In this volume, the well-known photographer and ethnologist Henning Christoph presents selected images from over forty years of field research in West Africa and the diaspora. Many of the ceremonies and rituals shown here are taboo for outsiders and until now have not been photographed or published in this form. For the first time, an important part of the exhibits that Christoph collected for the Museum Soul of Africa in Essen, Germany, which he founded in 2000, will also be presented.

Soul of Africa

Arts & Photography

Christoph, Henning

Photography & Video

Koenemann

<div>In this volume, the well-known ethnologist and photographer Henning Christoph presents spectacular photographs of a culture that has been unjustly discredited for centuries - Voodoo. Its West African homeland Benin is the scene of beliefs that revolve around the protection, healing, and defence of man, who sees himself as part of a universe defined by countless gods, the Vodun.</div>

Voodoo Rainbow (Spectacular Places Flexi)

Schiemann, Philipp

The authors of this book have done research into the cults and rites of Voodoo. They have witnessed ceremonies in which the Voodoosi use music and dance to reach a state of trance and experience divine power. Their photographs also reveal the dark side of Voodoo - its witches and magicians.

Voodoo: Secret Power in Africa

Oberländer, Hans

Taschen America, LLC

This volume accompanies Daniel Spoerri's exhibition at the Arp Museum, which includes 130 works from the 1960s to the present, from the famous “snare pictures” to wooden and bronze sculptures. Also presented here is an assortment of objects from Spoerri's private collection, which affirm the veteran Nouveau Réaliste as a passionate “archeologist of flea markets.”

Daniel Spoerri: Black on Wise

Mattern, Jutta

Räderscheidt, Barbara

Individual Artists

Kerber

Christoph Henning writes a concise history of misreadings of Marx in the 20th century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx-interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. Henning sketches a historical trajectory in which a theory of socialist politics enters the fields of economics, sociology, critical theory and theology, before finally - overloaded with intellectually dead freight - entering into philosophy. In so doing, he takes a hermeneutic approach to how misreadings in a specific field proliferate into further misreadings across a variety of fields, leading to an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong. English translation of Philosophie nach Marx. 100 Jahre Marxrezeption und die normative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005.

Philosophy After Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy (Historical Materialism Book Series, 65)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Brill Academic Pub

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