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Release : 1970
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Understanding Peter Weiss
Author : Robert Cohen
Release : 1993
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Understanding Peter Weiss written by Robert Cohen. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.
An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss
Author : Olaf Berwald
Release : 2003
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss written by Olaf Berwald. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Weiss's plays, fiction, autobiography, and non-fiction prose. Pp. 22-25 illuminate "Die Ermittlung", an oratorio based on Weiss's 1964 attendance at the Frankfurt war crimes trial. He used actual documents both aesthetically and politically. 18 of the defendants appear with their real names, either defending themselves with the jargon of doing their duty or totally denying their guilt. Among the charges against these Nazis were conducting medical experiments, torture, and murder. Ch. 7 (pp. 107-129) elucidates Weiss's three-volume novel "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands", about resistance to Nazism in thought and action. The characters in the novel are based on members of the Rote Kapelle resistance group. Politics and creative thinking (art) are shown as complementary, not contradictory.
Peter Weiss in Exile
Author : Roger Ellis
Release : 1987
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Imagining Human Rights
Author : Susanne Kaul
Release : 2015-09-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Imagining Human Rights written by Susanne Kaul. This book was released on 2015-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights.
