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In the Light of Darkness Anita Albus • Heinrich von Kleist: Biography

Günter Blamberger• The Wanderer and his Shadow: A Biography

Gunnar Decker • The Practice of Trust Martin Hartmannn • War

Experiences in a multiethnic City Lviv 1914-1947 Dr Christoph Mick • House of Economics Science, Politics & Expert Culture in the Federal

Republic of Germany between 1949 and 1974 Alexander Nützenadel

• Transformations of Feelings: Philosophical Theories of Emotion

1270 - 1670 Dominik Perler • The Art of Freedom On the Dialectics of

Democratic ExistenceJuliane Rebentisch • Alfred Döblin: A Biography

Wilfried F. Schoeller • The Dark Side of the National States Ethnic

Cleansings in modern Europe Dr. Philipp Ther • East-Central

Europe in the 19th and 20th Century Joachim von Puttkamer

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General Information (3) In the Light of Darkness (4)Anita Albus

Heinrich von Kleist: Biography (5)Günter Blamberger

The Wanderer and his Shadow: (6)A BiographyGunnar Decker

The Practice of Trust (7)Martin Hartmann

War Experiences in a multiethnic City (8) Lviv 1914-1947Dr Christoph Mick

House of Economics Science, Politics & (9) Expert Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1949 and 1974Alexander Nützenadel

Transformations of Feelings: (10) Philosophical Theories of Emotion 1270 - 1670 Dominik Perler

The Art of Freedom (11) On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence Juliane Rebentisch

Alfred Döblin: A Biography (12) Wilfried F. Schoeller

The Dark Side of the National States (13) Ethnic Cleansings in modern Europe Dr. Philipp Ther

East-Central Europe (14) in the 19th and 20th Century Joachim von Puttkamer

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IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESSON PROUST

Anita Albus shows us things never before seen in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things

Past; its great variety of layers of meaning that lie within the work. Albus, a poet herself, understands Proust’s representention of the visibility of the in-visible amidst a forest of symbols, beneath a sky spangled with ideas.

Anita Albus’ study sheds light on the significance of the religious in Proust’s main work À la recherche du temps perdu. In a unique way, she brings to-gether perspectives from natural science and the history of ideas, linking botanical, architectural, art historical, philosophical and religious histori-cal knowledge. On the basis of numerous symbols within the text, Albus breaks down to what extent Proust’s work can be understood as a religious work.

As well as its unique methodology and new find-ings, the study is also distinguished by the scholar and artist Anita Albus’ stylistic brilliance. Due to its linguistic elegance and close reading of Proust’s text, the study is of interest not only to an aca-demic readership, but also to lovers of Proust and literature in general. The four-colour illustrations clarify the argumentation and render the work as an attractively designed book.

Anita Albus is a painter and writer,

and lives in Munich and Burgundy.

Her minutely detailed nature stud-

ies of plants, birds and butterflies

have been widely exhibited. She has

written short stories (including “Li-

ebesbande”), novels (Farfallone) and

a number of volumes of essays on

art history including “Die Kunst der

Künste.” Her most recent publication

was the book Von seltenen Vögeln.

She has received various awards

for her wide range of artistic work.

German Titles: Im Licht der Finsternis. Über Proust | S. Fischer Verlag GmbH | 2011 | 224 pages

Rights Contact: Ricarda von Bergen | ricarda.bergen@fischerverlage.de

Markus Hoffman | markus@regal-literary.com

This study is of interest not only to an academic readership, but also to lovers of Proust and literature in general.

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HEINRICH VON KLEISTBIOGRAPHY

Marking the 200th anniversary of Heinrich von Kleist’s death.

Kleist has fascinated readers like no other Ger-man writer. But what was his secret? Where does

the tragedy in his life originate? What does his work have to say to us today?

In his major biography, Günter Blamberger sketches a new Kleist. Unlike other biographers, he does not start the story at the end with the writer’s suicide, instead choosing an open perspective, the present tense, the moment as Kleist himself experienced it. He thus succeeds in revealing the unsettling and the astonishing, showing the incendiary side to Kleist’s life and work. The result is a page-turning, vivid por-trait of one of Germany’s great literary geniuses – the definitive biography for our times.

