Wolfgang Ernst Libri

«Lo Stato liberale secolarizzato vive di presupposti che non è in grado di garantire.» Questa celebre tesi costituisce il centro del ricco percorso intellettuale di Böckenförde, che spazia dalla storia del pensiero giuridico alla dottrina della costituzione, dalla filosofia politica alla teoria del diritto.

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde è uno dei più importanti giuristi e pensatori tedeschi del secondo dopoguerra. I suoi scritti di teoria politica e di filosofia del diritto hanno influenzato non solo il mondo accademico, ma anche i principali dibattiti pubblici dal 1950 ad oggi. Ha indagato la relazione tra Stato e società civile fermandosi sul ruolo della religione, del diritto, della Costituzione. Questo saggio - tradotto per la prima volta in italiano - richiama l'attenzione sul nostro presente che impone di ripensare lo Stato quale organizzazione sociale garante dei diritti fondamentali. In queste pagine, straordinariamente lucide, si legge come le sfide della nostra democrazia - gli estremismi, il pluralismo dei valori, le dinamiche globali - possano e debbano essere vinte attraverso quel presupposto di libertà che l'ha fatta nascere. Solo assumendosi il rischio di garantire tale libertà si potranno realizzare forme per la convivenza pacifica tra gli uomini

One in a series presenting major authors in the continental tradition of legal and political theory. This collection of essays by West German jurist Bockenforde concerns the historical and philosophical theories which have founded and changed the modern state as constituted under law.

This edition features an abridged and translated collection of Wolfgang Ernst's significant works, offering an in-depth exploration of media tempor(e)alities. It presents a comprehensive, knowledge-driven analysis that examines the relationship between media and time, showcasing Ernst's innovative ideas and contributions to the field.

Like most of Wolfgang Ernst's work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist's role will be more increasingly vital in the future. As Ernst points out, his work will show a way out of the archive, away from the notion that the era of archive is coming to an end. Here is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future. Ernst work emphasized a need to recognize media as a method for capturing and preserving our collective cultural identity. It is vital that archivists promoted a greater awareness of how media technology augmented the creation, management, and dissemination of digital content.

"Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist's work, brings together essays that present Wolfgang Ernst's controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society."--pub. desc.

In the media theatre of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of "the present" is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves. At that moment, human-related phenomenological analysis clashes with the media-archaeological close reading of the technological event, in an impossible effort to let the temporeal articulate itself. The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 04 Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum