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1. Die Weimarer Republik – ein historisches Hauptstück der zynischen Vernunft : die narrative Formatierung der deutschen Zwischenkriegszeit in Peter Sloterdijks kulturgeschichtlichem Kompendium von 1983

Creator:
Müller-Funk, Wolfgang
Format:
text/pdf
Type:
Article
Subject:
downfall, cynicism, crisis, moderne, loss of meaning, and Philosophy
Language:
German
Description:
The text refers to Peter Sloterdijk's maybe most famous book which entails a long chapter about the Weimar Republic. This short time period of German history is seen as an exemplary historical example for a situation in which cynical thinking becomes general. In his first prominent book, he changed the leftist images and the narratives of Weimar Republic after 1968 as a laboratory for modernism and of a tragic end of revolutionary efforts. Instead the first democracy was presented as an apocalyptical period in which cold intellectual affirmation was dominant. As the text argues, Sloterdijk widens the concept of cynical thinking in a way that seems to be problematic. His argumentation discusses melancholy, nihilism, social and cultural discontent under the terminological umbrella of the "cynic".
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2. Mezi gens a regnum. Církev a její role na pomezí krize tradiční společnosti a vznikem raně středověkého státu

Creator:
Drška, Václav
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
Middle Ages, early medieval, tribal society, crisis, early medieval state, Frankish empire, The Přemyslid state, Gregory of Tours, and Cosmas of Prague
Language:
Czech, English, and German
Description:
The article continues the ongoing debate about a “pre-state” tribal society and the nature of its transformation into an early medieval “state” (regnum). The methodological approach is to understand this transformation as an institutional crisis within the tribal society. The opportunities to detect the key moments of this process are tested on the narrative strategies of medieval chroniclers based on the expectation that creating Christian monarchic power took place under the control of the church that tried to influence its form to correspond to the characteristics of the given patrician tradition. It also benefits from the reality that the authors of these texts were clergymen for whom this idea was natural. Using comparative examination, it seeks out typical testimonies that can be considered traditional locations of literary memory of communication between the sovereign and the tribe. In this way, the study attempts to define the basic strategy the sovereign employed to subjugate “their” people within the framework of Christian ethical discourse.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public