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Wirklichkeit oder Konstruktion?
(2018)
Do we have true access to reality or are we merely surrounded by our own constructions of reality? This classic question has been taken up again with great urgency in the sciences and by the media. The volume reflects on ...
Kaiser Konstantin als Leser
(2019)
To honor the 20th year of his reign, Emperor Constantine was given what may be the most precious gift of his lifetime: a codex of artistic panegyrics and odes dedicated to him by the poet Optatianus. Optatianus’ poems ...
Nationalism and Populism
(2022)
Right wing populism has become an apparent and expanding phenomenon of the present. Nationalist claims to protect the state against waves of immigration are en vogue. Populists claim to secure national interests and to ...
Imitate Anacreon!
(2014)
Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems ...
Vom Germanenerbe zum Urkommunismus
(2022)
After the end of the World War II, the museums in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) and the GDR were faced with the task of mastering the narrative turn from an ethnic-nationalist conception of prehistory to a Marxist one. ...
Movable Inn
(2018)
The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak ...
Kellers Erzählen
(2022)
Keller not only reinterpreted literary genres like the legend but, with the bildungsroman and the novella, also shaped the forms that psychologically gauge the modern subject. These contributions explore Keller’s texts as ...
Chapter Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns
(2020)
This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that ...
Workplace Spirituality
(2022)
A state-of-the-art overview of the field of management, spirituality and religion, comprising concise chapters written by experts in the sub-fields and edited by recognized leaders in the field of management, spirituality ...
Nach der Diktatur
(2023)
What must be done after the end of a dictatorship so that the suffering of those persecuted comes to an end and history does not repeat itself? Only rarely have long-term studies academically investigated the effects that ...
Deutsch-russische Kulturbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Einflüsse und Wechselwirkungen
(2023)
The sixth volume of the "Communications" of the German-Russian Historical Commission includes papers presented at the 2012 Hamburg Colloquium. Presented bilingually – as always – the fifteen essays by prominent German and ...
Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series
(2019)
The second edition of Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse ...
Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum
(2021)
Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions ...
Elliptische Strukturen in SMS
(2017)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Jewish Life and Culture in Germany after 1945
(2022)
How was the re-emerging Jewish religious practice after 1945 shaped by traditions before the Shoah? To what extent was it influenced by new inspirations through migration and new cultural contacts? By analysing objects ...
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World New Discoveries and Methodologies
(2020)
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them ...
Medienwissenschaften
(2016)
Die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf hat den Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung 2015 an Winfried Schulz verliehen. Das diesjährige Thema lautete ...
Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication
(2016)
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in ...
Terrorizing Images
(2020)
This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways ...
Open Heritage
(2023)
"Open Heritage" is a response to the urgent need for a more open definition of cultural heritage, of the parties involved in protecting and maintaining it, and of the relevant planning processes in order to ensure the ...
Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein
(2019)
The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The ...
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019
(2020)
The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University ...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
(2022)
Should we take the author’s intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no signs of abating. The notion of authorial intent, however, has ...
Play Among Books
(2021)
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form ...
Das römische Spielewesen in der Spätantike
(2014)
Daily life in Late Antiquity was heavily influenced by the tradition of Roman games. This is the first comprehensive study of the world of games in Late Antiquity, with special attention to specific forms of games in the ...
Ostasienwissenschaften
(2017)
The Meyer Struckmann Prize for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, awarded in 2016 for East Asian Studies, was awarded to Professor Dr Florian Coulmas. Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of Language and Culture ...
A Basic Theory of Everything
(2022)
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions ...
Conflicts in Interreligious Education
(2022)
Whenever people from different cultural and religious backgrounds converge, it produces tension and ambivalence. This study delves into conflicts in interreligious educational processes in both theory and practice, presenting ...
The State of Law
(2017)
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single ...
The Nivison Annals
(2018)
In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show ...
Rewriting Maimonides
(2018)
Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed occupy a central but neglected place in the history of Jewish thought. In the first study on the subject, Igor De Souza examines this dynamic tradition in its most creative period. ...
Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung
(2018)
Modern research in linguistics is increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure and information systems. This development began at the turn of the millennium and has since accelerated. The volume examines national and ...
Approaches to the Medieval Self
(2020)
The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of the humanities and social sciences. This book addresses the issue by discussing various modes of studying and defining the self, based ...
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen
(2020)
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as ...
Planar Dynamical Systems
(2014-10-29)
This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, ...
Topics in Complex Analysis
(2023)
Begins with an introduction to the theory of functions of a complex variable, covers complex numbers and their properties, analytic functions and the Cauchy–Riemann equations, the logarithm and other elementary functions ...
Playing American
(2023)
Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world ...
Cultural Perspectives on Aging
(2021)
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors ...
Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
(2021)
The Handbook presents literary fiction works on the Holocaust in three Slavic languages. It contains more than 120 articles including an introduction dealing with Holocaust literature in the broader context. The publication ...
Die Poesie der Dinge
(2021)
Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers ...