Publications
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Dress and Cultural Difference in Early Modern Europe
(2019)
Dress constitutes one of the most obvious and indeed most visual and visible markers of difference. Being very close to the body it becomes part of the daily habitus and an unavoidable means of communication with others. ...
Logik
(2016)
This book presents the long-awaited critical edition of an unpublished manuscript of 277 pages containing Twardowski’s lecture notes on logic given in German at the University of Vienna. As to length, language and topic, ...
Chapter Strangers in a Foreign Language
(2018)
Since the 19th century, art historians frequently faced the challenge of writing for an international audience and thus to translate their own work in another language. The book aims to study the biographical and academic ...
Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface
(2024)
The book explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness in transitive predicates. It provides a first in-depth investigation of how the properties of undergoing change, functioning as a path to ...
Vom Umgang mit nationaler Vielfalt
(2024)
This book explores the practice of non-territorial autonomy, a concept based on collective rights and used to address national diversity within a single state. It examines its strands of development and the processes of ...
Inszenierungen zeitgenössischer Propaganda
(2024)
Fahr nicht betrunken Auto! Halte Dich (nicht) an Corona-Schutzmaßnahmen! – In den Medienöffentlichkeiten demokratischer Gesellschaften finden sich eindringliche audiovisuelle Appelle unterschiedlicher Akteur*innen, die im ...
›satura‹ – Monströses Schreiben in Antike und Aufklärung
(2023)
Under the name satura, this volume examines a "monstrous" text tradition characterized by mixed forms and intertextual hypertrophy. In studies on authors like Lucilius, Varro, Horace, Petronius, Hamann, and Jean Paul, Sina ...
Spectral Flow
(2023)
This is the first treatment entirely dedicated to an analytic study of spectral flow for paths of selfadjoint Fredholm operators, possibly unbounded or understood in a semi finite sense. The importance of spectral flow for ...
Lernwelt Hochschule gestalten
(2024)
Managing universities, especially teaching, is complex. One requirement for success is interplay at all levels – between the ministry, management, lecturers, students, and administration. Grounded in empirical research, ...
Jüdinnen - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
(2022)
In the nineteenth and, in particular, twentieth centuries, literature became a place to negotiate ideas of Jewish femininity, an experimental space in which contemporary discourses were carried out and tried out on and ...
Archiv Bibliographia Judaica – Deutschsprachiges Judentum Online
(2022)
The Bibliographica Judaica Archive in Frankfurt am Main has spent decades gathering the biobibliographical data of about 20,000 German Jewish personalities. This unique data stock is now available on De Gruyter’s ABJ – ...
Intentional Transformative Experiences
(2024)
This edited volume brings together research on religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices that intentionally aim to transform their practitioners. Various analytical tools will be developed to shed new light on ...
Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
(2011)
General Linguistics
Vom Umgang mit nationaler Vielfalt
(2024)
This book explores the practice of non-territorial autonomy, a concept based on collective rights and used to address national diversity within a single state. It examines its strands of development and the processes of ...
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
(2014-06-01)
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no ...
Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
(2014-06-01)
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no ...
Chapter All typologies leak
(2009)
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities ...
Geburt Leben Sterben Tod
(2022)
Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, life, dying, and death. ...
‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat in Istanbul
(2023)
Based on ‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat’s early publications the book discusses what intellectual milieu it was that shaped his worldview in the early 1910s, a worldview that could be designated as a first attempt at “freedom and ...
How Is World Literature Made?
(2021)
The debate over world literature, and the underlying questions of global interconnections in a polycentric world, has recently become very visible. Until now, however, the theoretical discussion has lacked material-based ...
NICHTS NEUES SCHAFFEN
(2018)
This volume addresses interdependencies between the original and the copy while focusing on the latter. Going beyond established imperatives for innovation, the essays in this volume examine artistic repetition and concentrate ...
Der Erste Weltkrieg. Deutschland und Russland im europäischen Kontext
(2023)
The seventh volume of Communications from the German & Russian Historical Committee documents colloquia held in 2013 in Moscow and 2014 in Berlin devoted to the theme, "The First World War: Germany and Russia in a European ...
The Meaning of Media
(2021)
This book addresses various aspects of materiality and mediality in the manuscript culture of Scandinavia represented in epigraphic writing with runes, the introduction of Roman script and the earliest period of print. The ...
Join, or Die – Philosophical Foundations of Federalism
(2016)
Subsidiarity; Europe governance
Die Millstätter Predigten
(2024)
Publication of the Millstatt Sermons opens access to the last yet untapped collection of early German sermons (around 1200). This edition of 72 prototypical German language sermons includes the texts with a critical ...
Exile and Return, The Babylonian Context
(2015)
This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud – a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the ...
Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
(2013)
The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution ...
Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden
(2022)
In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural sciences called supposed ...
Aber die Zeit fürchtet die Pyramiden
(2022)
In Europe, the bible was long used to determine the age of human civilization, supplemented by accounts written by the historians of classical antiquity. The early modern development of the natural sciences called supposed ...
