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Referenz, Quantifikation und ontologische Festlegung
(2005)
Jeder wissenschaftlichen Theorie und jedem alltäglichen Weltbild liegen "ontologische Festlegungen" zugrunde, also Annahmen betreffend die Existenz bestimmter Gegenstände. Manchmal widersprechen implizite Existenzannahmen ...
Regionalismen
(2018)
Regions have played a diverse part in the sovereignty strategies of specific national actors since the early 19th century. Since the end of the Cold War, they have become a preferred frame of reference in responding to ...
Reichenbach’s Paradise. Constructing the Realm of Probabilstic Common “Causes”
(2014)
Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea – known as the common cause principle – that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence ...
Reichszentralbehörden, regionale Behörden und wissenschaftliche Hochschulen für die zehn westdeutschen Länder sowie Berlin
(1991)
This inventory furnishes for the first time the proof of the whereabouts of therecords of central authorities and institutions of National Socialist Germany inall state archives. In part 1 the records of West Germany and ...
Religious Individualisation. Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives
(2020)
This volume brings together key findings of the research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Combining a wide range of disciplinary ...
Recent Developments in Nonlocal Theory
(2018)
This edited volume aims at giving an overview of recent advances in the theory and applications of partial differential equations and energy functionals related to the fractional Laplacian operator as well as to more general ...
Der Schatten des Volkes. Benjamin Constant und die Anfänge liberaler Repräsentationskultur im Frankreich der Restaurationszeit 1814-1830
(2011)
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) war Abgeordneter der Deputiertenkammer und führender Verfassungstheoretiker des französischen Frühliberalismus. Mit seinem strikt basisorientierten Repräsentationskonzept wandte er sich gegen ...
Selbstzeugnisse in der Frühen Neuzeit. Individualisierungsweisen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive
(2007)
Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren frühneuzeitliche Personenkonzepte. Sie nähern sich so einer grundlegenden Kategorie der europäischen Geschichte, der sog. Individualisierung. Seit Jacob Burckhardt wird Individualisierung ...
Semantic Fields in Sign Languages. Colour, Kinship and Quantification
(2016)
This book presents primary data and typological comparisons across sign languages with respect to three semantic fields: kinship terms, colour terms and quantification. Based on a large-scale study of 32 sign languages ...
Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon
(2013)
“Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a ...
Soft Computing. Techniques in Engineering Sciences
(2020)
Soft computing is used where a complex problem is not adequately specified for the use of conventional math and computer techniques. Soft computing has numerous real-world applications in domestic, commercial and industrial ...
Reduction - Abstraction - Analysis. Proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008
(2009)
Philosophers often have tried to either reduce "disagreeable" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But ...
Reduction. Between the Mind and the Brain
(2009)
The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition ...
Relations and Predicates
(2004)
Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the ...
Religion as a philosophical matter. Concerns about truth, name, and habitation
(2016)
The book works out new perspectives for a philosophy of religion that aims beyond the internal questions of rationality within a theological tradition, on the one hand, and the outer criticism of religion from naturalistic ...
Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien / The State, the Law, and Administration in Classical India
(1997)
Trotz seiner Beschränkung auf Recht, Staat und Verwaltung spiegelt der Band etwas von der Vielfalt der gegenwärtigen Forschung zur älteren indischen Geschichte wider. Dem hinduistischen Indien fehlt ja die indigene ...
Recht und Gericht in Kirche und Welt um 900
(2007)
Die spätkarolingische Epoche, die Zeit zwischen ca. 850 und 930, gilt als quellenarme Zeit. Für die Geschichte des kirchlichen und weltlichen Rechts sieht es aber etwas anders aus: Es gibt eine große Anzahl von Handschriften ...
Die Schweiz im KSZE-Prozeß 1972-1983. Einfluß durch Neutralität
(2014)
Switzerland was not content to stay on the sidelines of the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) negotiations. Particularly in the area of human rights policies and by applying its talent for successful ...
Der Schutzauftrag des Rechts. Referate und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Berlin vom 29. September bis 2. Oktober 2010
(2011)
This volume contains essays and discussions from the conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Instructors held September, 29 - October 2, 2010 in Berlin.
Die SED in der Ära Honecker. Machtstrukturen, Entscheidungsmechanismen und Konfliktfelder in der Staatspartei 1971 bis 1989
(2014)
Andreas Malycha analyzes intra-party conflicts and decision-making processes in the inner power circle of East Germany`s SED (Socialist Unity Party). The study focuses on previously undocumented disputes about economic and ...
