Volume 19 (2022), Edition 1

The lives of two painters, Celia Paul and Cecily Brown, tell very different stories about what it takes to thrive in a medium historically dominated by men.

There seem to be hardly any points of contact between the politics of memory and law. At least that is what the current debate suggests. A closer look, however, shows that law is connected to the cultural memory of a society in an ambivalent way....

What is the relationship between a philosophical or theoretical conception of mind, and the mind’s conception of itself? Should the latter constrain the former? And how does the mind itself understand a theory of mind, that is, a theory of itself?...

In the introduction to this issue’s special theme, Johannes Voelz characterizes the contemporary debate of autofiction as one concerned with the analysis of the present social condition. In order to take seriously this analysis without simply...

Whenever the history of autofiction is told, it involves a historicization of the term autofiction and its supposed French origin in the 1970s. But the question of why a large number of writers, most noticeably Karl Ove Knausgård, started writing...

This article examines the autofictions of US-American author Tao Lin in the context of networked sociality. The essay thus elaborates on a specific aspect of Andreas Reckwitz’s theory of singularization not explored in depth by Reckwitz himself,...

Through an original interpretation of the interview form, Rachel Cusk creates a paradoxical autofiction, a subject who “finds herself” by undertaking a journey through the lives of others. Cusk leads us to a redefinition of contemporary...

It seems easy to identify aspects of Andreas Reckwitz’s society of singularities in contemporary autosociobiographical narratives of aspirations to social advancement and fears of social decline. However, novels such as Nicolas Mathieu’s Wie...

This article examines prominent representatives of autofictional writing, such as Édouard Louis and Karl Ove Knausgård, and discusses whether their programmatic directness and artlessness are instances of what sociologist Andreas Reckwitz calls...

The article examines the works of Silvia Bovenschen with particular emphasis on their relation to Critical Theory, especially the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. It describes this relationship, as also in other areas of Bovenschen’s political and...

This article analyzes the background and the process of foundation of the Institute for Social Research. Special attention is paid to the role played by Felix Weil, which was central not only in financial terms, but also in the conceptual and...

The late sociologist Ulrich Oevermann is renowned as the founder of Objective Hermeneutics. But, as the article shows, his oeuvre has much more to offer than that: an original contribution to social theory, including a methodologically grounded...