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German Socialist Philosophy
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach has stood in the shadow of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the past one-hundred and fifty years. This volume in The German Library redresses this situation by including some of the most influential and trenchant writings of all three socialist philosophers, together, in one volume.
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German Essays on Science in the Nineteenth Century
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Professor Paul R Ehrlich, Werner Von Siemens, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Ehrlich, von Humboldt, Siemens, and others
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German 20th Century Philosophical Writings
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Includes: Gunther Anders, "Victims of Aggression"; Hannah Arendt, "From the Life of the Mind"; Ernst Bloch, "On Fine Arts in the Machine Age, From "The Principle of Hope"; Karl Jaspers, "Existential Philosophy"; Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization"; Karl R. Popper, "An Optimistic View of Our Age"; Ludwig Wittgenstein, From ...
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Philosophical Writings
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
As composer Richard Wagner noted, with Schopenhauer one may finally give voice to the secretly held belief that the world is bad. This blunt honesty was Schopenhauer's trademark. Perhaps no philosopher equaled him in relatinf metaphysical speculation to the seemingly random events of everyday life. This volume includes" On Thinking for Oneself," ...
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German Essays on Psychology
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), Sven Nebelung (Editor)
Volume 62 of this ground-breaking 100 volume collection is organized into four sections: Psychology as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Its Critics, Research in Gestalt Psychology, and The Iconoclasts.
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German Essays on Science in the Twentieth Century
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Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), Max Planck
The 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 36 (German Essays on Science in the 19th Centiry, also edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher), represents the ...
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Philosophy of Culture, Schopenhauer and Tradition
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
The selected essays in this volume--written primarily in German and English--discuss Schopenhauer's grim philosophy of culture and the influence of other philosophers, from Plato to Kant and Nietzsche to Wittgenstein. (Philosophy)
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Community Without Identity: The Ontology and Politics of Heidegger
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Tony See, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
See argues that the notion of a community without identity is derivable from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, who was working towards an idea of community which does not reduce the difference of the other into an identity.
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Sonic Soma: Sound, Body and the Origins of the Alphabet
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Elise Kermani, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), Hannes Charen (Designer)
Kermani traces the history of mankind from the origins of society and language to the present, and un-mutes the silence that resulted from the moment man began to write his history instead of listening to history's story.
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Mirrors Triptych Technology: Remediation and Translation Figures
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Diana Silberman Keller, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Keller presents an essay on the study of mirror as a technology that participates in transformative processes of cultural reproduction.
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Literature as Pure Mediality: Kafka and the Scene of Writing
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Paul Denicola, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
DeNicola argues that Franz Kafka recognizes the inherent violence in any conceptual understanding of language, and therefore conceives literary or poetic language as capable of an unjudging that deconstructs any previously judged version of the real.
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Hospitality in the Age of Media Representation
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Christian Haenggi, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), Hannes Charen (Designer)
Hanggi, a branding expert and copywriter based in Switzerland, examines how much advertising is too much and causes audiences to tune out the message.
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The Organic Organisation: Freedom, Creativity and the Search for Fulfilment
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Nicholas Ind, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Ind demonstrates why organic organizations, in which employees are trusted and allowed to contribute, provide an environment that helps companies and individuals find meaning with others.
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Can Computers Create Art?
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James Morris, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Looking at the philosophical underpinnings of computer technology, Morris contrasts these to theories of creativity, with particular reference to 20th-century trends towards abstraction and media spectacle.
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Follow Us or Die
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Vincent W J Van Gerven Oei, Jonas Staal, Wolfgang Schirmacher
The material presented in this publication encompasses short stories, poetry, and theater pieces as well as a representative selection of so-called high-school shooters.
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The Ethics of Uncertainty: Aporetic Openings
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Michael Anker, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Anker asks what it means to live, act, decide, and respond responsibly, in the aporia of freedom --a world without absolute measure of uncertainty.
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The Art of the Transpersonal Self: Transformation as Aesthetic and Energetic Practice
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Norbert Koppensteiner, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Koppensteiner sketches the outline of an art of living for a subjectivity perceived as constantly emergent and in transformation, a subjectivity that dares to embrace conflict as part of its transpersonal relational becoming.
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The Novel Imagery: Aesthetic Response as Feral Laboratory
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Dawan Stanford, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Stanford sets out a theory revealing new ways to understand traditional mediaand presents tools for evaluating new media.
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German 20th-Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor), T W Adorno, M Horkheimer
This work contains writings by members of the Frankfurt School, including: "On the Concept of Philosophy" by Max Horkheimer; "Reflections from Damaged Life" and selections from "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodor W. Adorno; "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin; "On Hedonism", "Solidarity", and "The Catastrophe of Liberation" by ...
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German Essays on Science in the 20th Century: Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, and OT
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Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
The 20th century has brought us to the high point of the scientific-technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 36 (German Essays on Science in the 19th Centiry, also edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher), represents the ...
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Imaginality: Conversant and Eschaton
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A Staley Groves, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Groves takes an academic look at the eschaton, the last period of history, and the concepts and beliefs about the future.
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Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe
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Joan Grossman, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
History is marked by catastrophic events that defy meaning and understanding. The 20th century was a century of prosperity and progress; it was also history's bloodiest. The death toll from war and genocide reached 140 million people. Trauma of this magnitude poses grave challenges to memory and thought. This work explores failures of memory and ...
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Deleuze and the Sign
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Christopher M Drohan, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Beginning with Deleuze's concept of the sign as a "search for truth," the author argues that the sign phenomenon is fundamentally an existential quandary. He also demonstrates how Deleuze reconciles his existential semiotics with Spinoza's ontology.
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Media Courage: Impossible Pedagogy in an Artificial Community
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Fred Isseks, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Isseks takes up the ancient Greek ideal of Paideia and contrasts it with the work of Martin Heidegger. The text concludes with a description of a practice based on heuretics and electrate thinking, a possible example of an impossible pedagogy in an artificial community.
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Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death
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Bruce Barber, Wolfgang Schirmacher (Editor)
Trans/actions: Art, Film and Death explore the representation of art, artists and art history in film through two primary questions. The first: why are there so many representations of stereotypical mad artists, particularly psychopathic killers and suicidal artists in film when there are so few clearly documented cases of such artists within the ...
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