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Since 1945, humanity has grappled with a legacy shaped by a transformed experience of time. Once viewed as an agent of change, time now feels inundated by technology, preserving the past while presenting a future filled with threats like nuclear annihilation and global warming. This overwhelming sense of an ever-expanding present reflects a broader mood of "latency" that emerged in the post-World War II era. Gumbrecht explores how this shift affected his own generation, particularly those born in Germany, who wished to move beyond the catastrophic past but found that possibility elusive. The literatures and cultures of the postwar years illustrate a shared predicament, marked by unfulfilled promises and a pervasive sense of confinement. Gumbrecht's inquiry transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, blending autobiography with German history and world-historical analysis. He offers insightful reflections on figures like Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, alongside an examination of Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre's philosophies. Additionally, he draws surprising connections to cultural phenomena such as Edith Piaf and the Kinsey Report. This personal and philosophical exploration of the last century resonates with our contemporary identity, highlighting the enduring impact of the past on our present.

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Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as "a ritual of intensity," thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamicof the masses. In presenting this alternate view, Gumbrecht enters into conversation with thinkers who were more critical of the potential of the masses, such as Gustave Le Bon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, José Ortega y Gasset, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Kracauer, T. W. Adorno, or Max Horkheimer. A preface explores college crowds as a uniquely specific phenomenon of American culture. Pairing philosophical rigor with the enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht writes from the inside and suggests that being part of a crowd opens us up to an experience beyond ourselves.

In this volume, four leading American scientists and humanists unfold the controversial potential of Schroedinger's thought.

Philology - the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. This title demonstrates the problems, standards, and methods of philology. schovat popis

Scholars explore the influence of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's ideas within the Portuguese-speaking realm, analyzing how his theories resonate across various disciplines and cultures. The book delves into the intersections of literature, philosophy, and cultural studies, highlighting Gumbrecht's contributions to understanding presence and meaning. Through a collection of essays, it showcases diverse perspectives that enrich the dialogue surrounding his work, emphasizing its relevance in contemporary discussions in the Portuguese-speaking academic community.

Philosopher and translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the "Encyclopédie," Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures within the European Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries Voltaire, Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, or Hume, is characterized by a clearly centrifugal dynamic? Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores the question of this extraordinary intellectual's place in the legacy of the eighteenth century. While Diderot shared most of the concerns typically attributed to his time, the ways in which he coped with them do not fully correspond to what we consider Enlightenment thought. Conjuring scenes from Diderot's both turbulent and quiet life, offering close readings of several key books, and probing the motif of a tension between physical perception and conceptual experience, Gumbrecht demonstrates how Diderot belonged to a vivid intellectual periphery that included protagonists such as Lichtenberg, Goya, and Mozart. With this provocative and elegant work, he elaborates the existential preoccupations of this periphery, revealing the way they speak to us today.

This book explores the act of reading as the experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres.

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.