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Kloft, Hans (Bremen RWG) [German version] A. Preliminary Remarks (CT) Socialism is a phenomenon of the Modern Age. It is seen as an action-oriented economic, social and political concept which seeks to combine theory with practice. With the rise of industrialization and the mass destitution (pauperism) that went with it, in the course of the 19th cent. socialism developed into an alternative model that sought to overcome existing conditions, interpreted as being bourgeois capitalist in nature, in virtuall…

Kloft, Hans (Bremen RWG) Köhler, Jens (Rome) [German version] A. Introduction (CT) The concept of Caesarism covers only one part, albeit an important one, of the historical reception of Caesar in modern times. Its use in the political discourse of the 19th and early 20th cents. was complemented by scholarly, artistic and literary interpretations (e.g. Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March, 1948; Bertolt Brecht, Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar, 1957, [17. 119ff.; 13. 247ff.] and its adaptation and use in films such as Little Caesar, 1930; Cleopatra, 1963; and Asterix and the Laurel…

Kloft, Hans (Bremen) RWG Köhler, Jens (Rom) RWG [English version] A. Einleitung (RWG) Der Begriff C. umfaßt nur einen, wenn auch wesentlichen Teil der Wirkungsgeschichte Caesars in der Neuzeit. Seine Verwendung im polit. Diskurs des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jh. wird ergänzt durch wiss., künstlerische und lit. Adaptionen (z.B. Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March, 1948; Bertolt Brecht, Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar, 1957, [17. 119ff.; 13. 247ff.]) bis hin zur Verarbeitung und Instrumentalisierung in den Medien (u.a. die Filme Der kleine Caesar, 1930; Kleopatra, 1963; Die Lo…