Wolf Lepenies is one of Germany”s foremost intellectuals. He served as Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg, the German Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1986-2001), where he is now a Permanent Fellow. Lepenies is also Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Berlin, and he spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of numerous books and writes regularly for the German national newspaper
Die Welt.
11 Ebooks de Wolf Lepenies
Wolf Lepenies: The Seduction of Culture in German History
During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it …
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€27.99
A Community of Scholars
The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photos This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of th …
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€34.99
Jan Bürger & Petra Gehring: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte Heft XI/4 Winter 2017
Neues vom ideenhistorischen Nachrichtendienst: ‘Intelligence. Import / Export’. Die Winterausgabe der Zeitschrift spürt ideenpolitischen Wanderwegen diesseits und jenseits der transatlantischen Einba …
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€9.49
Wolf Lepenies: Die Macht am Mittelmeer
Der Plan schien perfekt: Präsident Sarkozy wollte seine südlichen Nachbarn für eine Mittelmeerunion gewinnen, um ein Gegengewicht zur deutschen Dominanz in Europa zu etablieren. Angela Merkel wusste …
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€7.99
Gunilla Budde: Kapitalismus
Understanding the present crisis of capitalism demands a historical review. In this collection, Wolf Lepenies looks back to Honoré de Balzac’s ‘human comedy.’ The contribution by Hans-Ulrich Wehler d …
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€39.00
Loren Graham & Wolf Lepenies: Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Edward Gibbon’s allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that …
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€114.70
Adolph Knigge: Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Ein Leitfaden für ein zivilisiertes Miteinander – nie war es so wertvoll wie heute, in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und sozialen Medien. Ein Buch, das gelesen haben sollte, wer sich in Gesellschaft beg …
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Wolf Lepenies: Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals
In this volume, young researchers present their views of the results of a joint project titled »AGORA: Work – Knowledge – Bindung (Social Cohesion)«, which was organized at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu …
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€94.99
