Publications
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Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy
(2022)
Moses Dobruska, born as a Jew in Brno, Moravia in 1753, died on the guillotine in Paris in 1794. His life was adventurous, but the biography is not enough to understand the creative force of this atypical intellectual. ...
Sylvester of Antioch
(2024)
This is the first English monograph on Patriarch Sylvester of the Church of Antioch (1724–1766), based on extensive Greek, Arabic and Romanian sources, many unknown before. Sylvester faced various challenges stemming from ...
Exhibiting Abstraction
(2025)
The time around 1910 has entered art history as the moment when «abstraction was invented». However, where and when works of non-figurative art became present in the public eye has been afforded little attention to date. ...
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 ...
Paracelsus
(2021)
At the center of Schnitzler's one-act verse drama Paracelsus, written between 1894 and 1898 and set in sixteenth-century Basel, is a hypnosis experiment that blurs the boundaries between dream and reality. This historical ...
Fragile Spaces
(2018)
This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating ...
Historische Fach- und Wissenschaftstexte kontrastiv
(2025)
This volume discusses the insights gained from the international Humboldt Colloquium “Comparing Historical Specialist and Scientific Texts,” which took place in collaboration with the universities of Warsaw, Rzeszów, ...
El queísmo en la historia
(2022)
The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis ...
Medieval Art, Modern Politics
(2024)
This innovative volume of twelve essays by international scholars examines the political uses and misuses of medieval images, objects, and sites in modern times (16th to 20th centuries). In case studies that range from ...