Bücher von Christian Lange

"Pensar la escritura" reúne tres trabajos que indagan las relaciones entre Dramaturgia, Filosofía, Literatura e Historia. El primero, "¿Volver a Aristóteles?", revisita la "Poética" e indaga sobre su vigencia. El segundo, "Leer Teatro: ¿descripción, análisis o interpretación?", es un ejercicio de lectura que propone un modelo para describir, analizar e interpretar textos dramáticos. Finalmente, "Kundera: el oficio de filosofar novelas bohemias", es una Tesina que aborda algunas de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, su relación con la Primavera de Praga -y sus etapas previas y posteriores-, su vinculación con la filosofía existencialista y con las polémicas que tuvieron lugar entre sus representantes en torno a este proceso. Los tres trabajos, agrupados especialmente para esta publicación, tienen la deliberada intención de pensar el acto de escribir y sus imbricadas relaciones con otros campos del saber y del hacer ¿como la Filosofía y la Historia- que son también, ellos mismos, fenómenos de escritura. El espacio en el cual este pensar se despliega no puede que ser otro que el lenguaje, el acto de escribir.

The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the ShiE i world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable.

How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the legal dimensions of punishment. The cross-disciplinary approach embraced in this study, which is based on a wide variety of Persian and Arabic sources, sheds light on the interplay between theory and practice in Islamic criminal law, and between executive power and the religious imagination of medieval Muslim society at large.