Brill feb 2014 (50 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A quarter of a century ago His Royal Highness Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926-2002) formulated his statements on 'development and equity'. To honour him and his work, a professorial chair in 'development and equity' was established in 2003: the 'Prince Claus Chair'. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Chair, a conference was held in The Hague in November 2012. Each of the ten chair holders presented a paper written from his/her own perspective. These papers have been brought together in this book and show the diversity and richness of the theme. The volume also includes three essays by the promising young scholars who were judged to be the top three in a competition for the best Master's thesis in 'development, equity and citizenship'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17th century and the role played by philosophical anthropology in the 18th century. Divided into three parts, '1. The Dispute between Metaphysics and Empiricism', '2. Arts of Empirical Research,' and '3. Relevance of Case Studies,' the volume questions the position of medicine within so-called 'natural philosophy', which encompasses physiology and anatomy, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry. One of its aims is to understand the tension between the goals pursued by the 'natural philosopher' and the objectives set by the 'physician'. Within natural philosophy, the primary goal is to know nature, the body and the living, and this knowledge implies an effort to understand the causes of natural phenomena. For the physician, on the other hand, the primary goal is to cure the patients' bodies that are presented to him. Contributors include: Claire Crignon, Claire Etchegaray, Guido Giglioni, Domenico Berto Meli, Anne-Lise Rey, Yvonne Wübben, and Carsten Zelle. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Morality is often defined in opposition to the natural 'instincts,' or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behavior, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian position that moral behavior is continuous with the social behavior of animals, and most likely evolved to enhance the cooperativeness of society. In this view, morality is part of human nature rather than its opposite. This interdisciplinary volume debates the origin and working of human morality within the context of science as well as religion and philosophy. Experts from widely different backgrounds speculate how morality may have evolved, how it develops in the child, and what science can tell us about its working and origin. They also discuss how to deal with the age-old facts-versus-values debate, also known as the naturalistic fallacy. The implications of this exchange are enormous, as they may transform cherished views on if and why we are the only moral species. These articles are also published in Behaviour, Volume 151, Nos. 2/3 (February 2014). Suitable for course adoption.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.This Part 2014-1 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 56 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Greek Article, Ronald D. Peters presents a grammar of the Greek article and relative pronoun, categorized as ?-items, which was formulated using the principles of Systemic-Functional Linguistics. This categorization stands in contrast to previous grammars, which have categorically associated the article with the demonstrative pronoun. Thus, the present work represents a significant paradigm shift in the study of the Greek article.Unlike previous approaches that have too often yielded internally inconsistent and contradictory rules of usage, this approach results in a description of the article's function that is uniform across all occurrences. Simultaneously simple and robust, this grammar promises to pay significant dividends for exegetes and translators of the Greek New Testament. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the present day. All other Mandaeans, numbering several tens of thousands, are Arabic or Persian speakers. The present study concerns the least known aspect of the language, namely its lexicon as reflected in both its dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Apart from lexicological and etymological studies in Neo-Mandaic itself, the book discusses the contribution of the Neo-Mandaic lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What is the use of a Targum in a cultural setting where Aramaic is not a common language anymore And why would Christians be interested in a typically Jewish text in an otherwise anti-Jewish milieu These and related questions have served as guides for Alberdina Houtman, Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman and Hans-Martin Kirn in bringing together the articles for the present book, which consists of three parts: 1. Uses and Functions of Targum in Europe; 2. Editing Targums and their Latin Translations; 3. Targums and Christianity. A number of the articles deal with the codicological and paratextual aspects of the relevant manuscripts and editions as witnesses of their cultural historical situations. The intended readership includes specialists in Targum, Jewish and medieval studies, (church) historians, codicologists and (Christian) theologians.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural and intellectual history of science and technology in modern China.From anti-imperialism to the technology of Chinese writing, the commodification of novelties to the rise of the modern professional scientist, new lexica and appropriations of the past, the contributors map out a transregional and global circuitry of modern knowledge and practical know-how, nationalism and the amalgamation of new social practices.Contributors include: Iwo Amelung, Fa-ti Fan, Shen Guowei, Danian Hu, Joachim Kurtz, Eugenia Lean, Thomas S. Mullaney, Hugh Shapiro, Grace Shen, and Jing Tsu.