Philipp Meyer Knihy

The Son spans 150 years and five generations of a south Texan family, the McCulloughs, from their pioneering white settler forefathers to present-day oil tycoons. Taking as its epigraph Gibbon’s wry observation from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on “the vicissitudes of fortune”, it is primarily the story of Eli, later known as the Colonel, the first male child born in the new Republic of Texas. The profound impact of 13-year-old Eli’s 1849 abduction by the Comanche Indians who murdered his family plays havoc with subsequent generations. Simultaneously, Meyer writes with forensic intensity of the Comanche, whose decimation during this period was as much due to exposure to the white incomers’ diseases as to battle loss and the scarcity of buffalo. Having been wrenched from all he knows, Eli adapts boldly to his new life, ending up as the adopted son of the chief, Toshaway. When the tribe eventually succumbs to illness and hunger, Eli, forcibly returned to white society, is rootless. Meyer sensibly confines the narrative to three characters: Eli, his son Peter, and Peter’s great-niece, Jeannie. The sole female centre stage in a book where women remain largely on the periphery, Jeannie serves as the lonely mainstay of the McCullough empire.

Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendance, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation--as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love--that arises from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it's the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. When he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever. Evoking John Steinbeck’s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust delves into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It's a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

Pater Philipp Meyer OSB bietet mit seinem geistlichen Adventskalender eine Möglichkeit, in der hektischen Vorbereitungszeit auf Weihnachten zur Ruhe zu kommen. Er ermutigt die Leser, täglich Zeit für sich selbst zu nehmen, um das Wesentliche und das Geheimnis von Weihnachten zu entdecken.

Vieles am Erscheinungsbild der Kirche beunruhigt Pater Philipp Meyer. Dabei sollte doch etwas ganz anderes im Vordergrund stehen! Angetrieben von dieser Unruhe, begibt er sich auf die Suche nach den Quellen seiner Spiritualitat, die ihn durch das Leben tragt. Der junge Benediktinerpater taucht anhand eines Gebets immer tiefer ein in das Geheimnis Gott. Er spurt, wie Gott dynamisch macht, einen beschaftigt, herausfordert und antreibt. Der begeisterte Musiker hort auf die Dissonanzen seines Glaubens und die tiefen und hohen Tone seines Lebens. Ein Buch, das den Reichtum einer uralten Tradition aus Sicht eines jungen Monchs fur heute entdeckt. Fromm und unbequem zugleich, suffig geschrieben und trotzdem tiefschurfend.

"Landkarten sind vielseitige Medien: Mit ihnen werden Ressourcen erschlossen, militärische Operationen geplant, politische Forderungen symbolisiert, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse präsentiert und Wohnungen geschmückt. Sie vermitteln stets eine bestimmte Sicht auf die Welt, die auch durch die Kartographen und deren visuelles Wissen geprägt ist. Bei der Analyse von Karten geraten diese Protagonisten der Weltbildproduktion jedoch oftmals in den Hintergrund.Philipp Meyer stellt mit Hermann Haack (1872-1966) und Paul Langhans (1867-1952) zwei äußerst produktive Kartographen in den Mittelpunkt seiner Studie. Beide prägten in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts den zeitgenössisch renommiertesten deutschen Verlag kartographischer Erzeugnisse: Justus Perthes in Gotha. Anhand von Haack und Langhans untersucht Meyer, wie im Zeitalter von Kolonialbewegung und nationalistischen Diskursen völkische und rassistische Deutungsmuster in den Karten visuell übersetzt wurden.Dabei wird die Beziehung von Politik und Kartographie im Hinblick auf den Zusammenhang von wirtschaftlichen Verlagsinteressen und der visuellen Gestaltung von Karten beleuchtet. Auf diese Weise erweitert Meyer die bisherige Forschung zu den politischen Kontexten von Kartographie um zentrale Aspekte."--Résumé de l'éditeur