Publications
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Handlungskoordination in der Lernwelt Hochschule
(2022)
The switch from teaching to learning, competence-based teaching, and new public management are calling for changes to be made to the way that activities are coordinated at universities. Educational governance can help to ...
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 ...
Der Erste Weltkrieg. Deutschland und Russland im europäischen Kontext
(2023)
The seventh volume of Communications from the German & Russian Historical Committee documents colloquia held in 2013 in Moscow and 2014 in Berlin devoted to the theme, "The First World War: Germany and Russia in a European ...
Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad
(2020)
This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, ...
Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik
(2018)
The volume takes stock of grammatical theory and empiricism in Germanic linguistics, presenting critical discussions of issues related to paradigms, methods, and objectives. The essays cover themes such as descriptive ...
Religion and Change
(2023)
Are religions like everything else in the world, subject to permanent change? Or are they perhaps the only stable element for people in a world of permanent change? Within the wide field of this discourse, five authors – ...
Kleinformate im Umbruch
(2023)
Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erscheinen sie innerhalb verschiedener medialer Konstellationen – wie etwa in ...
The Influence of English on Italian
(2023)
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of borrowings are discussed on the basis of a usage-based list of ...
Was macht die Digitalisierung mit den Hochschulen?
(2020)
«Wir danken der Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf, https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/), dem Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft (Essen, https://www.stifterverband.org/), der Artemed-Klinikgruppe (Tutzing, ...
How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960–2000
(2023)
In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the ...
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 ...
Spektakel filmischer Oberflächen
(2024)
Despite its specific visuality, the spectacle has not played any major role in film studies. By deconstructing the cultural history of the term, this study sounds out its analytical potential. Three analyses spanning the ...
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. ...
Logiken der Sammlung
(2020)
The archive and its various forms as storage of cultural memory are the focus of the fourth volume of the literature and archive series. What does it mean when an archive is only dedicated to a holder, when there are estate ...
Bild und Schrift auf 'magischen' Artefakten
(2018)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat in Istanbul
(2023)
Based on ‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat’s early publications the book discusses what intellectual milieu it was that shaped his worldview in the early 1910s, a worldview that could be designated as a first attempt at “freedom and ...
Acetylsalicylic Acid
(2022)
This book is the first and to date only compendium on the history, pharmacology, toxicology, and clinic of acetylsalicylic acid – not only the best known, but probably the most successful drug in medical history. Written ...
Handbook of Stemmatology
(2020)
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from traditional to digital ...
The Cold War
(2017)
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Shared Margins
(2021)
Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and ...
Rethinking Islam in Europe
(2022)
After Islamic theology was given a place at universities in German-speaking areas, certain issues in the Islamic theology and religious pedagogy took on greater importance and moved to the forefront of discussion. A ...
Rekrutierungen für die Waffen-SS in Südosteuropa
(2021)
What advantages do people hope for when they collaborate with an occupying regime? What kinds of threats do they face if they do not? These questions can be applied to Waffen-SS recruitment during World War II and refracted ...
NICHTS NEUES SCHAFFEN
(2018)
This volume addresses interdependencies between the original and the copy while focusing on the latter. Going beyond established imperatives for innovation, the essays in this volume examine artistic repetition and concentrate ...
From Memory to Marble
(2020)
The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the ...
Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation
(2021)
Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, has attracted a good deal of interest in Nietzsche studies and beyond. This book, by a leading ...
Discourses on Nations and Identities
(2021)
This book focuses on the interplay between concepts of nation, language, and individual as well as collective identities. Because literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, ...
Manual der Koloproktologie
(2024)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Reform des deutschen Namensrechts
(2020)
Die Regelungsdichte im deutschen Namensrecht nimmt beständig zu. Anatol Dutta zeigt nicht nur die Ursachen für den Reformbedarf im Namensrecht auf. Er wirft auch einen Blick auf mögliche Grundzüge eines zeitgemäßen ...
Die indirekte Kommunikation in Frankreich
(2021)
Das Buch befasst sich mit einem besonders auffälligen kulturellen Phänomen: Jeder der in Frankreich zu tun hat, wird mit der dort vorherrschenden indirekten Form der Kommunikation konfrontiert. Insbesondere Deutschen fällt ...
