humanities and cultural studies

They are dreams, places of refuge and at the same time the mirror of our world: parallel worlds have always run through our cultural memory and manifest themselves in fantastic ways in literature and film. Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most famous anime directors, has embraced the creation of parallel worlds in his work in the most diverse and diverse ways. His award-winning films such as "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke" or "Howl's Moving Castle" are particularly suitable for examining the...

In the spring of 1728 the international situation was characterized by alarming instability, so that many contemporaries expected the outbreak of a pan-European war. Issues such as the question of the suspension of the Imperial Ostend Company, the restitution of Gibraltar and Menorca, and the establishment of a Spanish secundogeniture in Italy turned Europe into a powder keg about to explode. Nevertheless, in June 1728, the diplomats of Europe gathered in the French episcopal city of Soissons to negotiate a...

Although the Haiti revolution only rarely emerges from the oversized shadow of the French Revolution in the Eurocentric consciousness, it nevertheless marks a turning point of world-historical importance. As the only successful slave revolution in history, it put a bloody end to European rule on the Antilles island and created the second independent state in the New World after the USA. Based on the diary of a British officer who took part in the battles for the Pearl of the...

With this book, Klaus Behnam Shad presents a provocative reflection on the possibilities and limits of universal ethics, which, particularly in the form of human rights, currently serve to legitimize a wide range of humanitarian interventions. On the one hand, Behnam Shad goes beyond the usual ethnological concern with research-practical moral questions and, on the other hand, beyond the empirical investigation of moral problems of actors in the context of recent anthropology of morality. Rather, he exposes himself and the...

Terrorism first became a mass phenomenon in the Russian Revolution of 1905. The organization of the Social Revolutionary Maximalists, which at one time had more than 1000 members, introduced new tactics and techniques in the militant struggle against autocracy. During that time, terrorism became what it is today. Based on archival sources, the book tells the full story of this terrorist organization for the first time in a western language. It is recommended to all those who are interested in...

In the spring of 1728 the international situation was characterized by alarming instability, so that many contemporaries expected the outbreak of a pan-European war. Problems such as the question of the suspension of the Imperial Ostend Company, the restitution of Gibraltar and Menorca, and the establishment of a Spanish secundogeniture in Italy turned Europe into a powder keg about to explode. Nevertheless, in June 1728, the diplomats of Europe gathered in the French episcopal city of Soissons to negotiate a...

The later generation of Holocaust survivors is looking for a past that is often unknown to them, but which nevertheless has far-reaching consequences for their own biography. Memories are prerequisites for the formation of identity, and it is precisely for this reason that the memory work of the second generation of Holocaust literature seems interesting. This work deals for the first time with the following questions: How does this past find its way into your literary work? How are your...

The amount of regional information in the Russian textbooks for the German language was and remains large. The textbooks for the German language provide valuable information about cultural and public life in Germany. Certain information through the intense recovery is stereotyped. The subject of this thesis is what images of Germany are presented in Russian school textbooks in the period 1986-2006 and whether these images have survived to this day. The study shows whether modern textbooks show a differentiated image...

The focus of this master's thesis is on the thought, perception and action patterns of Göttingen's autonomists in the 1980s. Using the example of the conflict areas of the housing struggle and "autonomous anti-fascism", the causes of protest, protestmeans and protestdemands as well as their group dynamic consequences are analyzed using a discourse analysis of the publications of the Göttingen Autonomen in the 1980s and discursive consolidation in identity-constructing processes of inclusion and exclusion. As a conglomerate of a protest,...

Utopia is a flight of imagination and intellect. In utopian societies, the problems of human society are solved: social injustice, exploitation and institutionalized inequality are unknown to them. Only here, it seems, can man live the true community, as formulated by the young Marx. This study tries to show a basic pattern of utopian designs: the vita communis idea, i.e. the ideal of communal life in general equality, as it is the basis of monastic communities in particular. A comparison...

Utopia is a flight of imagination and intellect. In utopian societies, the problems of human society are solved: social injustice, exploitation and institutionalized inequality are unknown to them. Only here, it seems, can man live the true community, as formulated by the young Marx. This study tries to show a basic pattern of utopian designs: the vita communis idea, i.e. the ideal of communal life in general equality, as it is the basis of monastic communities in particular. A comparison...