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2025, West European Politics

Germany today appears to be anything but the fortunate country it was on the eve of unification. The extension of M odel Germany to Eastern Germany has contributed to the predicament Model Germany has encountered in the emerging international political economic setting. The pattern of unification and its consequences have impaired the sustainability of the once cherished socio-economic order. Unification has made institutional reform both more urgent and more difficult. If major reform cannot be achieved without an external shock, a redistribution of political jurisdictions in favour of the subnational Länder level could perhaps offer a feasible detour on the way to improved performance.

2025, Glossa

This paper argues that inter-individual and inter-group variation in language acquisition, perception, processing and production, rooted in our biology, may play a largely neglected role in sound change. We begin by discussing the patterning of these differences, highlighting those related to vocal tract anatomy with a foundation in genetics and development. We use our ArtiVarK database, a large multi-ethnic sample comprising 3D intraoral optical scans, as well as structural, static and real-time MRI scans of vocal tract anatomy and speech articulation, to quantify the articulatory strategies used to produce the North American English /r/ and to statistically show that anatomical factors seem to influence these articulatory strategies. Building on work showing that these alternative articulatory strategies may have indirect coarticulatory effects, we propose two models for how biases due to variation in vocal tract anatomy may affect sound change. The first involves direct overt acoustic effects of such biases that are then reinterpreted by the hearers, while the second is based on indirect coarticulatory phenomena generated by acoustically covert biases that produce overt "at-a-distance" acoustic effects. This view implies that speaker communities might be "poised" for change because they always contain pools of "standing variation" of such biased speakers, and when factors such as the frequency of the biased speakers in the community, their positions in the communicative network or the topology of the network itself change, sound change may rapidly follow as a self-reinforcing network-level phenomenon, akin to a phase transition. Thus, inter-speaker variation in structured and dynamic communicative networks may couple the initiation and actuation of sound change.

2025

Die letzte Generation, die Proteste im Hambacher und Dannenröder Forst waren es, die Partei die Linke ist es und jetzt sind es wohl auch die Omas gegen rechts: Radikal! Aber am Ende kann dieser Vorwurf jeden treffen, der sich gegen die... more

2025, Methodische und inhaltliche Anregungen für den kompetenzorientierten Unterricht im Fach Russisch

2025

Bekommt man Laurenz Lüttekens Zauberflöten-Buch in die Hände, ist man sogleich mit mehreren Thesen des Mozartexperten konfrontiert, ohne nur ein einziges Wort des Bandes gelesen zu haben. Schon das Coverbild nämlich macht stutzig, zählt es doch keineswegs zu den ikonisch gewordenen Bildnissen, die man üblicherweise mit der Zauberflöte verbindet. Mit diesem klug gewählten Beispiel aus der Transparentmalerei von Andreas Nesselthaler, den Lütteken als möglichen Bühnenbildner für die Uraufführung der Zauberflöte ins Spiel bringt (75), versetzt der Autor den Leser bzw. die Leserin in ein von Melancholie gezeichnetes Setting. Die Uferlandschaft mit Mondszenerie schlägt sogleich eine Brücke zu Lüttekens Annahme, dass die Zauberflöte erst vor dem Hintergrund einer Zeit zu verstehen sei, die den aufklärerischen Zukunftsoptimismus verloren habe. Die Phase nach dem Tod Josephs II. stellt die zeitgeschichtliche und politische Achse dar, die die Koordinaten liefert, auf deren Basis der Autor das so häufig (auch miss-)interpretierte Werk neu vermisst. Zentral ist es für ihn, in der Einleitung hervorzuheben, dass die Widersprüche in der Zauberflöte keineswegs Rätsel darstellten, sondern diese »vor dem Hintergrund des 18. Jahrhunderts und anhand zahlreicher, mitunter entlegener, immer aber aussagekräftiger Quellen« (15) dechiffriert werden müssten. Die Entschlüsselung erfolgt dann in sieben Kapiteln, die keine stringente Neuinterpretation von Mozarts »großer Oper« liefern.

2025, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte

How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenthcentury scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia genealogica dominorum Holzschuherorum (1755) and, thereby, reveal how historical knowledge was shaped by the media that presented it. By focusing not only on the text but mainly on the engraved plates inserted within the pages of this work, I will reveal how, in the eighteenth century, historical knowledge was collectively achieved through complex scholarly, artistic, and editorial negotiations that encompassed issues of authorship and intellectual authority as well as disputes that occurred both in the making of visual evidence and the trading of authoritative editions. After exploring many drawn, handwritten, typeset, and engraved sources related to this editorial project, I argue that Gatterer's work relied on an information system based on the interplay between verbal and visual information and their relationship to the material evidence of the past. Moreover, I show how this system itself was shaped by the different media that it, in turn, used to reproduce historical evidence.

