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He was born at Hartenstein in the Saxon Erzgebirge, on the 5th of October 1609, the son of the village pastor.
(In this collection of short meditations on various topics...)
In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or Adorno's Minima Moralia. Drawing upon an intellectual tradition that ranges from Aesop to Wittgenstein and from medieval theology to astrophysics, he works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues?metaphors, gestures, anecdotes?essential to grasping human finitude. Images of shipwrecks, attempts at ordering the world, and questions of foundations are traced through the work of Goethe, Schopenhauer, Simmel, Husserl, Thomas Mann, and others. The book's reflections culminate in a rereading of the fable "Care Crosses the River" that lies at the center of Heidegger's analysis of Dasein in which the fable's elided Gnostic center is recovered: Care creates the human in its own image, as a reflection of its narcissism. At stake throughout are two inextricable elements of Blumenberg's thought: a theory of nonconceptuality as essential to philosophizing and an exploration of culture understood as humanity's unceasing attempts to relieve itself of the weight of the absolutism of reality.
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(Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty...)
Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life?common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events?while also avoiding all notions of mediocrity. He focuses on three sites of this tension: the average audience (Lessing), the average artist (Goethe and Schiller), and the everyday, or average life (Grillparzer and Stifter). The book's title, Exemplarity and Mediocrity, describes both a disjunctive and a conjunctive relation. Read disjunctively, modern art must display the "exemplary originality" (Kant) that only genius can provide and is thus fundamentally opposed to mediocrity as that which does not stand out or lacks distinctiveness; in the conjunctive sense, modern art turns to non-exceptional life in order to transform it?without forsaking its commonness?thereby producing exemplary forms of mediocrity that both represent the non-exceptional and, insofar as they stand outside the group they represent, are something other than mediocre.
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The workplace is where almost two thirds of adults spend almost two thirds of their waking time. Though traditional, statutorily-driven approaches to risk management have been demonstrably effective in reducing the number of injuries and sickness in recent years, psychological and physical health issues are still rife in the modern-day workforce. Work-related sickness and injury absence, and the economic cost implications of such, are having a detrimental effect not just on employees and employers, but on the wider community. Written by a team of experts from across academia and practice settings, this engaging new book argues that employer organizations must work collaboratively with employees in order to create working environments that promote health for all. With a sharp focus on applying theory to practice, the book uses real-life examples from areas across the globe to encourage readers to think contextually. Key topics covered include: Work-life balance, including issues of workload and the 'long hours culture' The impact of work-related musculoskeletal disorders The nature, scale and causes of work-related stress The significance of corporate social responsibility in employee wellness Aligned with global frameworks, this comprehensive text provides both students and qualified professionals with a solid foundation for practice, and a rich source of material for discussion.
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(Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant...)
Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts from twelve thinkers and poets between 1795 and 1915: Schelling, Hölderlin, Hegel, Solger, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Vischer, Kierkegaard, Hebbel, Nietzsche, Simmel, and Scheler. The various definitions of tragedy are read not so much in terms of their specific philosophies, but rather in the way their views assist in analyzing tragedies with an aim to establish a general concept of the tragic. The second part presents exemplary analyses of eight tragedies: Sophocles'Oedipus Rex, Calderons Life Is a Dream, Shakespeares Othello, Gryphius Leo Armenius, Racines Phaedra, Schillers Demetrius, Kleist's The Schroffenstein Family and Büchner's Danton's Death. The readings neither presuppose a concept of the tragic determined by context (as in Hegel's idea of the conflict between two orders of right), nor do they focus exclusively on the texts explicit contents. Instead, they elaborate the dialectical or aporetic structures at the heart of the tragic. The works analyzed represent the four great epochs of tragic poetry: the age of Greek tragedy; the Baroque era in Spain, England, and Germany; French Classicism; and the age of Goethe.
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Paul Fleming: Deutsche Gedichte Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger • Paul Fleming selbst hat keine Sammlung seiner Gedichte veranstaltet. Er hinterließ jedoch eine Sammelhandschrift, die Adam Olearius nach dem Tod Flemings für eine Ausgabe von dessen »Teütschen Poemata« nutzen konnte. Die vorliegende Sammlung folgt in Text und Anordnung der Gesamtausgabe von J.M.Lappenberg aus dem Jahr 1865. Lappenberg übernahm die Gliederung der »Teütschen Poemata«, ordnete die Gedichte jedoch innerhalb der bestehenden Gruppen chronologisch und ergänzte sie um fehlende Texte. Außerdem suchte er die Texte durch den Vergleich mit älteren Textzeugen zu verbessern. Die Gedichte entstanden zwischen 1631 und Flemings frühem Tod im Jahre 1640 und wurden zum Teil bereits zu Lebzeiten des Autors einzeln gedruckt. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: • Paul Fleming: Deutsche Gedichte, Herausgegeben von J. M. Lappenberg, Band 1 und 2, Stuttgart 1865. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Paul Fleming als 31-Jähriger(zeitgenössischer Kupferstich) Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 10 pt.
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He was born at Hartenstein in the Saxon Erzgebirge, on the 5th of October 1609, the son of the village pastor.
First received a home education, then went to school in Mittweida. At the age of fourteen he was sent to school at Leipzig and subsequently studied medicine at the university which he graduated in 1633.
In 1633, at the invitation of Adam Olearius, Fleming went to Holstein, where he joined the prepared embassy in Russia. In August 1634 he reached Moscow; part of the embassy in April 1635 returned to Gottorp, but Fleming spent some more time in Revel. In October of the same year, he joined the embassy in Persia, reached Isfahan in August 1637; Fleming spent about two years there. Returning to Europe, he received a doctorate in medicine from Leiden University (in 1640). Fleming intended to go to Revel again to marry the merchant's daughter Anna Nihuzen (who he was engaged on the first visit to the city), but he died on the way in Hamburg from pneumonia.
(Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty...)
(In this collection of short meditations on various topics...)
(Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant...)
( The workplace is where almost two thirds of adults spen...)
( Paul Fleming: Deutsche Gedichte Edition Holzinger. Tas...)
Quotes from others about the person
Günter Grass has called him "one of the major figures in German seventeenth-century literature".