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        October 1994

        Lob der Zärtlichkeit

        Eine Stilistik der Liebe

        by Otto F. Best

        Als »Eigenliebe zu zweit«, wie spitzzüngig Madame de Staël sie nennt, gehört Liebe zu den sublimiertesten und fruchtbarsten Formen kosmischer Selbstbejahung. Ein Weltereignis, von dem sich paradoxerweise behaupten läßt, daß es privater nicht sein könnte. Wenn Hegel das »wahrhafte Wesen« der Liebe darin bestehen läßt, »das Bewußtsein seiner selbst zu vergessen, doch in diesem Vergehen und Vergessen sich erst selber zu haben und zu besitzen«, so trifft dieses Wort gewiß aufs schönste die Sach- oder, besser: Gefühlslage. Unerwähnt bleibt indessen, was der intimen, absolut zweigliedrigen Bindung zwischen Mensch und Mensch die »Menschlichkeit« sichert: das reziproke »Volo blande de tangere« in Gedanke, Wort und Gebärde – die Zärtlichkeit.

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        The Arts
        June 2021

        The new pornographies

        Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film

        by Victoria Best, Martin Crowley

        The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns. In this study of a very significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children. It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        The new pornographies

        Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film

        by Victoria Best, Martin Crowley

        The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns. In this, the first study of this significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children. It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies.

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        August 2019

        Wie geht's dir, Deutschland?

        Was aus dem Land geworden ist, in dem ich aufgewachsen bin

        by Christoph Amend

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        August 2016

        Leben bis zuletzt

        Was wir für ein gutes Sterben tun können

        by Gottschling, Sven; Amend, Lars

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        September 2017

        Schmerz Los Werden

        Warum so viele Menschen unnötig leiden und was wirklich hilft

        by Amend, Lars; Gottschling, Sven

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        February 2019

        Wer heilt, hat recht

        Chancen und Grenzen der Alternativmedizin

        by Gottschling, Sven; Amend, Lars

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        September 2010

        Sind Sie was Besonderes?

        Die 1000 beliebtesten Meinungen unserer Zeit

        by Amend, Christoph; Stolz, Matthias

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        1980

        Interessenpolitik und nationale Integration 1848/49

        Handelspolitische Konflikte im frühindustriellen Deutschland

        by Best, Heinrich

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        August 2013

        Unter wilden Sternen

        Roman

        by Best, Karen

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