Publications
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Ritual und Experiment – Versuch einer Annäherung an die Natur
The relationship between man and nature is subject to constant change. While nature was long considered threatening and alien, the idea of man in harmony with nature developed in the 16th century. Another profound change…
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Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights MuseumsThis book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future….
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Why Collective Memory can never be Pluriversal. A Case for Contradiction and Abolitionist Thinking in Memory StudiesBringing together memory studies with the emerging field of contradiction studies, in this article, I suggest the need for an alternative way of thinking about collective memory by juxtaposing the ideal of wholeness that necessarily…
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Gänsehaut, Liebe und Langeweile. Sprachliche Konstitution von Emotionen in Laienbuchrezensionen aus dem SchullektürekanonIn Meier, Christel, Carolin Führer, Marco Magirius & Silke Kubik (eds.) Evaluative ästhetische Rezeption als Grundlage literarischen Verstehens und Lernens: Theorie und Empirie (KREAplus Band 28) 243–256. Muenchen: kopaed. ISBN: 978-3-96848-095-4
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Postcolonial Oceans. Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, MaterialitiesThis book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from pluriversal epistemological, geographical, cultural,…
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Making a Theme Audible. Imparting Non-Discursive Knowledge in Natural Philosophy by Means of Poetry and AphorismThis paper is about poetry as a vehicle for imparting knowledge in natural philosophy. It discusses the epistemological and cultural background against which early Greek thinkers such as Parmenides and Empedocles composed in verse, and…
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Digitale Räume als Aushandlungsort für Zentralität und MarginalitätIn Auteri, Laura, Natascia Barrale, Arianna di Bella & Sabine Hoffmann (eds.) Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik. Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) 6: 511-515. Bern: Peter Lang…
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Wider die Geschichtsvergessenheit. Inszenierte Geschichte – historische Differenz – kritisches BewusstseinIn the face of growing populism and right-wing radicalism, the fight against historical forgetfulness in thought and action is once again highly topical. At first glance, however, forgetting history – at least in relation to…
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Can a Finite Chain of Hydrogen Cyanide Molecules Model a Crystal?When calculating structural or spectroscopic properties of molecular crystals, the question arises whether it is sufficient to simulate only a single molecule or a small molecular cluster or whether the simulation of the entire crystal…
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Philosophische Zeitfragen. Weshalb wir mit Zeit taktvoll umgehen sollten
Zeit spielt eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Leben. Zu bestimmen, was ihr Wesen ausmacht, ist bekanntermassen nicht einfach – und ist vielleicht auch nicht die philosophisch interessanteste Herausforderung. Wichtiger scheint es, verschiedene Lebensbereiche zunächst auf…
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Paradoxien beim HörenDealing with auditory oddities and ambiguities is not only entertaining, it is also an important driver for basic auditory research. The same acoustic stimulus can actually be perceived in different ways. We not only hear…
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Radikale Demokratietheorie als GesellschaftstheorieIn Martin Nonhoff, Sebastian Haunss, Tanja Klenk, Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele (eds.) Politik und Gesellschaft verstehen. Frank Nullmeier zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 49–64. printISBN: 9783593516660 eBookISBN: 9783593453088
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Philosophie der Physik. Eine EinführungThis volume offers a systematic and generally understandable introduction to philosophical questions in physics and its historical development. It begins with a presentation of important stages in the history of physics in antiquity, the early…
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Introduction. Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: DisruptionResearch in African Literatures 53(3). 1-22. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/900030
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Neues WahrnehmenManege für Architektur (Heft 2: Automationen). 36-37. https://mfa.one/manege-2/
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State of the Planet. Homi Bhabha and Namwali Serpell in ConversationAfter explaining the rationale for bringing the author of The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, and critical theorist Homi Bhabha into conversation, this interview with both of them explores some of the key themes of Serpell’s…
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Wir wollen nicht mitreden, sondern eine andere Sprache. Sprachideologische Positionierung im Diskurs der Identitären BewegungIn Wiener Linguistische Gazette (WLG) 91 (2022). 1-36.
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Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption (Special Issue)Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are…
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Geschichtsdenken in historischen Romanen über die VormoderneIn the face of growing populism and right-wing radicalism, the fight against historical forgetfulness in thought and action is once again highly topical. At first glance, however, historical forgetfulness – at least in relation to…
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Über Widersprüche sprechen. Linguistische Beiträge zu Contradiction StudiesDer Fokus des Bandes liegt auf Widerspruch als Gegenstandsbereich, unter den sprachliche Ausdrucksformen von Entgegensetzung, Paradoxie, Lüge und Einspruch ebenso fallen wie linguistische Methoden des Umgangs mit Widerspruch und Widersprüchlichkeiten in der sprachwissenschaftlichen Disziplinengeschichte. Dabei…
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