Gerald Hartung

Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

Frederik Schlupkothen

Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human communication with documents in and after the Gutenberg galaxy. Interdisciplinarity is taken seriously: looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh (in part for the first time for an English-speaking audience). A look ahead to the future is attempted in contributions from an--again interdisciplinary--group of cultural scientists and cultural technologists who gathered at the University of Wuppertal in October 2019. Whereas the modeling (including technical modeling) of documents has to date largely been limited to the description of output forms and specific content, the foundations are laid here for including documents' contexts of use in models that are grounded in cultural theory. In this way, a hitherto largely unexplored intersection between media science and media technology is also investigated.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory

Using Documents

Hartung works out both the linguistic and philosophy of language setting as well as socio-political and cultural implications of the radical critique of language developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by philosophers as diverse as Steinthal, Cohen, Simmel or Cassirer. He argues that the theories pleaded for a plurality of linguistic and cultural forms as well as for a new logic beyond the traditional nature/culture partition.

Theories of Language and Modern Culture in the German-Jewish Context

Beyond the Babylonian Trauma

Matthias Herrgen

Religion, das Phänomen des Religiösen, Religiosität als Verhaltensweise sowie die vielfältigen Formen religiöser Praxis stehen im Zentrum wissenschaftlicher Debatten und alltäglicher sozialpolitischer Diskussionen über die Grenzbestimmungen von Kulturen, Gesellschaften und Individuen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge aus den Natur-, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, um einen interdisziplinären Dialog zum Thema Religiosität zu eröffnen. Der Diskursteil enthält einen Hauptbeitrag, Kommentare aus unterschiedlichen Fachgebieten sowie eine Replik. Komplettiert wird das Jahrbuch mit den Rubriken „Forschung“, „Beiträge“, „Projekte“, „Rezensionen“ und „Kalender“, die allesamt zur Diskussionslandschaft einer Interdisziplinären Anthropologie beitragen.

Gerald Hartung

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