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A grammar of authority?
(2021)
Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, sermo and apwcf. We present these corpora in terms of their genre characteristics on a communicative-functional and socio-pragmatic level. Based on the observation that, both in sermo and apwcf, dsas frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare the results with regard to special features in the individual corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise dsas. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of an underlying "grammar of authority".
A Gateway to the World
(2017)
In the second half of the 19th century, the French École centrale des arts et manufactures became one of the engineering schools that enjoyed a worldwide reputation. There were many foreigners among its students. This article focuses on the graduates born in the Ottoman Empire, particularly on Jews and Armenians. It analyses their backgrounds, their common features and their professional careers, tracing their links with other centraliens. The patterns in the Ottoman centraliens’ professional trajectories help us picture a world full of opportunities where highly qualified men could cross borders and build careers with ease, but where, at the same time, origins, allegiances, contacts and credentials mattered greatly.
On 6 June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon to fight the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Between August 1982 and February 1984, the US, France, Britain and Italy deployed a Multinational Force (MNF) to Beirut. Its task was to act as an interposition force to bolster the government and to bring peace to the people. The mission is often forgotten or merely remembered in context with the bombing of US Marines’ barracks. However, an analysis of the Italian contingent shows that the MNF was not doomed to fail and could accomplish its task when operational and diplomatic efforts were coordinated. The Italian commander in Beirut, General Franco Angioni, followed a successful approach that sustained neutrality, respectful behaviour and minimal force, which resulted in a qualified success of the Italian efforts.
On 6 June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon to fight the Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO). Between August 1982 and February
1984, the US, France, Britain and Italy deployed a Multinational
Force (MNF) to Beirut. Its task was to act as an interposition force to
bolster the government and to bring peace to the people. The
mission is often forgotten or merely remembered in context with
the bombing of US Marines’ barracks. However, an analysis of the
Italian contingent shows that the MNF was not doomed to fail and
could accomplish its task when operational and diplomatic efforts
were coordinated. The Italian commander in Beirut, General Franco
Angioni, followed a successful approach that sustained neutrality,
respectful behaviour and minimal force, which resulted in a
qualified success of the Italian efforts.
70 Jahre Israel
(2019)
Schon kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde die These vertreten, die Shoah sei ein wichtiger, wenn nicht gar entscheidender Faktor für die Gründung des Staates Israel gewesen. Der Essay arbeitet heraus, dass der nationalsozialistische Judenmord sicherlich eine moralisch-legitimatorische Funktion gehabt hat, ein unmittelbarer kausaler Zusammenhang mit der Staatsgründung aber nicht nachzuweisen ist.
Over the six decades since it officially ended, the Algerian War has become a key event for marking, retrospectively, the beginning of a new era in European, Western and global history. This new era is characterized by the proclaimed end of Western hegemony – by the proclaimed end of European history as global, universal history. This era, our era, understands itself as the time after the domination of the West, a time or multiple times of “post”: the time of postcolonialism, but also postmodernity, postsecularism, posthumanism.
The times of “post” are characterized by a fundamental reconfiguration of the relations between European civilization and its Others, first and foremost by the proclaimed split between Europe and its Others, and more generally by the disintegration, disruption and dispersion of the – allegedly – unified space of culture, knowledge and discourse. The postcolonial era is an era of diversity and difference, an era of dispersions and diasporas, where the space of culture is a space of multiple cultures, a space of in-between, of “inter”: the space of the intercultural, but also the interreligious, interethnic, interracial and inter-epistemic.
This conference will reflect on the “inter” in the time of “post”. We invited scholars, thinkers, intellectuals and artists to discuss various aspects and models of intercultural dynamics that have been developed and articulated in the aftermath of the Algerian War or of other events that marked the decline of Western hegemony, such as the Second Vatican, May 1968 or the Vietnam War. How did the age of decolonization reshape the discourse and practice of intercultural relations? To what extent interculturality itself is a sign or a site of decolonization? To what extent, on the contrary, intercultural relations may reproduce colonial or generate neocolonial patterns?
Contributions examine the emergence of intercultural notions and practices in various intellectual traditions, European or non-European; the development of new categories and constellations of identity, otherness and dialogue; the interrelations between epistemic, cultural, discursive, religious and political aspects; as well as reactions to these new developments and various forms of critique and resistance. We are especially interested in how this reflection may shed light on socio-political and cultural phenomena, trends and concerns of the present time.
100 Jahre Roter Oktober
(2017)
100 Jahre Roter Oktober
(2017)
The paper investigates Tolkien’s narratives of decline through the lens of their classical ancestry. Narratives of decline are widespread in ancient culture, in both philosophical and literary discourses. They normally posit a gradual degradation (moral and ontological) from an idealized Golden Age, which went hand-in-hand with increasing detachment of gods from mortal affairs. Narratives of decline are also at the core of Tolkien’s mythology, constituting yet another underresearched aspect of classical influence on Tolkien. Such Classical narratives reverberate e.g. in Tolkien’s division of Arda’s history into ages, from an idealized First Age filled with Joy and Light to a Third Age, described as “Twilight Age (…) the first of the broken and changed world” (Letters 131). More generally, these narratives are related to Tolkien’s notorious perception of history as a “long defeat” (Letters 195) and to that “heart-racking sense of the vanished past” which pervades Tolkien’s works – the emotion which, in his words, moved him “supremely” and which he found “small difficulty in evoking” (Letters 91). The paper analyses the reception of narratives of decline in Tolkien’s legendarium, pointing out similarities but also contrasts and differences, with the aim to discuss some key patterns of (classical) reception in Tolkien’s theory and practice (‘renewal’, ‘accommodation’, ‘focalization’).