Snapshot-Based Methods and Algorithms
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert
(1992)
Der Band fragt bezogen auf einen engen Zeitraum, die erste Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, nach dem Publikum der politischen Theorie. Die Fächer der Beiträge sind weit gespannt, die nachweisbare Überlieferung und Herausbildung ...
Reform des deutschen Namensrechts
(2020)
Die Regelungsdichte im deutschen Namensrecht nimmt beständig zu. Anatol Dutta zeigt nicht nur die Ursachen für den Reformbedarf im Namensrecht auf. Er wirft auch einen Blick auf mögliche Grundzüge eines zeitgemäßen ...
ReiseSchreiben. Potsdamer Vorlesungen zur Reiseliteratur
(2020)
The volume systematically presents the genre of travel literature in historical perspective and its broad relevance for contemporary societies. It examines the historical, economic, social, and political backdrops of travel. ...
Schriftträger - Textträger. Zur materialen Präsenz des Geschriebenen in frühen Gesellschaften
(2014)
This volume seeks to explore new interpretive approaches to textual sources from past cultures that emphasize their materiality and praxeology. The focus of inquiry is on the relationship between the text and its material ...
Sense and Reality. Essays out of Swansea
(2009)
This book is a collection of essays each of which discusses the work of one of eight individuals - Rush Rhees, Peter Winch, R. F. Holland, J. R. Jones, H. O. Mounce, D. Z. Phillips, Ilham Dilman and R.W. Beardsmore - who ...
Das Siebenstromland zwischen Bronze- und Früheisenzeit. Eine Regionalstudie
(2016)
The southeastern Land of Seven Rivers (Kazakhstan) – a small region in the Eurasian steppes – shows an enormous concentration of Bronze and early Iron Age archeological monuments, only a small fraction of which have been ...
The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
(2015)
Drawing on the variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental languages, the book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. The vanishing ...
Des Sophokles Antigone
(1843)
Regnum et Imperium. Die französisch-deutschen Beziehungen im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert. Les relations franco-allemandes au XIVe et au XVe siècle
(2008)
In Übertragung machtpolitischer Kategorien der Neuzeit hat die ältere Forschung schon für das Mittelalter Gegensätze und Rivalität zwischen den französischen und deutschen Staatswesen betont. Die Fallstudien dieses Bandes ...
The Reparations Controversy. The Jewish State and German Money in the Shadow of the Holocaust 1951-1952
(2011)
This book about the reparations issue (Wiedergutmachung in German shilumim in Hebrew) brings together selected protocols of all debates held in the Knesset, in its Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, in the Government ...
Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought
(2018)
The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who, on the one hand, were committed to defending Judaism and on the other hand to remaining loyal to philosophical principles. The ...
Shape optimization and spectral theory
(2017)
„Shape optimization and spectral theory” is a survey book aiming to give an overview of recent results in spectral geometry and its links with shape optimization. It covers most of the issues which are important for people ...
Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices. Crossing Views on Theoretical and Applied Sign Language Linguistics
(2013)
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in ...
Soncino – Gesellschaft der Freunde des jüdischen Buches. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte
(2014)
In May 1924, the Soncino Society of the Friends of the Jewish Book was founded in Berlin. Named after the Soncinos, a 15th to 16th century Jewish-Italian family of printers, it was the first society of Jewish bibliophiles, ...
Sowjetische Kommandanturen und deutsche Verwaltung in der SBZ und frühen DDR. Dokumente
(2015)
The SBZ and early East German state were subject to a chaotic set of laws derived from the Soviet occupation, Nazi era, German Bundesländer, and new East German government. This source volume helps create order from the ...
Die sowjetischen Geheimdienste in der SBZ/DDR von 1945 bis 1953
(2009)
After 1945, the Soviet secret services made a significant contribution to the formation of the GDR along Soviet lines. Mass arrests and purges accompanied the activities of the military branches of the NKVD-MVD and MGB. ...
Sprechen und Erzählen beim Stricker. Kommunikative Formate in mittelhochdeutschen Kurzerzählungen
(2018)
This study traces the poetics and narrative style of the Stricker’s epics back to the communicative pragmatics of their time. It analyzes depictions of counselling, dispute, and religious speech using approaches from ...
