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Esra Özyürek. Subcontractors Of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging In Postwar Germany, Stefan Gunther Mar 2024

Esra Özyürek. Subcontractors Of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging In Postwar Germany, Stefan Gunther

Comparative Civilizations Review

As early as 1995, James E. Young, referring to the “social effects of public memorial spaces” (p.20) in Germany, stated that “Holocaust memorial work in Germany today remains a tortured, self-reflective, even paralyzing preoccupation.” (p.21) He continues with a series of questions: “How does a state recite, much less commemorate, the litany of its misdeeds, making them part of its reason for being? Under what memorial aegis, whose rules, does a nation remember its own barbarity? Where is the tradition for memorial mea culpa, when combined remembrance and self-indictment seem so hopelessly at odds?” (p.22)


Buber The Radical Egalitarian And Buber And Psychology, Kenneth Feigenbaum Aug 2023

Buber The Radical Egalitarian And Buber And Psychology, Kenneth Feigenbaum

Comparative Civilizations Review

My first iteration for this paper was to present Martin Buber in the context of radical politics in Germany and to focus upon his relationship to the anarchist Gustav Landauer. After a brief search, I found too few sources that were easily accessible from here in the United States, so as part of this presentation I situate Buber in the radical politics extant mostly during his time in Germany and in Berlin. I focus here on Buber’s psychology but include several intellectual side trips visiting aspects of Buber’s philosophy and his politics. I cannot separate them in discussing Buber and …


Book Review: Max Weber. Politik Als Beruf (“Politics As A Vocation”), Bertil Haggman Jan 2021

Book Review: Max Weber. Politik Als Beruf (“Politics As A Vocation”), Bertil Haggman

Comparative Civilizations Review

“Politics is a strong and slow drilling of hard boards.” (Die Politik bedeutet ein starkes langsames Bohren von harten Brettern….) This is a quote from the work of one of the most famous sociologists ever, German Professor Max Weber. In 2010 a new edition of his work Politics as a Vocation was published in Berlin, Germany. It is the first in a planned series of new editions of works of the great German sociologist including Staatssoziologie (Sociology of the State) and Wirtschaftsgeschichte (General Economic History).


Alphabetical Lives: Early Modern German Biographical Lexicons And Encyclopedias, Richard G. Cole Jan 2008

Alphabetical Lives: Early Modern German Biographical Lexicons And Encyclopedias, Richard G. Cole

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Those who appear obvious to us as “major players” in past eras may in part result from an unintended consequence of the work of early modern biographical lexicographers. By the eighteenth century, there were enough printed sources and available archival materials to deluge or even overwhelm historians and biographers with information about past actors of sixteenth century history. Those biographical lexicographers made choices about whom to give prominence and whom to minimize or ignore in their works.


Review Essay: Richard Utz. Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: A History Of Reception And An Annotated Bibliography Of Studies, Anita Obermeier Jan 2002

Review Essay: Richard Utz. Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: A History Of Reception And An Annotated Bibliography Of Studies, Anita Obermeier

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Richard Utz. Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793–1948. Making the Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. xxi + 446 pp.


Review Essay: Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie Eines Inquistioonsprozesses, Albrecht Classen Jan 1993

Review Essay: Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie Eines Inquistioonsprozesses, Albrecht Classen

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Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie eines Inquistioonsprozesses. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 1992. 115 pp.