Publications
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The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
(2023)
Historians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the ‘orator of the human race’ and devised a ‘universal republic’ based on the ‘sovereignty of the human ...
History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society
(2021)
Make believe we are in 2028, attending the 26th World Congress of Philosophy, then the question is: how will philosophers delve into historic texts? Not on paper, but on devices. And each philosophical proposition uttered ...
Futures of the Study of Culture
(2020)
By exploring possible futures of the study of culture, this volume goes beyond the potentials and challenges of recent and emerging topics, theories, and methods. It unfolds interdisciplinary and international research ...
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts
(2020)
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the ...
Nomadic Connectivity
(2023)
Based in central Chad, the nomadic Walad Djifir are part of extensive socio-economic networks, ranging from very local cattle markets, to Western Unions in Libya, and selling merchandise in the Central African Republic. ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Modernism in Africa
(2024)
Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive ...
Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire
(2023)
Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum – in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, and political ...
Michaelis Pselli Chronographia
(2014)
The new critical edition of Michael Psellos` Chronographia takes into account the entire scholarly work on this text since 1874 in a critical apparatus and a separate text-critical commentary. Compared to previous editions, ...
Suhrkamp und DDR
(2022)
This study examines how West-German publishing processes were influenced by inner-German relations during the partition of Germany, revealing that publications are products of collective and multifactorial processes of ...