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature presents in English translation a number of essays written by the Chinese literary scholar and novelist Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998). One of the great minds of the twentieth century, Qian, with his characteristic erudition and wit, addresses here aspects of the classical literary and artistic traditions of China. Better known, as a scholar, for his magisterial Limited Views: Essays on Ideas & Letters (Guanzhui bian) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged (Weicheng) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian's abiding concern with 'striking connections' between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western.Dr. Duncan Campbell was awarded the China Book Award for Special Contributions at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair. Dr. Campbell received this award for his translation of this volume.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from the first Sino-Japanese War to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing examples from various genres, this interdisciplinary volume presents nine empirically grounded case studies on the growth in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts, which lay behind a dramatic expansion of knowledge. The chapters collectively address the co-existence of globalization and localization processes in the period. By taking into account intra-Asian cultural encounters and tracing the multiple competing forces encountered by many, this book offers a fresh and compelling take on how individuals and social groups participated in transnational conceptual flows.Contributors include: Paul Bailey, Che-chia Chang, Elizabeth Emrich, Tze-ki Hon, Max K.W. Huang, Mei-e Huang, Mike Shi-chi Lan, Pei-yin Lin, and Weipin Tsai.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume, edited by Tiziana Andina, tackles some of the most compelling questions addressed in contemporary philosophy. Covering areas so diverse as metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, political philosophy, philosophy of art, epistemology and philosophy of mind, this book maps the past fifty years of philosophical reflection, Bridging the Analytical Continental Divide. Not only will the reader get to know philosophy's most interesting and promising developments, but she will also be immersed in human thought in a broader sense, as the book explores both our ability to explore the world and ask questions and our capability to organize societies, create art and give humankind an ethical and a political dimension.Contributors include: Tiziana Andina, Annalisa Amoretti, Luca Angelone, Alessandro Arbo, Carola Barbero, Andrea Borghini, Francesco Berto, Chiara Cappelletto, Stefano Caputo, Elena Casetta, Annalisa Coliva, Francesca De Vecchi, Maurizio Ferraris, Valeria Ottonelli, Andrea Pedeferri, Daniela Tagliafico, Italo Testa, Giuliano Torrengo, Vera Tripodi. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film. Did self-realization in the Chinese modern follow the law of Social Darwinism: the biggest ego always won out Is individualism always self-regarding, never other-regarding How did the Greater I evolve out of the Lesser I socially and ethically Confronting these questions, the author navigates through the terrains of paraphrastic translation, Buddhist nonself, lyrical epiphany, redemptive memory and ethnic orality to map out an alternative path for the growth of a modern Chinese self.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The importance of straits, particularly those used in international navigation, has been long recognized in international law. One of the important debates during the Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference concerned the regime of passage through straits used in international navigation. The result was the creation of a multi-tiered legal framework of passage that included the entirely a new 'transit passage' regime. Although over thirty years have passed since the adoption of the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, the vital role played by straits in the global communications network continues to be surrounded by conflicts between the interests of coastal states and shipping. Challenges still exist to achieving the simultaneous global goals of secure passage of vessels and protection of the marine environment. In Navigating Straits: Challenges for International Law, internationally recognized international law scholars provide in-depth analysis of the legal challenges in straits concerning security, piracy, safety and environmental protection. All readers interested in international and law of the sea will find this seminal volume of interest.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The present volume is devoted to the theme of 'Divine Father' in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian tradition and in its ancient pagan contexts. It brings together proceedings of a conference under the same title, held in Göttingen in September 2011. Selected articles by well-known scholars focus on religious and philosophical concepts of divine parenthood in antiquity, from the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism (the Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums, Philo and Josephus) to the field of the New Testament. In addition, the volume deals with the designation of deity as 'father' or 'mother' from the broad spectrum of ancient Egypt and classical antiquity (Homer, Hesiod, Plato, and its reception) to late antiquity (Plotinus and Porphyry).