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The Work
of World Literature

ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Cultural Inquiry, 19

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

Open Access
But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’.
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A Touch of Doubt

On Haptic Scepticism
ed. by Rachel Aumiller

Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021

Open Access
What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist's grasp.
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Possibilities of Lyric

Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
With an Epilogue by Antonella Anedda Angioy
Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden

Cultural Inquiry, 18

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020

Open Access
Opening to passion as a transformative force; extending desire to the text; imagining pleasures outside the norm; overcoming loss, defying resolution and cohesion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores.
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Weathering

Ecologies of Exposure
ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer
Cultural Inquiry, 17
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020
Open Access
Weathering is atmospheric, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down or accrued patina. It also denotes ways in which subjects resist adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines.
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Dante’s
Modernity

An Introduction to the Monarchia
With an Essay by Judith Revel
Claude Lefort
ed. by Christiane Frey, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer

Cultural Inquiry, 16
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020

Open Access
Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory.

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An Errant Glossary
ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey
and Arnd Wedemeyer
Cultural Inquiry, 15
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019
Open Access
What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a ‘postcritical’ reboot?
Publications Aura und Experiment

Aura und Experiment

Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin
Hg. von Kyung-Ho Cha

Cultural Inquiry, 13
Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017

Open Access
Walter Benjamin forderte, die »undialektische Trennung zu überprüfen, die man zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft zu etablieren suchte.«
Publications Conatus und Lebensnot

Conatus und Lebensnot

Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie
ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
and Anna Tuschling

Cultural Inquiry, 12
Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017

Open Access
Als bewegende Bedingungen des Lebens stehen Conatus und Lebensnot im Zentrum aktueller medienanthropologischer Diskussionen über das Verhältnis von Leben und Medien.
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De/Constituting Wholes

Towards Partiality Without Parts
ed. by Manuele Gragnolati
and Christoph F. E. Holzhey

Cultural Inquiry, 11
Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017

Open Access
How can the power of wholes be resisted without essentializing their parts? Drawing on different archives and methodologies, including aesthetics, history, biology, affect, race, and queer, this volume explores different ways of troubling the consistency of wholes.
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Denkweisen des Spiels

Medienphilosophische Annäherungen
ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
and Reinhold Görling

Cultural Inquiry, 10
Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017

Open Access
Vor dem Hintergrund der Aktualität, welche die Spieletheorien von Huizinga und Caillois in den Game Studies erlangten, unternimmt der vorliegende Band eine medienphilosophische Befragung des Spielbegriffs.
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