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sight points

description Online review journal for the history and art studies
Headquarters Munich
First edition November 15, 2001
founder Gudrun Gersmann / Peter Helmberger / Matthias Schnettger
Frequency of publication per month
editor Jürgen Dendorfer / Andreas Fahrmeir / Peter Helmberger / Hubertus coal / Mischa Meier / Matthias Schnettger
Web link sehepunkte.de
ISSN (online) 1618-6168

The sehepunkte are a cross-epoch, freely accessible ( Open Access ) online review journal for the history and art studies.

Sponsorship and use

The sehepunkte has been published since November 2001 on the 15th of each month with 60 to 80 book reviews. A double edition is published in July of each year. The table of contents of the monthly issues can be subscribed to as a newsletter free of charge. The sehepunkte emerged from a cooperation funded by the German Research Foundation between the History Department of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Bavarian State Library . They are now mainly financed by the Free State of Bavaria and are based at the universities of Munich and Mainz .

The journal was founded in November 2001 by Gudrun Gersmann , Peter Helmberger and Matthias Schnettger . From the October 2008 edition, the editorial board was expanded to include Andreas Fahrmeir , Hubertus Kohlen , Mischa Meier and Claudia Zey . In the meantime, Gudrun Gersmann (at the turn of the year 2011/12) and Claudia Zey (September 2016) left the editorial board. From the September 2016 edition, Jürgen Dendorfer will be a member of the editorial board. The journal has been published since 2002 and 2003 in conjunction with the Herder Institute , Marburg, and the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich-Berlin.

The creation of the journal is based to a large extent on the work of the more than 40 voluntary specialist editors who are named in each review (“editorial support”). The editorial work is accompanied by a scientific advisory board chaired by Peter Funke (University of Münster).

By January 2020, over 5,050 internet users had subscribed to the free e-journal. The sehepunkte record up to 550,000 page views from over 40,000 different computers per month . By January 2020, more than 15,800 publications had been reviewed in over 15,100 reviews. More than 12 percent of the published reviews were written in non-German languages. 32 percent of the publications discussed were published in non-German languages.

Surname

The name sehepunkte , originally derived from optics, was borrowed by the editors with a programmatic intention from the theologian and historian Johann Martin Chladenius (1710–1759), a representative of the art of interpretation around the middle of the 18th century . In his introduction to the correct interpretation of sensible speeches and writings , published in 1742, Chladenius had characterized the historian's subjective perspective with the "point of view": Since every perception is conditioned from the point of view of the perceiving person, the interpretation of historical events also depends largely on knowledge and attitude of the judge.

At a time when the understanding of history was still largely indebted to the rigid conceptions of the Rococo , Chladenius was a critical and innovative epistemologist . He emphasized the relativity of human judgment in general and thus also referred historiography to the problem of the later so-called hermeneutical circle .

concept

In addition to being up-to-date, the sehepunkte attach great importance to the quality and variety of perspectives in the sense of the pluralistic historical science demanded by Chladenius. The journal (also in contrast to its predecessor Perform ) spans epochs and is interdisciplinary . In addition to contributions from art history , there is also a place for legal , medical , economic , women's, gender and environmental history .

In addition to the German literature (almost 70 percent of all since 2001, discussed items) are in the see points reviewed international increasingly publications. The book reviews appear predominantly (around 90 percent of all reviews published since 2001) in German, but increasingly also in English, French, Italian or Spanish. The international orientation of the journal is v. a. has grown significantly over the years. The proportion of non-German-language literature currently (July 2019) is over 40 percent; more than 20 percent of the articles are currently published in non-German languages.

Since September 2006 - at irregular intervals - reviews on the field of 'Islamic Worlds' have been published (a total of 40 such FORUMS had been published by July 2019). Corresponding FORUMS have also been published for the area of ​​'Atlantic History' since January 2012 (five such FORUMS had been published by July 2019). The art historical reviews also appear in parallel in the online journal Kunstform, which has existed since 2000 .

The sehepunkte can be used freely according to the principle of Open Access .

The structure of the journal follows a constant scheme: In addition to a category "Forum", which is dedicated to one or more special topics in each issue, the rubrics "Across periods", "Theory / Method / Didactics", "Antiquity", " Middle Ages "," Early Modern Era "," 19. Century ”,“ Contemporary History ”and“ Art History ”. The table of contents (mainly as a link to library catalogs) is available for almost all publications. There is also the option of using a link to research the availability of the reviewed titles in libraries directly in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK). Each review can be commented on via a link, and the reviewers also have the option of replicating them.

The books that have just arrived at the editorial office are listed in each issue. The reviews are assigned by the editors and / or the specialist editors.

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