Tag: Humanities
Obituary for Eckhard Heftrich, Germanist and Thomas Mann researcher – culture
In its Introductory speech at the German Academy German scholar Eckhard Heftrich described the uncompromising rejection of the Nazi regime in his parents’ house as a biographical stroke of luck.…
Obituary Hölderlin researcher DE Sattler – Culture
He thinks so in his 62nd Pythagorean theorem urbi et orbi proclaims, “Thinking is the freedom to dissolve prevailing errors.” Dietrich Eberhard (abbreviated to DE) Sattler attacked philological errors with…
Academic World: Cultures of Madness
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“Massive misconduct” – culture – SZ.de
The Munich Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Foundation has commented for the first time on the reports about questionable events that appeared in the SZ in March – and defended the dismissal of its managing…
History: When Voltaire raved about Bayreuth – Bavaria
The French philosopher Voltaire raved about Franconia. An exchange of letters that has now been published with Margravine Wilhelmine, the initiator of what later became a world heritage site, deals…
Obituary for Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The encyclopaedist – culture
He was a writer, poet, thinker, culture and life expert. And one of the last intellectuals in post-war Germany. On the death of Hans Magnus Enzensberger. In “Wirrwarr”, one of…
Helmut Lethen: “The Summer of the Grand Inquisitor” – Culture
In Russian culture, one feels now more keenly than ever that one can see more clearly what is human and what is anti-human in the name of higher goals. Recently…
Lecture on gender at the Humboldt University: Controversy of the time – culture
Rarely has the content of an academic event been so disproportionate to the public interest as on Thursday at the Humboldt University in Berlin. The biology doctoral student Marie-Luise Vollbrecht…
Ulinka Rublack: "The birth of fashion": Adieu, interiority
Fashion Victims in German Renaissance Cities: The historian Ulinka Rublack on the “Birth of Fashion”. source site
humanities anti-racist refoundation – culture
The current renewal movements at the university, which advocate a “decolonial”, “anti-racist” and “anti-sexist” orientation of the humanities and social sciences, do not primarily problematize the materials and methods dealt…