64 research outputs found
The Sonnenfels´ weekly moral women´s magazine Theresie und Eleonore
No full textAs the title itself suggests, the bachelor´s work called The Sonnenfels´ weekly moral women´s magazine Theresie und Eleonore pursues a weekly moral magazine Theresie und Eleonore issued in 1767, 1773 and 1784. Its author Joseph von Sonnenfels was a jurist of the Enlightenment, a reformer and an intellectual. Theresie und Eleonore is one of his lesser-known magazines which was considered a women´s magazine and describing the women´s world. The main characters are named after Sonnenfels´ wife and her sister Eleonore. Initially the magazine had been regarded as a work of two women - the main characters. Later, Sonnenfels owned up to his work. The constituent parts of my work are the author of the magazine, the form of particular copies and the Sonnenfels´ fictitious authorship. His life and work is set into the cultural context of his time and Theresie und Eleonore is shown as a typical example of the Enlightenment era. The following chapter concentrates on particular editions of the magazine which was published three times in three slightly different editions in the 18th century. The chapter examines the forms of individual issues and their differences. The last part of my work pursues the Sonnenfels´ fictitious authorship which is especially interesting in the fact that the authors were supposedly women. The particular elements of the fictitious authorship are analysed in the order as they were set by Sonnenfels. It concerns the fictitious characters, letters and narration
Les fables de la Fontaine
No full textLast night I catalogued a large French book of La Fontaine's fables and opined that it may have had an Italian source. This morning I happened to be looking over a big box of uncatalogued books and noticed a large La Fontaine book. Bingo! It is a year earlier, interiorly exactly the same, and done in Italy! The differences I notice are these: the 1992 year of publication instead of 1993; thinner and shinier paper; a canvas binding; a cover illustration featuring various animals in and near a pond; and a different publisher, Editrice La Lucciola instead of L'Etoile. The back cover again lists the fables, but now they are more appropriately labeled Fables Choisies. The cover illustration is again signed Eleonore or Eleonora in 1992. The verso of the first page and the back cover both refer this time to County Studio. Let me repeat some comments from there. Here is a very large-format book (almost 9½ x 12) with connections to several European countries. There is an AI at the back covering the book's 150 pages. The same design of snail and flowers recurs frequently at the bottom of text pages. The animals are regularly dressed. WC exhibits a typical illustration on 35. TMCM on 103 shows a big black boot ready to come through the door and interrupt the two rats, both of whom are holding hunks of cheese. For large portions of the book there seems to be a rhythm at work: a fable text on a left-hand page is balanced by a full-page illustration on the right-hand page. Then there are two pages with only texts and the repeated bottom decoration. Then the rhythm starts over.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Cats' Tales
No full textThis book joins Frogs (1980), Hares (1981), and The Fox Book (1971) in my collection. Two of the twenty-one tales (T of C is at the rear) are from Aesop: Two Cats and a Loaf (and a monkey judge, 11) and The Fox and the Cat (16). The former is attributed to Punjab, the latter to Germany. A pretty book.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Original language: gerAnthea Bel
Impressed by numbers: point estimates are preferred when they are evaluated jointly with ranges
No full textThe way in which precise and range outcomes are evaluated is likely to affect investment decision-making. For instance, when both options are evaluated jointly, they can be compared which can lead consumers to have different preferences as to when options are evaluated in isolation (Fox & Tversky, 1995). This is because when an event is evaluated in isolation, people attempt to assess its likelihood but pay relatively little attention to characteristics such as precision. However, when two events are assessed jointly, the contrast makes these characteristics salient, and ranges become associated with inferior knowledge and therefore point estimates might be preferred. We test whether the mode of evaluation (e.g., joint when point estimates are compared to range estimates vs. separate when estimates are either point or range) affects how much people decide to invest
Lernen an Stationen im DaF-Unterricht an der Universität: Zirkeltraining für das Gehirn - eine alternative Arbeitsform
No full textThe author focuses on the “circuit training” method, which implies a very realistic communicative situation that can involve the students emotionally. The biggest benefits from such a choice are the opportunity to cope with different learning styles thanks to different forms of materials used, a collaborative context which improves the emotional aspect of learning and the simultaneous availability of activities at different levels
