Herkules – Held zwischen Tugend und Hybris. Ein europäischer Erinnerungsort der Frühen Neuzeit?

This essay traces some of the contexts and media in which "Heracles-Hercules" - as a hero between virtue and hubris - was visible in European societies from the end of the middle ages onwards. It discusses whether this example of the reception, appropriation and transformation of classical myths in the early modern period can be understood as a European "lieu de mémoire", and to what extent the concept of "lieux de mémoire" (or sites of memory) can foster our understanding of a particular object of study (here the Heracles/Hercules myth). Against this backdrop, we conclude with some general questions about the more ambitious project* of a comprehensive register of European "lieux de mémoire". * * Published as: Boer, Pim den / Duchhardt, Heinz / Kreis, Georg / Schmale, Wolfgang (eds.): Europäische Erinnerungsorte, 3 vols., Munich 2011–201

Our Relationship with the Image as a Form of Being-With

This paper looks at the development of the artistic work from a narrative work into an experiential one. How the presentation of sublime in art has moved us away from finding meaning in narrative into taking on meaning through facing our relationship to the other. It traces how this change in communication has meant that the viewer’s experience with a work is the work. It takes an historical and theoretical perspective before discussing a proposed project, The Lamps of Presence, as a work employing these theories