Translingual Encounters: Freedom, Civic Virtue, and the Social Organism in Liang Qichao’s Reading of Kant TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Camila YaDeau [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] 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,  […]

Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Candela Potente [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] 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 […]

“Biohaus”: The Bauhaus and the Biopolitics of Global Space TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aron Korozs [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] 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 […]

Eine wohltuende Unsicherheit: On Naming and Authenticity in the Works of Milena Michiko Flašar TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Edward Muston Download PDF Acknowledgments I am very grateful to Fatima Naqvi for introducing me to Flašar’s works. I am also indebted to the editors and reviewers for helping improve this article with their thoughtful comments […]

Ernst Lubitsch & the Transnational Twenties: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (USA 1927) TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Rick McCormick Download PDF Abstract Ernst Lubitsch epitomized the transnationalism of the cinema in the 1920s as the first German director to come to Hollywood and one who brought over a number of German film artists to Hollywood […]

Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions in German Studies B. Venkat Mani and Elke Segelcke, Guest Editors Download PDF Abstract: This Special Topic presents a collection of scholarly essays which emerged from a multi- and interdisciplinary panel series at the 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, and which represent the continuation of a collaborative thought […]