Eleonore Kalkowska's (1883-1937) Polish-German Works and its Reception
No full textNiniejsza rozprawa jest pierwszą próbą monograficznego zarysowania "mapy" twórczości i recepcji Eleonory Kalkowskiej: polsko-niemieckiej autorki i dramatopisarki; istotnej, choć zapoznanej, agentce sieci transnarodowego modernizmu. W dotychczasowych badaniach historycznoliterackich Kalkowska funkcjonowała przede wszystkim jako autorka paru sztuk (głównie napisanych w latach 1929-1932 „Sprawy Jakubowskiego” i „Doniesień drobnych”), które przyporządkowały jej dorobek do nurtu politycznego Zeittheater okresu Republiki Weimarskiej. Niniejsza rozprawa dowodzi, że był to jeden z powodów marginalizacji Kalkowskiej w zarówno niemieckiej, jak i polskiej historii literatury. Nie bez znaczenia była też kwestia niejednoznacznej, wielopozycyjnej przynależności narodowej, która na różnych płaszczyznach interferowała z recepcją jej twórczości i wpłynęła na wymazanie autorki z unarodowionych kanonów literackich. Do najważniejszych zadań niniejszej rozprawy należało zatem – z jednej strony – zaprezentowanie przypadku Kalkowskiej jako autorki tekstów znacznie wykraczających poza wąskie ramy kategorii Zeittheater (takich jak m.in. młodopolski zbiór opowiadań "Głód życia" z 1904, feministyczno-pacyfistyczny tom poezji "Der Rauch des Opfers" z 1916, "herstoryczna" sztuka poświęcona carycy Katarzynie ["Katharina", ok. 1926] czy "L'Arc de Triomphe", który zaświadcza o zainteresowaniu pisarki tematyką egzystencjalną). Zaś z drugiej strony, opisanie mechanizmów interferencji pomiędzy kategoriami przynależności narodowej, narzucanymi Kalkowskiej (która określała siebie jako "ucieleśniony skrawek Paneuropy"), a recepcją jej twórczości (i ostatecznie: marginalizacją jej dorobku w obrębie unarodowionych historii literatury).
Główne metodologiczne inspiracje, patronujące niniejszej rozprawie, są zaczerpnięte ze studiów, rozwijanych w ramach tak zwanego "zwrotu przestrzennego". Autorka wykorzystuje koncepcje z takich jego nurtów jak geopoetyka, studia nad modernizmem transnarodowym i uchodźczym (exile studies), a także z zakresu feminizmu umiejscawiania. Istotną dla niniejszej rozprawy jest również idea "światowej republiki literatury" Pascale Casanovy, która opisała m.in. mechanizmy rządzące transnarodowym polem literackim oraz wymagania, stawiane pisarzom języków o "niższej" pozycji w hierarchii "światowego" literackiego prestiżu.
Rozprawa jest podzielona na trzy części, których granice podyktowane zostały przez biograficzno-chronologiczne ramy. Część pierwsza ("Migracje") obejmuje lata 1883-1918 i etap nomadycznych poszukiwań Kalkowskiej (zarówno artystycznych, jak i geograficznych). W drugiej ("Zamek i poetka") zrekonstruowana została działalność pisarki w modernistycznym, kosmopolitycznym Berlinie okresu weimarskiego (1919-1933): jej starania o trafienie na scenę oraz punkt szczytowy kariery, gwałtownie przerwany przez dojście NSDAP do władzy. Część trzecia ("Exodus") dotyczy uchodźczych lat Kalkowskiej (1933-1937), spędzonych w Paryżu i Londynie pomiędzy tysiącami innych wygnańców, którzy w późniejszej historii literatury nazwani zostali formacją "modernizmu uchodźczego". W tym świetle przypadek Kalkowskiej jawi się jako ważne ogniwo w historii różnych "geomodernizmów". Zamykający rozprawę „Epilog” pokazuje, w jaki sposób wpisuje się ona w nowe nurty badań historycznoliterackich.This doctoral thesis is the first attempt to draw a monographical ‘map’ of works and reception of Eleonore Kalkowska, Polish-German modernist poet and playwright, an important, yet forgotten, border-crossing agent of transnational modernism network. In previous studies, Kalkowska functioned mainly as an author of few plays ("Josef" and "Zeitungsnotizen"), written between 1929-1932, which connected her only with political Zeittheater of Weimar Republic. This dissertation argues that it was one of the reasons for Kalkowska’s marginalization in – both Polish and German – literary history. Another factor of this marginalization was Kalkowska's ambiguous, multipositional national affiliation, which interfered with her works and its reception differently in different locations, and ultimately led to her erasure from ‘nationalised’ literary canons. Therefore, the main axis of this thesis is, on the one hand, to present Kalkowska’s case beyond the category of Zeittheater (as an author of e.g. modernist Polish short-stories collection "Głód życia" [The Hunger of Life, 1904], feminist-pacifist poetry from "Der Rauch des Opfers" [The Smoke of Sacrifice, 1916], herstorical play on Catherine the Great ["Katharina", ca. 1926] or "L’Arc de Triomphe" [Triumphal Arch, ca. 1934], which shows Kalkowska’s interest in existential issues). And on the other, is to describe the mechanism of interferences between national categories, which was imposed on Kalkowska (who was describing herself as an „embodied piece of Pan-Europa’s body”), and the reception of her works (eventually: a marginalization from nationalized literary histories).
