Merkur
Eurozine
Merkur
2006-08-04
Summary for Merkur 8/2006
Summer! Sun! We throw open our valise to find an excellent essay by Robert Hughes on Rembrandt as a realist. And staying in the museum: in nineteenth-century Krakow, a vulnerable Poland invented itself through artistic -- and questionable -- in monumental paintings, Stephan Wackwitz amusingly and emotionally relates. Three heroes win their laurels: Richard Reeves on the philosopher John Stuart Mill, Leopold Federmair on philosophy of time in Jorge Luis Borges' works, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on the intellectual legacy of the great system theorist Niklas Luhmann.
The fine critiques are also animated: an essay on Wilfried Menninghaus' Hölderlin book, a portrait of art history's new star Wolfgang Ullrich, and history and literary columns.
Just for the fun of it, a little art, music, and miscellany in the margins: Petra Kipphoff on the inventor of the Happening Allan Kaprow, Friedrich Dieckmann on Mozart, Thomas Steinfeld on east-west honor. Gert Raeithel sanguinely and sarcastically tells us the story of his cars, a story of great love and many disappointments...