Contingentia : Vol. 3 No. 2, 2008
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This article analyzes the concept of race and ethnographic description used by the bavarian botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in his publications on Brazil. Principally Blumenbach’s and Meiners’ racial theories and the concept of physiognomy are applied to explain Martius’ strategies to describe and classify the indigenous people he came across during his voyage to Brazil.
The article […] analyses the poetical review of language that is given in the named play. The centre of attention is how Handke forms his sceptical opinions about language into a provoking play and how he is influenced by the philosophical review of language like “Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache” written by Fritz Mauthner, an almost forgotten philosopher of the beginning of the 20th century.
„Und natürlich darf geschossen werden!“ : politische Lyrik und Linksterrorismus in Deutschland
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In the late 1960s, West Germany was swept over by a wave of student protest. The movement of 1968 hit the country especially hard because the young generation aimed to overcome the Nazi past of their parents once and for all. As their peaceful demonstrations did not have any success, some of the leftist activists decided to take violent measures. Among other terrorist groups, the Red Army Fraction was born. This article tries to bring to light, if and how far the political poetry of the German postwar period predicted and legitimized this process.