Main description: Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant, idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his 0unclassifiable0 genius. Eli Friedlander finds an ov…
A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing under a series of fantastic…
Main description: What Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter…
Seit über 30 Jahren setzen Oskar Negt und Alexander Kluge die Kritische Theorie fort. Ihre im Abstand von etwa zehn Jahren erschienenen drei gemeinsam verfassten Bücher sowie ihre Fernsehgespräche sind seit 2001 im Doppelband »Der unterschätzte Mensch« zusammengefasst. Dieser »g…