Günter Blamberger is an internationally recognized expert on Kleist, who presents the sum of his re-search in this book. Kleist is one of Germany’s most important classic writers, also highly respected abroad. Günter Blamberger’s book sets new stan-dards, which have already been acknowledged.

German Title | Heinrich von Kleist. Biographie | S. Fischer Verlag GmbH | 2011 | 608 pages

Rights Contact: Ricarda von Bergen | ricarda.bergen@fischerverlage.de

Markus Hoffman | markus@regal-literary.com

Günter Blamberger, born in 1951,

is a professor of modern German

literature at the University of Co-

logne and heads the Morphomata

Center for Advanced Studies, which

investigates reifications of creativ-

ity or death in intercultural com-

parison with international fellows.

He has also been President of the

Heinrich von Kleist Society since

1996 and edits the Kleist Yearbook.

“This new biography is certain to remain the definitive Life of Kleist for a generation”

-Times Literary Supplement

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THE WANDERER AND HIS SHADOWA BIOGRAPHY

Beneath the Wheel, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game: Hermann Hesse’s seminal novels

constitute an introduction to world literature for many readers today. Each new generation discov-ers some central, transcendental facet in these books, that has contributed to Hesse’s continuing and sustained international popularity.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Hesse’s death on August 9th 2012, Gunnar Decker presents a com-prehensive new biography. Decker liberates Hesse from the ideological misrepresentations foisted on him over the last century, instead portraying him as a man beset by lifelong crises and self-doubt. Born into a devout Lutheran-Pietist family, Hesse found his way to writing only by way of a painfully cir-cuitous route. All his life he remained a maverick, a recluse who could only bear married life by keep-ing his wives at arm’s length. His feeling of being a stranger to his fellow man imbued his writing with a profound sense of alienation – yet at the same time Hesse’s work always promises fresh beginnings and the hope of a better life.

His extensive correspondence, much of it only re-cently discovered, offers conclusive evidence of the extent to which Hesse’s life and his work were in-extricably linked, demonstrating how he wove the very fabric of his existence into his writing. Decker’s new biography emphasises Hesse’s continuing rel-evance – as a visionary defender of the intellect and spirit in an age of mass consumption and popular culture.

German Title: Hermann Hesse: Der Wanderer und sein Schatten | Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG | 2012 | 592

pages | Rights Contact: Friederike Barakat | friederike.barakat@hanser.de

Gunnar Decker was born in 1965.

He is a graduate philosopher who

lives and works in Berlin as a full-

time writer. Editor of the journal

Theater der Zeit, his most recent

publications include Gottfried Benn:

Genie und Barbar (2006), Franz

Fühmann Die Kunst des Scheit-

erns (2009) and Georg Heym.

Ich, ein zerrissenes Meer (2011).

To this day, Hermann Hesse is still the most widely read German author, with approxi-mately 80 million copies sold worldwide.

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THE PRACTICE OF TRUST

Trust is an omnipresent topic. Whether speaking of political sullenness, the banking crisis or abuse

scandals – trust is always presupposed as a central resource of social action that is difficult to create but that can easily be destroyed. But what is trust? How is it generated, and how is it destroyed? Whom shall we trust, whom shall we distrust?

In this profound study, Martin Hartmann attempts to define trust from both a conceptual and a historical perspective. He frequently illustrates his theoretical reflections with concrete examples taken from poli-tics, economy and the sphere of the family.

Trust, he shows, does not diminish complexity as many might think, but is in itself a highly complex phenomenon that highlights how fragile and de-manding processes of creating trust can be.

Martin Hartmann’s book represents the hitherto most profound theoretical and historical work on the no-tion and practice of trust, both according to national and international standards. Since trust plays an eminent role both in the private (family, relation-ships) and in the public (economy, politics) sphere, a close examination of the concept of trust is essential for the humanities, as various journalistic responses, such as in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or the Zeit have shown.

