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The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity. The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage. Key features High quality anthology on phenomena of cultural exchange in the Renaissance era With contributions by outstanding international experts

'No Hamlets' offers a critical examination of Shakespeare's influence on the political right in Germany from 1871 to the Cold War era. Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and traces the engagement with Shakespeare through figures such as Stefan George and Ernst Kantorowicz, as well as the literary efforts of young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic. The study continues with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath, particularly the controversy surrounding 'inner emigration,' culminating in Carl Schmitt's writings on Shakespeare in the 1950s. A central theme is the identification of German intellectuals with Hamlet, reflecting a complex relationship with Shakespeare that is both personal and political. However, Hamlet is not the sole focus; Höfele also uncovers Carl Schmitt's intense engagement with Othello, a topic previously unexplored. This work adds historical depth to the growing interest in German philosophy and political thought within Shakespeare studies. By illuminating the connections between Shakespeare's reception and German history from the 1870s to 1989, Höfele reveals how individual interpretations and broader cultural appropriations of Shakespeare have shaped and been shaped by significant historical contexts.

The title of this volume indicates more than a referential relationship: Representing Religious Pluralization entails not just the various ways in which the historical processes of pluralization were reflected in texts and other cultural artefacts, but also, crucially, the cultural work that spawned these processes. Reflecting, driving, shaping and subverting religious systems, representation becomes a divisive force in Reformation Europe as religious pluralization erupts in a contest over how to conceive, to symbolize and to perform religious belief. The essays in this book offer a broad range of perspectives on the pluralizing effects of cultural representation as well as on the various attempts at containing them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links: Sonderforschungsbereich 573 der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Von der Antike bis an die Schwelle der Moderne wurden politische Ordnungen immer wieder im Rückgriff auf die schillernde Semantik von ‚Natur‘ bestimmt. Was lange Zeit als obsolet galt, erlebt in der politischen Rhetorik unserer Tage eine erstaunliche Renaissance. Durch die Rekonstruktion der politischen Funktionalisierung von Natur in einem weiten Spektrum historischer Fallbeispiele bieten die Beiträge des Bandes eine Archäologie heutiger Debatten. In der Geschichte wurde Natur zum einen als normatives Modell herangezogen, um politische Ordnung zu legitimieren, zum anderen erschien sie als eine anarchische Gegenkraft, die durch politisch-kulturelle Ordnungsleistungen gezähmt werden muss. Zudem gilt: Wer sich in politischen Diskussionen auf Natur beruft, unterstellt Gegebenheiten, die sich menschlicher Verfügungsmacht entziehen. Sowohl aus ihrer Doppeldeutigkeit wie aus dem Phantasma ihrer Unverfügbarkeit gewinnt die Berufungsinstanz Natur in politischen Diskussionen ihre besondere rhetorisch-argumentative Stärke.

Anthropology is a polysemous term, often understood differently in various academic contexts. In continental Europe, it typically refers to philosophical anthropology, focusing on universal human nature. In contrast, Anglo-American scholarship primarily investigates cultural and ethnic differences, known as cultural anthropology. The relationship between these traditions and their derivatives—such as literary anthropology, historical anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, and intercultural studies—remains a topic of debate. Both traditions trace their origins to significant cultural and scientific shifts in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when the term anthropology began to take on its current meanings. Although the Renaissance did not create the concept of the human, it sparked a diversification of ideas central to humanism. The definition of what it means to be human became increasingly contested due to developments like the rise of natural sciences, religious pluralism, and colonial expansion, which challenged established certainties. This proliferation of human doctrines in the early modern era supports the notion that anthropology is a discipline of crisis, striving to establish common values and norms when authority is under pressure.

"Abweg" ist eine spannende Erzählung über das plötzliche Verschwinden eines jungen Mannes, der sich in selbstgeschaffene Geschichten verwickelt und von Panikattacken erschüttert wird. Die Handlung spielt in einer deutschen Universitätsstadt in den späten siebziger Jahren und thematisiert dramatische Veränderungen im Leben des Protagonisten.

Und so sehe ich mich zuweilen als einen großen Forscher, der ein außerordentliches Land entdeckt hat, aus dem er niemals zurückkehren kann, um der Welt davon zu berichten; aber der Name dieses Landes ist Hölle. Es ist natürlich nicht Mexiko, sondern liegt im Herzen. Malcolm Lowry

Der Roman spielt in der Zeit der Regierung Elisabeths I. von England und erzählt von Freundschaft und Verrat, von Lebensgier und Mord. Die Beteiligung des Spitzels Poley an dem Komplott, das zur Hinrichtung von Maria Stuart führte, bildet den historischen Kern. Mit seiner Schilderung der Intrigen am königlichen Hof verbindet der Autor die Frage nach Existenz und Tod Christopher Marlowes, des berühmten Dichters, der zeitweilig auch als Geheimagent der Regierung tätig war.