2024-07-31 09:55:54
AOur monthly insurance list is shown here. Media partners are “Die Literarische Welt”, RBB Kultur, “NZZ” and Radio Österreich 1. Experts from an independent jury choose ten non-fiction books of the month from the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and witchcraft. In August you are right:
1. Dagmar Herzog:
Eugenic phantasms. A German story. Translated by Ulrike Bischoff. Suhkamp, 390 pages, 36 euros.
The American historian Herzog became known for his research “Cold War Freud”. In his new book, he traces how Germany has been discussing the lives of the disabled for 150 years. The issue of eugenics has reached its unfortunate end in euthanasia. Not easy material, but an excellent text on the topic.
2. Michel Foucault:
The value of knowledge. Translated by Andreas Hemminger. Suhkamp, 349 pages, 34 euros.
A work by a great French philosopher has been in your possession for 60 years. It contains wonderful information about the role of philosophy in ungodly times. Foucault often opposes the rationalist charge. Now you know why. Read the detailed review here.
3. Barbara Bleisch:
the middle of the world. Knowledge of the best years. Hanser, 272 pages, 25 euros.
The educated counselor and TV presenter (“Star Hour Philosophy”) rejects the cliché of the “middle age crisis” with the philosophy of middle life. A book for everyone who asks themselves: Have you achieved everything? Is that so?
4. W. Daniel Wilson:
Goethe and the Jews. Conflict and hostility. CH Beck, 351 pages, 29.90 euros.
A German-American scholar sheds light on Goethe’s anti-Jewish statements, an underexplored area of research. Do we have to reread the poet now? Probably not, because Goethe also defended the Jews.
5. Volker Ullrich:
The fateful hours of democracy. The unstoppable failure of the Weimar Republic. CH Beck, 383 pages, 26 euros.
Reporter and historian research asks what can be learned from “Weimar”. Your thesis: Failure is not standing. A clear book with lessons for today.
6. Thomas Medicus:
Klaus Mann. A life. Rowohlt Berlin, 549 pages, 28 euros.
Klaus Mann stood and still stands in the shadow of his famous father: Thomas Mann. It is the first example of gay intellectualism in Germany. Only now is there a biography that shows Klaus Mann as a child of his time. Read a detailed review of the biography here.
7 Hannah Arendt:
About Palestine. Edited by Thomas Meyer. Piper, 263 pages, 22 euros
Two Palestinian essays by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, published for the first time in German, caused an uproar. They show that Arendt is not a Middle East expert, but an exceptional defender of the US. Our detailed review explains why context is important.
8. Emile Aubry, Frank Tétart:
Today’s world. A geopolitical atlas. CH Beck, 224 pages, 29 euros
Light with maps: This book is based on a series on the Arte TV channel and describes the conflicts that developed historically in the surrounding areas.
9. Onur Erdur:
School of the South. The colonial foundations of French ideology. Mathes & Seitz, 336 pages, 28 euros
Michel Foucault saw the freedom of discourse in Tunisia, Roland Barthes was transformed in Casablanca: This book explains what drew French thinkers to the Maghreb in droves and which colonial structures explained the French policy. Read our review information here.
10 Hannah Arendt:
Lectures and essays of 1930-38. Edited by Thomas Meyer. Piper, 356 pages, 18 euros
The philosopher is a favorite philosopher of the Germans, not least because of the popularity of his words in the modern book market. Here, Arendt’s historical journals and comments on newspaper articles and essays by the philosopher. More measures to follow.
Additional recommendations:
In addition to the ten tips from the panel, there is an additional recommendation from the guest every month. This time by Michael Krüger (writer, former Hanser publisher and President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts). It guarantees:
“There is no standard work on artistic immigration to England, but there are some important studies on the writers Canetti, Bermann-Steiner, HG Adler or – most recently – Gabriele Tergit. Conclusion: They have a very difficult time to survive as writers in a country hit by economic crisis.
And visual artists, photographers and photo artists, photographers, architects and designers? Research details Burcu Dogramaci as Schwitters and Kokoschla, Marcel Breuer and John Heartfield, Grete Stern, Erna Pinner and Else Meidner and many others between Hampstead and Finchley Road try to leave a clear trail through their own networks and with the english friend – Another blockade in the history of captivity in London.” (Michael Krueger)
The jury of non-fiction books of the month
Tobias Becker, “Spiegel”; Eike Gebhardt, Berlin; Knud von Harbou, journalist, Feldafing; Professor Jochen Hörisch, University of Mannheim; Günter Kaindlstorfer, Vienna; Otto Kallscheuer, Sassari (Italy); Petra Kammann, “Feuilleton Frankfurt”; Jörg-Dieter Kogel, Bremen; Wilhelm Krull, The New Institute, Hamburg; Marianna Lieder, independent critic, Berlin; Lukas Meyer-Blankenburg, SWR 2 Wissen; Professor Herfried Münkler, Humboldt University; Gerlinde Pölsler, “Falter”; Marc Reichwein, WELT; Thomas Ribi, “NZZ”; Professor Sandra Richter, German Literature Archive Marbach; Wolfgang Ritschl, ORF; Florian Rötzer, “Krass & Konkret”; Norbert Seitz, Berlin; Anne-Catherine Simon, “Die Presse”, Vienna; Professor Philipp Theisohn, University of Zurich; Andreas Wang, Berlin; Harro Zimmermann, Bremen; Stefan Doubt, Switzerland
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