2025, Rilke i syv sind – Syv sind serien. Eds. Søren R. Fauth and Ole Morsing, Eksistensen

Orfeus-sonetternes tilblivelseshistorie er velkendt: Efter at have lidt under en pinefuld digterisk tørke med få afbrydelser fuldender Rilke på et lille slot i Muzot i Schweiz på kun fire dage (2. til 5. februar 1922) 25 Sonetter til Orfeus (Sonette an Orpheus), som udgjorde den næsten faerdige første del. Herefter fuldendte Rilke på otte dage (7.-14. februar) de monumentale Duino elegierne (Duineser Elegien) bestående af ti lange og komplekse prosadigte, som han havde arbejdet på i ti år. Fra 12.-15. februar skrev han Den unge arbejders brev. Herefter skrev han på ni dage (15.-23. februar) hele anden del af Sonetter til Orfeus. Med andre ord en enestående tre-ugers-skabelsesrus oven på en lang venten på inspirationens genkomst. På grund af den uventet lette og uproblematiske vaerkgenese undervurderede Rilke i begyndelsen Orfeus-sonetterne som et mindre vaegtigt biprodukt af sin enorme kreative eruption i forbindelse med faerdiggørelsen af Elegierne. Med tiden indså Rilke imidlertid betydningen af Sonetterne som vaerende på niveau med Elegierne, og efterhånden synes Rilkeforskningen-efter laenge at have favoriseret Elegierne-at nå frem til en lignende dom. I kraft af deres bundethed til sonet-formen kan man forledes til at tro, at de er mindre modernistiske end de ti metrisk frie Duino elegierne. Men inden for rammen af den italienske sonet-form (to oktaver, to sekstetter) udfolder Rilke en suveraen mangfoldighed af varierende versefødder, rim og enjambementer. Selv formulerede Rilke det sådan, at de udgjorde det frieste, man kunne forstå ved denne ellers så 'stille og stabile form'. 1 Sonetter til Orfeus er i en vis forstand summen af Rilkes samlede digteriske værk, hvor han i digtets koncentrerede form kom ind på mange af de emner, der optog ham: kærlighed, død, barndom, forholdet til planter og dyr og samspillet mellem ting og bevidsthed.

2025, Oxford University Press eBooks

The purpose of this essay is to describe and analyse the historiography of law and the economy in Europe in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Three major themes or approaches can be identified within this intellectual history. The first is a sociological interest in the nature and evolution of modernity in society. Here the contested concept of 'modernity' is used to mean the emergence of a society and culture where personal identities and social practices and norms are no longer determined primarily by communal tradition but are to some degree chosen. The second approach is political, and centres on the emergence of the state as a chief framework for national and communal life, replacing local, religious, and kinship institutions. The third approach is economistic, and searches for the legal, governmental, and institutional factors that revolutionized the productive capacity of the economy and led to European domination of the world by 1900. These three approaches-the economic, the sociological, and the political-were hardly distinct. Disciplinary lines were not sharply drawn and scholars could be lawyers, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians at the same time, with Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888) setting a polymathic example. Historiography and social sciences in all modes were deeply shaped by evolutionary theory, and there was a common ground of enquiry, being the history of European feudalism, corporatism, and state formation. Differences between the German, English, French, and Russian thinkers were significant, as each national society grappled with distinct experiences of modernity. But balancing the emergent national schools there was an easy internationalism and shared purpose amongst scholars. 1

2025, International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication

The transcendence of national identities in recent decades and the diffusion of the cultural context triggered by globalization have resulted in the creation of new identities. This development has resulted in the multicultural structure of many European countries. Foreign language teaching has been geared to the multinational structure of school classes through the development of Intercultural Education. Given, however, that the implementation of the principles of Intercultural Education is dependent on the teachers, who, in turn, must have been initiated in the principles of this scientific field, the University assumes a leading part in providing intercultural education to adults. The aim of this paper is to show how the students of a Greek University can acquire certain skills of intercultural action through the course of Culture and Literature.

2025

The University of New Orleans Survey Research Center conducted an interactive voice response (IVR) telephone survey on March 21st, 2017 to find out how Louisiana voters rate President Donald Trump’s job performance. Survey respondents were randomly selected from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s voter file of those individuals who signed in for the November 8, 2016 election. The sample of 740 respondents yields a margin of error of 3.6% with 95% confidence.

