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Benjamin-related links:
German Authors
and Philosophy sites
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Readers of Benjamin's Origins of the German Trauerspiel will be pleasantly surprised to find this website dedicated to the 17th Century writer whose writings influenced 20th Century writers Bertolt Brecht and Gunter Grass. The site contains links to Grimmelshausen's works on the web: Simplicissimus [pictured @ left], Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courage and others. |
Individuals:
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Brecht, Kafka
& more
- Kant und der deutsche Idealismus: Excellent German site with links to many of Kant's writings and works by his critics and followers in the Idealist tradition.
- Internationale Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Gesellschaft : In Partnerschaft mit der Japanischen Fichte-Gesellschaft
- Friedrich Schelling: Works by and about the Grand Master of Romantic philosophy from the Kant und der deutsche Idealismus website.
- Hegel Society and Links: The Hegel society has created a massive monument to the study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Over twenty-five links are featured, including interactive study groups on the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel mailing lists in English and German, Hegel by hypertext, Hegel dictionaries and glossaries, and important biographical data.
- Hölderlin Gesellschaft: [Univ. of Tübingen]: An extremely important resource from Germany's University of Tübingen containing links to Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works on the web, biographical essays, examples of Hölderlin's handwriting, links to the Höldelin society, archives and other Hölderlin sites.
- International NOVALIS Gesellschaft: German site of the International Novalis Society with a Novalis Internet Linkspage.
Marx & Engels WWW Library Archive: The largest collection of the works of Marx and Engels on-line in the English language. The website includes photos, biographical material, and newspaper interviews with both Marx and Engels in the 1880s and 1890s. The site also boasts an extremely sophisticated search engine.
- Charles Baudelaire Website: Impressive Baudelaire site sponsored by the Lycaeum. It includes links to Les Fleurs du Mal in French and English, "The Poem of Hashish," excerpts from "Artificial Paradise," and links to the Baudelaire database and more.
- Surrealist Writers: This spectacular site is essential for all students of Benjamin. Contains approximately fifty links to Lautréamont, Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, Paul Valery, Alfred Jarry, de Sade, Poe, Dadaism, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Desnos, Michael Leiris and others.
- The Kafka Project: Read all of Kafka's works and letters online. This marvelous site also contains a wealth of biographical material. Wonderful graphics.
- Fritz Mauthner Gesellschaft: Verein der Sprachkritiker [auf deutsch.] Students and researchers focusing on Benjamin's relationship to the George circle, Ludwig Klages, utopian anti-capitalism before WWI, and mystical linguistics cannot afford to overlook this fascinating German website, which includes many selections from Fritz Mauthner's writings, including "Sprachkritik, Skepsis, Mystik," "Wörterbuch der Philosophie," "Kritik der Sprache," "Wissen und Worte," "Spinoza" and many others. Autobiographical and biographical material as well as many scholarly articles on Mauthner and Gustav Landauer are also included. The site also features an article by Ludwig Klages, "Vom Wirklichkeit der Sprache."
- Martin Buber (1878 - 1965): A German-English site containing extensive chronological biography of Buber, works on Buber, excerpts from his books, bibliography, and links to other Martin Buber sites on the web.
- Ernst Bloch Zentrum: Profil, Veranstaltungen, Moderiertes, Zukunftsforum, Who is Bloch?, History and much more from the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
- Internationale Georg Lukács Gesellschaft: German sites containing numerous important literary essays by the Shakespeare of Zhdanovism
- Einverständnis,Verfremdung und ProduktivitätVersuche über die Philosophie Bertolt Brechts [Understanding Alienation and Productivity: Investigations into the Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht] A German language site.
- Franz Hessel: Ein Flaneur in Berlin: An Essay by Sabrina Ortmann.Diese Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des Hauptseminars "Berlin Flaneure von Auburtin bis Hessel" unter der Leitung von Prof. Sprengel an der Freien Universität Berlin im Sommersemester 1997.
- International Otto Gross Society [Auf deutsch/ & in English] "Plans for the nature and content of this website are in continuous development. Our intention is to eventually be able to present all of Otto Gross' published works, as well as letters and other original documents, primarily in the original German but with summaries and brief commentaries in English and translations as available. Biographical Survey of Otto Gross. In our archives we have what probably amounts to the largest collection of texts, films and audiotapes pertaining to Otto Gross, with works in English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Polish, Danish and Spanish. Publication of a complete bibliography in both book form and on this website is in progress. We would like to invite readers who know of or come across any references to Otto Gross in any medium or language to contact us with author, title, publisher, year and place of publication, and, with articles, the page numbers, so that we may include such information in our project. "
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