"Seid mutig und aufrecht!"
(2016)
Der 'Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens' (C.V.) wurde 1893 in Berlin gegründet. Sein Tätigkeitsschwerpunkt lag ursprünglich auf dem Gebiet des Rechtsschutzes gegen antisemitische Diskriminierungen. Eine zweite Säule seiner Arbeit war die Aufklärung der Nichtjuden über das 'wahre Wesen' des Judentums. Johann Nicolai analysiert in diesem Band unter Auswertung der Moskauer Archivbestände die Entwicklung des Vereins von 1933 bis zu seiner Auflösung im Jahr 1938. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Frage, wie der Centralverein die Fortsetzung seiner Arbeit gegenüber seinen Mitgliedern begründete, obwohl im Nationalsozialismus die grundlegenden Bürgerrechte für die deutschen Juden, die er ursprünglich verteidigen wollte, nicht mehr gewährleistet waren. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Wandlung des Centralvereins nach den Nürnberger Gesetzen und der darauf erfolgten Umbenennung und Umstrukturierung. Wesentlicher Bestandteil ist auch die Auseinandersetzung mit der jüdischen Emigration nach Übersee. Nicolai zeigt auf, dass es bis tief in die 1930er-Jahre hinein starke Spannungen im deutschen Judentum gab.
"Rock gegen Kommunismus"
(2023)
"Orfeo out of Care"
(2022)
The paper focuses on an example of multiple-step reception: the contribution of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice and the mediaeval lay Sir Orfeo to Tolkien’s work.
In the first part, I compare the lay with Virgilian and Ovidian versions of Orpheus’ myth. This comparison shows the anonymous author’s deep knowledge of the ancient texts and complex way of rewriting them through stealing and hybridization.
The lay was highly esteemed by Tolkien, who translated it and took inspiration from it while describing the Elven kingdom in The Hobbit and building the storyline of Beren and Lúthien in The Silmarillion. Through this key tale, Orpheus/Orfeo’s romance has a deep influence also on Aragorn and Arwen’s story in The Lord of the Rings. The most important element that Tolkien takes from the Sir Orfeo figuration of the ancient story is undoubtedly the insertion of political theme: the link established between the recovery of the main character’s beloved and the return to royal responsability.
The second part of the paper is, thus, dedicated to the reception of Sir Orfeo and the classical myth in Tolkien. It shows how in his work the different steps of the tradition of Orpheus’ story are co-present, creating an inextricable substrate of inspiration that nourishes his imagination.
"Ein Brandenburger Weg"?
(2023)
"Der vergessene Partner"
(2009)
"Wir mußten uns die Aufgabe stellen, wenigstens bei Eintritt eines bewaffneten Konfliktes jederzeit in der Lage zu sein, die fehlenden Waffen neu erstehen zu lassen; ähnlich wie es die nordamerikanische Armee, die aus Sparsamkeit in Friedenszeiten nur wenig stärker war als unsere Reichswehr, für den Ernstfall auf Grund der Erfahrungen im Weltkriege 1917 vorgesehen hatte. Meine Reise nach Nordamerika als Chef der Heeresleitung im Jahre 1927 gab in dieser Beziehung sehr gute Aufklärung für unsere Belange."
So betrachtete General Wilhelm Heye seinen eigenen Besuch in den USA und führte ein Kapitel der Beziehungen der Reichswehr zu einer auswärtigen Macht an, welches bisher kaum beachtet worden ist. Während die geheimen Verbindungen der Reichswehr zur Roten Armee bereits auf breites, wissenschaftliches Interesse gestoßen sind und Inhalt vielfacher Untersuchungen waren, so ist deren Zusammenarbeit mit der U.S. Army bisher kaum ins Blickfeld der historischen Forschung gerückt. Die Missionen und Kommandierungen zwischen 1922 und 1933 von nahezu 30 Offizieren, unter denen sich auch namhafte Vertreter wie Wilhelm Speidel, Werner von Blomberg und Walter Warlimont befanden, sind daher fast gänzlich unbekannt.
"Der unterirdische Kampf"
(2016)
Die militärische Rüstungsbürokratie zwischen Niederlage des Deutschen Kaiserreiches und ›Totalem Krieg‹ der NS-Diktatur – in dieses Spannungsverhältnis begibt sich der Autor. Er untersucht, wie die Fachleute des Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamtes die Mobilisierung planten – und dabei scheiterten.
Bereits kurze Zeit nach der deutschen Niederlage von 1918 wurden die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Kriegführung wieder von einem kleinen, hochprofessionellen Offizierskreis diskutiert. Sie nahmen Gedanken aus der Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges auf und forderten in der Reichswehr und noch stärker in der Wehrmacht die Steuerungshoheit des Militärs über die kriegsrelevante Wirtschaft. Ihre Planungen und Maßnahmen waren nicht nur im Offizierkorps selbst umstritten, sondern unterlagen letztlich auch den Widerständen der Privatwirtschaft und den Interessen von NS-Parteigrößen. Entlang dieser Fronten beschreibt der Autor eine militärische Organisation von ihrem Aufbau 1924 bis zu ihrer ›Zerschlagung‹ durch Albert Speer 1942. Dabei nimmt er auch das alles andere als eindeutige Verhalten des Führungspersonals im Amt in den Blick.