In her new cycle of works, the artist Jorinde Voigt (*1977, Frank- furt am Main) again confronts the invisible: How do we perceive something? Immersion―the experience of complete absorption―is perfo
One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a bo
In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, “Secret Germany” was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic p
Politics is hugely complex. Some try to reduce its complexity by examining it through an ideological worldview; a one-size-fits-all prescriptive formula or a quantitative examination of as many 'facts
Politics is hugely complex. Some try to reduce its complexity by examining it through an ideological worldview; a one-size-fits-all prescriptive formula or a quantitative examination of as many 'facts
This thesis addresses the surprising features of zero-temperature statics and dynamics of several spin glass models, including correlations between soft spins that arise spontaneously during avalanche
On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,
This book is based on a fieldwork intensive, EU funded project, aimed at sustaining the empowerment processes of career guidance practitioners by developing their awareness and use of their individual
Felicia Knaul, an economist who has lived and worked for two decades in Latin America on health and social development, documents the personal and professional sides of her breast cancer experience. B
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned ess
This collective volume deals with the reception and assimilation of different forms of knowledge in Northern Italy in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This knowledge originated in Germany, Austria a
How can we conceptualize identity and legitimacy in the context of the European union? What is the role of narratives, political symbols, public debate and institutional practices in the process of id
The sovereign state created at the onset of modernity can no longer protect us nor future generations from nuclear war and the effects of global warming. Politics now has to cope with the survival of
Eighty-five percent of Italy’s Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by ter