Publications
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Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia An Introductory Reader
(2019)
In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that ...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
(2019)
The everyday use of texts in the ancient world relates in many ways to contemporary practice. Besides inscribed artifacts, the self-reflection of Greek and Roman authors demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ...
History and Drama
(2019)
Historiography and literature are verbal representations of actions and events that either have happened or could happen in the human lifeworld. As such, they possess an uncanny ‘family resemblance’ that has impelled ...
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 ...
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
(2019)
Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de ...
Women in the Ancient Near East
(2016-08-01)
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019)
Although Franz Brentano was one of the most influential turn-of-the-century philosophers, he, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, published little but left a large philosophical legacy. This study examines the biographical and ...
A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja – Critical Edition
(2019)
A hitherto unpublished scripture of Buddhist dharani literature, the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja has been recently discovered in five Nepalese manuscripts. This rare Sanskrit text from around the fifth century focuses on the ...
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 ...
Augmented Reality
(2017-03-01)
There is at present no publication specifically dedicated to analyzing the philosophical implications of augmented reality. Applications cover diverse fields like psychopathology and education, implications concern issues ...