The last posthumous manuscripts from 1888 bear witness to an enormous stylistic and intellectual radicalization. The Antichrist purports to be a total "reevaluation of all values." In Ecce homo, Nietzsche explores the genealogy of his own thinking, opening up new dimensions of s…
As a cultural antithesis, the Orient is a site of projections for European mind-sets and fantasies. Since the 19th century, it has been an omnipresent subject, particularly in francophone literature and art. The contributions to this volume uncover these constructions of the Ori…
As a cultural antithesis, the Orient is a site of projections for European mind-sets and fantasies. Since the 19th century, it has been an omnipresent subject, particularly in francophone literature and art. The contributions to this volume uncover these constructions of the Ori…
Biographical note: Martine Prange, Leiden University, Netherlands. Most of Nietzsche's works are concerned with the present state and future of European culture and humanity, thereby resisting the "nationalist nonsense." Prange analyzes the development of his ideal of European …
Beyond Good and Evil is a work in which Nietzsche developed a new approach for initiating the "philosophy of the future." It undermines habitual certainties in the very foundations of philosophy, religion, morality, and politics. At the same time, it promises to fundamentally tr…
Biographical note: Marion Schulte, Berlin. Bis zur Erlangung der rechtlichen Gleichberechtigung war es für die preußischen Juden ein langer Weg. Im Fokus steht die Konflikt- und Diskursgeschichte zwischen den Delegierten der Judenschaften und der preußischen Beamtenschaft. Dabe…
The dissertation analyses dream images in romanticist art, with regards to inherent dreamanalogue strategies in consideration of contemporary dream theory and aesthetics, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1840. The study does not provide a typological, iconographical o…
Die Arbeit untersucht Bildstrategien von Traumdarstellungen der deutschen Romantik unter Berücksichtigung der zeitgenössischen Traumtheorie und Ästhetik mit einer Fokussierung auf den Zeitraum zwischen 1820 und 1840. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, ob die Traumdarstellung jensei…
Betr. u.a. die letzten Briefe Friedrich Nietzsches an Jacob Burckhardt.