Vor vielen Jahrhunderten beherrschten die Vampire die Welt, nun leben sie im Verborgenen, in geheimen Kammern und unterirdischen Gängen. Bis sie eines Nachts das Zeichen ihres Herrn am Himmel erkennen, ein loderndes Flammenschwert, das ein neues Zeitalter ankündigt. In rasender Geschwindigkeit erobern die Vampire die Erde zurück, die Menschen müssen zusehen, wie ihre Städte verfallen und ihre Errungenschaften zerstört werden. Die Apokalypse steht bevor. Kann sich die Menschheit noch retten?
Furio Jesis Werk "Spartakus. Die Symbolik der Revolte" untersucht den Spartakusaufstand von 1918-19 und unterscheidet zwischen Revolution und Revolte. Er analysiert literarische Quellen und entwickelt eine Phänomenologie der Revolte, die Mythos und aktuelle politische Kämpfe miteinander verknüpft.
An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period--which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth.
A collection of Jesi's finest essays, ranging from his groundbreaking work on
myth and politics to his reflections on time, festivity, and revolt as well as
writers such as Rimbaud, Rilke, Lukacs, and Pavese.
An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into everyday life, the secularization of myth and the mythologization of history. In this book, Furio Jesi takes up the term in order to trace the contours of that political, artistic, and aesthetic thread as it runs through German literary and artistic culture in the period--which, in the 1930s, became absorbed by Nazism as part of its prophecy of a triumphant future. Drawing on thinkers like Carl Jung and writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesi reveals a literary genre that was transformed, tragically, into a potent political myth.
Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series 100 Notes,100 Thoughts ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's curatorial vision for Documenta 13.
Mit diesem Buch setzt der amerikanische Anthropologe Castaneda seine lange Reise in die Welt des Übernatürlichen und der Zauberei fort - eine Reise, an deren Anfang die Begegnung mit dem bereits zur Legende gewordenen Yaqui-Zauberer Don Juan stand. In dem vorliegenden Band erzählt der Autor, wie er die letzte Lektion erhielt. Während Don Juan bislang die Beweise seiner Kraft in seiner Geburtsregion, den Wüsten und Mezas - in einem Landstrich mithin, zu dem er so natürlich gehört wie Strauchwerk und Gestein -, zelebriert hatte, so kommt es jetzt zu einer Begegnung in einer ungewohnten Umgebung: Auch in der Stadtwelt, in den überfüllten, geschäftigen Straßen, vermag Don Juan seine Kraft zu beweisen und die Wahrnehmung des Autors auf magische Weise ins Unermeßliche zu steigern. Wenn Sie die Bücher von Carlos Castaneda lesen wollen, empfiehlt sich folgende Reihenfolge: Zur Einführung „Das Wirken der Unendlichkeit“ und dann „Die Lehren des Don Juan“, „Eine andere Wirklichkeit“, „Reise nach Ixtlan“, „Der Ring der Kraft“, „Der zweite Ring der Kraft“, „Die Kunst des Pirschens“, „Das Feuer von innen“, „Die Kraft der Stille“ und zum Schluss „Die Kunst des Träumens“ und „Tensegrity“.
Sono qui riunite tre lunghe novelle - o romanzi brevi -comunemente annoverate tra le opere migliori di Mann. In La morte a Venezia (1913) è narrata la storia di una passione senile dello scrittore Aschenbach, sullo sfondo di una Venezia equivoca e torbida in cui s'annuncia il colera: su quello sfondo morboso ed enigmatico la passione si chiarisce e si esalta, fino al crollo totale del tipico eroe manniano, travagliato dalla lotta incessante fra l'aspirazione eroica della perfezione e dell'autodisciplina e il decadentistico amore dell'irregolare e del dissoluto. Tristano è del 1903: torna, come nei Buddenbrook , la musica wagneriana a motivo conduttore di un processo di dissoluzione fisica e spirituale. Tonio Kröger , pure del 1903, è opera propriamente autobiografica. Il motivo dell'acuta nostalgia di un'adolescenza irrimediabilmente lontana, di una vita semplice e felice, vi è espresso in pagine bellissime alle quali si alternano altre mirabili pagine di critica dell'arte.
Risalente al 1972, quando Jesi era immerso nella traduzione del Matriarcato, questo saggio inedito su Bachofen - arricchito da un'appendice di note e materiali anch'essi pubblicati qui per la prima volta - si affianca, come una forza autonoma e complementare, allo scritto sullo stesso autore che Walter Benjamin aveva composto durante l'esilio parigino. Jesi riprende e spinge oltre se stesse le categorie dei mitologi reazionari, fino a leggere il nesso tra tomba e proprietà, e la paura degli antichi di restare insepolti, come «allegoria del presente borghese - del vincolo borghese fra senso della proprietà e senso della morte insito nelle "cose"».
