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The Carlsbad Decrees represent one of the most profound incursions into the newly achieved and hard-fought freedom of students and professors at the University of Leipzig. They marked the ideological and political counter-attack by the governments of the individual German states against the development of the new bourgeois university and its "spirit of freedom." This work examines the history of the origins of the Carlsbad Decrees and their impact.

Universities and colleges --- History. --- Universität Leipzig --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig --- History --- Germany --- Politics and government --- Karlsbader Beschlüsse --- Universität Leipzig (1991- ) --- Alma mater Lipsiensis --- Leipzig University --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig

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Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960's, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre," the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world.

Communism and culture. --- Theater and society. --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Culture and communism --- Culture --- Social status --- Social aspects --- literature --- theatre studies --- Capitalism --- Communism --- Karl Marx

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the "Jewish Revolution," Émile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions derived from Christian theology. In the United States, William Thomas, Robert Park, and their students conceived the modern city and its new modes of social organization in part by reference to the Jewish immigrants concentrating there. In all three countries, social thinkers invoked real or purported differences between Jews and gentiles to elucidate key dualisms of modern social thought. The Jews thus became an intermediary through which social thinkers discerned in a roundabout fashion the nature, problems, and trajectory of their own wider societies. Goldberg rounds out his fascinating study by proposing a novel explanation for why Jews were such an important cultural reference point. He suggests a rethinking of previous scholarship on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and European perceptions of America, arguing that history extends into the present, with the Jews-and now the Jewish state-continuing to serve as an intermediary for self-reflection in the twenty-first century.

Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Georg Simmel. --- Jews. --- Karl Marx. --- Max Weber. --- Robert Park. --- Werner Sombart. --- William Thomas. --- modernity. --- Émile Durkheim.

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Leipzig als eine der ältesten deutschen Universitäten feiert im Jahre 2009 ihr sechshundertjähriges Gründungsfest. Aus diesem Anlass gibt der Rektor Franz Häuser eine Edition mit den Antrittsreden und Jahresberichten seiner Vorgänger aus der Zeit zwischen 1871 und 1933 heraus. Diese Periode stellte eine wahre Blütezeit der Universität Leipzig dar, wie die glanzvollen Namen ihrer damaligen Professoren eindrucksvoll belegen. Detailreiche Einblicke in das sich ständig wandelnde Innenleben der Leipziger Hochschule bieten die Jahresberichte des abtretenden Rektors. In der jeweiligen Antrittsrede gewährte der neue Rektor dagegen Einsicht in die von ihm vertretene Forschungsrichtung - der hochrangige zeitgenössische Stand akademischer Wissenschaft wird deutlich fassbar. Durch die Zusammenschau beider Redetypen entsteht so ein lebendiges, facettenreiches Bild universitären Lebens und Wirkens. Erschlossen wird dieser historische Fundus durch ein umfangreiches Personen-, Sach- und Ortsregister, welches erstmals einen zielgenauen Einstieg in die Geschichte der einzelnen Fächer, Lehrstühle und der akademischen Korporationen ermöglicht.

Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Addresses --- Collected papers (Anthologies) --- Discourses --- Orations --- Papers, Collected (Anthologies) --- Festschriften --- Lectures and lecturing --- Universität Leipzig. --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig --- Universität Leipzig (1991- ) --- Alma mater Lipsiensis --- Leipzig University --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig --- History of learning. --- Imperial Germany. --- Leipzig University. --- development of academic disciplines.

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Denis Diderot’s development as a writer is characterised by his permanent endeavour to surpass his own technical achievements. This incessant search for constantly new styles of writing is not only an expression of his impressive artistic finesse, but also a constitutive element of his partially firm political objectives. This book draws attention to the political dimensions of Diderot’s virtuosity as a writer and examines in particular their productive reception in German-speaking countries. Denis Diderots Entwicklung als Schriftsteller ist geprägt von einer permanenten formalen Überbietung. Diese unablässige Suche nach immer wieder neuen Schreibweisen ist nicht nur Ausdruck einer beeindruckenden künstlerischen Raffinesse, sondern auch ein konstitutives Element seiner zum Teil dezidiert politischen Anliegen. Der Band lenkt das Augenmerk auf die politischen Dimensionen von Diderots schriftstellerischer Virtuosität und fragt insbesondere nach deren produktiver Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Rezeption Diderots Erzählungen --- Hans Magnus Enzensberger --- Diderot und das dunkle Ei --- Ancien Regime --- Ästhetik und Politik --- 18. Jahrhundert --- Brechts Diderot-Gesellschaft --- Denis Diderot --- Lessings Diderot Übersetung --- Literaturwissenschaft --- Karl Marx --- Georg Büchner