Germany's identity crisis

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Germany's leading playwright Heiner Muller was interviewed on his views regarding the German essence. He says that Germany has a problem on national identity and unity. Throughout history, the German nation was only a response to another power or force but it did not have a natural and self-defined unit.

Germany, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, National characteristics, Nationalism, Muller, Heiner

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Beyond being and becoming

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Physicist Ilya Prigogine's perception that time is irreversible is diametrically opposed to the standpoint of classical scientists. He refutes the notion of linear progression, destiny and the determinism of natural laws. Instead, he proposes that the universe is governed by the law of chaos.

Analysis, Time, Portrayals, Chaos theory, Chaotic systems, Ontology, Prigogine, Ilya

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The art of place

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Author Wendell Berry asserts that artists should serve as the community's historians. Their task is to produce artworks which bring to mind important occasions and preserve ideas.

Artists, Berry, Wendell

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