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The Carlsbad Decrees represent one of the most profound incursions into the newly achieved and hard-fought freedom of students and professors at the University of Leipzig. They marked the ideological and political counter-attack by the governments of the individual German states against the development of the new bourgeois university and its "spirit of freedom." This work examines the history of the origins of the Carlsbad Decrees and their impact.

Universities and colleges --- History. --- Universität Leipzig --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig --- History --- Germany --- Politics and government --- Karlsbader Beschlüsse --- Universität Leipzig (1991- ) --- Alma mater Lipsiensis --- Leipzig University --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig --- Universitat Leipzig

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The blog The Funambulist: Architectural Narratives, a daily architectural platform written and edited by Léopold Lambert, finds its name in the consideration for architecture’s representative medium, the line, and its philosophical and political power when it materializes and subjectivizes bodies. If the white page represents a given milieu — a desert for example — and one comes to trace a line on it, (s)he will virtually split this same milieu into two distinct impermeable parts through its embodiment, the wall. The Funambulist, also known as a tightrope walker, is the character who, somehow, subverts this power by walking on the line. The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema.

Theory of architecture --- Spinoza, Benedictus de, --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- architecture --- cinema --- Baruch Spinoza --- Gilles Deleuze --- Karl Marx

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Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow - and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960's, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's "Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre," the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world.

Communism and culture. --- Theater and society. --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Culture and communism --- Culture --- Social status --- Social aspects --- literature --- theatre studies --- Capitalism --- Communism --- Karl Marx

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The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role--past, present and future--of ideas, and of their progenitors. A rich variety of subject-matters is represented--from philosophy to education, from Russia to Israel, from Marxism to romanticism--so that the truth of Heine's warning is exemplified on a broad front. It is a warning that Berlin often referred to, and provides an answer to those who ask, as from time to time they do, why intellectual history matters. Among the contributions are "My Intellectual Path," Berlin's last essay, a retrospective autobiographical survey of his main preoccupations; and "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation," the classic statement of his Zionist views, long unavailable in print. His other subjects include the Enlightenment, Giambattista Vico, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, G.V. Plekhanov, the Russian intelligentsia, the idea of liberty, political realism, nationalism, and historicism. The book exhibits the full range of his enormously wide expertise and demonstrates the striking and enormously engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas. "Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization."--Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. This new edition adds a number of previously uncollected pieces, including Berlin's earliest statement of the pluralism of values for which he is famous.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Modern philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alexander Herzen. --- Analogy. --- Autocracy. --- Awareness. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Career. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chauvinism. --- Civilisation (TV series). --- Classicism. --- Communism. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Despotism. --- Disenchantment. --- Eloquence. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empiricism. --- Existentialism. --- Fanaticism. --- For Marx. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Friedrich Meinecke. --- Good and evil. --- Hatred. --- Historism. --- Humiliation. --- Hypothesis. --- Ideology. --- Individualism. --- Institution. --- Intellectual history. --- Intelligentsia. --- Irony. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Italians. --- Jerusalem Prize. --- Jews. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Jules Michelet. --- Karl Marx. --- Lecture. --- Literature. --- Marxism. --- Modernity. --- Morality. --- Nationality. --- Natural science. --- Obscurantism. --- Obstacle. --- Of Education. --- Oligarchy. --- Oxford University Press. --- Paternalism. --- Pessimism. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of history. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Positivism. --- Prejudice. --- Publication. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Ruler. --- Russian literature. --- School of thought. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Sensibility. --- Sincerity. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Sociology. --- Symptom. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Three Critics of the Enlightenment. --- Treatise. --- War. --- Weizmann. --- Western culture. --- Writing. --- Zionism.