2025, Beykent Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi

This study focuses on the Edirne Balloon Hangar, one of the rare examples in Turkey. Built for military purposes in the early 20th century and having an important place in our aviation history, the building is a rare example of the Y- shaped hangar typology and reflects the early reinforced concrete applications of modern construction technologies. The architectural features of the building have been examined; elements such as the plan scheme, façade arrangements, structural systems and the use of original materials have been evaluated. Within the scope of the study, the balloon hangar and the reasons for its construction in the Ottoman period were investigated, and the information in different sources was brought together through a literature review. As a part of the historical military area in Edirne, its relationship with the identity and integrity of the region is emphasized and recommendations for its conservation and re-functioning are presented. In this context, the necessity of preserving the hangar's historical value, increasing its visibility, and revitalizing it by remaining faithful to its original function has been revealed. The study constitutes an important example in terms of industrial heritage conservation and sustainability.

2025, College of Dupage

Instances of Theology and New Testament scholarship are interwoven into this essay to both supplement and complement the reading of Nietzsche's historical Jesus as it appears in the late text, The Anti-Christ. The paper unfolds in three main sections: First, thoughts are offered regarding Nietzsche's methodological or exegetical approach to his reading, and Nieztsche interprets Jesus as representing a unique and "paradigmatic individual." Second, a detailed examination of Jesus ministry and relationship to God and the Holy Kingdom reveals unique elements of Nietzsche's reading: Jesus as "symbolist" (teacher), a "free spirit" (evangelical immoralist), and bringer of "glad tidings" (one who introduces and dwells in God's love and presence). Nietzsche's reading is unique in that he interprets the living Kingdom of God in terms of a "present" manifestation and reality, offering a decidedly "anti-apocalyptic" view of Jesus, who is concerned with opening and inviting others into a reality devoid of the ontological distinction or distance separating God and humanity. Third, the essay concludes with thoughts on why the early Christians and later the established Church "mythologized" Jesus, for when they failed to plumb the depths of his esoteric symbolism, misinterpreted his mission and vocation, they created the fictitious apocalyptic messiah the world now knows and worships, one who supposedly died for the sins of the world. The essay demonstrates that Jesus is not understood by Nietzsche in terms that are adversarial, instead Nietzsche holds Jesus in high regard because of the responsibility he showed for his appointed task and spiritual vocation, which ultimately led to his fateful death on the cross.

2025, IDV-Magazin 107, Mai-Ausgabe

2025, Telangana Today 29 June 2025

2025, Optimism and the Best Possible World

This chapter explores an overlooked aspect of the optimism debate: meliorism, the belief that the world increases in perfection over time. Contrary to the simplistic view of meliorism as a middle ground between optimism and pessimism, this chapter outlines a nuanced typology of meliorism that emerged over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Three forms are identified: inclusive meliorism (M1), where the world is the best and increases in perfection over time; mediating meliorism (M2), where the world eventually becomes the best through increases in its perfection; and exclusive meliorism (M3), where the world perpetually increases in perfection without ever becoming the best. The chapter traces the development of these forms, starting with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's inclusive meliorism, then examining André-Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval's mediating meliorism, before finally investigating the exclusive meliorism of late-nineteenth-century French philosophers, who viewed continual improvement as the true form of optimism. The chapter thus illuminates how these thinkers developed different forms of meliorism within the context of the debate about optimism, and thereby provides a comprehensive understanding of meliorism's evolution and its relation to optimism.

2025, Journal of Dutch Literature

This article offers a comparative analysis of the work by the German-Romanian author Herta Müller and the Dutch-Moroccan writer Hafid Bouazza and addresses it from a transnational perspective. The research focus lies on their persistent challenging of the interpretation of their work as that of 'migrant authors', the place and power they grant to literature, their 'outcast' identity ('nest foulers' in their so-called 'host' community), their poetic use of language, their insistence on 'detail' as a metaphor of resistance, and their play with different narrators and 'Doppelgängers'. Via these strategies, so I will argue, Müller and Bouazza (re)claim literary autonomy. While no other descriptions -such as diasporic, exilic, migrant or ethnic writers -seem to fully apply, this article proposes the use of 'supra-national writer' to render justice to the rich and powerful writing and imagery that marks the work of both authors.

2025, Journal of Dutch Literature

This article offers a comparative analysis of the work by the German-Romanian author Herta Muller and the Dutch-Moroccan writer Hafid Bouazza and addresses it from a transnational perspective. The research focus lies on their persistent challenging of the interpretation of their work as that of ‘migrant authors’, the place and power they grant to literature, their ‘outcast’ identity (‘nest foulers’ in their so-called ‘host’ community), their poetic use of language, their insistence on ‘detail’ as a metaphor of resistance, and their play with different narrators and ‘Doppelgangers’. Via these strategies, so I will argue, Muller and Bouazza (re)claim literary autonomy. While no other descriptions – such as diasporic, exilic, migrant or ethnic writers – seem to fully apply, this article proposes the use of ‘supra-national writer’ to render justice to the rich and powerful writing and imagery that marks the work of both authors.