Sprachwissenschaft im Fokus. Positionsbestimmungen und Perspektiven
(2015)
The contributions of this volume, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Institut für deutsche Sprache, discuss current trends in grammar research and grammaticography, lexicology and lexicography, spoken language research, ...
Sterben dürfen im Krankenhaus. Paradoxien eines ärztlichen Postulats in der Behandlung Schwerstkranker
(2021)
Krankenhäuser sind und bleiben perspektivisch mit 50% aller Todesfälle der häufigste Sterbeort in Deutschland. Und obwohl der Nutzen einer palliativmedizinischer Versorgung im gesamten Behandlungsverlauf wissenschaftlich ...
Substance and Attribute. Western and Islamic Traditions in Dialogue
(2007)
The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical ...
Die Restitution des Ullstein-Verlags (1945-52). Remigration, Ränke, Rückgabe: Der steinige Weg einer Berliner Traditionsfirma
(2020)
After the end of the Second World War, the Ullstein family fought to reclaim the publishing house that they were forced to sell in 1934. But the Americans needed the company’s printing plant in the Tempelhof district of ...
Die Rolle der Geisteswissenschaften im Dritten Reich 1933–1945
(2002)
Die Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften im Dritten Reich hat erst in jüngster Zeit intensivere wissenschaftliche Zuwendung erfahren. Während Exil und Exilanten früh die Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zogen, blieben die Fächer ...
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages. Form and Content
(2020)
In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this ...
Rom und Mailand in der Spätantike. Repräsentationen städtischer Räume in Literatur, Architektur und Kunst
(2011)
The multidisciplinary contributions to this collection of papers look at Rome as the cultural and Milan as the political capital in the 4th and 5th centuries. In the literature of the time both cities were perceived as ...
Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia. Royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond
(2020)
This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, ...
Spanisch in Berlin. Einstellungen zu einer globalen Sprache als lokale Fremdsprache
(2020)
Welche Motivationen stehen hinter dem Wunsch, Spanisch zu lernen? Welche Einstellungen verbinden Lernende mit der Sprache?Das Buch zeigt die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Befragungsstudien mit Lernenden in Berlin an Hochschulen ...
Sportfunktionäre und jüdische Differenz. Zwischen Anerkennung und Antisemitismus – Wien 1918 bis 1938
(2019)
Based on information about more than 600 Viennese Jewish officials, the book examines issues related to the self-characterization and outside characterization of Jews in Vienna. Sports are an important part of urban identity ...
Stammheim. Eine moderne Haftanstalt als Ort der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Staat und RAF
(2016)
From 1974 to 1977, Stammheim was front stage in the confrontation between the state and the Red Army Faction. The terrorists effectively portrayed their conditions of imprisonment in the media as torture by isolation. ...
Stalinismus vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg / Stalinism before the Second World War. Neue Wege der Forschung / New Avenues of Research
(1998)
Der Kolloquiumsband gibt die erste Übersicht über den Forschungsstandzum Vorkriegsstalinismus seit den siebziger Jahren. Er spiegelt sowohldie neuen Erkenntnismöglichkeiten nach der
Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession
(2009)
This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a ...
Strukturmerkmale der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
(2006)
Das Ergebnis der hier versammelten Beiträge mag überraschen: Aus unserer zeitgenössischen Perspektive vom Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts rückt der säkulare Bruch des Jahres 1945 zunehmend in den Hintergrund. Stattdessen wird ...
Successes & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe
(2020)
The book offers though-provoking insights on the performance and effectiveness of EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe by highlighting the key achievement and identifying the main shortcomings. One ...
Riemann-Roch Spaces and Computation
(2015)
The book focuses on the educational perspective of Riemann-Roch spaces and the computation of algebraic structures connected to the Riemann-Roch theorem, which is a useful tool in fields of complex analysis and algebraic ...
The Role of Music in European Integration. Conciliating Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism
(2017)
The volume focuses on music during the process of European integration since the Second World War. Often music in Europe is defined by its relation to the concept of Occidentalism (Musik im Abendland western music). The ...
Spätmittelalterliche Heroldskompendien. Referenzen adeliger Wissenskultur in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Wandels (Frankreich und Burgund, 15. Jahrhundert)
(2011)
Die spätmittelalterlichen Heroldskompendien bieten einen wesentlichen Zugang zur Geschichte des Heroldsamtes wie insgesamt zur adeligen Kultur und Lebenswelt. Neben Traktaten zum Heroldswesen enthalten sie vor allem Texte ...