Publications
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Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
Eugenio Coseriu
(2023)
Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002) was among the most influential linguists in the second half of the 20th century. Although known mainly as a structuralist and an expert in Romance linguistics, his work in fact goes far beyond ...
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies
(2023)
This book revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. The currently dominant exegesis organizes philosophical landmarks ...
Die Jugend des Dionysos
(2016)
The Millennium Studies seek to transcend boundaries, boundaries between epochs and regional spaces, as well as boundaries between disciplines. Millennium is international, transdisciplinary and epoch-wide. The editorial ...
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2023
(2023)
Modern geometric computing increasingly plays a role in modeling environments and processing sensing information, providing a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. The ...
Raumkonstruktionen = Spatial Constructions
(2021)
During National Socialist occupation in World War II, Eastern Europe was measured, surveyed, and planned anew. Alongside the actors, practices, and technology involved in this process, this volume presents results from the ...
La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática
(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 ...
Digital History and Hermeneutics
(2022)
For doing history in the digital age, we need to investigate the “digital kitchen” as the place where the “raw” is transformed into the “cooked”. The novel field of digital hermeneutics provides a critical and reflexive ...
Der Kaiser und sein Gott
(2010)
In his reconstruction of the process and motivation of Constantine`s adoption of Christianity, the author proposes a number of new individual aspects. He commences with an analysis of theearliest testimonials bythe Emperor ...
Wanderungen eines Ortes
(2023)
Places and spaces are often considered to be static and immobile when compared with the dynamism of time. This volume challenges that notion, positing a theory of the mobility of places by tracing the changing localizations ...
Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie
(2021)
This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of ...
300 Jahre Robinson Crusoe
(2022)
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure ...
Rationale Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit
(2018)
People make a multitude of decisions every day, either for themselves or for others. On what basis do we actually decide? What are the bases for decisions when the data situation is uncertain because a completely new ...
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
(2024)
How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in ...
Argumentationen über den Klimawandel in Schweizer Medien
(2022)
This book establishes a typology of the arguments made about climate change in the German-speaking Swiss media between 2007 and 2014. By combining corpus linguistic, pragma-dialectical, and discourse analytical approaches, ...
Enklaven
(2019)
Die Bezeichnung „Enklave“ wird für unterschiedliche Phänomene und Prozesse verwendet. Enklaven sind in sozialer, politischer oder wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht von den sie umgebenden Räumen wie Nationalstaaten, Städten oder ...
Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires
(2018)
This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference “Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain”, held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early ...
Stories that Make History
(2020)
The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their ...
Günter Grass und die Berliner Republik
(2023)
Günter Grass has primarily been perceived by research and the public as an author. But he was also an influential political actor. His political work was not just limited to the Brandt era but also helped to define the ...
Thinking and Killing - Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich
(2013)
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 ...
Agents' Abilities
(2020)
What is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while central to many debates, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. Jaster provides just that by developing the “success view,” which posits that abilities ...
Victimhood and Acknowledgement
(2018)
How does terrorism affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will ...
Grundrechte
(2022)
This casebook takes an innovative approach to address the basic rights granted by the German constitution. A team of young scholars from all over Germany has combined basic knowledge for students with more in-depth knowledge ...
Arrivals and Departures
(2024)
This book explores the human relationship with changing biodiversity. New animal and plant species arrive, and the ones previously existing may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the matter have ...
Gottes Haus
(2012)
Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study seeks to examine a central figure of thought in medieval society, the "ecclesia". Using normative, liturgical, and exegetic-theological sources, the book ...
Der Staat als Zuhälter
(2016)
Until the 20th century there were brothels throughout Europe where prostitution was controlled by the state. The study examines factors in the German, French, and Italian parliaments that gave impetus to the abolition of ...
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(2023)
The book shows how Chicanx, Latinx and otherwise watched and "othered" people in San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, respond to racism and surveillance. Watchfulness goes beyond counter-surveillance, as it is understood ...
Christliches Leben und die Verbesserung des Menschen
(2022)
Self-optimization is all the rage. What do theology and the church have to say about it? Should they issue a warning and strike up a cultural pessimistic tune? Maybe they could activate their own resources, which have the ...
Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters
(2022)
This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German ...
Summa theologica Halensis
(2018)
So far, only the Latin text in a critical edition from the year 1948 has been available from the law treaty of the Summa Halensis. With the three-volume publication, a German translation and a commentary on this important ...
Die Landmauer von Konstantinopel-Istanbul
(2008)
The land walls of Constantinople are one of the largest and most important defensive fortifications from Late Antiquity. The subject of this book are the history and topography of the Theodosian Land Walls and the Walls ...
Berlin International
(2023)
By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary scene had already been developing on both sides of the Wall. In fifteen contributions, this volume traces ...
Uncertain Values
(2021)
How should you evaluate your options if you’re uncertain about what’s fundamentally valuable? This book introduces an axiomatic approach to explicate and vindicate Expected Value Maximisation. The result is a formally ...
Demystifying the Sacred
(2022)
This book investigates the relationship between blasphemy and violence in modern history, with a focus on cases from the European world, including its (post-) colonial ties. Spanning from the late-eighteenth century to ...
Chapter Terezín und Jasenovac – Umkämpfte Gedenkstätten vor und nach 1989
(2020)
This volume examines memory narratives in literature, television, film, photography, and museum exhibitions that, firstly, take a transmedial approach and, secondly, narrate and de/construct the past or pasts in Central ...
Culture as Soft Power
(2022)
Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative ...
Primitive Thinking
(2022)
This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early 20th century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter ...
Kalter Krieg auf dem indischen Subkontinent
(2020)
1971 was a critical year for India and Pakistan and also for West and East Germany. The Third India–Pakistan War led to the independence of Bangladesh, at the same time that the German–German policy of détente sought to ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
This book reconstructs the figure of Isaac Argyrus, a byzantine scholar active in Constantinople of the 14th century, with due regards to the context of his work. The paleographical and codicological analysis of his book ...
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
(2022)
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, ...
Verfassung als Ordnungskonzept
(2016)
This volume includes lectures and discussions from the Conference of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers in Speyer from 7 to 10 October 2015.
Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity
(2013)
Modern science is a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play? To address ...
›Mos uetustissimus‹ – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza
(2023)
Clemency plays an important role in Livy and his value system. Clemency is invoked, exercised or denied in three areas: family, justice and army. What emerges is a complex understanding of this value concept, which relates ...
Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood
(2019)
This monograph casts new light on Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion by examining the role of mood in the philosopher’s critical project. The novel approach does not only contribute to scholarship on Nietzsche it also ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
(2016)
Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, including ...
Tertullian the African
(2011)
This work is largely a social history of Tertullian, a Christian from Carthage (c.160� CE), and his ancient African context, which is viewed through a postcolonial lens.Theories from the discipline of social/cultural ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
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 ...
HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1
(2019)
This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Obwohl Gesundheit für alle Menschen essentiell ist, unterliegt das Verständnis des Begriffs »Gesundheit« jeweils historisch, regional und kulturell unterschiedlichen Einflüssen. Mit verschiedenen Festlegungen von »Gesundheit ...
Probability and Statistics
(2017)
This textbook offers an introduction to concepts of probability theory, probability distributions relevant in the applied sciences, as well as basics of sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. As a ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Digital Finance in Europe: Law, Regulation, and Governance
(2021)
This special volume collects contributions from leading scholars who scrutinize the challenges digital finance presents for the EU internal market and financial market regulation from multiple public policy perspectives. ...
Multimodale Konstruktionen im „Alltagskonsumkosmos“
(2024)
To which extent is the notational iconicity of text (layout, emphasis, etc.) grammatically significant? This volume provides an answer by taking an expanded cognitive-grammatical approach to examine a corpus of food packaging ...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
(2014)
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts
(2020)
The polyphonic world poem Galáxias (1984) by Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos has, to date, mainly been discussed in the broader context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. This book offers a completely ...
An Alchemist in Chains
(2024)
In 1717–1719, a court case against the pietist and alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona led to the burning of his writings and his banishment to Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This book investigates the details of the ...
Zeichentragende Artefakte im sakralen Raum
(2018)
Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and ...
Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit
(2020)
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general ...