Robert G. Elekes
Sapientia University, Applied Social Sciences, Faculty Member
- German Studies, Rumäniendeutsche Literatur, German Literature, Postmodernism, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Paul Celan, and 38 moreMartin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Phenomenology, Language and Power, Literature, Literary Theory, Sociology, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Slavoj Žižek, Herta Müller, Deutsche Literatur, Non-Philosophy, Brasov - Kronstadt - Brasso, Continental Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Lacan, Émmanuel Lévinas, Michel Foucault, Romanian Studies, Romania, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Cultural Studies, Romanian Literature, Cultural Theory, Eastern European Studies, Translation Studies, Philosophy, German Literature and Culture, Emancipation, Comparative Literature, Central and Eastern Europe, and Communismedit
"Im folgenden Text wird untersucht, inwieweit die Lyrik von Anemone Latzina als Diskurs der Emanzipation gelesen werden kann. Ziel ist es bestimmte Strategien der sprachlichen Subversion und des künstlerischen Protestes zu identifizieren... more
"Im folgenden Text wird untersucht, inwieweit die Lyrik von Anemone Latzina als Diskurs der Emanzipation gelesen werden kann. Ziel ist es bestimmte Strategien der sprachlichen Subversion und des künstlerischen Protestes zu identifizieren die nicht nur die Wirkungsweise ihrer Lyrik, sondern auch die Poetik und Ästhetik denen sie unterliegt bestimmen.
S c h l ü s s e lwö r t e r : Text, Subversion, Zensur, Travestie, Transitiv, Alltagslyrik."
S c h l ü s s e lwö r t e r : Text, Subversion, Zensur, Travestie, Transitiv, Alltagslyrik."
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Critical Theory, History, Eastern European Studies, German Studies, and 37 moreGerman Literature, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Art History, Censorship, Eastern Europe, Modernism (Literature), Literature, Poetry, Language and Ideology, Ideology, 20th Century German Literature, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Romanian Literature, Romanian Studies, Protest, Postmodernism, Modernity, Subversion, Emancipation, Beat Generation, German Literature and Culture, Dictatorships, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Contemporary Poetry, Parody, Postmodernism (Literature), Visual Arts, Eastern Europe, Romania, Postcommunism, Satire & Irony, Censorship of literary and popular culture texts, Central and Eastern Europe, Frank O'Hara, Satire, Irony, Parody, Irony, Rumäniendeutsche Literatur, and Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations
"Abstract: At the beginning of the 1970s, the literature in German language from Romania went through a radical process of change that transformed a largely epigonic and obedient literature into a dynamic, original and subversive one.... more
"Abstract: At the beginning of the 1970s, the literature in
German language from Romania went through a radical process
of change that transformed a largely epigonic and obedient
literature into a dynamic, original and subversive one. The
following paper analyses the context, the causes, and the mechanisms of this innovative period.
Key Words: Innovation, Interculturlism, Emancipation, Subversion, Neue Literatur"
German language from Romania went through a radical process
of change that transformed a largely epigonic and obedient
literature into a dynamic, original and subversive one. The
following paper analyses the context, the causes, and the mechanisms of this innovative period.
Key Words: Innovation, Interculturlism, Emancipation, Subversion, Neue Literatur"
Research Interests: Eastern European Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature, German Literature, Multiculturalism, and 24 moreLiterature, Innovation statistics, Poetry, Communism, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Romanian Literature, Romanian Studies, Subversion, Modern Poetry, Emancipation, 1970s Culture, Architecture And Photography, Social movements and revolution, Socialism, Postmodern Literature, InterCultural Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Deutsche Literatur, Rumäniendeutsche Literatur, European Literature and History of Ideas In the 20th Century, Specially Communism, City As Cultural Memory, and Cultures of Visuality Including Cinema
"Abstract: This essay examines the emancipatory possibilities of interculturalism. The aim is to evaluate whether the philosophical discourse of interculturalism, which is still parasitic on the vocabulary of modernity, can achieve its... more
"Abstract: This essay examines the emancipatory possibilities
of interculturalism. The aim is to evaluate whether the philosophical discourse of interculturalism, which is still parasitic on the
vocabulary of modernity, can achieve its emancipatory role in
a postmodern world by trying to empower difference through
consensus. Further, this essay aims to propose a way out of
modernist dialecticism and towards a truly postmodern theory
of interculturalism.
Key Words: Interculturalism, Postmodernism, Modernism, Consensus, Contingency"
of interculturalism. The aim is to evaluate whether the philosophical discourse of interculturalism, which is still parasitic on the
vocabulary of modernity, can achieve its emancipatory role in
a postmodern world by trying to empower difference through
consensus. Further, this essay aims to propose a way out of
modernist dialecticism and towards a truly postmodern theory
of interculturalism.
Key Words: Interculturalism, Postmodernism, Modernism, Consensus, Contingency"
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Sociology, Social Sciences, and 8 morePostcolonial Studies, Cultural Theory, Postmodernism, Modernity, Contingency (Social Systems Theory), Postcolonial Theory, Postmodern Theory Building/Knowledge Construction, and Interculturalism
"Postmodernism Embodied: On the Phenomenology of Spiritual Practices of Our Time Abstract: The following essay shows how postmodernism promotes an ontology of becoming, which at the same time emphasizes the emancipatory potential of... more
"Postmodernism Embodied: On the Phenomenology of
Spiritual Practices of Our Time
Abstract: The following essay shows how postmodernism promotes an ontology of becoming, which at the same time emphasizes the emancipatory potential of immanence in contrast with transcendence, and empowers an epistemology of contingency in which transcendence is reinstated as an organic, nondialectical expression.
