Sex and history, or is there an erotic utopia in 'Dantons Tod.'

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Reasons to consider Georg Buchner's 'Danton's Tod' as the portrayal of an erotic utopia are discussed. Memory can record history, but sexuality cannot even soothe history's pain. Radically sexualized bodies are thus anti-historical and a key challenge to Hegel's historicism, as is evidenced by the Marion scene.

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Reise um die Welt: the complexities and complicities of Adelbert von Chamisso's anti-conquest narratives

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Adelbert von Chamisso's two accounts of his 1815-1818 Pacific voyage are discussed as German precolonial texts. Theree is an apparent contradiction between Chamisso's criticisms of conquest and his participation in discourses implicitly advancing the cause of colonialism.

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"Sie geht in ihren grossen eigenen Gesetzen fort, die uns in tiefen Fernen liegen, (...) und wir konnen nur stehen und bewundern:" Adalbert Stifter and the alienation of man and nature

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Adalbert Stifter's writing on the mutual alienation of man and nature is discussed. Nature is neither moral nor immoral, but governed by a permanent, self-correcting equilibrium. An unfathomable entity, its cycles are entirely unconnected with man.

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