{"title":"How Money Legitimizes Inequality","authors":"Fritz Breithaupt","doi":"10.3138/YCL.60.X.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/YCL.60.X.55","url":null,"abstract":"This essay asks why people accept large economic inequality. It seems people agree in principle that large economic inequality is problematic—but at the same time they do not seem to know how to protest against it: which act of unfairness can it be called? The puzzling outcome is that inequality today is—with notable exceptions—widely accepted as the state of our society. This short essay will briefly touch on possible answers as to why people tolerate economic inequality. Then it will, with the help of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money, attempt to answer the question that draws on a peculiar feature of money: money enables instantaneous transactions and thereby closes off future communication.","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124248627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Concept of a \"Seignioral\" Power","authors":"Joseph Vogl, Heidi Hart","doi":"10.3138/YCL.60.X.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/YCL.60.X.27","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the seventeenth century, in the epoch of emergent political economy, a stirring story circulated about an occurrence in the mid-sixteenth century, on the fortune of Emperor Charles V and his civil financier. A variant of this tale went approximately as follows: On one of his travels, Charles V made a stop in Augsburg. In order to ensure due deference to the Emperor, the Fugger family, known for their fabulous wealth, provided magnificent hospitality and hung in the fireplace a bundle of cinnamon sticks, a spice among the most expensive goods at the time. After they had shown the Emperor a note of debt, with which he had redeemed a considerable sum on receipt, they burned the slip of paper and set the cinnamon on fire as well. These released into the air “a scent and a glow that the Emperor found all the more sweet and pleasant, seeing himself discharged of a debt that, considering his financial situation, he could have settled only with difficulty and that was presented as a gift in such a gallant way.” Although this anecdote, circulated by the French art theorist André Félibien in 1685,1 is a complete fiction, it gains its meaning in correspondence with some related episodes. Similar stories were reported of tradespeople from Genoa or Antwerp; the amounts of money vary considerably,","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122181746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ground, The Ground, The Ground: Or, Why Archeology Is So ‘Hard’","authors":"Paul Kockelman","doi":"10.1353/CGL.2012.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CGL.2012.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117254511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laws","authors":"A. Glazova, Anna Khasin","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-15347-6_300976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15347-6_300976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127714466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thankless Trouble: Ethical Contemplation of Nature","authors":"Peter Fenves","doi":"10.1353/CGL.2012.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CGL.2012.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Nature’ and ‘philosophy’ are among the words that come under discussion in the recently published Dictionary of the Untranslatable, but nothing is said of Naturphilosophie.1 And yet, among the many untranslatable words that have entered into the lexicon of modern German thought, none is perhaps more resistant to translation than Naturphilosophie. This is not because the terms from which it derives are obscure; on the contrary, it is perfectly reasonable to translate each of the terms separately, one as ‘nature’ and the other as ‘philosophy,’ but the relation between the words, beyond their conjunction, remains elusive. The aim of this essay is to explore this conjunction. A brief passage from the introduction to the revised (1803) edition of Schelling’s Ideen zur Naturphilosophie [Ideas toward Naturphilosophie], can serve as a précis of the principle on which the construction of nature proceeds: “Philosophy is the science of the absolute, but since the absolute in its eternal activity necessarily comprehends two sides as one, the real and the ideal, so philosophy, considered from the side of form, necessarily has to divide itself in accordance with the two sides, although its essence consists solely in seeing both sides as one in the absolute act of cognition. The ‘","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128101251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wozu Dichter","authors":"Jean-Luc Nancy","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1xhr6pt.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1xhr6pt.16","url":null,"abstract":"Hölderlin’s question is repeated time and time again. Its repetition confirms it as a desperate question, as well as ensuring an unending stream of answers. It is remarkable, however, that in isolating this question—in reducing it simply to its first two words in German, wozu Dichter [‘why poets’]—one risks rashly distancing oneself from Hölderlin’s thought. He does little to isolate this question himself, so that it might effectively be read in his text as a simple subordinate to the preceding clause:","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126022811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defacement","authors":"C. Barber","doi":"10.1353/cgl.2010.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cgl.2010.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Consider the most trivial occurrence—that of an icon, an object of worship, before it is lost in “a work of art”: the visible surface of the wood there gives to be seen, surrounded by a face, two eyes; these two painted eyes, however, permit themselves to be intentionally pierced (thus under a mode that is irreal) by the invisible weight of a gaze; in short, in these two dots of basically black paint, I discern not only the visible image of a gaze that is (like all gazes) invisible but, provided that I acquiesce to it, this gaze in person, which, in fact, envisages me. Through the merely painted icon, I discover myself visible and seen by a gaze that, though present in the sensible, remains invisible to me.1 Jean-Luc Marion","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121385011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Portrait of an Italian Lira Player in Dublin: Attalante Migliorati","authors":"Aby Warburg, Davide Stimilli","doi":"10.1353/CGL.2010.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CGL.2010.0004","url":null,"abstract":"[1] Mr. Herbert Cook has supplemented his report2 on this year’s exhibition at the Academy in London with some reproductions of remarkable Italian paintings, which he was granted only by the personal kindness of their respective owners, since the direction of the exhibition had not allowed this time around, strangely enough, the taking of photographs. Precisely because of such reproductions, Mr. Cook has deserved the special gratitude of those who could not themselves travel to London, as the following study, too, could only be spurred and made possible by the reproduction of the paintings themselves.3 —What captivated me, like many other friends of the Italian Quattrocento, I reckon, was above all the portrait of the violin player by an unknown master from the Gallery in Dublin. A musician is shown, as he is tuning his string instrument;4 he plucks with the thumb of his well-trained","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131389191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is a Cinema of Jewish Vengeance?: Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds","authors":"E. Peretz","doi":"10.1353/CGL.2010.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CGL.2010.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The question at the heart of our panel’s considerations is that of filming the Shoah,1 which is therefore the question of the relations between the cinematic image and the possibility that it has, or perhaps does not have, to show something about, or of, the historical event which is the Shoah. To answer such a question, we need to answer three things. First, what, in general, is an artistic image for? What can it, and what in particular can a cinematic image, show? Second, what is the relation between what the cinematic image can show and the question of history, or of a historical event; that is, what does the image have to do with history? And third, what is the particularity of the Shoah as a historical event and what, more specifically, is the relation between this particularity and the question of showing? That is, if the question of filming the Shoah is of particular significance, this seems to suggest that the Shoah as a historical event is itself implicated in the question of showing and of the image in a unique way. I cannot of course develop these questions very far in such a brief presentation, but nevertheless I would like them to inhabit the background of what follows.","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}