Main methodological inspirations of this thesis are taken from literary studies, which were developed as a part of ‘spatial turn’. The author uses concepts from ‘geopoetics’, studies of transnational modernism and exile studies, last but not least – locational feminism. An important concept for this thesis is also the idea of the ‘World Republic of Letters’ by Pascale Casanova, who described e.g. the mechanisms governing the transnational literary field and the requirements posed to writers from languages of ‘lower’ positions in the hierarchy of ‘world’ literary prestige.
The doctoral thesis is divided into three parts, framed by the chronological and biographical boundaries. The first ("Migrations") tackles the years between 1883-1918 and the stage of Kalkowska’s nomadic explorations (both artistical and geographical). The second ("The Castle and the Poetess") shows Kalkowska’s years in modernist, Weimar Berlin (1918-1933) – it analyses her artistic networks and constellations, describes her way onto the stage and the high point of her literary career, which was abruptly interrupted by Hitler's rise to power. The third part ("Exodus") tackles the years of exile, which Kalkowska spent in Paris and London, among thousands of other exiles, who were eventually named as a formation of ‘exile modernism’. In this light, Kalkowska’s case appears to be an important link in the history of different ‘geomodernisms’. An Epilogue, which closes this thesis, shows how it corresponds with the new currents of literary history studies
Migrant Scholar : an autobiography
No full textDie Autobiographie des in Königsberg geborenen Philosophen Felix Grayeff (Grajew) (1906-1981), der zeitweilig auch in Freiburg studiert hat und dort bei Wolfgang Schadewald promoviert worden ist, ist ein zeitgeschichtliches Dokument insbesondere zur deutschen Universitätsgeschichte in der Weimarer Zeit und zu Beginn des Dritten Reichs, zur Geschichte des Judentums im Dritten Reich, zum dadurch ausgelösten jüdischen Emigrantenschicksal sowie zu der Lebenssituation und der Situation der Universitäten in den aufnehmenden Ländern (Australien und Neuseeland).The autobiography 'Migrant Scholar' is a contemporary document of German university history during the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the 'Third Reich'.
F. Grayeff was awarded a Ph.D. under the classicist Wolfgang Schadewald at the University of Freiburg in 1930. History and fate of German Jewry under Nazism, the ensuing Jewish emigration which took the author as a refugee to Australia and New Zealand, are part of the autobiography, too.
Private and academic life, the situation of the universities in these countries from 1938 to 1952 when Grayeff returned to Europe, and his new beginnings, form the last part of the autobiography
Für wen schreibt Kant und warum? Kants Haltung als philosophischer Schriftsteller in seinen Vorreden
No full textThe following discussion aims to present Kant's reflections and intentions in relation to his philosophical writing. His writings include academic qualification papers that were originally written in Latin, the transcendental-philosophical Critiques, for which he developed his own terms, and accessible essays devoted to contemporary topics and questions. On the basis of his explicit statements in the prefaces, an understanding of philosophy as a joint project of scholars is asserted, which requires a certain attitude on the part of those who are involved. The basic lines of this attitude are outlined by an exegesis of the prefaces, focusing firstly on the functions of the author, secondly on those of the reader and thirdly on the writings. The developed self-image of Kant as a philosophical author illustrates the Enlightenment understanding of philosophy: With joint progress in science, we can also promote cultural progress for humanity and achieve benefits in the world
"Der Jude" index cards.
No full textOne drawer of index cards for Lappin's dissertation, 'Der Jude: Monographie einer Zeitschrift'In her dissertation for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1995, the author detailed the history of the journal ‘Der Jude’ within the framework of German Jewish society and culture as well as Zionism.See also: Der Jude : Monographie einer Zeitschrift 1916-1928, MS 489.digitize
Teologia i wiedza o osobach
No full textThe aim of the paper is to discern between philosophy and theology. A philosopher is looking after impersonal wisdom, a theologian searches for a personal God. This differentiation is fundamental because knowledge of persons differs from knowledge that. The author shows how taking into account the fact that theology is based on the second-person knowledge changes the way one should approach the hiddenness argument.Celem artykułu jest ukazanie różnicy między filozofią a teologią. Filozof szuka mądrości bezosobowej, teolog zaś szuka Boga osobowego. To zróżnicowanie jest fundamentalne, ponieważ wiedza o osobach różni się od wiedzy o przedmiotach. Autorka pokazuje, jak uwzględnienie faktu, że teologia opiera się na wiedzy drugoosobowej, zmienia podejście do argumentu z ukrytości
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