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...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell , Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann , and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow . Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian...

... as it is found in Friedrich Schiller. If an autonomous subject possesses something exaggeratedly, superfluously, or irrationally elaborate, and if that subject further experiences ownership as liberation from the forceful demands of goal-oriented rationality and utilitarian thinking, then that something...

... 2020 In A Philosophy of Luxury , Lambert Wiesing, chair of Image Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University, makes the case that luxury is what makes us human and that if we were to entirely abandon the world of the luxurious we would find ourselves cast into either a state...

... merely to confirm their own vision of reality. Within Continental philosophy, the German philosopher Lambert Wiesing’s “Toward a Phenomenology of Luxury” argues that the cultural politics of luxury must be allied with Friedrich Schiller’s famous case in On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794...

... interpretations. I am terribly proud of my exposure of Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos . 3 I doubt that Schiller himself realized it, but he turned his own culturalization into literature and transferred it to Spain. Maybe it's my megalomania that others feel compelled to destroy, but I am convinced: that's...

... glance it may be more accurate to say that Wagner came to believe in the aesthetic replacement of the Revolution as much as a German ever did. In other words and names, Wagner appears to be operating alongside Friedrich Schiller and Ludwig van Beethoven. To guarantee its purity, to protect it from...

... delicate shades of color. The daytime Easter Walk of Goethe’s Faust and his return home at dusk with the poodle, the sunrise over [Friedrich] Schiller’s Rütli, the magical light of Tannhäuser’s Venus mountain, Sarastro’s sacred halls, Palestrina’s nocturnal study—they could now be staged with such realism...

... the Grecophile Kittler would later do. 7. Kittler is discussing Friedrich Schiller and Voltaire. Note the computer-like resonance of the term durchlaufen , as if a punch card or sequence were being run through a machine. 6. See the discussion of Huckleberry Finn by Leo Marx (1964) . 5...

.... In this section, we make a political leap from Kantian reflections on the beautiful and the sublime to more contemporary political issues and ideas. This move is not as far-fetched as it might at first appear. Indeed, scholars from Friedrich Schiller (1982) to Hannah Arendt (1982) to Joseph Chytry (1989...

... as one would, for example, one’s bride or mother. This is the gist of the first half of “ De Nostalgia ,” which analyzes Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell as an instance in the creation of nostalgia. As the original medical term for homesickness, nostalgia initially referred to the yearning...

... of the artistic form, things are liberated to their own life—without being liberated in reality. (213) This is what is viable in Enlightenment. In 1795, Friedrich Schiller wrote his Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man in reaction to the violence of the Jacobin period of the French Revolution ( [1795...

...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Music—“just a sweet pressure of the air” 1 But for music to once again turn into air after two and half millennia of notes and six hundred years of sheet music...

... for the deployment and functioning of capital ( Schiller 2000 ; Hassan 2008 ). It is a society commodified to the highest degree. The “backbone” of the network society, the Internet, is developed and shaped by commercial interests, and its flourishing of allegedly more non-commercial fads – from blogging to social...