No Will to Power
Karl Heinz Bohrer’s opinions on politics are always aimed at the whole picture. He is particularly interested in the way in which day-to-day politics illuminates disavowed, repressed or ...
moreKarl Heinz Bohrer
Karl Heinz Bohrer, born in Cologne in 1932, was from 1984 to 1997 Professor of Modern German Literary History at the University of Bielefeld and Visiting Professor at Stanford University since 2003. From 1984 to 2012 he was editor of MERKUR. He lived in London. Most recently published by Carl Hanser Verlag: Selbstdenker und Systemdenker. über agonales Denken (EA, 2011), Granatsplitter. Erzählungen einer Jugend (2012), Ist Kunst Illusion? (EA, 2015) and Zur Begründung einer ästhetischen Kategorie (EA, 2016).
The Art Delusion
Art has been watered down, relegated in many cases to just another consumer product. Yet the very essence of the aesthetic experience is to counteract our mundane perceptions of the world and the ...
moreShrapnel
When the roaring bombers had finally turned away from Cologne and the sound of the defensive fire had died down, the boys would start gathering garish shards of shrapnel from the streets: little ...
moreAn Autonomous and Systematic Critique of Paradigms
Thought that concerns itself with real insight seeks out the weaknesses in the 'official' version of things. Regarding accepted arguments with suspicion is what keeps the intellect flexible. ...
moreAspects of Tragedy
2500 years ago, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides created the theatrical language of Tragedy as a means of describing the conflicts of their time. It is a language that to this day has not lost ...
moreGreat Style
Friedrich Nietzsche postulated that "great style emerges when the beautiful triumphs over the monstrous", yet there is hardly a term that causes more problems in aesthetic debate than "style". ...
moreImaginations of Evil
Why does literary imagination make a pact with evil? Artists everywhere have always been attracted by the sphere of violence, horror and war, yet all attempts to define evil, from a ...
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