Leere

Sascha Michel

doi:10.5771/9783465146582

Summary

Already the Middle Ages knew of horror vacui, the horror of emptiness. And as for us today, there is still nothing we fear more than idleness and boredom, empty gas tanks and empty supermarket shelves. On the other hand, the ghostly emptiness we experienced during the coronavirus lockdown or in dystopian zombie films also has something fascinating about it. For the atomists of antiquity, it was only thanks to the void that there was any movement in the world at all. From Zen to Dada, from modernism to pop culture, emptiness is not feared or denied, but celebrated and affirmed, explored and staged. This book tells the ever-changing story of an ambivalent concept. It is not only about the powerful phantasm of the great, enormous void at the beginning and end of the world, but also about the void as a space of play and in-between: about the empty spaces of our self-images and world views, about a loosened culture of pauses and gaps. Because, as we all know, the holes are what essentially makes a sieve.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 9783465046585
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14658-2
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Klostermann / Nexus
Volume: 110
Language: German
Pages: 242
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 5
Prolog No access Pages 6 - 12
1. Tohuwabohu No access
2. Creatio ex nihilo No access
3. Atome und leerer Raum No access
4. Horror vacui No access
5. Vakuum-Experimente No access
6. Metaphern der Leere No access
1. In der »atheistischen Halbnacht« No access
2. Der Letzte Mensch (I) No access
3. Die Leere des Subjekts No access
4. Ethik der Leere? No access
5. Arbeit und Langeweile No access
1. Großstadt und Melancholie No access
2. Eigentumsmüdigkeit No access
3. Das Erhabene No access
4. Gemalte Leere No access
5. Ozean und Polarkreis No access
6. Ein Buch über nichts No access
7. Die Feier der Dinge No access
1. Die Entleerung der Zeichen No access
2. Substanzverluste um 1900 No access
3. Storytelling und Subjekt No access
4. Lockerungen No access
5. »von der Grundfarbe schwarz« No access
6. Die Moderne im Leerlauf No access
1. Leere und Überfluss No access
2. »o – o – o – o« No access
3. Fröhliche Bejahung No access
4. Elvis’ Gelächter No access
5. Die Leere in Anführungszeichen No access
6. Nicht-Orte No access
7. Die Leere des Zen No access
8. Askese und Konsumverzicht No access
9. »The Earth will be quiet again« No access
1. Der Letzte Mensch (II) No access
2. Das Unglück der Selbstreferenz No access
3. Paare in der Wüste No access
4. Terra nullius No access
5. Das Ende von allem No access
6. Wo bin ich? No access
Epilog No access Pages 209 - 216
Anmerkungen No access Pages 217 - 238
Personenregister No access Pages 239 - 242