Publications

The ZfL publishes research results in a variety of formats (monographs, anthologies, essays). The ZfL currently has two special book series with Wallstein (Literatur- und Kulturforschung) and Kulturverlag Kadmos (LiteraturForschung). As a signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, the ZfL and its library support free access to publicly funded research findings on the internet.

The search fields to the right make it easy to find ZfL publications using the author’s name or keywords.

The ZfL researchers are active on the advisory and editorial boards of renowned periodicals and academic book series.

The ZfL publishes research results in a variety of book formats from monographs to anthologies as well as in other formats like supplements or special issues of journals.

The ZfL supports free access to publicly funded research findings on the internet and makes this research available to readers on the open access publication platform CompaRe.

Our blog posts are written by colleagues working at the institute as well as by guest contributors from around the world.

E-journal Interdisciplinary Conceptual History Forum

The ZfL publishes the open access e-journal Interdisciplinary Conceptual History Forum, featuring current debates in interdisciplinary conceptual history.

Online publication Interjekte

The ZfL publishes Interjekte, an open access online publication series open to various topics and themes.

Neighborhood
(online anthology)

Online Anthology of the research project “Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature.”

Current Publications

Cover by Nebiha Guiga: “Les blessés de Napoleon”. Painting of a battlefield, in the center lies a wounded soldier with an amputated leg, with another soldier kneeling next to him.

Nebiha Guiga
with a preface by Patrice Gueniffey

Les blessés de Napoléon

Passés / Composés, Paris 2025, 400 pages

ISBN 978-2-3793-3850-2

Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Heft XIX/2, Sommer 2025

Das Schweigen, ed. by Florian Meinel and Stephan Schlak

C.H. Beck, München 2025, 128 pages

ISBN 978-3-406-83110-2

Cover of Varlam Shalamov: "Tales from Kolyma. A selection" in German. Snowy landscape with a hill covered in larch trees and a light blue sky above.

Franziska Thun-Hohenstein (ed./eds.)
translated from Russian by Gabriele Leupold

Warlam Schalamow: Erzählungen aus Kolyma
Eine Auswahl

MSB Paperback vol. 68

Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2025, 270 pages

ISBN 978-3-7518-4519-9 (Print); 978-3-7518-4520-5 (EPub)

Stefano Marchesoni, Nassima Sahraoui, Sebastian Truskolaski (ed./eds.)

Community in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy

New Benjamin Studies vol. 1

Brill | Fink, Paderborn 2025, 165 pages

ISBN 978-3-7705-6808-6 (Print); 978-3-8467-6808-2 (PDF)

Cover of Detlev Schöttker's book “Die Archive des Chronisten.” A stamp with Ernst Jünger's portrait is reproduced twice below the title.

Detlev Schöttker

Die Archive des Chronisten
Ernst Jüngers Werke und Korrespondenzen

Wallstein, Göttingen 2025, 336 pages

ISBN 978-3-8353-5871-3

Cover of Adam Kirsch: Siedlerkolonialismus. Black and white image of a covered wagon.

Translated from English by Christoph Hesse

Adam Kirsch: Siedlerkolonialismus
Ideologie, Gewalt und Gerechtigkeit

Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2025, 200 pages

ISBN 978-3-89320-325-3

Eva Geulen (ed./eds.)

SCHLAGLICHTER AUF DEN AKTUELLEN NAHOSTKONFLIKT

INTERJEKTE 15

Berlin 2025, 48 pages

DOI 10.13151/IJ.2025.15

Cover of the FIB issue 13/14.1. Gold lettering on a black background, the title is: Mit Koselleck über Koselleck hinaus.

Falko Schmieder (ed./eds.)

FORUM INTERDISZIPLINÄRE BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE

main topic: MIT KOSELLECK ÜBER KOSELLECK HINAUS
E-JOURNAL (2024/25) 13th/14th YEAR / ISSUE 1

Berlin 2025, 98 pages

ISSN 2195-0598
DOI 10.13151/fib.2025.01

Jenaba Samura

Afrotopia
Schwarze Konstruktionen von Gender und Sexualität

in*sight/out*write

Querverlag, Berlin 2025, 64 pages

ISBN 978-3-89656-357-6

Iryna Herasimovich, Nadine Menzel, Nina Weller (ed./eds.)

Befragungen am Nullpunkt
Unabhängige Kultur in Belarus zwischen Aufbruch und Repression

Edition Schublade, Zürich 2025, 224 pages

ISBN 978-3-906-30504-2

Sophia Gräfe, Georg Toepfer (ed./eds.)

Wissensgeschichte des Verhaltens
Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven

De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 646 pages

ISBN 978-3-1107-4069-1 (Print); 978-3-1107-4081-3 (eBook)

Martin Mulsow

Naturrecht und Emotion
Eine Geschichte der Gefühle im 18. Jahrhundert

Historische Geisteswissenschaften. Frankfurter Vorträge vol. 17

Wallstein, Göttingen 2025, 236 pages

ISBN 978-3-8353-5853-9