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Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin to explore the simultaneous distance from and orientation towards revelation and to deal with the difference and tensions between religious and profane ideas. In the process, Weigel identifies the double reference of 'life' to both nature and to a 'supernatural' sphere as a guiding concept of...

Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Genetik wirft nicht nur ethische Fragen auf, die den Umgang mit ihren Moglichkeiten und Techniken betreffen. Sie fuhrt auch zu einschneidenden Veranderungen tradierter kultureller Konzepte. Diese aber sind bislang weitgehend im Schatten eines verfehlten Streites uber 'Vererbung versus Erziehung' geblieben, in dem bekannte Angst- und Wunschbilder einer genetischen Determination oder Steuerung menschlicher Attribute und Verhaltensweisen zirkulieren. Weitgehend unreflektiert dagegen sind bislang jene Zasuren geblieben, die die Praktiken von Gentechnologie und...

This compendium explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on exiled German and German-Jewish intellectuals after 1933. It addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated into English and addressed to an American audience.

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. This compendium, adopting the title of a volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals thinking when it was translated intoEnglish and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H....