"Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term “cool?" When has coolness come to be associated with certain modes of contemporary self-fashioning? On what grounds do certain nations claim ..."
"The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As Picturing convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about the nature and capacity of images and formed responses to some of most pressing problems of picturing: What is an image, and why make one? What do images do? The first volume in a ..."
"Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a central aspect of human life, it plays a rol ..."
"e.g. Seneca, De ira (On anger), De vita beata (On the happy life), De tranquillitate
animi (On the tranquillity of mind). 6. Cf. e.g. Justus Lipsius, De constantia (1584)
and Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam (1604). 7. Or “inner citadel.” Isaiah
Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty,” in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1969): 135–141. 8. “Beata est ergo vita conveniens naturae
suae.” (“Consequently a life that ..."
"Das Symposion resümiert Perspektiven auf die Allegorie im Anschluss an Benjamin und de Man und entwickelt sie weiter. Die Allegorie wird dabei als Reflexion des Zeichens im Zeichen aufgefasst. Mit selbstreflexiven Praktiken des Fragments, des Zitats, der Collage oder beispielsweise einer ironisch ausgestellten Metanarrativität und Metafiktionalität haben Moderne und Postmoderne zu einer Wiederkehr der Allegorie als analytischer Kategori ..."
"While the ubiquity of the aesthetic in contemporary society can hardly be denied, the reasons for the staggering aestheticizing of private and social practices are manifold and have recently been subject to controversial debates within the humanities. Arguably, postmodern consumer culture, new hedonistic lifestyles, or the spectacularization of the political sphere are just another form of Americanization, yet the specific 'American' di ..."
Iconographies of Power(1st Edition) The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation (American Studies - A Monograph Series) by UllaHaselstein, Berndt Ostendorf, Peter Schneck Hardcover, 347 Pages, Published 2003 by Universitätsverlag Winter ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-1533-7, ISBN: 3-8253-1533-9
"Today the question of iconography has taken on a new and more general urgency. As a dominant cultural practice, iconography embraces the politics as well as the poetics of visual representation within their specific historical and cultural conditions. In its contemporary significance the question of iconography moreover reaches beyond disciplinary boundaries of conventional definitions and interpretations of the relation between words a ..."
"Throughout the last decade, observers of American culture have drawn attention to an emerging transformation: an apparent shift from postmodern irony and play to a revalorization of the real and authentic. This "turn" in cultural values has been linked to general conservative tendencies and the after-effects of September 11 as well as a lingering sense of crisis following post- Cold War triumphalism. 'The Pathos of Authenticity' investi ..."
Aesthetic Transgressions(1st Edition) Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature: Festschrift Fuer Winfried Fluck Zum 60. Geburtstag (American Studies - a Monograph Series) by Sieglinde Lemke, Thomas Claviez, UllaHaselstein Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Universitätsverlag Winter ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-5197-7, ISBN: 3-8253-5197-1
"The debate over the function of aesthetics can be traced back to the New Criticism and its aftermath. After its theoretical axioms and criteria of judgement had been debunked as ideologically charged, two factions emerged. A number of critics defended the value of aesthetic complexity, i.e. of ambiguity, irony and negativity, and refused to accept the arguments of ideology critique attacking the concept of aesthetic autonomy. Revisionis ..."
Cultural Interactions(1st Edition) Fifty Years of American Studies in Germany (American Studies: Monographs) by UllaHaselstein, Berndt Ostendorf Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 2005 by Universitätsverlag Winter ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-5079-6, ISBN: 3-8253-5079-7
"The present volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the German Association of American Studies. It is testimony to 50 years of academic scholarship in Germany. The retrospective occurs at a crucial moment in transatlantic relations marked by the end of the Cold War and a noticeable realignment of American cultural politics in a globalizing, transnational world. The first section is devoted to memories of the beginnings of American Stu ..."
Entziffernde Hermeneutik Zum Begriff der Lektüre in der psychoanalytischen Theorie des Unbewussten (Theorie und Geschichte der Literatur und der schönen Künste) (German Edition) by UllaHaselstein Paperback, 243 Pages, Published 1991 by W. Fink ISBN-13: 978-3-7705-2725-0, ISBN: 3-7705-2725-9
"Vgl. Anselm Haverkamp, „Metaphora dis/ continua. Figure in de/construction“, in:
Eva Horn/Manfred Weinberg (Hrsg.), Allegorie. Konfigurationen von Text, Bild
und Lektüre, Opladen 1998, S. 29–45, hier bes. der „Kommentar zur
Begriffsgeschichte von Quintilian bis Baumgarten“, S. 42–45; ders./Menke, „
Allegorie“, Abschnitt II: Allegorie als Figur (Haverkamp, S. 55–70), S. 65–66. 33
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Ästhetik [zuerst 1750–1 ..."
"Kultur, Kunst, GesellschaftBroschiertes BuchWas und wie wir fühlen, ist auf biologischer Basis zu einem großen Teil durch kulturelle Codes reguliert. Ihre Entstehung, ihre Wirkung auf die Emotionen und die Wirkung der Emotionen auf die Sprache werden in diesem Buch untersucht und mit dem kooperativen Verhalten nichtmenschlicher Primaten verglichen. Im Zentrum steht dabei die enge Verbindung von Emotionen und Sprache. Neben der Sprache w ..."
"Eine Weltmacht in der Krise Andreas Etges, Winfried Fluck ... Herausgeber
dieses Bandes werden diesen Bestandsaufnahmen zwei histori- sche
Perspektiven mit jeweils anderem Akzent hinzugefügt. Winfried Fluck geht in
seinem Beitrag der Frage nach, wie die gegenwärtige Krise mit dem Bild der
amerikanischen Demokratie vereinbar ist, das Alexis de Tocquevilles Studie
Über die Demokratie in Amerika spätestens seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg z ..."
The Chutneyfication of History Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Debate (American Studies - a Monograph Series) by Mita Banerjee Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 2002 by Universitätsverlag Winter ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-1404-0, ISBN: 3-8253-1404-9