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Moralische Dimensionen der Verletzlichkeit des Menschen
(2022)
The anthropological concept of vulnerability has been discussed for some years as an alternative to an autonomy-centred approach to medical ethics. But what exactly is meant by vulnerability and what is its moral relevance ...
Realism - Relativism - Constructivism: Proceedings of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg
(2017)
Values; truth; destruction; constructivism; non-dualism
Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
(2013)
The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume brings together articles discussing authors who performed critical and productive readings of Kant's philosophy of freedom, reason, and sensibility. These authors not only embraced Kant's ideas but also expanded ...
Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment Inscribed Objects in Medieval European Literature
(2019)
In the Middle Ages, writing was not confined to manuscripts, but inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. This volume presents the first comparative overview of text-bearing ...
Time in Our Times
(2024)
What is happening to perceptions of time, durability and reality in the 21th century? This anthology explores a diversity of uncommon insights about time, as seen from our historical and geographical standpoint. It sheds ...
Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Die Erfurter Historienbibel
(2024)
The volume provides the text of the Erfurt Popular Bible (an expanded bible translation with commentary) in a parallel presentation of two Erfurt manuscripts from the 1420s. The text reprint indicates the connections to ...
Gegenwartsgeschichte der deutschen Wirtschaft
(2022)
The topic of this book is the interplay between the economic order and economic development in Germany's various economic systems since 1945 the social market economy of the old Federal Republic of Germany the state socialist ...
Doing Genre
(2024)
Literary genres don't just exist, they are made. The volume therefore takes a praxeological perspective on genres and their changing dynamics: The focus is on the question in which way - through which concrete practices - ...
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics
(2024)
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics is a seminal book bringing together research illuminating how spirituality, wisdom traditions, faith at work, and contemplative practices can positively influence organizational outcomes ...
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics
(2024)
Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics is a seminal book bringing together research illuminating how spirituality, wisdom traditions, faith at work, and contemplative practices can positively influence organizational outcomes ...
Sprach-Spiel-Kunst Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis
(2019)
What does wordplay teach us about the function of language and communication? What creative open spaces are used in wordplay, and what are the rules and limits that govern the game? The volume presents ideas of masters of ...
Normen und Standards für die digitale Transformation Werkzeuge, Praxisbeispiele und Entscheidungshilfen für innovative Unternehmen, Normungsorganisationen und politische Entscheidungsträger
(2019)
Norms and standards are indispensable for the success of the economy’s digital transformation, even as their applications become more and more complex. This book sheds light on relevant findings from standards research, ...
Traduire Cicéron au XVe siècle Le ›Livre des offices‹ d'Anjourrant Bourré V
(2019)
In an article entitled “Per una nuova valutazione del Quattrocento francese”
published in 1957 on the threshold of the first booklet of "Studi Francesi", Franco Simone
affirmed that philological restitution of texts and ...
Perspectives on the History of Global Development
(2022)
What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in ...
Perspectives on the History of Global Development
(2022)
What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in ...
Das vergessene Appeasement von 1920
(2024)
The book examines a turning point in European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to launch an attack on the continent. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British ...
Das vergessene Appeasement von 1920
(2024)
The book examines a turning point in European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to launch an attack on the continent. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British ...
Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities
(2024)
The autonomy granted to local communities by central powers is a recurrent feature of European history over time. The density of population in urban settlements facilitates human communication, however, towns are also zones ...
Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities
(2024)
The autonomy granted to local communities by central powers is a recurrent feature of European history over time. The density of population in urban settlements facilitates human communication, however, towns are also zones ...
Handbuch Religionskunde in Deutschland
(2023)
The Handbook of Religious Education analyzes non-confessional, religion-related teaching in schools from the perspective of religious studies. It provides an introductory description of the religious education perspective ...
Handbuch Religionskunde in Deutschland
(2023)
The Handbook of Religious Education analyzes non-confessional, religion-related teaching in schools from the perspective of religious studies. It provides an introductory description of the religious education perspective ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance
(2013)
In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captures the idea that if it can be shown that one feature can be (partly) predicted by another, then the predictable feature ...
Oaths and Vows
(2024)
A phenomenology of oaths and vows across religious traditions. Exploring legal, liturgical, ritual and literary works from different eras, it provides a new understanding of the inherently creative force of oaths and vows. ...
Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
(2018)
Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an ...
Converts of Conviction
(2017)
The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, ...
African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective
(2023)
African languages cover more than one fourth of the world’s languages, but still have been underrepresented in linguistic theories. The volume intends to fill this gap and addresses aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics ...
Wittgenstein on Colour
(2014)
20th-Century Philosophy; Aesthetics; Studies on Colour
Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland
(2022)
By analyzing Warsaw’s Yiddish daily press, this volume reveals how Polish Jews gained and disseminated subversive knowledge of National Socialist Germany in spite of censorship and repression, and also initiated campaigns ...
Languages of Science between Western and Eastern Civilizations
(2024)
In this volume, specialists in various fields of cultural studies investigate the ways in which scientific knowledge was transferred and disseminated throughout Eurasia between the 17th and 19th centuries. The papers ...
Wissenskulturen muslimischer Gesellschaften
(2023)
This festschrift in honor of historian of philosophy and Islamic studies scholar Anke von Kügelgen reflects her overarching research interest in the "knowledge cultures of Muslim societies." It presents contributions on ...
Januar 1748 – Oktober 1748
(2019)
Volume 13 of the correspondence documents once more how Gottsched single-mindedly continued to collect examples of older German poetry in the face of difficulties. Gottsched’s Dying Cato premiered in Vienna in front of a ...
Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis: Linguistic Variation in Text and Speech
(2014)
Variation; dialectology; linguistic typology
Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family
(2017)
The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly 850 languages, which on present evidence fall into at least 18 language families that are not demonstrably related, along ...
The Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine
(2019)
In 2013, the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine was officially inaugurated as a branch of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the direction ...
Lucan und der Prinzipat
(2015)
Lucan`s Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) is traditionally read as a political critique of the Principate. However, several features of this text run counter to this interpretation. This study reexamines Lucan`s work using the ...
Lucan und der Prinzipat
(2015)
Lucan`s Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) is traditionally read as a political critique of the Principate. However, several features of this text run counter to this interpretation. This study reexamines Lucan`s work using the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts
(2024)
This book analyses written artefacts integrating diverse languages and scripts. It investigates scribal practices, shedding light on multicultural communities and regions with intersecting writing traditions. The essays ...
Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts
(2024)
This book analyses written artefacts integrating diverse languages and scripts. It investigates scribal practices, shedding light on multicultural communities and regions with intersecting writing traditions. The essays ...
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. ...
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. ...
Das Epos im Blick
(2018)
In detailed case studies, Helge Baumann analyzes how Martial and Statius presented, integrated, and functionalized the epic into small poetic formats. These authors associated different situations, cultural practices, and ...
CLARIN
(2022)
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying ...
Quantitative Ansätze in den Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften
(2018)
Since the beginning of the 19th century, quantitative techniques have been used in literary and human sciences to describe, analyze and interpret texts. Such approaches were underrepresented until the end of the 20th ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Sign Language: An International Handbook
(2012)
Sign Language; Language Typology; Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials
(2021)
Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of suspensions of micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields, ...
Vanitas als Wiederholung
(2022)
Vanitas does not just address ephemerality but also the relationship of the self to history it negotiates identity and positions itself both self-critically and politically. In which contexts does contemporary culture take ...
Vanitas als Wiederholung
(2022)
Vanitas does not just address ephemerality but also the relationship of the self to history it negotiates identity and positions itself both self-critically and politically. In which contexts does contemporary culture take ...
Seneca the Elder and his rediscovered ›Historiae abinitio bellorum civilium‹
(2020)
This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent discovery of a fragmentary roll from Herculaneum bearing traces of his Historiae. Contributions not only ...
Seneca the Elder and his rediscovered ›Historiae abinitio bellorum civilium‹
(2020)
This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent discovery of a fragmentary roll from Herculaneum bearing traces of his Historiae. Contributions not only ...
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 ...
Coming of Age in Byzantium
(2017)
The Millennium Studies seek to cross borders, boundaries between epochs and regional spaces, as well as boundaries between disciplines. Millennium is international, transdisciplinary and epoch-wide. The editorial board and ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
A Short Media History of English Literature
(2022)
This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication from prehistory to the present. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material ...
