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Alexander von Humboldt heute
(1999)
Alexander von Humboldt, hoy
(1999)
Unterwegs zum Weltbewußtsein
(2000)
Towards Global Consciousness. Alexander von Humboldt's Conception of Science and the emerging ethical Weltanschauung. In the context of recent reflections upon global ethics (Hans Küng), global democracy (Otfried Höffe) and a new cultural situation after the end of the Cold War (Clifford Geertz), Alexander von Humboldt's concept of global consciousness (Weltbewußtsein) marks a decisive point in the ungoing process of the construction of a new ethics of globalization. This article tries to show how Humboldt's transdisciplinary and intercultural conception of sience as WorldWideWeb integrates Kant's philosophical visions of global political institutions and formulates a critique of the non-empirical foundations of Hegel's teleological Weltanschauung. From his Visions of Nature and his Personal Narrative to his Cosmos, Humboldt's theory and practice of science help us to find a new ethos and new answers to the contemporary questions of divergent modernities.
Auf der Schaukel : Jugend, Liebe und die Grenzen des Spiels in Italo Calvinos "Il barone rampante"
(2000)
Kuba - Insel der Inseln
(2001)
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.
Vorwort
(2002)
Vom Auftauchen Amerikas zum Verschwinden Europas : amerikanische Träume von Kolumbus bis Baudrillard
(2002)
Rückblick auf das 20. Jahrhundert, die Moderne und das Abendland. Zu Arnold Stadlers »Feuerland«
(2003)