The moralists of all colors, the fundamentalists and other self-named “protectors” of virtue and sanity advocate the use of ban-legislation…
Some thoughts on Joyce Chopra’s film “Smooth Talk”
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Oktober/November 1962: die kubanische Sicht – das “Ende” der Kuba-Krise und die Stalinisierung Castros
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Krieg und Klerus: Über die soziale Stellung der Kirche im Mittelalter
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An analysis of Eastman Johnson’s painting, “Negro Life at the South” (1859), in its historical context
Introduction Negro Life at the South (1859 – App. 1) by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), a master of early realism…
A poetry of confusion? A confused vision of Ginsberg’s “America”
One of the most common reactions to contemporary art is to ask: “Wait a minute! Is this supposed to be…
Comments on Judith Butler’s “Introduction” to “The Psychic Life of Power” (1997)
Butler is both one of the most influential and one of the most virulently criticized theoreticians of the last decades,…
Essay on “Early Latin America. A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil” (1983) by James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz
It is not at all surprising that, in their book on the processes through which the subcontinent we now know…
Sex, Gewalt und Trash – Russ Meyer und John Waters – zwei amerikanische Autoren im Vergleich
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Notes on Emmanuel Levinas’ “Philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite”
It is difficult to imagine how an intellectual discipline like ours could even begin to operate without such concepts as…