englischThis study shows that Shakespeare’s plays challenge a system of periodization that divides history into three distinct eras (antiquity, the Middle Ages, modernity). In Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen, several conceptions of time and temporality are played through in a way that [...]
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englischBorn in Tlemcen and educated in Damascus, the fourteenth-century Arab litterateur Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah (725-776/1325-1375) spent most of his adult life in Mamluk Cairo. His best-known works are Sukkardān as-sulṭān (The Sultan’s Sugar Box) and Dīwān aṣ-ṣabābah (The Register of Passionate Love), [...]
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Angesichts der fortgeschrittenen Internationalisierung der Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus gewinnt die Frage an Gewicht, wie sich arabische Gesellschaften und Intellektuelle zur Geschichte, Ideologie und genozidalen Praxis des nationalsozialistischen Deutschland sowie zu den transnationalen [...]
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englischThe present edited volume is based in part on papers that were delivered at an international conference, which was held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on 5–6 December 2013 and was organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) in association with the Center for Arab and Middle [...]
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englischIn nearly all societies and epochs, the heroic is gendered on many levels. However, social and cultural production of the heroic cannot be understood solely through the lens of masculinity, nor does it make sense to regard women or femininity merely as exceptions. Rather, it is important to [...]
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Peter Rusterholz setzt sich in diesem Buch intensiv mit den Werken des Schweizer Schriftstellers Friedrich Dürrenmatt auseinander. Dabei betrachtet er die literarische und philosophische Entwicklung von Dürrenmatts Texten als dynamischen Prozess und geht in diesem Zusammenhang besonders auf die [...]
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Herrschaftslegitimation war im 17. Jahrhundert gemeinhin an die militärische und wirtschaftliche Potenz des Herrschers gebunden. Doch lassen sich Kunst und Krieg dichotomisch oder gar antagonistisch gegenüberstellen? Betrachtet man das Phänomen des ‚Kunst-Helden‘, lässt sich vielmehr fragen, welche [...]
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englischBetween 2015 and 2017, various scholars from the University of Potsdam and the University of Lausanne contacted and interviewed religious, spiritual and humanistic communities in Potsdam. They operated with an inclusive concept of religion, referring also to groups and networks beyond the [...]
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englischIn the year 1685, the Great Elector issued the “Edict of Potsdam,” which has been fundamental for Potsdam’s self-conception as a city of tolerance and religious freedom. But what does it mean for the people of Potsdam today? Whom do they believe in – and why? In the series Glaube in Potsdam [...]
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englischBetween 2015 and 2017, various scholars from the University of Potsdam and the University of Lausanne contacted and interviewed religious, spiritual and humanistic communities in Potsdam. They operated with an inclusive concept of religion, referring also to groups and networks beyond the [...]
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