Bøker av Bernd Fischer

"e;In the Beginning was Napoleon"e;--"e;Napoleon and no end"e;: Inspiration Bonaparte explores German responses to Bonaparte in literature, philosophy, painting, science, education, music, and film from his rise to the present.Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Contributing to what had been an uneasy German relationship with the French Revolution, the rise of Bonaparte was accompanied by a pattern of Franco-German hostilities that inspired both enthusiastic support and outraged dissent in the German-speaking states. The fourteen essays that comprise Inspiration Bonaparte examine the mythologization of Napoleon in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the significant impact of Napoleonic occupation on a broad range of fields including philosophy, painting, politics, the sciences, education, and film. As the contributions from leading scholars emphasize, the contradictory attitudes toward Bonaparte held by so many prominent German thinkers are a reflection of his enduring status as a figure through whom the trauma of shattered late-Enlightenment expectations of sociopolitical progress and evolving concepts of identity politics is mediated.

Der Umfang des vorhergesagten Wirkens Gottes zum Heil Israels mit innerer und äußerer Erneuerung und zu ewigem Frieden und Wohlstand sowie darüber hinausgehend für die ganze Welt ist immens. Der Autor beleuchtet wesentliche Elemente, wie z. B. die Bündnisse, das Gesetz, die Opfer, Gerechtigkeit und Vergebung und stellt sie im Zusammenhang dar. Das Buch ist als Studie angelegt. Der Leser kann dem Strom des Heils, wie er sich in der jüdischen Bibel, dem Tanach, darstellt, von Anfang an folgen. Sowohl derjenige, der sich entschlossen hat, Gott zu suchen, als auch der im Studium der Heiligen Schrift Fortgeschrittene, findet Hilfen und Anregungen, sich kritisch mit der Thematik zu beschäftigen. Das Heil Israels ist untrennbar mit der Person des Messias verbunden. Das Buch zeigt die Harmonie unterschiedlicher Texte des Tanach, die sich darauf beziehen.

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects.

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.