The once dominant role played by the art of aphorism in the various genres of European literature is a thing of the past. The present study sets out to show why traditional contemporary aphoristic writing is frequently derivative and how the poet Elazar BenyoAtz breaks with the conventions prevailing in it. Of significance here, as in the much broader currents of contemporary philosophy, is the way in which the individual 'other' attains a new status over and against the 'self' in BenyoAtz' work. Whereas in traditional aphoristic writing the 'other' is largely addressed via the unmasking of collective clichA(c)s, BenyoAtz draws upon the individualising elements of aphoristic discourse to achieve an individualisation of the 'other'.

Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title essay, published the following year as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's influential essay, now in its sixth printing in Germany, is presented here for the first time in English, with an updated preface by the author and additional essays selected by him. With wit and clarity, Weinrich brings sophisticated thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. He argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. His survey of the different ways in which language is untrue forges striking links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and even good manners on the other. In contrast with scholars of an earlier generation, for whom literary and cultural theory circumscribed the issue of style within a fixed aesthetic framework, Weinrich demonstrates that stylistic analysis is closely linked with analysis in the domains of sociology and anthropology. The essays "Jonah's Sign: On the Very Large and the Very Small in Literature," "Politeness, an Affair of Honor," "Politeness and Sincerity," and "The Style Is the Man Is the Devil" complement "The Linguistics of Lying" in their focus on real and false representations in literature and in life, and notably on the immensely destructive lies, Adolf Hitler's in particular, that marked the politics of the twentieth century.

Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life's ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In "On Borrowed Time," Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials--from Hippocrates to "Run Lola Run"--to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience.
Weinrich's analysis of the roots of the word "time" connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense--the crucial sense that enables the other five.
Written with Weinrich's customary narrative elegance, "On Borrowed Time" is an absorbing--and, fittingly, succinct--meditation on life's inexorable brevity.

Das vorliegende Buch stellt neue Moglichkeiten fur die Interaktion mit Hyperlinks im Web vor, die auf Forschungsergebnissen aus dem Hypertext-Bereich, der Software-Ergonomie und der aktuellen Web-Forschung basieren. Diese Konzepte sollen Anwendern verteilter Informationssysteme eine konsistente und aussagekraftige Benutzungsschnittstelle bieten, die bekannte Defizite der Link-Navigation reduziert und zu mehr Transparenz und Sicherheit bei der Interaktion fuhrt. Neben dem Entwurf und der prototypischen Implementation der neuen Konzepte werden auch die Durchfuhrung von mehreren Benutzbarkeitsstudien und deren Ergebnisse prasentiert, die neue Einblicke in die Anforderungen fur die Gestaltung von ergonomischen Hyperlinks in verteilten Informationssystemen bieten. Zur Realisierung der Forschungsergebnisse zur Link-Benutzungsschnittstelle werden daruber hinaus mehrere softwaretechnische Losungen entworfen und vorgestellt. Dies ist die Schwarz-Weiss-Ausgabe