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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
Beyond Exceptionalism
(2021)
While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...
Elective Affinities
(2024)
This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
Christus in natura
(2020)
This volume offers detailed studies into the Physiologus, a Greek manuscript probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century CE. The Physiologus was the first Christian text to sum up a general understanding of nature using ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019-10)
The monograph tries to throw new light on Franz Brentanos (1838–1917) conspicuous reluctance to publish his philosophical findings based on his biography, personality and the development of his scientific theories. In ...
Optogenetics
(2013)
Biophysics; Genetic Engineering; Neuroscience; Optics; Vision Restoration
Comics and Agency
(2022)
This volume focuses on the attribution of agency across comics production (authorship and institutionalization), reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization). Contributors ...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven
(2019)
The essays collected in this volume apply an interdisciplinary approach to explore aspects of the relationship between animal and human in late antiquity. With a focus on ways that anthropozoological connections were defined ...
Inhabited Machines
(2022)
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is ...
Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden
(2018)
Das Frame-Konzept als kognitives Repräsentationsformat ist seit seiner Einführung durch Minsky und Fillmore vielfach rezipiert und modifiziert worden. Dieser interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint Beiträge aus so ...
Postcolonial Theory and Crisis
(2024)
The volume aims at a conceptualisation of the relations between postcolonial theory and crisis as well as to the crisis of postcolonialism and the ways in which it can respond to contemporary issues, trying to understand, ...
Chapter Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum in papyris reperta: Occidente ed Oriente, testi e contesti
(2016)
The volume collates ten studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments: textual criticism and interpretation, new additions to the corpus, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, ...
Microbial Evolution under Extreme Conditions
(2015)
Microorganisms; biodiversity; microbial inhabitants
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
The Age of Neoliberal Absolutism
(2024)
At the turn of the millenium, we saw the start of a global change that supersedes traditional forms of government, defined in this book as oikocracy. It is characterised by an uncontrollable demand for money ahead of public ...
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...