FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
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<strong>FOREIGN</strong><br />
<strong>HANSER</strong><br />
<strong>RIGHTS</strong><br />
Karl-Heinz Bohrer<br />
Selbstdenker und Systemdenker.<br />
Über agonales Denken<br />
An Autonomous and Systematic<br />
Critique of Paradigms<br />
On Agonal Thought<br />
224 pages. French brochure<br />
Publication date: September 26, 2011<br />
Thinking must be ruthless. This might explain why so many true thinkers so often<br />
find themselves sidelined.<br />
Thought that concerns itself with real insight seeks out the weaknesses in the 'official'<br />
version of things. Regarding accepted arguments with suspicion is what keeps the intellect<br />
flexible.<br />
Karl-Heinz Bohrer isolates recurring themes in philosophy, literature and politics and seeks<br />
out the original ideas contained within. For the last few years, his own recurring theme, in<br />
his essays and lectures, has been suspicion of popular ideas and conceptual uniformity, and<br />
how – from the mavericks of medieval thought to the dissenters of modern philosophy<br />
– conflicts of thinking are, in truth, conflicts of power. It is from this vantage point that he<br />
analyses recent areas of debates, such as the uprisings of 1968 and the fall of East Germany.<br />
Karl-Heinz Bohrer<br />
was born in 1932 and is Professor Emeritus of Modern German Literary History at the<br />
University of Bielefeld; he has also been Visiting Professor at Stanford University since<br />
2003. Bohrer became editor of Merkur in 1984 and lives in London. Das Tragische (Erscheinung,<br />
Pathos, Klage, 2009) is his most recent publication.<br />
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