Novalis: German Poet, European Thinker, Christian Mystic

Martin Forst and Christian Rohrer: Problems of German VP coordination

In this paper, we present the implementation in the German ParGram LFG of verb phrase (VP) coordinations involving conjunction reduction and/or right node raising. We show how the computationally expensive approach proposed by Maxwell & Manning (1996) can be adopted for VP coordinations in a computationally efficient way so that many of these coordinations, which previously did not receive a co...

German Romanticism and Science. The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter (review)

Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties

This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and the support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice and on sociopsychological literature largely ignored by scholars of electoral behaviour, it suggests and tests a number of competing hypotheses. The findings demonstrate that while religiosity has few direct effects, and while ...

The Pathologist as Poet

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

An English Poet in Scotland :

Travelling is at the core of the romantic experience of life, as it implies a form of reaching out in quest of experience, which will then be, to quote famous words, “recollected in tranquillity”. The romantic poets travelled considerably, both physically and mentally, and I will try to address the two forms of journey in this paper, since I believe that imaginary excursions colour our view of ...