Lists, lists and more lists
As someone engaged in research in the humanities I find that I am often making lists of books about particular authors, periods, and themes. A single publication will often appear in more than one list. For example, I may wish to include Frederick Beiser’s The Romantic Imperative in a list [...]
Last night I went to the 25th annual Long Night of Museums in Berlin, where over 125 museums, galleries and archives are open until the early hours of the morning for live music, films and talks.
As well as some Javanese gong music and a rendition of Philip Glass’s Dance 2 in the Berliner Dom, I [...]
Johann George Hamann, “the Magus of the North”, was a minor civil servant working in tax administration, a Lutheran pietist, prolific lettrist, and polyglot. He is best known for his short, rhapsodic, densely allusive and often pseudonymous dispatches - on everything from erotic love to the importance of the letter ‘h’ - and for his [...]
Jonathan Gray studies German philosophy and works at the Open Knowledge Foundation.