Publications
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The Philosophy of Human Rights
(2011-11-17)
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral ...
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
(2012-12-06)
The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept ...
Complex Lexical Units Compounds and Multi-Word Expressions
(2019)
The volume explores compounds and multi-word expressions and their interrelation regarding their status in lexicon and grammar in a variety of European languages, including a contrastive overview with a focus on German. ...
Zerstörung von Geschriebenem Historische und transkulturelle Perspektiven
(2019)
Inscribed artifacts are exposed to a range of practices that damage them. These practices vary dramatically across historical periods and cultural contexts. This book studies a number of representative examples spanning ...
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
(2019)
Almost everyone has used a guidebook, when travelling, or in the armchair at home. But how was the guidebook born? In this book, scholars from various disciplines argue that the guidebook emerged in Rome in the late Middle ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019)
Although Franz Brentano was one of the most influential turn-of-the-century philosophers, he, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, published little but left a large philosophical legacy. This study examines the biographical and ...
Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment Inscribed Objects in Medieval European Literature
(2019)
In the Middle Ages, writing was not confined to manuscripts, but inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. This volume presents the first comparative overview of text-bearing ...
The Works of Li Qingzhao
(2019)
This volume is a translation of the song lyrics, poetry, and prose of Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s), with annotations and an introductory critical essay. Her song lyrics and poetry will be presented in a way to help readers get ...
Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality New Approaches
(2019)
For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies on ...
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 ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia An Introductory Reader
(2019)
In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that ...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
(2019)
The everyday use of texts in the ancient world relates in many ways to contemporary practice. Besides inscribed artifacts, the self-reflection of Greek and Roman authors demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ...
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
(2019)
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The ...
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. ...
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 ...
Holocaust Denial
(2012-09-14)
Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist ...
Fictionalizing heterodoxy Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán
(2019)
The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of ...
Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious
(2012-04-16)
In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant`s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. ...
Schauplatz Archiv Objekt – Narrativ – Performanz
(2019)
While archives have traditionally attracted little publicity, this situation is in flux: things that were hidden away – from precious objects to curiosities – are now being made available not only to scholars but to a ...