Auteur: Helmut Muller-Sievers

The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, a …

One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentr …

One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentr …

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to it …

St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg’s sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus’s anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment hap …

St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg’s sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus’s anguished cry on the cross, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ Why did this abandonment happen, what …

The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, a …