Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

Seminarprogramm und Literaturliste der Veranstaltung:

Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute

Master Hauptseminar
Institut für Germanistische und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
RWTH Aachen University
Marco Heiles

Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

Als Sprachstadienwörterbuch erfasst und beschreibt das Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbuch (MWB) den mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz. Das gesamte Spektrum deutscher Textsorten aus dem Zeitraum 1050 bis 1350 dient als Grundlage, um die Wörter und ihren Gebrauch zu dokumentieren. 1994 startete das Projekt mit einer DFG-finanzierten Vorbereitungsphase, be…[Read more]

This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

This article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]

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Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx after seventy years remains of interest to us because it is one of the outstanding works in the tradition that has come to be known as Western Marxism. Indeed, as a work, it belongs on the bookshelf alongside such other classics of Western Marxism as History and Class Consciousness, Korsch’s Marxism and…[Read more]