Lecture by Andrei S. Markovits
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative, Politics and German Studies, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Sociology The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
held on the 5th of June 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany
[We are publishing this text with kind permission by the author]
– Dedicated to the memory of my friend and colleague MOISHE POSTONE (1942 – 2018) –
Thank God for the dominance of the decimal system that has allowed me to come to speak to you today. It is merely due to this fascinating convention and transcultural habit as to how we humans categorize things in decanal segments — salaries, expenses, the stock market, political and sporting competitions, our ages (personal, political, historical) and, of course, the commemoration of events – that we accord certain “round anniversaries” such significance. Weiterlesen