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Thomas Steinfeld: The time tenant. A few things about Goethe and Italy
Several times on his Italian journey, Goethe found himself in situations in which he wanted to believe that he had fallen out of his own time and had landed in antiquity or in a kind of non-time. We think we recognise this feeling. But this is not the case: Goethe, still in the 18th century, […]
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Otto Kallscheuer: Pope and time. From world empire to world church?
The Imperium Romanum and the Roman Catholic Church embody two completely different, but at the same time related institutions: two successful models of political/legal/ethical universalism, which in principle is aimed at all people. The eternal city draws its nimbus – and also its cultural wealth – from both models: from the claim to power of […]