Keywords: postmodernism, body, creation, transcendent, immanent"
Spiritual Practices of Our Time
Abstract: The following essay shows how postmodernism promotes an ontology of becoming, which at the same time emphasizes the emancipatory potential of immanence in contrast with transcendence, and empowers an epistemology of contingency in which transcendence is reinstated as an organic, nondialectical expression.
Keywords: postmodernism, body, creation, transcendent, immanent"
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Social Theory, Philosophy, Ontology, and 20 moreEpistemology, Art, Social Sciences, Literature, Revolutions, Embodiment, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, The Body, Literary Theory, Gilles Deleuze, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), 20th Century Philosophy, Postmodernism, Modernity, Emancipation, Postmodern Fiction, Modernism, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture
"Abstract: To parody means to transgress, to validate by means of negation, to destroy by creating and to create by destroying. It’s an act of Mephistophelian rese mantization, which does not destroy nor annul, but rather absorb the... more
"Abstract: To parody means to transgress, to validate by means of negation, to destroy by creating and to create by destroying. It’s an act of Mephistophelian rese mantization, which does not destroy nor annul, but rather absorb the absolute truth. This paper aims to analyze this paradoxical nature of parody and to demonstrate its implications by interpreting Jan Švankmajer’s film “Faust”.
Keywords : parody, resemantization, Švankmajer, Faust"
Keywords : parody, resemantization, Švankmajer, Faust"
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Eastern European Studies, German Studies, German Literature, Eastern Europe, and 21 moreFilm Studies, Film Theory, Film Analysis, Philosophy of Film, Film Adaptation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Politics and Film, Michel Foucault, German Literature and Culture, Czech Literature/Czech Culture/Language, Goethe, Parody, Goethe and Phenomenology, Jan Svankmajer, Film, Czechoslovak film industry, Movies, Satire, Irony, Parody, Devil, Faust legend, and Mephisto
Abstract: The search for footing can be thought of as an essential human experience. Joachim Wittstock’s essays published in the anthology Einen Halt suchen reveal not only the socio-political repercussions of this pursuit but... more
Abstract: The search for footing can be thought of as an
essential human experience. Joachim Wittstock’s essays
published in the anthology Einen Halt suchen reveal not only
the socio-political repercussions of this pursuit but also
establish its phenomenology and morphology. In my paper I
will focus on the link between the search for footing and the
mortal condition, thus demonstrating how the true nature of
this pursuit for existential stability and security can be
understood as life’s aversion towards death.
Key words: Wittstock; footing; mortality; ethnic coexistence
essential human experience. Joachim Wittstock’s essays
published in the anthology Einen Halt suchen reveal not only
the socio-political repercussions of this pursuit but also
establish its phenomenology and morphology. In my paper I
will focus on the link between the search for footing and the
mortal condition, thus demonstrating how the true nature of
this pursuit for existential stability and security can be
understood as life’s aversion towards death.
Key words: Wittstock; footing; mortality; ethnic coexistence
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, German Literature, Social Sciences, Death & Dying (Thanatology), and 14 moreRace and Ethnicity, Romanian Literature, Romanian Studies, Minority Studies, German Literature and Culture, Ethnic Conflict, Ethnicity, Eastern Europe, Romania, Postcommunism, Romania, Existentialism, Essays, Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Modern Hungarian and Romanian History, Hungarian-Romanian Relations In the 20th Century, History of Central European Minorities, and Rumäniendeutsche Literatur
Das lückenlos Unwirkliche bezeichnet in Müllers poetologischem System den Spielraum ihres literarischen Schaffens, in dem sich ihre Biographie, ihr Verhältnis zur Macht, die Traumata, die Angst, die Wunden, die niemals heilen aber auch... more
Das lückenlos Unwirkliche bezeichnet in Müllers poetologischem System den Spielraum ihres literarischen Schaffens, in dem sich ihre Biographie, ihr Verhältnis zur Macht, die Traumata, die Angst, die Wunden, die niemals heilen aber auch die rei-ne Lebensgier und der Freiheitsdrang, sich in deterritorialisierte, flüssige, nomadische Intensitäten verwandeln. Es ist ein Prozess der Unwirklich-Werdung, dessen Phäno-menologie vergleichbar ist mit dem der Tier-Werdung, die Deleuze und Guattari in Kafkas Werken bemerkt haben. In meinem Beitrag erläutere ich die Wesenheiten die-ses Prozesses anhand von Herta Müllers poetologischen Texten sowie ihrer frühen, noch im kommunistischen Rumänien veröffentlichten Prosa und Lyrik.
Schlagworte: Emanzipation, Deterritorialisierung, der fremde Blick, das lückenlos Unwirkliche
Schlagworte: Emanzipation, Deterritorialisierung, der fremde Blick, das lückenlos Unwirkliche