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Moralische Dimensionen der Verletzlichkeit des Menschen
(2022)
The anthropological concept of vulnerability has been discussed for some years as an alternative to an autonomy-centred approach to medical ethics. But what exactly is meant by vulnerability and what is its moral relevance ...
Realism - Relativism - Constructivism: Proceedings of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg
(2017)
Values; truth; destruction; constructivism; non-dualism
Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
(2013)
The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume brings together articles discussing authors who performed critical and productive readings of Kant's philosophy of freedom, reason, and sensibility. These authors not only embraced Kant's ideas but also expanded ...
Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment Inscribed Objects in Medieval European Literature
(2019)
In the Middle Ages, writing was not confined to manuscripts, but inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. This volume presents the first comparative overview of text-bearing ...
Time in Our Times
(2024)
What is happening to perceptions of time, durability and reality in the 21th century? This anthology explores a diversity of uncommon insights about time, as seen from our historical and geographical standpoint. It sheds ...
Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Die Erfurter Historienbibel
(2024)
The volume provides the text of the Erfurt Popular Bible (an expanded bible translation with commentary) in a parallel presentation of two Erfurt manuscripts from the 1420s. The text reprint indicates the connections to ...
Gegenwartsgeschichte der deutschen Wirtschaft
(2022)
The topic of this book is the interplay between the economic order and economic development in Germany's various economic systems since 1945 the social market economy of the old Federal Republic of Germany the state socialist ...
Doing Genre
(2024)
Literary genres don't just exist, they are made. The volume therefore takes a praxeological perspective on genres and their changing dynamics: The focus is on the question in which way - through which concrete practices - ...
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics
(2024)
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics is a seminal book bringing together research illuminating how spirituality, wisdom traditions, faith at work, and contemplative practices can positively influence organizational outcomes ...
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics
(2024)
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics is a seminal book bringing together research illuminating how spirituality, wisdom traditions, faith at work, and contemplative practices can positively influence organizational outcomes ...
Sprach-Spiel-Kunst Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis
(2019)
What does wordplay teach us about the function of language and communication? What creative open spaces are used in wordplay, and what are the rules and limits that govern the game? The volume presents ideas of masters of ...
Normen und Standards für die digitale Transformation Werkzeuge, Praxisbeispiele und Entscheidungshilfen für innovative Unternehmen, Normungsorganisationen und politische Entscheidungsträger
(2019)
Norms and standards are indispensable for the success of the economy’s digital transformation, even as their applications become more and more complex. This book sheds light on relevant findings from standards research, ...
Traduire Cicéron au XVe siècle Le ›Livre des offices‹ d'Anjourrant Bourré V
(2019)
In an article entitled “Per una nuova valutazione del Quattrocento francese”
published in 1957 on the threshold of the first booklet of "Studi Francesi", Franco Simone
affirmed that philological restitution of texts and ...
Perspectives on the History of Global Development
(2022)
What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in ...
Perspectives on the History of Global Development
(2022)
What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in ...
Das vergessene Appeasement von 1920
(2024)
The book examines a turning point in European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to launch an attack on the continent. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British ...
Das vergessene Appeasement von 1920
(2024)
The book examines a turning point in European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to launch an attack on the continent. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British ...
Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities
(2024)
The autonomy granted to local communities by central powers is a recurrent feature of European history over time. The density of population in urban settlements facilitates human communication, however, towns are also zones ...