Kreativität im Schnittpunkt der Observanzen/Creatività e osservanza
(2023)
Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
Rethinking Orality II
(2022)
This is the second of two volumes on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, which had deep roots in orality. Combining the tools of cognitive science with the historical and literary ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
(2018)
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of ...
Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching
(2024)
Foreign language learners often use online information to solve language problems but have difficulty using dictionaries successfully. However, in today’s digital, global and multilingual world, competence in the use of ...
A Short Media History of English Literature
(2022)
This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication from prehistory to the present. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material ...
Chapter Shifting Price Levels Of Books Produced At The Officina Plantiniana In Antwerp, 1580–1655
(2019)
Many scholars assume that European popular print culture had many common features and a transnational infrastructure. A European network of specialists (EDPOP) has recently started to explore the possibilities and challenges ...
La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática Estudios teóricos, descriptivos y experimentales
(2019)
Privileging functionalist approaches—based on descriptions of natural discourse and independent from formal grammatical models—, this collected volume gathers original contributions on the syntax-pragmatics interface in ...
The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver
(2023)
Only a fragment of the sizeable work of Kamāl al-Dīn survived and is now preserved in the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha. It represents the earliest known Arabic notebook of an artisan or merchant and ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Living the End of Antiquity
(2020)
This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before ...
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 ...
Linguistic Corpora and Big Data in Spanish and Portuguese
(2024)
In recent decades, Hispanic corpus linguistics has seen both an increase in corpus size (corpus linguistics as Big Data) and great improvement in document selection and data annotation (corpus linguistics as High Quality ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Theaternarratologie
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Theaternarratologie
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Wiederverflechtungen
(2024)
Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a ...
La “descrizione dei tempi” all’alba dell’espansione islamica. Un’indagine sulla storiografia greca, siriaca e araba fra VII e VIII secolo
(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 ...
Reflexively Speaking
(2023)
Reflexive language - the capacity of language to speak about itself - is unique to human languages yet little is known of its use in actual dialogue. Fundamental features of language are manifest in dialogic speech and in ...
Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching
(2024)
Foreign language learners often use online information to solve language problems but have difficulty using dictionaries successfully. However, in today’s digital, global and multilingual world, competence in the use of ...
Kreativität im Schnittpunkt der Observanzen/Creatività e osservanza
(2023)
Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
Combinatory Linguistics
(2012)
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to ...
The Global Wireless
(2024)
The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view after World War I. Examining the political ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials
(2021)
Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of suspensions of micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields, ...
Chapter On the optimal weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
We work out the optimization problem, initiated by K. Soundararajan, for the choice of the underlying polynomialused in the construction of the weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps ...
Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller 1900-1933
(2011)
This study investigates the function of the recourse to the messianic tradition of Judaism among German-Jewish intellectuals between 1900 and 1933 (Benjamin, Bloch, Broch, Buber, Landauer, Rosenzweig, Scholem). Messianic ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon
(2021)
This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from ...
Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación
(2014)
Language Contact; Language Change; Linguistic Areas; Linguistic Typology; Language Documentation; Digital Archives; Language Maintenance; Spoken and Written Language
Tractatus mythologicus Theorie und Methodik zur Erforschung von Mythen als Grundlegung einer allgemeinen, transmedialen und komparatistischen Stoffwissenschaft
(2019)
The volume is a programmatic manifesto for the new series MythoS. The author develops new methods – the hyleme analysis and the stratification analysis – and applies them on mythological materials, reconstructing myths as ...
Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
(2018)
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles ...
29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society, March 15–18, 2021, Hamburg, Germany
(2021)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 41 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Hamburg (Germany) 2021. - Plenary Talks - ...
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 ...
Chapter Catastrophes, the Imaginary and Citizenship
(2015)
This article reflects on the relationship between the media and the construction of publics, taking these to be based on identities and the processes of creating identities activated in concrete, well-defined contexts. ...
Ein Imperium wird vermessen
(2023)
This book is about the cartography and measuring of the Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It views the topographical and cartographical surveying of the largest country on earth as one aspect ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Isaac Orobio
(2018)
In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza’s critique of ...
Variation – Normen – Identitäten
(2018)
The description and analysis of linguistic variation is one of the fields that has recently received much attention in German linguistics. This volume shows in a synopsis of different approaches from attitude to language ...