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Kognition und Reflexion: Zur Theorie filmischen Denkens
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ISBN: 3110614855 3110613204 3110613972 Year: 2018 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Wenn audiovisuelle Bewegtbilder als Medien historischer, kultureller oder politischer Diskurse analysiert werden - sei es in kulturwissenschaftlichen oder in sozialwissenschaftlichen Studien - stehen zumeist repräsentierte Sachverhalte audiovisueller Bilder zur Diskussion, die sich ohne jede analytische Operation feststellen und benennen lassen. Nimmt man aber den Gedanken ernst, dass unser Sinnesapparat ein Produkt der Geschichte der Medien menschlicher Wahrnehmung ist, dann ist das Sehen, Hören, Fühlen zunächst eine Frage des Mediengebrauchs. Der Diskurs audiovisueller Bewegtbilder ist daher auf Seiten der Medienrezeption zu verorten: Sie entfaltet sich als eine kulturelle Praxis, in der Menschen ihre subjektive Wahrnehmungswirklichkeit als Teil einer gemeinsam geteilten Welt zu fassen suchen. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, anhand einer Theorie der Poetologie filmischen Denkens und insbesondere der "Cinematic Metaphor" darzulegen, wie filmische Bilder ein Verstehen und Denken generieren, das neue Differenzen und Modalitäten in diese geteilte Wirklichkeit einführt.


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"If then the world a theatre present..." : revisions of the theatrum mundi metaphor in early modern England
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ISBN: 3110383675 3110343932 9783110292299 3110292297 9783110343939 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the "theatrum mundi" topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God's well-ordered world drama. Early modern dramatists often reacted to this development by appropriating the metaphor, and in an ingenious twist, some playwrights even appropriated its anti-theatrical impetus: Early modern theatre seemed to discover a denial of its own theatricality at its very core. Drama was found to succeed best when it staged itself as a great unmasking. To investigate the reasons and effects of these developments, the anthology examines the metaphorical uses of theatre in plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and other sources.


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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
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ISBN: 082327859X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press,

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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step—from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx’s Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics, Albert Speer’s Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. This masterful follow-up to The Human Motor, Rabinbach’s brilliant study of the European science of work, bridges intellectual history, labor history, and the history of the body. It shows the intellectual and policy reasons as to how a utopia of the body as motor won wide acceptance and moved beyond the “man as machine” model before tracing its steep decline after 1945—and along with it the eclipse of the great hopes that a more efficient workplace could provide the basis of a new, more socially satisfactory society.

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