2025, Perspectives on Politics

2025

Luuk van Middelaar ''Things cao go terribly wrong." Tot drie maal toe herhaalde Hans Blom deze uitspraak tijdens de paneldiscussie naar aanleiding van Daniel Goldhagens Hitler's wil/ing executioners. Ordinary Gennans and the Holocaust, die op 30 september 1996 in theater De Balie in Amsterdam plaatsmnd. Dat 'dingen' vreselijk kunnen misgaan, was Bloms ultieme verklaring '.'OOr historische ontsporingen als de holocaust of 'Srebrenica'. Maar het in groten getale opgekomen publiek nam met deze open deur geen genoegen: gemor en gelach vielen de hoogleraar Nederlandse Geschiedenis ten deel. Helemaal onterecht was dat niet: de geboden verklaring was inderdaad wat magertjes voor iemand die als directeur van het RIOD kort temren de opdracht had gekregen voor Nederland het gemelige debacle rond Srebrenica te gaan onderzoeken. Dat 'dingen' daar vreselijk zijn misgegaan, wisten we al; Blom moet juist voor ons uitvogelen hoe dat kon. Hans Blom was uiteraard niet de enige deelnemer aan genoemde paneldiscussie. Naast de RIOD-directeur gaven H.W. mn der Dunk (emeritus hoogleraar Nieuwe Geschiedenis aan de UU), Paul Scheffer (sociaal-wetenschapper en commentator van NRC Handelsblad) en Daniel lonah Goldhagen (gevierd auteur van het gewraakte boek) acte de présence. De vermoeid ogende Harvardpoliticoloog deed één dag Nederland aan, na een intensieve maar succesmlle tour door Duitsland, waar hij het presteerde als een ster onthaald te \mrden na de Duitsers een haast genetisch antisemitisme toe te hebben geschreven. l De hoofdstelling van Goldhagens boek is dat de uitmerders van de holocaust niet, zoals vaak \mrdt gedacht, willoze marionetten van Hitler en de nazitop waren, die niet anders konden dan de joden vermoorden, maar dat zij 'gewillige beulen' waren, doordrenkt van een typisch Duitse soort antisemitisme, die de joden werkelijk wilden vermoorden. Hitiers gewillige beulen levert daarmee mlgens de auteur een geheel nieuwe verklaring voor de holocaust; het zou een "turning point in the historiography of the holocaust" zijn. Het debat in De Balie zal ik hier niet in extenso weergeven. Daarvoor was het niet interessant genoeg. Hoewel er spannende momenten waren, bleef de Ik dank Annet Bouwers voor haar hulp bij de voorbereiding van dit artikel. 1 De voornaamste Duitse reacties op Goldhagen zijn inmiddels gebundeld: Julius H.

2025, Israel, Palästina und wir. Deutsche Perspektiven und die Geschichte vor und nach dem 7. Oktober 2023

Cover, Inhaltsangabe und Vorwort und Einleitung zum Buch "Israel, Palästina und wir. Deutsche Perspektiven und die Geschichte vor und nach dem 7. Oktober 2023". Frankfurt/M.: Humanities Online, 2025. - Mehr zum Thema sowie ergänztes, aktuelles Vorwort nach dem 13. Juni 2025 online auf https://www.geschichtslehrerforum.de/html/nahost-7_10_2023--13_6_2025.html#13.6.2025

2025, Language

The German gender system is known for its complexity, and there is a persistent misconception that it is largely arbitrary, and hence a challenge for the typology of gender systems. In response, we construct a database of more than 30,000 German nouns and show that a boosting tree model achieves a predictive success of 96%. Even more surprising, the model performs at 87% when trained on just the 100 most frequent nouns. We thus demonstrate that the complex German system fits into a typologically well-known scheme, being a combination of semantic and formal assignment principles. In addition to our success with the specific problem, we show the value of statistical modeling for typologists and reflect on what exactly we can learn from these techniques.*

2025

Charisma plays an important role in every society. In certain cases, the sources for this are of the same origin (transcendental or worldly). Charismatic leaders and people enjoy the trust of their members and can determine norms and values. This article starts from the Weberian definition of charisma and aims to find out to what extent it is transferable to the Alevi Dede.

2025, Serena Vantin, L'uomo è antiquato? Responsabilità, tecnica e norma nella riflessione di Günther Anders, «DIACRONÌA», 2023, 1, pp. 189-217.

