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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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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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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
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
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
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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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
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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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
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 77-89, December 2023.
Gabriele Lazzari
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