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Die Frankfurter SchuleRolf Wiggershaus

Germany

Rolf Wiggershaus was born in Wuppertal in 1944. He studied Philosophy, Sociology and German Letters under, among others, Theodor W. Adorno, and completed his doctorate in Frankfurt/Main under Jürgen Habermas. Since then he has been working as a freelance publicist and lecturer at various universities at home and abroad. His book DIE FRANKFURTER SCHULE was published in 1986 and has since become a standard work and been translated into several languages.

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Max Horkheimer: Entrepreneur in ‘Critical Theory’. An Introduction

No one stands for what came to be called the “Frankfurt School” in the 1960s like Max Horkheimer. The son of a textile manufacturer, in 1930 he took over the management of the Marxist “Institute for Social Research” with the aim of contrasting his father’s world of competition and profit-making with the alternative of a life dedicated to knowledge and characterised by solidarity. Forced into exile by the Nazis, the institute became a place of collaboration between intellectuals from different disciplines and continued to shape the intellectual development of the Federal Republic after its return to Germany. This new and up-to-date account of Horkheimer’s life and work offers an introduction and an overall view of this central thinker of the 20th century.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Rolf Wiggershaus provides a clear account of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophical motifs, socio-critical and contemporary diagnostic analyses, as well as his theoretical views on art, and presents the versatile intellectual as an imaginative critic of prevailing social practices.

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The Frankfurt School

Today the “Frankfurt School” is synonymous with one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical and sociological schools, and with the work of such outstanding intellectuals as Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Fromm, Habermas and others. Their names also stand for a continuous reflection on the pathologies of modernism, for the argumentative aspiration to a responsible, enlightened world.

The Frankfurt School outlines the history of that group from the foundation of the “Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung” in the Weimar Republic to its members’ exile in the United States, their return to Germany after the war, and the early 1970s. The book combines critically reconstructed biographies, the history of the institute, the development of the theory, and the presentation of the scholarly environment and socio-political background.

Wiggershaus published also a concise monograph on Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Jürgen Habermas, which describe their biographical background and their importance as philosophers. These books are an excellent introduction and are highly suitable for students of Letters, Arts, and Philosophy.

We represent The Frankfurt School for Spanish and Portuguese only.

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Max Horkheimer: Entrepreneur in ‘Critical Theory’. An Introduction (“Max Horkheimer: Unternehmer in Sachen ‚kritische Theorie‘. Eine Einführung”)
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch 2013, 240 p.

The Frankfurt School (Monograph) (“Die Frankfurter Schule (Monographie)”)
Reinbek: Rowohlt 2010, 160 p.

Jürgen Habermas
Reinbek: Rowohlt 2004 (rororo monographien 50644), 154 p.

Wittgenstein and Adorno. Two Variations of Modern Philosophising (“Wittgenstein und Adorno. Zwei Spielarten modernen Philosophierens”)
Göttingen: Wallstein 2000, 2001, 144 p.

An Introduction to Max Horkheimer (“Max Horkheimer zur Einführung”)
Hamburg: Junius Verlag 1998, 132 S.

Theodor W. Adorno
München: C.H. Beck, 1998, 150 p.
Japan: Heibonsha Library 1991 · Sweden: Daedalus 1993 · The Netherlands: Lemniscaat 2002

The Frankfurt School (“Die Frankfurter Schule”)
München: Hanser/dtv 1986, 792 p., Reinbek: Rowohlt TB 2010, 160 p., Frankfurt am Main: S.Fischer 2015 (ebook)
Argentina: Fondo de Cultura Económica 2010 · Brazil: Editora Civilização Brasileira 2003 · China: Century Publishing Group of Shanghai · France: Presses Universitaires 1993 · Italy: Bollati Boringhieri 1992 · Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica 2010, 2025 · Qatar: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (world rights) · UK: Polity Press 1994 · USA: MIT Press 1994

]]> Danuta Wojciechowska https://mertinwitt-litag.de/portfolio-items/danuta-wojciechowska/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:54:45 +0000 https://mertinwitt-litag.de/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=15444

Portuguese National Illustration Award 2003Danuta Wojciechowska

Canada / Portugal

Danuta Wojciechowska was born in Quebec / Canada. She graduated in communication design in Zurich, followed by a postgraduate degree in England. In Lisbon she founded her company Lupa Design. For her children’s book illustrations, she received, among others, the Portuguese National Illustration Award in 2003 and the Portuguese Women of Culture Award in 2014, and the FIL Prize in Romance Languages 2024.

