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A fascinating, though flawed deep dive into the German college town that spawned the Romantic movement. "Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits" by Peter Neumann, translated from the German

A fascinating, though flawed deep dive into the German college town that spawned the Romantic movement. "Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits" by Peter Neumann, translated from the German

The I Ching has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the state. It was an organizing principle or authoritative proof for literary and arts criticism, cartography, medicine, and many of the sciences, and it generated endless Confucian,

<p><p>Recently, in the aftermath of the Pastor Wright controversy, historian Ralph Luker, writing in the <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> and <a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/48425.html">HNN</a>, linked Martin Luther King Jr. to black liberation theology. In his first address to the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1955 King had said, Luker noted: <blockquote><p>The Almighty God himself is not the only, not the God just sta...

Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as "The Nutcracker."

In Proust, le Concert Retrouve, pianist Tanguy de Williencourt and violinist Theotime Langlois de Swarte usher us directly into the music salons hosted by French author Marcel Proust.

Petzold was advised by friends to include an introductory text outlining the fable. Still, the director refused. “Nobody knows the undine myth,” he says. “In Germany, too, they know the word ‘undine’, they know it’s something to do with water nymphs, but they don’t know the story behind it. And when you don’t know something and it’s surrounding you, you have to work.” He compares it to the westerns he consumed as a child that were based on Greek myths and Bible stories he’...

These alarming, engrossing works take the artist’s seminal House and add horror, reflecting the turbulence of lives upended and exploded by the pandemic

Friedrich Von Schlegel: The German philosopher whom India’s present-day nationalists can relate to March 10 marks the 249th birth anniversary of the European Indologist. Friedrich Von Schlegel. | By Franz Gareis / Public Domain It is widely considered that nationalism, as an ethos, is the brainchild of the West and branched into the rest of the world from its origins in Europe. Though this is mostly true, German Nationalism as it began through the work of the German Romanti...