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The Value of Literature

The Discard of Society in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft

Wilhelm Raabe’s 1884 novel Pfisters Mühle: Ein Sommerferienheft (Pfister’s Mill: A Summer Vacation’s Notebook) is a work that depicts a society in a state of exceptional and rapid change. The sentiment that Ebert Pfister, the story’s narrator, expresses above captures what…

Issue 17 _Editorial

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Tobias Schädel, Juliane Saupe, Marco Presago

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Cycles of the Im_Material

As we, the guest editorial team, gathered to choose the visual direction for our issue, we knew the image selected would need to capture the spirit of curiosity that lies at the heart of this volume. The artist and philosopher Kilian Jörg, one of the authors featured in our issue, provided us…