Publications
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Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
How Republics Die
(2025)
Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance democracies seem fragile and threatened. This book responds to current political science scholarship on democratic breakdown by bringing the history back in. It primarily focuses ...
Religiöse Traditionen zwischen Traditionalismus und Moderne
(2025)
The significance of religious traditions has been discovered and rediscovered in recent times. This is in contrast to the conventional assumption that we are living in a modern, "post-traditional" society. This volume ...
Theatre and Metatheatre
(2021)
In this book, experts discuss the use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ to describe ancient Greek dramatic activities. By examining how these two concepts are used in very different ways by scholars of various horizons, this ...
Nominale Determination im Bulgarischen und Mazedonischen
(2020)
Bulgarian and Macedonian are the only Slavic languages with definite and indefinite articles. Macedonian is among the few languages that differentiate the definite article deictically. This innovative study presents a ...
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
(2022)
Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of ...
Kellers Wissen
(2024)
„Kellers Wissen“ erscheint als vierter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Texte akkumulieren, transformieren und generieren Wissen. Seine literarische Epistemologie lässt sich anhand der Dinge, die sie ...
The Political Theory of the Bhagavad-Gita
(2025)
This book is the first systematic analysis of the Bhagavad-Gita as a work of political theory. It fills a crucial gap by comprehensively exploring the classical text, and offers insights into the enduring impact of the ...
Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo
(2025)
The volume examines Lucretius’ connection to Epicurus, probing whether he merely echoed Epicurus’ teachings or offered original insights. It reconstructs the Epicurean criterion of truth in De rerum natura, evaluating ...
Our Neighbours, Ourselves
(2011)
Homi K. Bhabha delivered the 2010 Hegel lecture, evoking the spirit of Hegel in an attempt to understand contemporary issues of ethical witness, historical memory and the rights and representations of minorities in the ...
Instruktive Bilder
(2024)
Whether in cookery books, on planes, in factories or laboratories - instructive images are omnipresent. They explain, pass on and store knowledge about bodies, materials and processes: Schematically, they visualise positioning ...
Historische Gärten und Klimawandel
(2020)
Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic conditions? On the basis of four historical gardens, this project analyzes the ...
La “descrizione dei tempi” all’alba dell’espansione islamica
(2014)
The 7-8th centuries are commonly believed tohave beena stagnant phase of Byzantine historiography. This book investigates the writing of history in Greek and Syriacduring this period through the study of four later chronicles ...
Extremereignis ›Kältewinter‹ im 18. Jahrhundert
(2025)
The eighteenth century can be seen as a turning point in the description and interpretation of extreme events – and not just due to the Lisbon earthquake. This volume examines the discursive and cultural consequences of ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Pacific Climate Cultures
(2019)
This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, ...
The Fragility of Responsibility
(2024)
Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian ...
Digital Roots
(2021)
Several of the most known and discussed concepts of the digital age predated the digitalization itself and have been previously used in the “analogue times”. Other concepts were coined for the digital society but have ...
Staatlichkeit und politisches Handeln in der römischen Kaiserzeit
(2012)
This collected volume contributes to the discussion among ancient historians of the character and form of political action in Imperial Rome. It concentrates on the East of the Imperium Romanum for the whole duration of the ...
Forschungsfeld Sprachevolution
(2021)
This book provides a comprehensive and innovative exploration of the heterogenous field of linguistic evolution. The introductory sections discuss its subject-specific and methodological foundations. The main focus is the ...