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by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Viele überlieferte Gewissheiten aus den Traditionen von "Aufklärung" und "Moderne" sind brüchig geworden – es scheint, als ob sich unser gewohntes Weltbild gerade auflöst. Andererseits haben wir den Kopf noch nicht frei für den Entwurf von Alternativen.Diesen Befund spiegeln Hans Ulrich Gumbrechts Glossen und Artikel aus NZZ und FAZ, etwa über Muhammad Ali, Armut in Indien, Kinderkriegen, Liebe im Alter, die Ästhetik des Selfies, Political Correctness, den Tod der eigenen Mutter, Freiheit oder Gewalt.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2019

About the author

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian (and by courtesy, he is affiliated with the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures/ILAC, the Department of German Studies, and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature). As a scholar, Gumbrecht focuses on the histories of the national literatures in Romance language (especially French, Spanish, and Brazilian), but also on German literature, while, at the same time, he teaches and writes about the western philosophical tradition (almost exclusively on non-analytic philosophy) with an emphasis on French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. In addition, Gumbrecht tries to analyze and to understand forms of aesthetic experience 21st-century everyday culture. Over the past forty years, he has published more than two thousand texts, including books, translated into more than twenty languages. In Europe and in South America, Gumbrecht has a presence as a public intellectual; whereas, in the academic world, he has been acknowledged by ten honorary doctorates in seven different countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, and Georgia. He has also held a large number of visiting professorships, at the Collège de France, University of Lisbon, University of Manchester, and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, among others. In the spring of 2017, he was a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.