Martin Hartmann is professor of phi-

losophy at the Department of Phi-

losophy at Luzern University.

German Title: Die Praxis des Vertrauens | Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH & Co. KG | 2011 | 529 pages

Rights Contact: Petra Hardt | hardt@suhrkamp.de

Martin Hartmann’s book represents the hitherto most profound theoretical and histori-cal work on the notion and practice of trust.

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WAR EXPERIENCES IN A MULTIETHNIC CITYLVIV 1914 - 1947

The book tells the story of the Ukrainian city Lviv in the first half of the 20th century. Between 1914

and 1945 the city experienced seven regime chang-es, including spells of Russian, Soviet and German occupation.

Dr. Christioph Mick analyzes typical conflicts of Eastern Europe: ethnic conflicts, in this case be-tween Poles, Ukrainians and Jews; the effects of regime and occupation changes on the relations between these ethnicities; and the role of memory conflicts in ethnic relations. The book is a contribu-tion to genocide (Holocaust) studies, to the history of the First and Second World War in Eastern Eu-rope, to studies into ethnic conflicts and the con-nection between war, remembrance and nation building.

For author Dr. Christoph Mick the conflicts and trag-ic developments in the inter-war period and during the Second World War cannot be properly under-stood without looking into the history of the First World War and the subsequent revolutionary, civil and nation building wars. This book is a rare at-tempt to treat the period between 1900 and 1947 as an entity. The author employs the history of experi-ence methodology (Erfahrungsgeschichte) which was developed in a Special Research Area of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Universi-ty of Tübingen. This particular approach allows the author an opporutnity to analyze the experiences of the different ethnic groups living in Lviv with one another other and under the different regimes with-out hierarchically weighting these experiences.

Dr Christoph Mick, is an Associate

Professor in the Department of His-

tory at the University of Warwick,

United Kingdom

German Titles: Kriegserfahrungen in einer multiethnischen Stadt: Lemberg 1914-1947 | Harrassowitz Verlag |

2011 | 642 pages | Rights Contact: Dr. Barbara Krauss | bkrauss@harrassowitz.de

Potential readers include students of the Great War, the Second World War, ethnic conflicts, Ukrainian, Polish, German and Russian history, members of the Ukrainian and Polish Dias-pora and people with fam-ily roots in Lviv and East Galicia.

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This book analyzes the role of the economists in West Germany between 1949 and the oil crises

of 1974.

In this period, the development of exact statistical methods of sophisticated forecasts helped to es-tablish a special role for economic sciences in the rapidly growing policy counselling. Moreover, it ex-plains, why this discipline gained such tremendous prestige in the post-war era.

Dr. Alexander Nützenadel is Profes-

sor for Economic and Social History

at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.

German Titles: Die Stunde der Ökonomen. Wissenschaft, Politik und Expertenkultur in der Bundesrepublik

1949–1974 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG | 2005 | 427 pages

Rights Contact: Margarita Wolf | m.wolf@v-r.de

HOUSE OF ECONOMICS

Dr. Alexander Nützen-adel is the co-editor of Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Mod-ern World (Cultures of Consumption)

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TRANSFORMATION OF FEELINGSPHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES OF EMOTION

1270 - 1670

What are feelings? How do they come about? And how do they determine our behaviour?

Dominik Perler employs the history of philoso-phy to answer these controversial questions. He

discusses the theories of Thomas of Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ockham, Montaigne, Descartes and Spi-noza, showing a large variety of explanation mod-els. In his extremely clear and well-written book, he traces how strongly the theoretical framework for explaining feelings has changed. At the same time, he shows that along with each framework, the answer to the question of how to control one’s emotions has also altered drastically.

