Dirk Wiemann Knihy

Focusing on the evolution of scholarship surrounding seventeenth-century English republicanism, this volume examines key movements such as the linguistic, cultural, and religious turns. Through a series of case studies, contributors explore themes of republican language, literary and political culture, and religion, showcasing the richness and complexity of the subject. The essays collectively highlight the dynamic nature of republicanism, revealing it to be a diverse and vital area of political research rather than a limited topic.

The demise of the modern self-centred subject does not engender a waning but a politicisation of affect: The site of passion is now no longer the individual’s interiority but the contact zone of intersubjective encounters. The public and political status of the emotions thus becomes apparent, making visible how affects are embedded in and shaped by discursive regimes. Neither spontaneous nor overdetermined, passion is therefore not the «other» of reason but a deeply social energy that fuels political, cultural and everyday practices. The Politics of Passion combines theoretical reframings of affect and emotion in global modernity with analyses of concrete instances of politics of passion from above or from below. By including debates and struggles in Western, Asian and African contexts, the volume attends to the actual plurality of affective rationalities and politics beyond a Eurocentric framework.

Die Untersuchung bestimmt diejenigen Schreibhaltungen, Topoi und ästhetischen Strategien, die in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Exils in Großbritannien zwischen 1933 und 1945 dominant waren. Sie konzentriert sich auf ein bislang nicht systematisch bearbeitetes Phänomen, nämlich die Hochkonjunktur einer sakralisierenden Metaphorik, die sich bis in die narrative Struktur der Texte fortschreibt. Der Verfasser diskutiert die historische Bedingtheit und Funktionalität dieser Strategie und verdeutlicht ihre jeweils spezifische Ausformung am individuellen Text.