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Discusses the life of, German artist, Martin Kippenberger.
Artists --- Artists. --- Families. --- Kippenberger, Martin, --- Kippenberger, Martin, --- Kippenberger, Martin, --- Kippenberger, Martin, --- Kippenberger family. --- Family. --- Germany.
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The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking through the Kent Evening Post. But who was this unlikely newcomer? This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson, one of the greatest and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period. But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in Sheerness, when his contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from Johnson's letters to his friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others, as well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this intriguing mix of literary and cultural history and memoir uncovers the last ten years of Johnson's life as it was in Sheerness, set against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of the late 1970s --
Authors, German --- Johnson, Uwe --- Johnson, Uwe, --- Homes and haunts --- Sheerness (England) --- History
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"More than a century after its composition, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus--Wittgenstein's first masterwork, and the only book he published during his lifetime--endures as the definitive modern text on what logic can and cannot do. Since its first English-language publication in 1922, this profoundly enigmatic work has inspired philosophers and non-philosophers alike. Consisting of 525 hierarchically numbered statements, each one "self-evident," Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is imbued, as translator Damion Searls writes, with the kind of cryptic grandeur and awe-inspiring opacity we might expect--might want--from such an iconic philosopher. Yet earlier translations, in their efforts to excessively copy German phrasing and syntax, range from stilted, even redolently Victorian, to downright impenetrable. With this new translation and insightful introduction on the language of the book, Searls finally does justice to Wittgenstein's masterpiece, capturing the fluid and forceful prose of the original without sacrificing any of its philosophical rigor. Indeed, in freeing the translation from the grip of the German language--revisiting, especially, the nouns and impersonal verbs that don't convey in English the precision and intensity of the German--Searls renders Wittgenstein's philosophy clearer and more accessible than ever before. Featuring a preface by eminent Wittgenstein scholar Marjorie Perloff, this bilingual, facing-page edition promises to become the standard for generations to come." --
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. --- Language and logic --- Language and logic. --- Langage et logique. --- Logique symbolique et mathématique. --- Langage et logique --- PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
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Die Kultur des Gehens entwickelt sich parallel zur mechanisierten Fortbewegung in Eisenbahn und Automobil und knüpft an die alte Tradition an, die zwischen Gehen, Denken und Schreiben Korrespondenzen entdeckt. Robert Walser setzt seinen romantischen Vorläufern und den urbanen Flaneuren seiner Zeit in seiner Erzählung Der Spaziergang von 1917 eine eigene, selbstreflexive Gangart entgegen.Die deutsch- und englischsprachigen Beiträge untersuchen Walsers Spazieren als poetisches Konzept und als Schreibbewegung, als Form der Naturästhetik und als Absage an die Alpenideologie, im Kontext der Psychiatrie und im Vergleich zu Lessings ambulanter Rhetorik, Lucius Burckhardts Promenadologie sowie den zeichnerischen und architektonischen Spaziergängen von Paul Klee und Adolf Loos.
Adolf Loos --- Alpenideologie --- Spaziergang --- Promenadologie --- Paul Klee --- Naturästhetik --- Lucius Burckhardt --- Lessing --- Flaneur
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