Dominik Perler’s book achieves two feats that are rarely found in the international context: Perler re-constructs the emotion theories of a past epoch while at the same time determining to what extent they might play a role in current debates. The re-sult is as philologically precise as it is systemati-cally stimulating. A specialist comfortable in both the history of philosophy and present-day discus-sions is a rare phenomenon. Emotions are one of the most important subjects of the moment, not just in philosophy. Through the dominance of brain research, however, aspects relating to the history of philosophy have been underemphasized to date, particularly in the American discussions. By tying into current debates, this book has great potential for closing this gap.

Dominik Perler, born 1965, is a profes-

sor of theoretical philosophy at Ber-

lin’s Humboldt University. He received

his PhD in Freiburg and his habilita-

tion in Göttingen, before teaching at

Oxford University and later acting as

chair of philosophy at the University

of Basel. Guest professorships have

taken him to Los Angeles, St. Louis,

Tel Aviv and Madison. In 2006 he was

awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leib-

niz Prize of the German Research

Foundation, the country’s most signif-

icant academic award. He has been

a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg

Academy of Sciences since 2007.

German Titles: Transformation der Gefühle. Philosophische Emotionstheorien 2170-1670 | S. Fischer Verlag

GmbH | 2011 | 544 pages | Rights Contact: Ricarda von Bergen | ricarda.bergen@fischerverlage.de

Markus Hoffman | markus@regal-literary.com

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THE ART OF FREEDOMON THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRATIC EXISTENCE

The notion of democratic freedom not only des-ignates the kind of freedom that is implement-

ed in political institutions and procedures. Rather, democratic freedom in the political sense can only be adequately understood, if conceived as an ex-pression of a culture of freedom that relates to an overall lifestyle.

For the first time, Juliane Rebentisch’s systematic history of theory shows that her philosophical crit-ics provide the key for an understanding of a dem-ocratic culture of freedom. Philosophers ranging from Plato to Carl Schmitt articulate their critique of democratic culture as a critique of its “aesthe-tization”. To defend a democratic culture of free-dom therefore means to justify its aesthetization. An aesthetization of democracy does not neces-sarily have to be understood in terms of lack or deficiency, but rather as the pre-condition for our culture of freedom.

The author notably refers to classics such as Hegel. Kierkegaard and Rousseau while at the same time consulting a wide range of German, French and Anglo-Saxon philosophers and social theoreticians. Her book moreover embraces a media discursive thinking that ranges from Chaplin to Tarantino, which makes it highly suitable for American cur-ricula.

Juliane Rebentisch is professor of

Aesthetics at the University of Arts

and Design in Offenbach, Germany.

German Titles: Die Kunst der Freiheit | Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH & Co. KG | 2011 | 387 pages

Rights Contact: Petra Hardt | hardt@suhrkamp.de

Rebentisch’s book is in-dispensable for anyone who engages in the theory of democracy.

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ALFRED DOBLINA BIOGRAPHY

Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz brought him in-ternational fame, but other than that he is consid-

ered the great unknown of German literature and his other works remain in comparative obscurity. Döblin was many things: a patriarch of modernism, the Homer of Berlin, a petit bourgeois and a post-war cultural of-ficer. He was also a government doctor, a mystic, an emigrant and Thomas Mann’s only real rival, as well as a first-hand victim of and witness to 20th century Ger-man history. Reluctant to talk about himself, he rele-gated his own psychological dramas, suffering, anguish and passions to his work; in his novels he was able to superimpose the order of art upon the chaos of experi-ence, which comes across as wild, raw and forthright in his writing.

Now, at last, Wilfried F. Schoeller presents the first com-prehensive Döblin biography, drawing on his in-depth knowledge of the author’s oeuvre and introducing hith-erto unknown source material. Schoeller presents the many, often contradictory, aspects of Döblin’s life and demonstrates how much there is to discover in the rich-ness of his vast literary cosmos.

With many years of research and numerous publica-tions to his name, Wilfried F. Schoeller is renowned as an authority on early 20th-century German literature. Underpinned by detailed knowledge of Döblin’s pub-lished novels and in-depth study of source material, his book is conceived as a classical portrayal of a life and work. His literary achievements aside, Döblin was a fascinating personality who embodied practically the entire spectrum of 20th-century ideas, ideologies and visions. Born in Stettin (today Szczecin, Poland) to a wealthy Jewish family, he moved to Berlin at an early age with his mother and siblings – this city was to keep him under its spell for the rest of his life.

