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‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

open access: yesThe 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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Utopie

open access: yesAnthropen, 2018
Fondée essentiellement sur la distinction entre l’action de découvrir des réponses aux contradictions de la société et celle de les inventer, la frontière rigide entre anthropologie et utopisme se brouille à partir  du XXe siècle : par l’ethnographie de communautés aux pratiques expérimentales (les kibboutz par exemple) ; puis par des études sur des ...
Maïté Maskens, Ruy Blanes
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The tragedy of being a historical creature: Gender and history in Nicolas de Montreux’s La Sophonisbe (1601)

open access: yesOrbis 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

open access: yesThe 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

open access: yesAmerican 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

open access: yesGerman 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
wiley   +1 more source

Utopie

open access: yesEthnologie française, 2021
Peut-être plus qu’à aucun autre moment de l’histoire récente, nous vivons à une époque d’extrêmes. Les positions politiques sont polarisées d’une manière sans précédent, le populisme de droite et les programmes progressistes étant de moins en moins capables d’arriver à des compromis.
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900

open access: yesGerman 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
wiley   +1 more source

,Ent-Spatialisierung‘? oder: Das Scheitern der insularen Existenz in Theodor Storms Novelle „Waldwinkel“, mit Seitenblicken auf Raabe und Stifter

open access: yesConvivium, 2019
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Gelingen und Scheitern der insularischen Utopie (die aber nicht an die reale Insel gebunden ist wie so viele Entwürfe des Jahrhunderts, auf die allerdings knapp Bezug genommen wird) unter narratologischen ...
Torsten Voß
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Theorising from the European South: Italy, Racial Evaporations, and the Black Mediterranean

open access: yes, 2023
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 77-89, December 2023.
Gabriele Lazzari
wiley   +1 more source

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