Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung stehen Wittgensteins Analysen der Kippbilder, seine Reflexionen über das Sehen-als und die damit verbundene...

Mit dem Kommunismus ist ein politisches Modell gescheitert, das konsequent auf die vernünftige Planung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft setzte. Die...

Nach mehr als neunzig Jahren spukt das »Unheimliche« noch immer. Quer über verschiedene wissenschaftliche Disziplinen gehört es zu den schillerndsten...

After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dante explores what so many authors, artists and...

The ideology of post-industrial societies has heavily relied on the idea that everyone can make it, that success is just a matter of right choices...

Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights. In most Western societies, Jewish organisations...

A key notion of pivotal significance, introduced into quantum physics by Niels Bohr, is the notion of complementarity. Broadly speaking, descriptions...

From Raymond Williams’ often neglected Television, to Lisa Gitelman’s more recent Always Already New, media scholars have sought to understand the...

Tension appears in many contexts and carries diverse meanings. It tends to be viewed as something to be avoided and reduced in politics; to be...

Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with...

Thematic Cluster of the online journal Image & Narrative, Vol 11, No 3 (2010).

Though first explored by Ernst Jentsch in his 1906 essay "On the...

Unter »Okzidentalismus« wird hier ein Diskurs abendländischer Hegemonieproduktion verstanden, der ein »orientalisiertes« Anderes in der muslimischen...

Fear in Search of a Reason is a performance experiment, in collaboration with theatre director and choreographer Sommer Ulrickson, on the...

“Yesterday, Tomorrow” is based on Nuruddin Farah's book, "Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora". It is a portrayal of the personal...

On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, a man who had come to Germany seeking asylum, burned to death while shackled to the floor of a Dessau jail cell....

"In these fights, the winner is determined from the start. It’s not a boxing match with a surprise finish, the underdog toppling the champion. Try to...