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Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and sociologist Norbert Elias are both famous for their influential interpretations of modern European culture as a whole. Nietzsche'sOn the Genealogy of Moralsand Elias'The Civilizing Processcrossed disciplinary boundaries with respect to both content and method, and both books are still of great contemporary interest. This volume brings international specialists together for the first time to explore the connections between these two works.

Friedrich Nietzsche und Norbert Elias haben zivilisationsgeschichtliche Entwürfe Europas vorgelegt, die unter den Bedingungen einer stetig voranschreitenden Globalisierung weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen werden.Die philosophische Brisanz ihres Zugriffs wird v.a.

In her article \"Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq,\" Angela C. Holzer begins with an introduction to recent discourse about contemporary culture by Francis Fukuyama, notably in his book Our Posthuman Future (2001). Next, Holzer introduces twentieth-century literary representations of genetic engineering. Focusing on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and on Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires (1998), Holzer discusses differences in \"utopian\" literature when linked to metaphysical aspects of reproduction and that are owing to changes in the life sciences and medicine. Further, Holzer explores the implications for poetics resulting from scientific developments and relates Houellebecq's perspectives to Zola's idea of the \"experimental novel\" and to Nietzsche's notions of science. Holzer traces Houllebecq's text and its \"reactionary politics\" to Romantic literature and the late nineteenth-century discussion of marriage, Christianity, and reproduction in Tolstoy's writing. The insight to be gathered is the interrelation between the development of modern science up to the completion of the Genome Project and its impact on poetics (i.e., on form) and on representation (i.e., content) of science and the scientist in the two novels at hand.

A bstract A search for the K + → π + X decay, where X is a long-lived feebly interacting particle, is performed through an interpretation of the K + → π + ν ν ¯ analysis of data collected in 2017 by the NA62 experiment at CERN. Two ranges of X masses, 0–110 MeV /c 2 and 154–260 MeV /c 2 , and lifetimes above 100 ps are considered. The limits set on the branching ratio, BR( K + → π + X ), are competitive with previously reported searches in the first mass range, and improve on current limits in the second mass range by more than an order of magnitude.

The results of a search for π0 decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 108 tagged π0 mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass, improving on previous searches in the mass range 60–110 MeV/c2. The present results are interpreted in terms of an upper limit of the branching ratio of the electro-weak decay π0→γνν¯\\[ {\\pi}^0\\to \\gamma \\nu \\overline{\\nu} \\], improving the current limit by more than three orders of magnitude.