour movement. Since the 1910s, worker poets, such as Gerrit Engelke and Karl Bröger; literary critics, such as Julius Bab; and leading political figures of the Social Democratic Party such as Clara Zetkin, proclaimed a poetical
Annika Hildebrandt
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 410-429, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Retrospective accounts of the life and works of Robert Burns offer us examples of how ‘genius’ functioned in the nineteenth century, not only as a concept of inspired, natural authorship but also as a way of establishing and stabilising class identity and belonging.
Paul Keckeis
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Theorising from the European South: Italy, Racial Evaporations, and the Black Mediterranean

, 2023
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 77-89, December 2023.
Gabriele Lazzari
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THE LONG GOODBYE: RECENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE KOSELLECK/SCHMITT QUESTION

History and Theory, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 558-572, September 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The publication of the correspondence between Reinhart Koselleck and Carl Schmitt enables readers to assess the relation between the conceptual historian and his radically conservative mentor, a topic of some longstanding controversy. In this review essay, I discuss their correspondence in relation to Gennaro Imbriano's book on Koselleck ...
Timo Pankakoski
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