On boxing

The moralists of all colors, the fundamentalists and other self-named “protectors” of virtue and sanity advocate the use of ban-legislation … More

Some thoughts on Joyce Chopra’s film “Smooth Talk”

“Smooth Talk”, Joyce Chopra’s film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, What Have You Been?”, … More

Oktober/November 1962: die kubanische Sicht – das “Ende” der Kuba-Krise und die Stalinisierung Castros

1. Einleitung   Das alte Klischee, nach dem die Geschichte von den „Siegern“ geschrieben wird, hat sich während der Forschung … More

Krieg und Klerus: Über die soziale Stellung der Kirche im Mittelalter

Einleitung   Das Problem der sozialen Stellung der Kirche in der europäischen Gesellschaft des Mittelalters ist für die durchschnittlichen modernen … More

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 … More

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 … More

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, … More

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 … More

Sex, Gewalt und Trash – Russ Meyer und John Waters – zwei amerikanische Autoren im Vergleich

Einleitung   In seinem autobiographischen Buch Shock Value – A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste schreibt John Waters, der amerikanische … More

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 … More