Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?

One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable?: in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical...

What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?

One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable?: in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical...

Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of...

Die Zeit um 1700 wird gerne mit dem (Teil-)Epochen-Begriff der Fruhaufklarung belegt. Ihre Diskurse und Tendenzen werden dadurch, haufig unter der Hand, mitunter aber auch explizit teleologisierend, auf die Positionen des spateren 18. Jahrhunderts ausgerichtet. Statt die um 1700 zu beobachtenden Offnungen als Auftakt zu einer groen, weltbildlichen wie sozialen, Offnung der Aufklarung durch Vernunft und Kritik zu betrachten, fragt der vorliegende Band nach Offnungen, auf die wieder neue Schlieungen folgten. Welche Grunde hatte die neuartige Offenheit, die die Kultur um 1700 zu einem groen...