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Imaginando el fin de los tiempos
(2024)
Providing an overview of the symbolism of different civilisational collapsing experiences, the book explores the complexity of the Mexican cultural context and analyses the different ways in which narratives of the end of ...
Tradition und Diskurs
(2023)
References to "Islamic tradition" are omnipresent in the general public sphere and in scholarship. However, there has not been much consideration of what actually constitutes Islamic tradition. This volume attempts to ...
Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval
(2015)
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 ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Poetologie und Geschichte literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit
(2024)
The study is the first to comprehensively examine the significance of literary multilingualism in German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In analyzes of works by Franz Kafka, Dada, Mascha Kaléko, Paul ...
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide
(2017)
Papuan Languages; Linguistic Typology; Language Contact
Eine Geschichte mit Geschmack
(2023)
It is difficult to imagine food today without flavorings, whether natural, synthetic, or artificial. But at the same time, they are substances that society is viewing increasingly critically and whose chemical and industrial ...
Changing Seasonality
(2024)
How are communities worldwide experiencing changes to their seasons? Through 35 real-world accounts of seasonal change by researchers and practitioners, this anthology gives pause to critically rethink what seasons mean. ...
Changing Seasonality
(2024)
How are communities worldwide experiencing changes to their seasons? Through 35 real-world accounts of seasonal change by researchers and practitioners, this anthology gives pause to critically rethink what seasons mean. ...
Humanidades Digitales
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
Comprehending Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
(2021)
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
Comprehending Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
(2021)
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
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 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Gesellschaft
(2023)
Artificial intelligence exceeds the capabilities of humans in many ways. Now, if AI surpasses the achievements of human intelligence, where and why will humans remain irreplaceable in how we will live, shape our society, ...
Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval
(2015)
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 ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Proceedings of the International Conference Sensory Motor Concepts in Language & Cognition
(2016)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren
(2017)
We can make our pain more bearable through our will. But how and where does my self (my mind) affect my body? In this books, medical doctors, neurophysiologists, physicists, and psychologists show that the dualism of body ...
Plurale Autorschaft
(2023)
The contributions in this volume examine the aesthetics of plural authorship from the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of literary studies, art history, and musicology. The volume aims to analyze plural ...
Chapter Lost and found in translation
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Humanidades Digitales
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
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 ...
Dialogues between Media
(2021)
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. ...
COMPANY
(2019-11)
The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise.
In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search ...
Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible
(2021)
This volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel. Experts across this body of literature come together ...
Infrastructures of Freedom
(2023)
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions ...
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
(2022)
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its relevance today. The volume ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Prosa
(2021)
“Prose” refers to a largely free mode of speaking and writing that is not tethered to any normative form, and which permits a wide range of composition styles due to the openness of its content and form. In 18 chapters, ...
Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania
(2023)
The book documents the collective memories of German colonialism in Tanzania Mainland which formed part of the former Germany East Africa. It argues that German colonialism which ended with the First World War left cultural ...
Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci
(2023)
This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libro del disegno, Memoriale) and analyses them in their historical and artistic ...
Sprache und Kognition
(2018)
Is our thinking and thus the worldview the same or language-specific for all people? This book is an unequivocal answer to this age-old question, which was already pursued by Wilhelm von Humboldt: Our worldview is characterized ...
Dialogues between Media
(2021)
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. ...
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
(2018)
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
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 ...
Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Gesellschaft
(2023)
Artificial intelligence exceeds the capabilities of humans in many ways. Now, if AI surpasses the achievements of human intelligence, where and why will humans remain irreplaceable in how we will live, shape our society, ...
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
(2019)
Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de ...
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
(2024)
Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS. This translation ...
Barlaam und Josaphat: Neue Perspektiven auf ein europäisches Phänomen
(2015)
Barlaam and Josaphat; Hagiography; Theologians
Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume analyze return movements from an interdisciplinary perspective and embrace a wide range of case studies and methodological issues of circulation migration in the 20th century in Europe. ...
Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. ...
Die Geschichte der Leipziger Buchmesse in der DDR
(2024)
This history of the Leipzig Book Fair examines the socialist showcase, the motor of the centrally planned book trade, censorship, and Stasi surveillance, but also the theft of books from Western publishers. It shows how ...
Das Mittelmeer und die deutsche Literatur der Vormoderne
(2023)
Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by diverse traditions. German-speaking actors influenced these transcultural entanglements: as rulers, traders, ...
Das Mittelmeer und die deutsche Literatur der Vormoderne
(2023)
Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by diverse traditions. German-speaking actors influenced these transcultural entanglements: as rulers, traders, ...
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
(2018)
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History
(2023)
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives on the complexity of the work-life course nexus across the globe and throughout the centuries, reaching from the early modern period to the present day, and from ...
Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History
(2023)
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives on the complexity of the work-life course nexus across the globe and throughout the centuries, reaching from the early modern period to the present day, and from ...
Virtual Museums – A Plea
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
(2022)
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its relevance today. The volume ...
Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania
(2023)
The book documents the collective memories of German colonialism in Tanzania Mainland which formed part of the former Germany East Africa. It argues that German colonialism which ended with the First World War left cultural ...
Papierherstellung im deutschen Südwesten
(2018)
The series Material Text Culturess the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. ...
Sprache und Kognition
(2018)
Is our thinking and thus the worldview the same or language-specific for all people? This book is an unequivocal answer to this age-old question, which was already pursued by Wilhelm von Humboldt: Our worldview is characterized ...
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide
(2012)
General Linguistics; Indigenous Languages of South America
COMPANY
(2019-11)
The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise.
In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Interformation und epistemische Transformation
(2024)
This volume establishes theoretical and methodological principles on the relationship between literature and science. It combines approaches from the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and the philosophy of science, ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible
(2021)
This volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel. Experts across this body of literature come together ...
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 ...