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The Infinite River

The Infinite River (»O Rio Infinito«) is inspired by a traditional African story. One winter, the sun stopped rising and the world became dark and cold. Unable to hunt, unable to plant, the family believed that the end of the world had come. Kianda thought: ‘We need to tell our children stories.’ She left the house to look for them, but all the animals she met on the way were in a hurry and afraid. It was a giant tortoise – “God made me with one foot in the sand and one in the water” – who explained that no one but the spirits of the ocean have stories to tell, and took her to the bottom of the sea.
In exchange for a sculpture by her husband, in which the queen and king of the deep sea discovered the charms of a kingdom they didn‘t know existed and with each new glance revealed new beauties, Kianda received a huge conch that told new stories every time she touched it to her ear. ‘Then the sun returned to the savannah. And gone forever were the days of hunger, darkness and cold.’

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The Water and the Eagle

The Water and the Eagle (“A água e a águia”) is about a period of drought and how it is finally stopped by an old eagle. This old eagle starts eating the ”i“ in the name of her species, so ”Águia“ (Eagle) is transformed into ”Água“ (Water), and this way the water comes back. But only for a time: after the eagles have discovered how great it is to eat ”i”s, they cannot stop, and the “rio” (river) stays without the ”i” and dries out. Finally the oldest eagle decides to take a risk and despite everybody’s warnings, flies to a cliff and vomits all the ”i“s she has yet eaten – and the water and the river come back!

This is a poetic and beautifully illustrated book about how ingenuity and courage can change the world.

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The Amazed Rain

Suddenly, in an African village, the rain does not fall, it is suspended, “amazed”, says a little boy from the village. The river is also drying up. Is it the fault of a factory nearby? What role do the old myths and legends play here? In The Amazed Rain (“A Chuva Pasmada”) Mia Couto leads us to a magical universe.

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Little Word Kisses

The magic power of words is the theme of Little Word Kisses (“Beijos de Palavrinha”). When Maria Poeirinha fell ill, Uncle Jaime Litorânio said that only the sea, which she had never seen, could cure her. The girl was too weak for the journey, but her brother Zeca Zonzo found a way to take her to see the sea.

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The Kitten and the Dark

Pintalgato, a kitten, is always being warned by his mother not to step beyond the borders of the day. But he, crazy to discover what hides under the shadow of the night, decides to venture out. In engaging prose and full of little poetic surprises, in The Kitten and the Dark (“O gato e o escuro”) Mia Couto elaborates a beautiful fable about the afflictions and enchantments of the unknown.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Infinite River (“O Rio Infinito”)
(Ill. by Danuta Wojciechowska)
Lisbon: Caminho 2022, 40 p.
Angola: Histórias Kambutas, Goethe-Institut 2019, ill. by Thó Simões
Brazil: Companhia das Letras

The Water and the Eagle (“A água e a águia”)
(Ill. by Danuta Wojciechowska)
Lisbon: Caminho 2018, 27 p.

Little Word Kisses (“Beijos de palavrinha”)
(Ill. by Danuta Wojciechowska)
Lisbon: Caminho 2008, 29 p.
Brazil: Língua Geral 2006

The Kitten and the Dark (“O gato e o escuro”)
(Ill. by Danuta Wojciechowska)
Lisbon: Caminho 2001, 16 p.
Brazil: Companhia das Letras 2008
France: Chandeigne 2003

FOR YOUNG READERS
The Amazed Rain (“A chuva pasmada”)
(Ill. by Danuta Wojciechowska)
Lisbon: Caminho 2004, 74 p.
Argentina: Puerto de Palos 2017
France: Chandeigne 2014

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