This essay investigates the thought of Günther Anders by adopting a legal philosophical perspective. After providing some hints on the life of this twentieth-century author, who lived through profound and multiple caesuras, the reflection examines some central themes of Anders’ thought: the conception of responsibility as (historical, but also moral and juridical) identification, the impact of contemporary technology on human action, the problem of norms in a world dominated by the «third industrial revolution».

2025

Molti segni dentro e fuori il campo della discussione teorica indicano che il tempo è maturo per portare al centro del dibattito attuale il fatto, il fenomeno o l’evento della nascita. Rivendicare una specificità della domanda filosofica quanto al tema della nascita ‒ rispetto a prospettive e livelli di analisi differenti, propri delle scienze naturali e storico-sociali ‒ significa porre, secondo percorsi plurali e con linguaggi e stili differenti, una questione di costituzione riferita alla condizione umana e quindi di senso sotto il profilo esistenziale, un’interrogazione che investe il piano ontologico, la dimensione etica, la sfera politica, sommuovendo molti dei punti fermi della tradizione. Articolato in dodici contributi, il volume raccoglie le discussioni che si sono svolte il 25 e 26 novembre 2021 presso le università di Milano-Bicocca e di Trento, nel corso del convegno internazionale Filosofie della nascita che ha coinvolto studiose e studiosi provenienti dall’Italia, dalla Germania, dalla Svizzera e dalla Spagna.

2025

Mit anderen Worten: Den Tod als Ende des Lebens g i b t e s nicht; das Leben geht weiter, denn wir sind weiterhin Teil d e s Lebens, das von Gott kommt und zu Gott zurückkehrt. Flavio, 6 Jahre alt. Unter vielen Schicksalen wird das einzige Schicksal gebildet. Das Schicksal der Menschheit. Gott hat keine Zeit. Er ist außerhalb der Zeit. Alles in der Zeit beginnt und endet. Flavio, 6 Jahre alt. Um den Kindern zu helfen, muss man den Erwachsenen helfen. Wenn die Eltern offen sind, werden sie sich um die Kinder kümmern, ohne ihnen ihre eigenen Ideen, ihre eigene Sicht der Welt aufzuzwingen. Das Wichtigste ist, ihnen Raum zu geben, ihnen Zeit zu geben, sie denken zu lassen, sie reden zu lassen. Es ist wichtig, mit ihnen über Gott, über das Spirituelle zu sprechen, aber ohne darauf zu bestehen, dass man die Wahrheit kennt. Flavio, 8 Jahre alt. Sechs Jahre nach seiner Erstausgabe, von der bis 1995 20.000 Exemplare in spanischer Sprache verkauft wurden, die ins Deutsche und Französische übersetzt wurden, und nach unzähligen journalistischen Interviews mit dem Autor und Kommentaren namhafter Persönlichkeiten aus den Bereichen Wissenschaft, Psychologie und Spiritualität, wird "VENGO DEL SOL" aufgrund e i n e r unwiderlegbaren Tatsache neu aufgelegt: Die Kosmovision, die Flavio Cabobianco in seinen ersten sieben Lebensjahren verkündete, hat ihren ganzen Reichtum behalten. Außerdem finden diese Erinnerung an die Zeit vor der Geburt und das Wissen, das er als Kind vermittelte, im Laufe der Zeit immer mehr Berührungspunkte mit den Postulaten der seriösesten Forscher; einer von ihnen, Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearse, Professor an der Universität von New York, schreibt ein Vorwort zu seiner englischen Ausgabe. "VENGO DEL SOL" (Ich komme von der Sonne) ist das Ergebnis einer Organisationsarbeit, die von der österreichischargentinischen Journalistin Ama Hilde Brostrom auf der Grundlage von Notizen durchgeführt wurde, die Alba Zuccoli und Omar Nestor Cabobianco -die Eltern von Flavio -von den präzisen Zeichnungen, in denen Flavio die Ebenen des Universums organisierte, und von den "kleinen Büchern", in denen er die Materialien zusammenfasste, gemacht hatten. Bei seinen Begegnungen mit i h r fügt der damals achtjährige Flavio den Zeichnungen und Diagrammen Kommentare hinzu, die das Verständnis ihrer Erklärungen zu so schwer fassbaren Themen wie der Entstehung der Materie, der Mission der Inkarnation, den Reisen der Seelen, der Energie der Planeten und d e s Universums, der Raum-Zeit usw. erleichtern. Im Laufe der Vertiefung bittet Ama Flavio, einige Konzepte zu erläutern: Seine Antworten, die im Buch enthalten sind, gehen noch weiter. Das Erscheinen des Buches im Dezember 1991 zwang den damals 1 1 -j ä h r i g e n Flavio, seinen Status als junger Schriftsteller zu legitimieren. Sowohl vor seinen M i t s c h ü l e r n , wo er sich als schüchternes und etwas zurückgezogenes Kind präsentierte, als auch vor der Massenpresse, die mehr daran interessiert war, sein erstaunliches Wissen zu überprüfen, als es mit ihm zu erforschen. Flavio trägt die Last dieser frühen -und überwältigenden -Popularität ein Jahr lang. Als er 12 Jahre alt wird, beschließt er, nicht mehr in den M e d i e n zu erscheinen. Er beantwortet nur noch die Briefe, die ihn erreichen -eine wahre Flut -und ein paar Telefonanrufe. Er muss sein letztes Grundschuljahr in vollen Zügen auskosten.