Wilfried F. Schoeller was born in

1941, was head of the Department of

Contemporary Culture at the Hes-

sian radio and television station. A

professor of 20th century literature,

he taught literary criticism and me-

dia studies at Bremen University.

His book Deutschland vor Ort (Ge-

schichten, Mythen, Erinnerungen)

was published by Hanser in 2005.

German Title: Döblin. Eine Biographie | Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG | 2011 | 608 pages

Rights Contact: Friederike Barakat | friederike.barakat@hanser.de

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), was made into a film by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder in 1980. His other works remain comparatively unknown, which may be partly due to their sheer quantity – he was even more prolific than Thomas Mann.

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THE DARK SIDE OF THENATIONAL STATES ETHNIC CLEANSINGS IN MODERN EUROPE

Ethnic cleansings are not solely the deeds of dic-tators, but have also been perpetrated by dem-

ocratically elected politicians. They are the result of modern nationalism and the creation of sover-eign national states in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Dark Side of the National Sates book provides fundamental insights into one of the darkest chap-ters of modern Europe. It deals with the prerequi-sites necessary for ethnic cleansings to occur, and with the times and people responsible for such dis-placement, forced relocation and deportation of entire commmunities.

This work is not limited to the Eastern Europe, but also highlights the role of the Western powers. Dr. Philipp Ther gives a sweeping look at the Balkan Wars just before World War I to the period of eth-nic cleansings during and as a result of World War II all the way up to the civil wars in former Yugosla-via and the Caucasus in the 1990s.

Dr. Philipp Ther is Professor for

the History of Eastern Middle Eu-

rope at the University of Vienna

German Titles: Die dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten. “Ethnische Säuberungen” im modernen Europa

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG | 2011 | 304 pages

Rights Contact: Margarita Wolf | m.wolf@v-r.de

The Dark Side of the Na-tional Sates book pro-vides fundamental in-sights into one of the darkest chapters of mod-ern Europe.

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EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Von Puttkamer’s book The Art of Freedom is di-vided into three parts: first, a concise summary

of the historic events; second, a look on the main fields of historic research in this subject; and third, a comprehensive bibliography, including the most important international research.

Geographically, von Puttkamer covers the area that is now Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, with some forays into the adjoining areas to the East and South. His intent is to de-scribe the parallel developments in each of these countries, such as the aristocratic order of society in the 18th century, the liberal movements in the 19th century, the new national states after the First World War, and the incorporation into and ultimate liberation from the Eastern Bloc.

There are other syntheses of the region’s histo-ry which cover various time periods and stress a range of historical issues. Puttkamer’s book is dif-ferent for several reasons, above all because of its thorough treatment of the state of the field. No other synthetic work addresses the vastly trans-formative recent historiography as systematically as Puttkamer does. Further, Puttkamer’s compara-tive perspective means that he does not fall into the teleological trap of projecting the nation-state backward. The book is not organized by country or nation, but by historical problematic of particular periods.

Joachim von Puttkamer is a lead-

ing figure in the field of East-Central

European history with an interna-

tional profile. He is Professor of East

European History at the Friedrich

Schiller University and co-director

of the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena,

Germany. In addition he has written

two major monographs. Alongside

his scholarly work, Puttkamer has

been the intellectual force behind

the new Imre Kertész Kolleg, which

brings together scholars from vari-

ous countries to engage in research

and writing on the region. He is well

known and enjoys the respect of

scholars from the region as well as in

Germany, Great Britain and the US.

German Titles: Die Kunst der Freiheit | Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH | 2010 | 353 pages

Rights Contact: Cordula Hubert | cordula.hubert@oldenbourg.de

The historical chronology this work cov-ers is among the longest, starting around 1790 and going up to the present day.

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