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The writings in this volume previously unpublished in English include the essay 'On Seeing in Nature', his doctoral dissertation 'Idea and Individual', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper. Other essays collected together here concern primitive art, the sociology of German anti-Semitism, kitsch style and the age of kitsch, and the expulsion of the Huguenots from France. This edition includes as an appendix a draft outline of Elias' Habilitation thesis begun under Alfred Weber. "Early Writings" have been translated from the German edition, Fruschriften, published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main as volume 1 of the Norbert Elias Gesammelte Schriften, 2002.

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.

The "flower piece" has existed as an art genre since the 16th century, but for decades the floral still life was considered unworthy of artists' attention because of its alleged superficiality and bourgeois banality. But now in the nineties, this old motif is enjoying a revival. ART OF THE FLOWER places the genre in its historical perspective.

Die Storys, wie immer vom Feinsten: * Tino Falke: Im Bärental * T. Elling: Die letzte Jungfrau * Tom Turtschi: Die Pinocchio-Abteilung * J. A. Hagen: Das Ebenbild * Moritz Greenman: Spiegelzeit * Uwe Post: ... und mir wird nichts mangeln * Frank Hebben: Am letzten Tag * Norbert Stöbe: Expedition 13b/Regalis * Peter Stohl: Keine Maßnahmen erforderlich * Martin Wambsganß: Geifer Mit einer Gaststory aus Kanada von * Louis B. Shalako: Anna Der Sekundärteil mit dem Schwerpunkt Simulationshypothese: * Thomas A. Sieber: Die ultimative Verschwörungshypothese * Erfan Kasraie: Science-Fiction, philosophische Hypothese oder Bullshit? Eine philosophische Untersuchung der Simulationshypothese * Fabian Vogt: Die beste aller Simulationen. Ein theologischer Streifzug durch die Möglichkeit der Wirklichkeit * Wolfgang Mörth: Die Gummiwelt-Illusion Mit Nachrufen auf: * Karl Smith: Erinnerung an Syd Mead 1933–2019 * Cory Doctorow: RIP Mike Resnick sowie einem Vorwort vom Verleger, einem Geständnis des Grafikredakteurs, einem Titelbild von Lothar Bauer und Illustrationen von Gerd Frey, Christian Günther, Detlef Klewer, Victoria Sack, Christine Schlicht, Si-yü Steuber und Michael Wittmann.

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