School of Culture and Society

Organisational unit: Faculty

Organisation profile

The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").

Topics

Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.

  1. Monographs › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung.

    Bempeza, S., Brunner, C., Hausladen, K., Kleesattel, I. & Sonderegger, R., 16.12.2019, Wien: Transversal Texts. 178 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform: Armenien, Kroatien, Russland und die Ukraine im Vergleich

    Seha, E., 2015, 1 ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. 343 p. (Comparative Politics; vol. 4)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Renaissancen der Passion

    Söntgen, B. & Brandstetter, G., 2012, Köln: August Verlag. 98 p. (Flaubert Lectures; vol. 4)(Kleine Edition; vol. 11)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of thought

    Woodard, B., 01.03.2019, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 254 p. (New Perspectives in Ontology )

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Tausch, Technik, Krieg: Die Geburt der Gesellschaft im technisch-medialen Apriori

    Spreen, D., 1998, Berlin: Argument Verlag. 199 p. (Argument-Sonderband; vol. N.F. 261)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Technotopia. A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures

    Apprich, C., 10.2017, London: Rowman & Littlefield International. 212 p. (Media Philosophy)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830

    Wellmann, J., 03.2017, New York: Zone Books. 423 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    The Politics of Micro-Decisions: Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality and the Architecture of the Internet

    Sprenger, F., 2015, Lüneburg: meson press. 127 p. (Digital Cultures Series)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism, and Politics Without Making too Much Noise

    Bunz, M., 2013, London: Palgrave Macmillan. 134 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

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    Transformation der Gewalt im Film: über Riefenstahl, Améry, Cronenberg, Egoyan, Marker, Kluge, Farocki

    Kramer, S., 2014, Berlin: Bertz+Fischer Verlag. 183 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review