Branding the Middle East
(2023)
This edited volume fills a gap in the research on place, product and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa. It critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under conditions ...
Filmische Seitenblicke
(2018)
Did 1968 fail? The question is misstated. For the significance and consequences of ’68 cannot be captured in a coherent narrative. That year appears as the point of culmination of a set of highly heterogeneous cultural, ...
Israel and the Question of Reparations from Germany
(2023)
Based on an extensive range of primary sources - whether they be archival, journalistic or documentary - some of which are exposed here for the first time, the present volume reviews the efforts made by the State of Israel ...
Subjektive und objektive Zeit
(2021)
This essay examines the differentiation between subjective and objective time in Aristotle and in modern theories of time. It aims to show that (i) Aristotle does make this distinction but regards subjective and objective ...
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 ...
Narratologie und Epistemologie
(2019)
A narrative is more than story it is a window into the world it narrates. Sebastian Meixner’s book explores the juncture between narrative and world in his study of Goethe’s early works. In three different constellations ...
Die Applikation literarischer Texte
(2021)
Diese literaturgeschichtliche Arbeit führt erstmals auf breiter Quellenbasis den empirischen Nachweis, dass Leser/-innen beim außerwissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Literatur in Geschichte und Gegenwart Applikationen vornehmen. ...
›Instrumenta domestica‹ aus Pompeji und ihr Design
(2022)
Houshold objects (instrumenta domestica) from the Insula del Menandro are used to examine decorative principles, their correlation and interaction. Ancient object design is not only an expression of a visual culture, but ...
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany
(2022)
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All ...
Geistliche Liederdichter zwischen Liturgie und Volkssprache
(2020)
Composers of spiritual songs in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, including the Monk of Salzburg, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Heinrich Laufenberg, and Sebastian Brant, engaged productively with the tradition of Latin ...
Migration und Avantgarde
(2020)
This volume is devoted to literature and the arts that were created in Paris from 1917–1962. The starting point is Vilém Flusser's conviction that migration experience and cultural innovation should be closely linked. ...
Weltwirtschaftsstatistik
(2023)
By looking at the development of international economic statistics, this book examines globalization processes and the dynamics that drive them. It questions widespread periodizations by showing that, from the First World ...
Körper und christliche Lebensweise
(2012)
The authorexamines the historical context of instructions for the everyday conduct of prosperous Christians and the authors of these instruction manuals from 200 AD and links this examination with a study of attitudes ...
Giovanni Boccaccio: Die verliebte Fiammetta
(2023)
Around 1600, two independent translations were made of Boccaccio’s Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (ca. 1343/44) in the Upper German speech area. This historical critical edition presents the older of the two translations by ...
Health and Development
(2023)
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments. 11 case studies from 9 ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2009)
This third volume of the letter edition documents the correspondence of the years 1734 and 1735. With his appointment as professor of logic and metaphysics and his marriage to Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus, Gottsched was ...
Molière et le théâtre arabe
(2016-01-15)
Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. ...
Communism's Jewish Question
(2017)
In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and stemming mostly from Hungarian ...
Wavelet Analysis on the Sphere
(2017)
The goal of this monograph is to develop the theory of wavelet harmonic analysis on the sphere. By starting with orthogonal polynomials and functional Hilbert spaces on the sphere, the foundations are laid for the study ...
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
(2015-11-13)
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded ...
Public History and School
(2018)
How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and ...
The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
(2016)
Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly ...
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Philosophy of Globalization
(2018-03-01)
The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse ...
Figures of Radical Absence
(2023)
What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, the book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and ...
As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare (Volume 15)
(2018)
Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a ...
De la pluma a las letras de molde
(2023)
Ecdotics, or the study of text editions, is an essential part of Hispanic humanism. In a pluridisciplinary approach, the volume gathers contributions by scholars from Italy, Spain and Colombia about the vicissitudes of ...
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte
(2024)
The "servant question" in the late nineteenth century led to the proliferation of debates and conflicts regarding domestic work. Were household servants to be viewed as workers or as members of the household? How should ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
German and Dutch in Contrast
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
Possession and Dispossession
(2022)
When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between ...