Publications
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Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2014)
Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of ...
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti
(2015)
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti collects and scrutinizes all the known Latin and bilingual (Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek) grammatical texts on papyrus (1st cent. B.C. - VIth cent. A.D) in order to add further tesserae in the ...
Paragesellschaften
(2021)
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this ...
Thinking and Killing
(2013-10-01)
This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by ...
Word Knowledge and Word Usage
(2020)
Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a ...
Geburt Leben Sterben Tod
(2022)
Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, life, dying, and death. ...
Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland”
(2023)
This ambitious study of the proper names of the Chanson de Roland proves that it is more tightly and profoundly structured and considerably richer in depicting reality than generally assumed, and that its prehistory can ...
The Meaning of Media
(2021)
This book addresses various aspects of materiality and mediality in the manuscript culture of Scandinavia represented in epigraphic writing with runes, the introduction of Roman script and the earliest period of print. The ...
Dimensionen literarischer Mobilität
(2024)
In this volume, renowned authors illustrate four dimensions of literary mobility: literary theory, the literary market, mobility as a motif, and relevant genres (like travel literature).
Moral und Moralisierung
(2024)
Scholarly debates about morality necessarily raise the question of what we mean when we speak of morality or even moralization. The chapters in this book respond to these questions from multidisciplinary perspectives, ...
Thinking and Killing
(2013-10-01)
This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by ...
Paragesellschaften
(2021)
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this ...
Join, or Die – Philosophical Foundations of Federalism
(2016)
Subsidiarity; Europe governance
Chapter All typologies leak
(2009)
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities ...
How Is World Literature Made?
(2021)
The debate over world literature, and the underlying questions of global interconnections in a polycentric world, has recently become very visible. Until now, however, the theoretical discussion has lacked material-based ...
Chapter 28 Agreement
(2009)
In many respects the agreement systems of Slavonic languages are close to canonical. Controllers of agreement are often present, they have overt expression of features, and they take consistent agreements. The target has ...
Überlieferungen von Mu, dem Sohn des Himmels
(2024)
The Mu Tianzi Zhuan, which translates as the "Chronicle of [King] Mu, Son-of Heaven," is considered the oldest surviving account of travel in Chinese literary history. It describes the travels undertaken by King Mu in the ...
Personas africanas y afrodescendientes en España ayer y hoy
(2024)
This book deconstructs the supposed "homogeneity" of the Iberian Peninsula in order to redefine this geographical area as a multiracial and multicultural space in continuous reconfiguration through the centuries. It examines ...
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics
(2014)
The volume discusses the notion of space by focusing on the most representative exponents of the Hellenistic schools and explores the role played by spatial concepts in both coeval and later authors who, without specifically ...
GegenRomantik
(2024)
The volume Against/Romanticism deals with Romanticism as a source of controversy. In the name of what ideas and behaviors was Romanticism criticized in the natural sciences and aesthetics, and in political contexts? ...