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Investigating Understanding
(2024)
With a fresh and innovative perspective, Leonie Kirchhoff introduces an interdisciplinary xamination of literary understanding, drawing upon cognitive, educational, and literary studies. At the heart of the study is a ...
Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?
(2024)
Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events ...
Bestialische Praktiken
(2022)
Sexuelle Praktiken zwischen Menschen und Tieren verursachten in der Frühen Neuzeit Furcht und Entsetzen. Als teuflische Sünde und Verbrechen wider die Natur wurde „Bestialität“ auch im reformierten Zürich mit der Todesstrafe ...
Essays on Marx’s Capital
(2024)
In this book Geert Reuten presents 21 of his previously published essays on the three volumes Marx’s Capital, dating from 1991–2019. The essays largely take the form of a summary of Marx’s text (a Volume or its Parts or ...
The Rhinoceros of South Asia
(2024)
The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new ...
Local Voices, Global Debates
(2024)
What is the role of local Caribbean individuals and communities in creating and perpetuating archaeological heritage? How has archaeological knowledge been integrated into education plans in different countries? This book ...
Reading Capital's Materialist Dialectic
(2024)
While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx’s Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital, after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained insistent, adopting the form of a general ...
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
(2024)
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text ...
Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire
(2024)
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world ...
Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective
(2024)
This book provides a concise and analytical introduction to private international law in Hungary: international jurisdiction of courts, choice of law (applicable law) and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial ...
Locura y trauma en la ficción centroamericana reciente
(2023)
In this book, Marileen La Haije offers a thorough and innovative analysis of the intersections between madness and trauma in recent Central American literature on (post)war. A central argument of her study is that these ...
Global Citizenship Education
(2024)
Global citizenship education is an essential topic in an increasingly interconnected world. Indeed the need for inclusive and globally conscious education, embedded in cosmopolitanism, is recognised as a way to prepare ...
Music in the Writings and Imagination of Silesian Humanists
(2024)
Sound-Worlds of Central Europe explores the sound-world of early modern Silesia via the writings of humanists active there in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who both observed musical culture and actively participated ...
Synagonism: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Art
(2024)
The present volume explores for the first time the concept of synagonism (from “σύν”, “together” and “ἀγών”, "struggle”) for an analysis of the productive exchanges between early modern painting, sculpture, architecture, ...
Himmlische Vorstellung
(2024)
Religiös zu glauben ist nicht nur ein Fürwahrhalten, sondern bedeutet auch existenziell einzutauchen in einen Imaginationskomplex und bisweilen an einer „ästhetischen Maschinerie“ (Kant) zu partizipieren, um so mit dem ...
Transformational Ethics of Film
(2021)
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ...
Hiobs Begegnung
(2024)
Das Theodizeeproblem stellt den Gottesglauben in Frage. Wie ist dieser angesichts des Leidens in der Welt zu rechtfertigen? Jede Antwort auf diese Frage steht in der Gefahr, das Leid zu verharmlosen oder dem Einwand nicht ...
Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics
(2024)
In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a ...
Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī
(2024)
Nahj al-Balāghah, the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1015), is a masterpiece of Arabic literature and Islamic wisdom studied ...
Thauma(u)topoiesis
(2024)
Mithilfe der poetologischen Diskriminierung des Wunderbaren gelingt es der Gattung Roman, sich als kulturelles Leitmedium der anbrechenden Moderne zu konstituieren. Gleichzeitig lässt sich beobachten, dass in Romane immer ...
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala
(2024)
This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the ...
The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
(2004)
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah ...
Autor:innenschaft und/als Arbeit
(2024)
Literarisches Schreiben wird seit der Romantik als Gegenentwurf zur Erwerbsarbeit konzipiert. Allerdings muss auch das literarische Werk entworfen, geschrieben, verlegt, vertrieben und gelesen werden. Die Beiträge des ...
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900
(2024)
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied ...
Moses among the Moderns
(2024)
A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of religious controversy, ...
Eskapade und Beherrschung
(2024)
Die Studie untersucht, wie in deutschen Kolonialromanen mittels Abenteuernarrationen Krisenerfahrungen der Jahrhundertwende verhandelt werden. Das Abenteuer als um 1900 gleichermaßen tradiertes wie problematisiertes Erzähl- ...
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“
(2024)
„Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten“ – so verwies Walter Benjamin bereits 1940 auf die Relevanz von Visualität für die Darstellung von Geschichte. Benjamin hat damit vorweggenommen, was sich in der Folge ...
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java
(2014)
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, ...
The Old-Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin
(1955)
Indonesia
The Flamingo Bay Dialect of the Asmat Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law
(2011)
The goal of this book is to minimize the misunderstandings and conflicts between International law and Islamic law. The objective is to bring peace into justice and justice into peace for the prevention of violations of ...
Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-Nan Culture
(1982)
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Y
Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
(2012)
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency ...
Bima Swarga in Balinese Wayang
(1981)
The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story ...
From Laṅkā Eastwards; The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature
(2011)
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through ...
Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
(1975)
Indonesia
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
(2010)
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer ...
Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands. Minor Collections.
(2012)
From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish ...