@article{Ette2009,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Entre mundos v{\´i}as de Alexander von Humboldt hacia la conciencia universal},
  volume    = {X},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42815},
  pages     = {15 -- 30},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), quien en su espectacular carta escrita en junio de 1829 desde Siberia y dirigida a su hermano Wilhelm rechazara contundentemente el cargo de director del hoy llamado Altes Museum en la isla de los Museos, nunca permiti{\´o} que le encadenaran a instituci{\´o}n alguna. Tanto su pensamiento como su escritura que se desarrollaron a lo largo de tres d{\´e}cadas y acompa{\~n}aron el quehacer de tres generaciones de cient{\´i}ficos, se alimentaban de sus viajes que le permitieron crear una ciencia desde el movimiento y en constante movilidad. En cuanto a la historia, no le interesaba lo acumulado, sino lo acomodado. La ciencia humboldtiana, fundada tanto emp{\´i}rica- como {\´e}ticamente, desenvolvi{\´o} una nueva forma de comprender el sistema "tierra" sobre la base de una l{\´o}gica relacional: todo es acci{\´o}n rec{\´i}proca. La presente contribuci{\´o}n dilucida el devenir hist{\´o}rico del pensamiento de Humboldt, pone de relieve sus mundos de lectura, sus mundos cartogr{\´a}ficos y sus mundos de la lengua en el contexto de la globalizaci{\´o}n acelerada y asimismo plantea los retos y desaf{\´i}os de una ciencia de la vida humboldtiana en el siglo XXI.},
  language  = {es}
}
@article{Ette2008,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Hallar e inventar a un p{\´u}blico},
  series = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {IX},
  journal   = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {17},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42420},
  pages     = {7 -- 15},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt galt und gilt in Lateinamerika als einer der bekanntesten historischen und literarischen Figuren; in seinem eigenen Land reduzierte sich hingegen das Wissen um seine Texte bis in die achtziger Jahre hinein auf Spezialistenkreise aus den Wissenschaften. Seit einigen Jahren l{\"a}sst sich jedoch ein zunehmendes Interesse an Humboldts Schriften feststellen, basierend auf den zahlreichen neuen Editionen, die seitdem entstanden sind. Dazu z{\"a}hlen die deutsche Neuedition der Relation historique (1991), die Editionen des "Humboldt-Projekts" (2004-2006) als Teil der "Anderen Bibliothek", sowie aktuelle deutsche Editionsprojekte von Asie Centrale und dem Examen critique.},
  language  = {es}
}
@misc{Ette2011,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Urbanity and literature},
  series = {European Review},
  journal   = {European Review},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413767},
  pages     = {17},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ette2018,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Texto-isla y escritura archipi{\´e}lica},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVIII},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {35},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419270},
  pages     = {13 -- 24},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldts Manuskript „Isle de Cube. Antilles en g{\´e}n{\´e}ral" l{\"a}sst sich als Titel f{\"u}r ein ganzes Text-Archipel begreifen. Es fasziniert durch seine radikal offene Strukturierung und liefert uns eine Vorstellung vom Schreib- wie vielleicht mehr noch vom Denkmodell des Kultur- und Naturforschers. Die politische und soziale Komplexit{\"a}t der karibischen Inselwelt erfassen seine Textminiaturen relational und viellogisch. Sie machen ihn - zusammen mit seinen kubanischen Karten und dem Essai politique sur l'{\^i}le de Cuba - zu einem bedeutenden kubanischen Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts.},
  language  = {es}
}
@misc{Ette2016,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Magic screens},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  number    = {156},
  issn      = {1866-8380},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41366},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413669},
  pages     = {12},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna Capac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way. (1) Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent - they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.(2) While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an 'indigenous' painting style. The artists from up-country - such was the reproach - could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how 'provincial', truly, was this art?},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Ette2017,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Khal Torabully},
  series = {Journal of the African Literature Association},
  journal   = {Journal of the African Literature Association},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412609},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Khal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at our disposal in the present surge of globalization. In his poetic and theoretical texts, he has paid a literary tribute to the Coolies, usually from India, but also China and many other countries. Given Torabully's Mauritian roots, but also the worldwide migration of the Coolies themselves, the world of Coolitude is culturally and linguistically extremely diverse, making the act of translation very relevant and giving it multiple meanings. Literature brings these forgotten lives back to life and allows us to share this experience thanks to its aesthetic force. It traces the movements, which sketch trajectories functioning to this day as palimpsest-like vectors of our own paths and trajectories. The author of Chair Corail, Fragments Coolies breaks the chain of mutual exclusions, replacing it with a type of writing belonging to a wider array of expressive modes which in diasporic situations unleash polylogical and archipelagic imaginaries.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ette2002,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {»... daß einem leid tut, wie er aufgeh{\"o}rt hat, deutsch zu sein«},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {III},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  doi       = {10.18443/28},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34795},
  pages     = {97 -- 117},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {During his American expedition Humboldt grappled intensively with the iniquities of colonialism. In the year 1803, for example, he noted "that the idea of a colony is itself an immoral idea, this idea of a land which is obliged to pay dues to another country." The colonial powers, wrote Humboldt, support intolerance, repression and slavery. However, he did not express his criticism in public during the expedition but entrusted it only to good friends and his diary. The lecture treats Humboldt's political stance during the expedition, based on human rights and his communicative role as a research traveller who, having returned to Europe, made his criticism public. Central to the lecture are examples of Humboldt's criticism of representatives of the colonial system. These make clear which important impulses the researcher gave to the independence movement and to the politicians of the young American states.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{Ette2007,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Lebensfuge oder Eine Philosophie des {\"U}berLebenSchreibens},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14236},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Laudatio f{\"u}r Jorge Sempr{\´u}n aus Anlass der Verleihung der Ehrendoktorw{\"u}rde der Philosophischen Fakult{\"a}t der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Ette2019,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Paris/Berlin/Havanna},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XIX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {37},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43443},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434436},
  pages     = {15 -- 36},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Zweifellos war Paris mit seinen renommierten wissenschaftlichen Institutionen, seinen Verlagen und wissenschaftlichen Zirkeln, aber auch mit seinen Salons als großes europ{\"a}isches Zentrum f{\"u}r Alexander von Humboldt der ideale Ort, um seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten voranzutreiben und jene sich beschleunigende Zirkulation von Wissen zu beobachten, die seine eigenen Arbeiten befl{\"u}gelte. Und dennoch war die Entwicklung seines Lebens-Werkes weniger mit einem bestimmten konkreten Ort als vielmehr mit einer Vektorizit{\"a}t verkn{\"u}pft. Diese tritt in allen Schriften Humboldts in den {\"U}berlagerungen der unterschiedlichsten Orte und Landschaften zutage. Quer zu den bis heute in ihren Dimensionen wie in ihren Ergebnissen erstaunlichen Reisen Humboldts zeigt sich eine oszillierende Bewegung, die {\"u}ber einen Zeitraum von nahezu sechs Jahrzehnten Berlin, Potsdam und Paris mit der ‚Neuen Welt' und den Debatten um letztere verband.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Ette2019,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Faszination AvH},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XX},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {38},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43469},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434694},
  pages     = {5 -- 13},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldts Forschungsreise in die Neue Welt ist ein Gr{\"u}ndungsmoment moderner Wissenschaft. Sie liefert uns Impulse und Grundlagen f{\"u}r ein 21. Jahrhundert, das im Zeichen des Zusammendenkens und Zusammenlebens stehen muss. Von der lange versch{\"u}tteten Tradition einer Humboldt'schen Wissenschaft aus lassen sich heute, am Ausgang unserer aktuellen Globalisierungsphase, neue Zuk{\"u}nfte denken und entfalten. Das Zusammendenken von Natur und Kultur im Horizont einer {\"O}kologie, die sich mit Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsstrukturen vernetzt; der Entwurf einer Kosmopolitik, die nicht auf Machtasymme­trie, Inferiorisierung und Abh{\"a}ngigkeit abzielt, sondern die Zirkulation von Wissen zur Grundlage einer sich demokratisierenden Weltgesellschaft macht: Dies sind Kreuzungspunkte eines Denkens, das nicht nur an Aktualit{\"a}t, sondern im Zeichen neu entfachter Nationalismen, neuer Fundamentalismen und neuer globaler Ausgrenzungen vor allem an Dringlichkeit gewonnen hat.},
  language  = {de}
}