2025, Antisemitismus zwischen Latenz und Leidenschaft Kommunikations- und Äußerungsformen des Judenhasses im Wandel

is paper examines the settler colonial paradigm and its application to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It offers a critical reconstruction of the settler colonial perspective as articulated by Australian scholar Lorenzo Veracini. I argue that the concept of settler colonialism not only impedes a nuanced understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also lends support to its antisemitic interpretation.

2025, Journal of Indo-European Studies

In this article the distribution of the Gothic enclitic particle u is examined in the light of speech act theor y. It is argued that the particle is optional in non-canonical questions but compulsory in canonical ones, therefore it should... more

2025, Heidegger's Being and Time: Paraphrased and Annotated, volume 1

A close paraphrase, with annotations, of §9 of Sein und Zeit

2025, PostHeimat. Inquieries into Migration, Theatre, and Networked Solidarity

2025, Light Magazine

Pastor Wilhelm Busch (1897-1966) was another Dietrich Bonhoeffer.1 He too paid the cost of discipleship in opposing Hitler's Nazism. Son of a godly pastor also named Wilhelm, he was converted to Christ while serving in the military in WWI. A friend had just been hit by a grenade. Wilhelm's eye was caught by 1 Timothy 1:15 "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." He realized that he was a sinner and needed saving by the Saviour Jesus Christ. A few weeks later, he locked himself into an old French farm house and fell on his knees: Lord Jesus, it says in the Bible that you came from God to save sinners. I am a sinner. I cannot promise you anything for the future because I have a bad character...therefore, Lord Jesus, I am giving myself over to you, from head to foot. Do with me what you want!2

2025, Roma Tre Press

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2025, Inschibbolet edizioni

My article concerns the relationship between wisdom and moral progress.

2025

La fondazione della Det Kongelige Danske skildre- bildhugger og Bygnings akademi segna uno spartiacque nella formazione degli architetti danesi, e un rinnovamento nella produzione architettonica tra il XVIII e XIX secolo. Durante i due secoli, l’esperienza formativa di un giovane architetto danese è legata allo studio presso l’Accademia, la quale, in modo continuo, si aggiorna, si conforma e prende parte alle diatribe, alle teorie e alle speculazioni coeve. Il volume ricostruisce i percorsi e le indagini effettuate in Italia dagli stipendiati danesi e una partecipazione ai dibattito della contemporaneità. Ne emerge una società copenhagense fortemente legata alla Penisola, infatti i viaggiatori- architetti tra Settecento e Ottocento individuano nelle costruzioni italiane delle radici identitarie nazionali.
Grazie al materiale d’archivio in gran parte inedito, si giunge a comprendere la fascinazione che l’Italia ha sui viaggiatori danesi, i quali tenteranno continuamente di ricreare una Lidt Italien nelle fredde terre nordiche.

2025, Institute for Governance and Civics

The Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University conducted a national survey in February 2025 to assess public views on politics, education, civic knowledge, and political tolerance. The survey included 2,002 U.S.... more

2025

This paper explores the issues particular to the German immigrant population in the United States prior to World War I.

