Translingual Encounters: Freedom, Civic Virtue, and the Social Organism in Liang Qichao’s Reading of Kant
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Camila YaDeau Download PDF Abstract From 1903 to 1904 while exiled in Japan, Liang Qichao (1873-1929), an intellectual and political theorist of late-Qing and early-Republican China, introduced Chinese readers for the first time to Immanuel Kant in a series of articles entitled “The Theory of Kant, the Greatest Modern Philosopher” […]
Deterritorialized Travels: Notes on World, Earth, and Literature in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Florian Scherübl Download PDF Abstract Starting with the works of Edmund Husserl, phenomenological philosophy occupied itself with questions of foundation. The German word Grund’s denotations of both foundation and physical ground give rise to numerous foundational concepts such as Husserl´s Lebenswelt and Heidegger´s Erde. Regarding such concepts, one can trace a path that leads through […]
Night Bioscope
“Night Bioscope”[1] by Yoko Tawada TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF A man stood before me, he pointed with his pointer finger approximately at the place where his heart probably lay and said:[2] “She.”[3] My funny bone twitched; I was confused. “Are you feminine?”“No, not anymore.” He […]
Das deutsche Kolonialerbe in der Jugendkolonialliteratur der BRD und der DDR
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Joseph Kebe-Nguema Download PDF Abstract Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Behandlung des deutschen Kolonialerbes in der Jugendkolonialliteratur der DDR und der BRD auseinander. Da die untersuchten Werke – genauso wie die Mehrheit der bis zur deutschen Teilung veröffentlichten Jugendkolonialbücher – an historische Ereignisse und Staatsideologien anknüpfen, wird im ersten […]
Translator Introduction
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Yoko Tawada’s short story “Bioskoop der Nacht” from her 2002 collection Überseezungen remains prescient in a world which is currently demanding interventions from a diversity of perspectives. Tawada’s works frequently highlight global travel to examine how one’s identity—particularly as a foreigner—can be shaped […]
Introduction: Traveling Forms (Global German Studies)
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No.1 Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert Download PDF The present Covid-19 pandemic has brought the contradictions of our global existence into sharp relief. While the spread of the virus across national and continental borders has raised the awareness of global entanglements, the resultant closure of national borders even within the European Schengen […]
Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Candela Potente Download PDF Abstract Psychoanalysis, as Carl Schorske claimed, was a child of its own epoch. Marked by the political situation in Austria, Victorian moral codes, the German language and its literary tradition, readings of Classical Greco-Roman culture, and bourgeois middle-European culture, however, Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalysis as […]
“Biohaus”: The Bauhaus and the Biopolitics of Global Space
TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aron Korozs Download PDF Abstract Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, art historians and urban studies scholars have been pleading for a more nuanced analysis of the Bauhaus in order to divorce from the one-sided affirmative reading of the iconic German art school. Yet, within the prevailing heroic narrative […]
The Hour of Assembly
by Zafer ŞenocakTRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Oliver Arter and Elizabeth Sun Download PDF The Enlightenment is currently experiencing its second major global crisis. The first crisis can be traced back to the Romantic Period, when it was an immediate response to the new belief in reason and the power of ratio. By […]
Church Bells in Istanbul
by Zafer Şenocak TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Kristin Dickinson Excerpt from Das Fremde, das in jedem wohnt: Wie Unterschiede unsere Gesellschaft zusammenhalten [The Foreign Dwells in Everyone: How Differences Keep Our Society Together] (Hamburg: Edition Koerber, 2018) Download PDF Whenever I am in Istanbul, I stay in a neighborhood that had once […]