"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses ...

Der unter Platons Namen überlieferte Dialog 'Axiochos' beschäftigt sich mit der zeitlosen Frage, ob man vor dem Tod Angst haben muss. Sokrates versucht, seinen sterbenskranken Gesprächspartner Axiochos durch verschiedene ...

Este año de 2014, celebramos y conmemoramos el 200 aniversario de la muerte de Juan Teófilo Fichte, el gran filósofo idealista alemán, discípulo de Kant y genial creador del primer gran sistema filosófico idealista, basado ...

Protektion ist ein Schlüsselbegriff der politisch-sozialen Sprache der europäischen Neuzeit. Der Band rückt die sich wandelnden Semantiken und Praktiken des Schutzes vom 16. bis frühen 20. Jahrhundert erstmals systematisch ...

Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber/Pierre Swiggers Autour des Principes de la linguistique: la correspondance Albert Sechehaye - Hugo Schuchardt (1909-26) Lorenzo Tomasin L'italiano dalla Svizzera. Sul lessico italoromanzo di ...

This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of “apocalypse,” within some key examples in the “Slavic world” during the nineteenth and twentieth century. From Russian realism to avant-garde ...

For biblical authors and readers, law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses ...

With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster survivors lose ground to their White, middleclass-to-affluent and Black ...

This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender ...

Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language ...

Engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation by developing a new methodology of reading for difference in transnational contexts.

This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in phraseology. The author elaborates key terminology and theoretical concepts of phraseology, while challenging some prevailing ...

Religions of foreign origin have shaped Chinese cultural history much stronger than generally assumed and continue to have impact on Chinese society in varying regional degrees. The essays collected in the present volume ...

Vom Deklamationstheater in Alexandrinern zum Lesedrama in Blankversen: die Verdeutschung von Racines Tragödien. Jean Racine (1639-1699) ist der französische Tragödienautor schlechthin. Insbesondere der hohe Stil seiner ...

Begabungs- und Leistungsfrderung als Kernaufgabe in Schulen und im Unterricht verankern: Das ist Ziel von Leistung macht Schul (LemaS). Aus der Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Schulen und daraus resultierenden ...

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of ...

"This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the ‘me too’ era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building opportunities to transform ...

This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu ...

Seit langem wird über die staatliche (Regulierungs-)Verantwortung u.a. hinsichtlich sozialer Netzwerkalgorithmen diskutiert. Doch was, wenn die Netzwerke zur politischen Agitation durch Dritte ausgenutzt werden, indem ...

<p>Sonic Signatures is an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and music-makers who come together to explore how music makes cities. More specifically, they argue that the musical encounter, composed of an array of production and consumption practices, takes on particular and essential meaning at night. Thinking about music as an encounter allows one to appreciate the value and power of migration within the act of music-making.</p> <p>The majority of voices amplified in the book come from so-called “migrants,” understood as someone who was born in one country and currently lives and works in another. Yet, these words, migration, migrant and migrancy, are more expansive than that as they indicate a range of movement, politics and place-making.</p> <p>Contributions from Emilie Amrein, André de Quadros, Nick Dunn, Pol Esteve, Jillian Fulton-Melanson, Jacqueline Georgis, Masimba Hwati, Ailbhe Kenny, Seger Kersbergen, Brendan Kibbee, Áine Mangaoang, Derek Pardue, Nick Prior, Austin T. Richie, Willians Santos, Sipho Sithole, Gibran Teixeira Braga, Katie Young.</p> <p>A great, engaging transdisciplinary contribution to nightlife studies, music and the city.</p>...