2025, 독일어문화권연구

Als Stichwort für die Beschreibung der kulturellen Praktiken der im Prozess der Wirtschafts-und Informationsglobalisierung sich drastisch verwandelnden Gesellschaft scheint »Transkulturalität« auch in der Diskussion der Germanistik über die disziplinäre Selbstreflexion und-bestimmung längst zum Allgemeinplatz geworden. Nicht unumstritten bleibt jedoch der Stellenwert dieses relativ neuen Begriffs, der erst in den 1980er Jahren auftauchte 1) und im kulturwissenschaftlichen Kontext etwa von Wolfgang Welsch mitgeprägt wurde, 2) zumal gegenüber den in der fachwissenschaftlichen Diskursgemeinschaft mehr oder minder konsentierten Terminologien wie etwa »Inter-« oder »Multikulturalität«. Es lässt sich sogar beobachten, dass der Begriff, bevor er auf sein heuristisches Potential weiter geprüft wird, schon ins gewisse Sammelsurium zurückgeworfen worden ist. Nicht selten wird hier einerseits die Verwendung des Begriffs zur theoriepolitischen Etikettierung eindimensionalisiert, um eigene ›In-novationen‹ gegenüber den ›traditionellen‹ Positionen aufzubauschen. Andererseits wird das Wort ohne genaue terminologische Abgrenzung zu den anderen in Anspruch genommen, um den Status quo der postmodernen Kulturerfahrung mit dem Gestus eines gewissen Selbstvergnügens zu bestätigen. Die in

2025, Tijdschrift Voor Skandinavistiek

m Zuge der Aufklärung wird das Subjekt auf sich selbst verwiesen. Ein verbindliches Weltbild, fundiert in einer verbindlichen Ethik, wird erschüttert durch Kants Forderung, man solle sich jederzeit des eigenen Verstandes bedienen. Die Vernunftfähigkeit jedes Einzelnen soll, wenigstens als Ideal, zur alleinigen Richtschnur des Handelns werden. Plakativ gesagt könnte man davon sprechen, dass im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts das Individuum aus der Geborgenheit eines verbindlichen Wertesystems entlassen wird und dass als Folge dieser Entwicklung ein Gefühl der Fremdheit, der Isolation und der Vereinzelung entstehen kann. Im Takt mit der Vereinzelung wächst die Selbstreflexion, der Drang des Einzelnen, über seine Befindlichkeit nachzudenken und dies Nachdenken wird in der Kunst zum Gegenstand der künstlerischen Tätigkeit gemacht. In diesem Bereich äussert sich der Emanzipationsprozess in einer Auflösung einer bis dahin geltenden Regelpoetik, deren normative Forderungen verlieren zunehmend an Verbindlichkeit. "Die Bemühungen des bürgerlichen Individuums um Autonomie endeten in Vereinzelung, der der einzelne rat-und freudlos ausgesetzt ist", bemerkt Rudolf Drux zu diesem Prozess. 1 I Paradigmatisch hierfür steht Schuberts Winterreise bzw. der Ge-

2025

What remains? Ignazio Silone and Manès Sperber-Dissidents yesterday and today-Lecture, held in Italian at the CENTRO STUDI IGNAZIO SILONE, Via del Carmine-67057 Pescina (Aquila) in November 1998-2014 supplemented with the text: And German writers-after 1945-between East and West (both parts unpublished) ( the article has not been adapted to the present day of 2014, as this would have required a complete reworking of some passages. Silone's possible collaboration with the fascist secret police OVRA during his time as a PCI functionary is therefore not mentioned here).

2025

[This essay first appeared on the LA Progressive website on June 15, 2025.] Former (2017 to 2023) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. recently said when elected she thought she wanted to be guided by the principles of kindness and empathy. How different, and how refreshing, I thought, than what seemed to be the guiding goals of our head of state--Donald Trump. Does anyone, even Trump supporters, believe he wants to rule with kindness and empathy? She thought that a rhetoric of blame was the wrong way to go--“blame the migrant, blame other countries, blame multilateral institutions. . . . But [blaming] does not fundamentally solve it. In fact, all that happens at the end is you have an othered group, and people who feel dissatisfied and angry and more entrenched.” Her “blame” litany certainly sounded like Trump’s approach, and his rhetoric has helped further polarize our country and make voters more entrenched. Trump’s unkind and unempathetic words have become so common that we are prone to forgetting how unusual that is. But a biographer of Ben Franklin wrote that “tolerance, humility and a respect for others required” compromise, and many politicians from his time through President Joe Biden realized the need for that trait, which Henry Clay once called “the cement that held the Union together.” If we wish to overcome our present polarization and get back to effective work to further the common good, Trump and his followers (and indeed all voters) need to heed Ardern’s words about being guided by principles of kindness and empathy.

