MUSIC AND MORALITY: Messiah’s Tainted Glory? Philosophical Aspects of a Musicological Quarrel on Alleged Anti-Semitism in Handel’s Oratorio

In this paper I reconstruct M. Marissen’s claim that G.F. Handel’s Messiah (HWV 56) conveysa palpable anti-Judaist message, in order to critically examine P. Kivy’s negative responseto it. What Marissen describes as ‘ant...

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SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: Empathy as an emotional practice in historical pedagogy

Most of the pedagogies at memorials and museums in Germany dedicated to the crimes ofNational Socialism and the history of the GDR share the common pedagogical goal of developinga sense of empathy in students and visitor...

CULTURE: Categories of Folk Laughter and Mimetic Violence as Tools for the Analysis of Contemporary ‘Burning Witches’ Rejoicing

Sprawozdania i recenzje: Różnorodne spojrzenia na zagadnienie transpłciowości