Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University. His books in English include
In 1926 (1998),
Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), and
In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006).
34 Ebooks von Erik Butler
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-pr …
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€26.99
Friedrich A. Kittler: Truth of the Technological World
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native …
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€34.99
Erik Butler: Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film
The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.
For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have …
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€33.99
Byung-Chul Han: Psychopolitics
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, …
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€18.99
Marc Wittmann: Felt Time
An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have …
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€50.03
Erik Butler: The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature
The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of …
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€48.74
Erik Butler: The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature
The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultural institutions and promoting new methods of …
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€48.37
Butler Erik Butler: Rise of the Vampire
Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys, and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let the Right One In, …
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€31.25
Léon Bloy: Disagreeable Tales
Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the ‚ungrateful beggar‘ and ‚pilgrim of the absolute, ‚ Léon Bloy.
Disagreeable Tales, first …
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Léon Bloy: Sweating Blood
First published in French in 1893,
Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the ‚Pilgrim of the Absolute, ‚ Léon Bloy. Writing with blood, …
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€19.99
Walter Serner: At the Blue Monkey
Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & T …
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€17.99
Martin Burckhardt & Dirk Hofer: All and Nothing
Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and …
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€32.53
Byung-Chul Han: Agony of Eros
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the …
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€37.52
Byung-Chul Han: In the Swarm
A prominent German thinker argues that-contrary to "Twitter Revolution" cheerleading-digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.The shitstorm represents an …
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€37.23
Albrecht Koschorke: On Hitler’s Mein Kampf
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler’s Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for …
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€34.99
Jean-Yves Delenne & Etienne Guyon: Built on Sand
Explaining the science contained in a simple assembly of grains-the most abundant form of matter present on Earth.Granular media-composed of vast amounts of grains, consolidated or not-constitute the …
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€100.07
Alain Becoulet: Star Power
A concise and accessible explanation of the science and technology behind the domestication of nuclear fusion energy.Nuclear fusion research tells us that the Sun uses one gram of hydrogen to make as …
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€72.36
Erik Butler: Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film
For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a …
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€23.99
Nicolas Bourriaud: The Exform
Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.
He argues that the great theoretical …
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€16.99
Thomas Lemke: Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality
Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault’s work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only …
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Nicola Gess: Primitive Thinking
This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary w …
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Dirk van Laak: Lifelines of Our Society
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little …
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€100.23
Marina Yaguello: Imaginary Languages
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello …
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