Klaus Benesch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klaus Benesch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klaus |
| FAMILY NAME | Benesch |
| SIGNATURE | BENESCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | München |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Architecture and/as Hospitality: Thoreau and Adorno
Architecture and/as Hospitality: Thoreau and Adorno
Thinking Architecture in the United States: An Introduction
Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben: Zum Zusammenhang von Bekenntnisliteratur und Subjektbildung
The Art of the Lie: Ein Versuch über die Lüge in Kunst, Politik und Philosophie
Douglass, Frederick
1838 Flucht aus der Sklaverei; ab 1841 Redner für die Anti-Slavery Society in Massachusetts; 1845 Autobiographie, Flucht nach England; 1847 Rückkehr in die USA, Gründung des North Star; 1861–1865 Berater von Präsident Lincoln ; ab 1877 Regierungsämter, u. a. Konsul auf Haiti.
Is Truth to Post-Truth what Modernism Is to Postmodernism? Heidegger, the Humanities, and the Demise of Common-Sense
This essay argues that there is no such thing as post-truth. We are by no means in the middle of an unprecedented epistemological crisis that keeps us from telling right from wrong. Rather, what we currently witness is a major breakdown of the institutions and mechanics of democratic society, triggered by an encompassing technological transformation that affects both our public and private lives. Even if the challenges for rational public discour…
Das Versagen der Schrift: Gestik und Aufklärung in Melvilles Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
International audience
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination
In the humanities, the term ‘diaspora’ recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars address…
Oral Narrative and Literary Text: Afro-American Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God
When Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937, two earlier books had already proved Zora Neale Hurston's particular interest in black oral culture: Mules and Men (1935) and Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934). Hurston had collected the material for Mules and Men, compilation of folk tales, folk songs, folk speech, conjure formulas, root prescriptions, and various hoodoo rituals, during two-year stay in Florida under the supervision of Franz…
Oral Narrative and Literary Text: Afro-American Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God
When Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937, two earlier books had already proved Zora Neale Hurston's particular interest in black oral culture: Mules and Men (1935) and Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934). Hurston had collected the material for Mules and Men, compilation of folk tales, folk songs, folk speech, conjure formulas, root prescriptions, and various hoodoo rituals, during two-year stay in Florida under the supervision of Franz…
Oral Narrative and Literary Text: Afro-American Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching God
When Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937, two earlier books had already proved Zora Neale Hurston's particular interest in black oral culture: Mules and Men (1935) and Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934). Hurston had collected the material for Mules and Men, compilation of folk tales, folk songs, folk speech, conjure formulas, root prescriptions, and various hoodoo rituals, during two-year stay in Florida under the supervision of Franz…
African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination
In the humanities, the term ‘diaspora’ recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars address…
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
International audience
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Das Versagen der Schrift: Gestik und Aufklärung in Melvilles Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Douglass, Frederick
1838 Flucht aus der Sklaverei; ab 1841 Redner für die Anti-Slavery Society in Massachusetts; 1845 Autobiographie, Flucht nach England; 1847 Rückkehr in die USA, Gründung des North Star; 1861–1865 Berater von Präsident Lincoln ; ab 1877 Regierungsämter, u. a. Konsul auf Haiti.
Is Truth to Post-Truth what Modernism Is to Postmodernism? Heidegger, the Humanities, and the Demise of Common-Sense
This essay argues that there is no such thing as post-truth. We are by no means in the middle of an unprecedented epistemological crisis that keeps us from telling right from wrong. Rather, what we currently witness is a major breakdown of the institutions and mechanics of democratic society, triggered by an encompassing technological transformation that affects both our public and private lives. Even if the challenges for rational public discour…
Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben: Zum Zusammenhang von Bekenntnisliteratur und Subjektbildung
The Art of the Lie: Ein Versuch über die Lüge in Kunst, Politik und Philosophie
Architecture and/as Hospitality: Thoreau and Adorno
Architecture and/as Hospitality: Thoreau and Adorno
Thinking Architecture in the United States: An Introduction
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art (2 works)