Der Erste Weltkrieg. Deutschland und Russland im europäischen Kontext
(2023)
The seventh volume of Communications from the German & Russian Historical Committee documents colloquia held in 2013 in Moscow and 2014 in Berlin devoted to the theme, "The First World War: Germany and Russia in a European ...
Dimensionen literarischer Mobilität
(2024)
In this volume, renowned authors illustrate four dimensions of literary mobility: literary theory, the literary market, mobility as a motif, and relevant genres (like travel literature).
Das Hirsch-Institut für Tropenmedizin
(2019)
Das Hirsch-Institut für Tropenmedizin (HITM) wurde 2013 als Außenstelle der Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf unter Leitung von Professor Dieter Häussinger ...
Word Knowledge and Word Usage
(2020)
Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a ...
Exile and Return, The Babylonian Context
(2015)
This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud – a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the ...
‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat in Istanbul
(2023)
Based on ‘Abdurra’uf Fitrat’s early publications the book discusses what intellectual milieu it was that shaped his worldview in the early 1910s, a worldview that could be designated as a first attempt at “freedom and ...
Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
(2013)
The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution ...
NICHTS NEUES SCHAFFEN
(2018)
This volume addresses interdependencies between the original and the copy while focusing on the latter. Going beyond established imperatives for innovation, the essays in this volume examine artistic repetition and concentrate ...
Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
(2024)
The first comprehensive edition of the most important medical compendium on gastrointestinal ailments, bile-induced diseases, and fever from ancient Mesopotamia: the Stomach Treatise from Ashurbanipal’s royal library at ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2014)
Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of ...
Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
(2024)
The first comprehensive edition of the most important medical compendium on gastrointestinal ailments, bile-induced diseases, and fever from ancient Mesopotamia: the Stomach Treatise from Ashurbanipal’s royal library at ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2014)
Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of ...
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti
(2015)
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti collects and scrutinizes all the known Latin and bilingual (Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek) grammatical texts on papyrus (1st cent. B.C. - VIth cent. A.D) in order to add further tesserae in the ...
Paragesellschaften
(2021)
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this ...
Thinking and Killing
(2013-10-01)
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 ...
Word Knowledge and Word Usage
(2020)
Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a ...
Geburt Leben Sterben Tod
(2022)
Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, life, dying, and death. ...
Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland”
(2023)
This ambitious study of the proper names of the Chanson de Roland proves that it is more tightly and profoundly structured and considerably richer in depicting reality than generally assumed, and that its prehistory can ...
The Meaning of Media
(2021)
This book addresses various aspects of materiality and mediality in the manuscript culture of Scandinavia represented in epigraphic writing with runes, the introduction of Roman script and the earliest period of print. The ...
Dimensionen literarischer Mobilität
(2024)
In this volume, renowned authors illustrate four dimensions of literary mobility: literary theory, the literary market, mobility as a motif, and relevant genres (like travel literature).
Moral und Moralisierung
(2024)
Scholarly debates about morality necessarily raise the question of what we mean when we speak of morality or even moralization. The chapters in this book respond to these questions from multidisciplinary perspectives, ...
Thinking and Killing
(2013-10-01)
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 ...
Paragesellschaften
(2021)
In political and media debates, questions of societal homogeneity and heterogeneity are discussed using the keyword "parallel societies." The open concept of "parasocieties" in this volume sets itself in opposition to this ...
Join, or Die – Philosophical Foundations of Federalism
(2016)
Subsidiarity; Europe governance
Chapter All typologies leak
(2009)
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities ...
How Is World Literature Made?
(2021)
The debate over world literature, and the underlying questions of global interconnections in a polycentric world, has recently become very visible. Until now, however, the theoretical discussion has lacked material-based ...
Chapter 28 Agreement
(2009)
In many respects the agreement systems of Slavonic languages are close to canonical. Controllers of agreement are often present, they have overt expression of features, and they take consistent agreements. The target has ...
Überlieferungen von Mu, dem Sohn des Himmels
(2024)
The Mu Tianzi Zhuan, which translates as the "Chronicle of [King] Mu, Son-of Heaven," is considered the oldest surviving account of travel in Chinese literary history. It describes the travels undertaken by King Mu in the ...
Personas africanas y afrodescendientes en España ayer y hoy
(2024)
This book deconstructs the supposed "homogeneity" of the Iberian Peninsula in order to redefine this geographical area as a multiracial and multicultural space in continuous reconfiguration through the centuries. It examines ...
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics
(2014)
The volume discusses the notion of space by focusing on the most representative exponents of the Hellenistic schools and explores the role played by spatial concepts in both coeval and later authors who, without specifically ...
GegenRomantik
(2024)
The volume Against/Romanticism deals with Romanticism as a source of controversy. In the name of what ideas and behaviors was Romanticism criticized in the natural sciences and aesthetics, and in political contexts? ...