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Forged in Genocide
(2024)
In the shadow of war, genocide and its aftermath, thousands of migrants would play a central role as auxiliaries in the German military and laborers in the Namibian economy. This is a history of colonial capitalism centered ...
Virtuelle Museen – Ein Plädoyer
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Cultural Techniques
(2020)
Addressing cultural techniques from different disciplinary perspectives, this volume elaborates upon a concept originally developed in media studies. In a series of case studies, it reconstructs the basic operations of ...
Cognitive Pragmatics
(2012)
Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Cognitive Linguistics
Living the End of Antiquity
(2020)
This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before ...
Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology
(2017)
Eschewing the search for the hypothetical original, this volume of essays places manuscripts and manuscript culture center stage and provides new readings of texts from various Christian and Jewish traditions in their ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
Divination on stage
(2021)
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses ...
Damascius' Philosophy of Time
(2023)
The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, he offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating ...
Kant on Love
(2018)
What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? This book is the first in-depth study of the concept of love in Kant`s philosophy. It argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously thought, and that ...
Archive für Literatur
(2018)
The series "Literature and Archive" establishes a common field of conversation between literary and edition science, archive theory, archival and cultural studies as well as the practice of today's archives.
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
Das erweiterte Museum
(2019)
Today, museums use various media to convey and communicate content. The spectrum ranges from print media to multimedia productions, hands-on and media stations to interactive, software and web-based offers. These change ...
Über Wissenschaft reden
(2019)
The volume examines the relationship between scientific self-understanding and scientific language usage in the German-speaking world around 1800. It discusses the re-founding of the university, the fraught relationship ...
Video Games as Art
(2022)
Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, it is still only beginning to grasp the intellectual, ...
Speech and Automata in Health Care
(2014)
speech processing; speech automata; assistive robots; robot companions; human-robot interaction
Chapter Measures of Pseudorandomness
(2013)
In the second half of the 1990s Christian Mauduit and András Sárközy [86] introduced a new quantitative theory of pseudorandomness of binary sequences. Since then numerous papers have been written on this subject and the ...
Lascivia mascherata
(2022)
How do Torquato Tasso and Giovan Battista Marino react to the vigilant and normative context between the 16th and 17th centuries? Two evasive tactics designed to safeguard lewdness and enchantment in the poems are considered, ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2011)
In the years 1738/39, Gottsched was mostly concerned with two events: his departure from the “Deutsche Gesellschaft” which he had been heading and the resulting developments, and the continuation of his disputes on the ...
Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
(2018)
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles ...