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Die Raumzeitlichkeit der Muße
(2016-08-26)
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das Phänomen der Muße in seiner Räumlichkeit und in seinem Verhältnis zur Zeit. Die Untersuchungen widmen sich philosophischer Reflexion sowie literatur- und kunsthistorischer Betrachtung, ...
Der Abschreckungseffekt auf die Grundrechtsausübung
(2017-12-12)
Julian Staben examines chilling effects, framed as deterrence-based lines of argument, in the jurisprudence of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) and compares them with the jurisprudence of ...
Strangers in a Strange Land
(2012-06-01)
In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
(2018-01-02)
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary ...
Monumental Matters
(2011-09-07)
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, ...
All in the Family
(2012-06-04)
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is ...
First Words
(2015-12-22)
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever ...
Ägyptische Erzählungen oder Über die Vorsehung
(2012-10-09)
Die "Ägyptischen Erzählungen" des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n. Chr.) entwerfen in Form einer Allegorie, die den Osiris-Mythos mit neuplatonischen Elementen erzählt, ein lebendiges Bild der Erlebnisse, die der Autor ...
Language and Culture in Eighteenth Century Russia
(2009-06-01)
Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a ...