One thinks of Dante hurling his damned into a burning hell. Of Empedocles’ volcano, which is, for Friedrich Hölderlin, the image of a world in eruption and heading towards its end. Of James Joyce ...

Cover of Amitav Ghosh's (right) latest book Wild Fictions. ‘TREES WERE MY TEACHERS,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if there is any place on Earth that could say the same of ...

Rehman Rahi, rooted in Marxist thought, blended modernist, existentialist, and surrealist tones, crafting diverse, imaginative poetry ...

However, once Kant’s in place, there is then a wider background to be read: philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Spinoza, and also theologians like Martin Luther, and broader thinkers and ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn celebrated his farewell as Archbishop of Vienna on Saturday with a large thanksgiving ceremony ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is celebrating his farewell as Archbishop of Vienna today (Saturday) with a big farewell party.

In the 19th century, the father of Italian Marxism was Labriola, who corresponded with Engels and Plekhanov. After the formation of the Third International, its historical centre became Gramsci. Both ...

Women and music in the European art music tradition. Music of the German-speaking 18th & 19th centuries. Music analysis. Cultural history. Issues of gender in music history and music theory. The ...