2025, sub/urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtsforschung

2019 feierte die Universität Hamburg ihr 100-jähriges Jubiläum. Doch wann begann ihre Geschichte wirklich? Das Hamburgische Kolonialinstitut, das von 1908 bis 1919 der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung von Kolonialbeamten diente, war im heutigen Hauptgebäude der Universität untergebracht. Das Kolonialinstitut war nicht nur der Vorläufer der Universität, sondern markierte
auch die Entstehung einer der ersten Institutionen für höhere Bildung in der Hansestadt. Die Jubiläumsfeier spiegelt eine koloniale Amnesie wider, die eine Ausblendung dieses Teils der Universitätsgeschichte ermöglicht. In diesem Beitrag setzen wir uns kritisch mit der verdrängten Geschichte der Bildungsinstitution auseinander, indem wir folgenden Fragen nachgehen: Was bedeutet es für eine wissenschaftliche Institution, aus der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte hervorgegangen zu sein? Wie lässt sich diese Geschichte heute aus einer dekolonial-feministischen Perspektive rekonstruieren? Wir versuchen mit dem Beitrag in die offizielle Erinnerungskultur und -politik der Universität und in ihren amnestischen Umgang mit ihrem kolonialen Erbe zu
intervenieren.

2025, KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture

In Die Erzählgemeinschaft der Neuen Rechten analysiert Felix Schilk konservative Kernnarrative, welche es den Rechten ermöglichen, unterschiedliche Krisenerfahrungen in ein kohärentes Sinnkonstrukt zu integrieren. Schilk zeigt, wie die Neue Rechte als "Erzählgemeinschaft" konservative Denkstile tradiert und zugleich durch narrative Flexibilität diskursive Koalitionen über rechte Diskursräume hinweg bildet. Seine Studie bietet einen tiefen Einblick in die politischen Narrationen der Neuen Rechten.

2025, German Studies Review

Paternalistic measures to fashion the parameters of children's socialization and protect, or revise, the content oftheir education have been at the forefront ofpolitical and pedagogic concerns in Central Europe from as early as the Enlightenment. Particularly after the Ausgleich in Austria-Hungary (1867) and German unification (1871), liberal-minded and conservative theorists, politicians, and bureaucrats began to reconsider not only approaches to teaching the liberal arts or technical skills; they also turned their attention to areas deemed central to the socialization of minors. Paramount in the latter respect were the introduction of suitable civics instruction for future citizen-subjects and a renewed interest in how young people might use their free time most constructively in order to become law-abiding and productive members of society. Since the 1980s, important contributions from a number of social historians and historical anthropologists have expanded our understanding of the history of children's socialization in Europe and, particularly, within Central Europe.1 This body of scholarship suggests that, since the 1860s-1 870s, authorities in Germany and Austria-Hungary became increasingly preoccupied with formal and extracurricular education-a concern related to a host of significant developments that introduced unprecedented social and political tensions. These included: the issue of centralized authority versus regional or ethnic particularism; the dislocation ofrural village and small-town dwellers associated with accelerated industrialization and a more pronounced degree of class stratification; the gradual emergence of democratic participation; and, by the turn of the century, the formation of populist Christian-oriented and social democratic political organizations with agendas that either reinforced or challenged prevailing relationships of power. Such later nineteenth-century transformations brought with them new pedagogical challenges to the socialization of minors. Throughout the prolonged and tumultuous period of international and civil war, changes of regime and political radicalization, and the

2025, German Studies Review

Jüdi sche Autorinnen und Autoren deutscher Sprache von der Aufk lärung bis zur Gegenwart And reas B. Kilcher (Hrsg.) 2., ak tualisierte und erweiterte Aufl age mit 299 Abbildungen

2025, On_Culture

This _Article explores the way in which Wilhelm Raabe’s 1884 novel PfistersMühle: Ein Sommerferienheft signals and depicts how society’s transition into in-dustrial capitalist conditions leads to discarding previously valued forms of socialand economic arrangement. To demonstrate this process, this paper utilizes aspectsof Michael Thompson’s rubbish theory that find resonance in the novel’s depiction,as the system of values that had symbolized a more rural manner of living graduallychange from a durable to a rubbish state. In Raabe’s novel, that process is depictedwith a sugar factory, Krickerode, polluting the waters upstream from Pfister’s mill.This leads to the closure of the mill, Bertram Pfister’s death, and the way of life theytogether represent. Evidence for the reconfiguration of societal values according toindustrial capitalist priorities (i.e., commodification and capital accumulation) ariseswhen, in reaction to the pollution and its devastating effects, characters shift atten-tion to decision-making on the part of mill’s proprietor, Bertram, using a nascent fi-nance language. Why didn’t he cofound (mitgründen) or purchase stocks (Aktien) inthe sugar factory? Why not become a shareholder (Aktionär) and become a partnerto progress, rather than, as it is implied, a victim? This paper concludes by examin-ing how the narrator’s account and its transformation into rubbish become its ownrepository of non-valued value that stands outside the trappings of any given system.

2025, When Greece Flew across the Alps. The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe. Eds F. Ciccolella & L. Silvano, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History. Brill: Leiden & Boston