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In EU Peacebuilding in Kosovo and Afghanistan: Legality and Accountability Martina Spernbauer offers a comprehensive account of the EU's peacebuilding toolbox in light of the Union's constitutional architecture under the Treaty of Lisbon. A detailed analysis of EU peacebuilding in Kosovo and Afghanistan, with a focus on the security and justice sectors, demonstrates that the Union's continuous dichotomy between the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and other Union policies is difficult to maintain for this multi-faceted, comprehensive policy framework, which lies at the interface of security, justice and development. Within this analysis, the central questions of compliance of EU external action with international law and international human rights law in particular under CFSP, as well as accountability towards third countries and their nationals are addressed.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the comedia and the classics demonstrates this genre's firm grounding in the classical tradition, despite Lope de Vega's famous protestations to the contrary. Distinct but related genres such as the autos sacramentales and the entremeses also make an appearance. The traditional themes of honor and wife-murder share the stage with less familiar topics like the incorporation of animals into performance. This volume covers the urban space of the city in Spain and Portugal as well as uncharted territories in the New World and Japan. Essays on emblems and the picaresque round out this anthology, along with studies of theatrical representations of early modern innovations in science and technology. The book concludes with two different psychoanalytical approaches, focused on melancholy and Lacanian tragedy, respectively. This collection incorporates the work of younger scholars along with established names in the field to synthesize the most exciting recent work on the comedia and related forms of early modern Hispanic theatrical production.Contributors include: Ignacio Arellano, Frederick de Armas, Henry Sullivan, Edward Friedman, A. Robert Lauer, Manuel Delgado, Adrienne Martín, Enrique García Santo Tomás, Matthew Stroud, Teresa Scott Soufas, Enrique Fernández, María Mercedes Carrión, Robert Bayliss, Ted Bergman, Cory Reed, Maryrica Lottman, Christina Lee, and Enrique Duarte.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Marxism and Religion leading Chinese scholars unfold before our eyes theoretical explorations of religion in present-day China. In addition, they along with senior cadres superintending religious affairs strenuously explain why the Marxist view of religion still has relevance to living religions in a country undergoing deep changes unleashed by the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up policies.Mistakenly perceived by so many westerners as outdated and dogmatic quasi-scholarly work in the service of communist regime's propaganda, studies selected here are brainchildren of a group of creative and reform-minded scholars and cadres who endeavor to uphold Marxist traditions while innovatively sinicizing them, hoping that their efforts will contribute to the ruling party's ideological reconstruction.Contributors include: Fang Litian, Gao Shining, Gong Xuezeng, He Qimin, Jin Ze, Li Xiangping, Lü Daji, Wang Xiaochao, Wang Zuo'an, Ye Xiaowen, Zhu Xiaoming, and Zhuo Xinping.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book celebrates Kamal Hossain's lifelong and significant contribution to the development of international law and the cause of developing countries. It brings together an interview with Hossain by the editors, and thirteen essays written in his honour by scholars representing a wide spectrum of expertise in international law. The interview provides an introduction to the rich and varied life of a statesman, a drafter of his country's constitution, and an acclaimed constitutional and international lawyer. The subjects covered in the essays include the new international economic order (NIEO), human rights, counter-terrorism, climate change, oil and gas law, arbitration, law of the sea, international trade law and judicial reform. These essays offer important perspectives on the issues addressed.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This study provides a critical edition of chapters nine and ten of Mu?i? al-tavarikh (The Sea of Chronicles) by Mu?ammad Amin b. Mirza Mu?ammad Zaman Bukhari (?ufiyani). Mu?i? al-tavarikh is a valuable source for the study of late seventeenth-century Central Asian history, historiography, and language. The present work represents the first critical edition of a primary source of Sub?an Quli Khan's reign. The ninth chapter (bab) offers accounts of the Timurid kings, Abulkhayrid/Shaybanid and the first four Ashtarkhanid/Janid khans. The tenth chapter presents a detailed account of the life and times of 'the last great' Ashtarkhanid/Janid khan, Sub?an Quli Bahadur (1682-1702), revealing historical information essential for scholars of the period and region.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains a detailed grammatical description of Jibbali (or Shahri), an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with seventy texts. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of Jibbali, and the first collection of texts published in over a hundred years. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts include those collected by the late T. M. Johnstone (newly edited and translated), as well as new texts collected by the author, while the grammar is based both on the texts and on original fieldwork. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - International Maritime Security Law by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo defines an emerging interdisciplinary field of law and policy comprised of norms, legal regimes, and rules to address today's hybrid threats to the global order of the oceans. Worldwide shipping commerce, fishing fleets, pleasure craft, and coastal states are exposed to the menace of offshore terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, piracy, smuggling, robbery, marine insurgency and anti-access threats. Land-based institutions and maritime constabulary forces operate within an increasingly integrated network that blends elements of humanitarian law, human rights law, criminal law, and law of the sea, with inspection regimes, commercial enterprise, and marine safety and environmental stewardship. The new authorities fuse together a global maritime partnership among states, international organizations and commercial interests to protect the maritime commons from the most dangerous risks and hazards.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Silvio Vietta stellt erstmals die europäische Literatur von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in die Zusammenhänge einer Funktionsgeschichte, die quer zur Epochen- und Gattungsgeschichte sowie zu den Nationalphilologien liegt. Sie präsentiert die europäische Literatur in ihren epochal- wie gattungstypisch gebrochenen Funktionen als Einheit.Die Kulturrevolution der Rationalität eröffnet der Literatur innerhalb der europäischen Kulturgeschichte in der Antike neue Spielräume. Mit der Erfindung von Philosophie und Wissenschaft tritt die Literatur in ein postmythisches Zeitalter der Aufklärung ein - in kritischer Opposition zu den Einseitigkeiten der Rationalitätskultur. Kritisch spiegelt sie seit dem antiken Drama die Gender-Zuschreibungen des 'logoshaft'-Männlichen gegenüber dem 'irrational'-Weiblichen. Die europäische Poetik und Ästhetik definiert Literatur als bevorzugtes Ausdrucksmedium der von der Rationalität abgewerteten Emotionalität, Sinnlichkeit und Fantasie. Vor allem seit dem Spätmittelalter prägt auch die visionär-utopische Funktion jüdisch-christlicher Abkunft die große europäische Dichtung. Der moderne Roman schließt an die kritische Aufklärungsfunktion des antiken Dramas im nun bürgerlichen Zeitalter an. Reflexive Funktionen übernehmen seit Barock und Aufklärung vor allem philosophisch-literarische und auch sprachreflexive Texte.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seit im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Emanzipationsgesetzgebung die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dazu geschaffen worden waren, wurden die Juden immer stärker zu einem aktiven Teil des politischen Systems in Deutschland.Das Buch zeigt, wie die Veränderungen eine solche Teilnahme ermöglichten, wie Juden und Jüdinnen diese nutzten und wie sie sich politisch organisierten. Zugleich wird deutlich, dass sich der entstehende moderne Antisemitismus gerade gegen das politische Engagement von Juden richtete - bis hin zum Nationalsozialismus, der vor der physischen Vernichtung der Juden ihre politischen Handlungsmöglichkeiten radikal beschnitt. In der deutschen Nachkriegsgesellschaft spielten die überlebenden Juden erneut eine politische Rolle, und unsere multiethnische und -religiöse Gegenwartskultur wirft auf neue Weise die Frage nach den Chancen und Grenzen jüdischer Politik auf.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Umweltgeschichte verbindet! Wie kaum eine andere Teildisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaft bietet sie die Chance zu interdisziplinären und diachronen Perspektiven. Der Blick in die Geschichte der Wirkungsketten zwischen Mensch und Umwelt kann zukunftsweisend wirken und Lösungsansätze für gegenwärtige Probleme aufzeigen. Daher sind umweltgeschichtliche Themenfelder von gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und sollten nicht nur in Fachkreisen diskutiert werden, sondern auch in den Bildungseinrichtungen außerhalb der Universität, in Museum und Schule Eingang finden. Die Beiträge in diesem Band widmen sich diesem Anliegen und beleuchten Umweltabhängigkeiten, Umweltgestaltung und Umweltbildung aus der Perspektive von universitärer Forschung sowie museologischer Dokumentation und Didaktik.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Privatheit ist Kernelement eines humanen Lebens und als unveräußerliches Menschenrecht Voraussetzung kommunikativer Freiheitsrechte. Dies drückten schon antike und biblische Autoren in ihren Texten aus. Die gegenwärtige Bedrohung durch Big Data scheint Privatheit als humanes und Rechtsgut weitgehend auszuhöhlen, informationelle Selbstbestimmung wird ausgehebelt. Das Buch geht der historischen Entwicklung von Privatheit, ihrer Thematisierung in alten Texten, ihrer Konkretisierung in Gestalt des geschützten Hauses und Gartens sowie ihren wachsenden Bedrohungen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert und heute im digitalen Zeitalter kritisch nach. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Optionen Zivilgesellschaft und Gesetzgeber haben, um Privatheit in ihrer Kernfunktion zu schützen. Das Buch leuchtet das Thema umfassend kultur- und rechtsgeschichtlich sowie juristisch aus und stellt ein Referenzwerk dar.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Günther Buck (1925-1983) kann als stillschweigend anerkannter Klassiker der philosophisch orientierten Pädagogik des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet werden.Die Rezeption seines Werkes konzentriert sich bislang auf ausgewählte Aspekte und Schriften und schlug sich auch nicht in den Monographien, Sammelbänden oder Aufsätzen nieder, die für gewöhnlich den Status eines Klassikers anzeigen. Anerkannt ist Buck dennoch, denn seine Leistungen für die Lern- und Bildungstheorie gelten als unbestritten. Auf seine Werke wird noch in aktuellen Veröffentlichungen verwiesen obwohl sie zumeist nur schwer erhältlich sind. Trotz vierzig Jahren kontinuierlichen Interesses am Werk Günther Bucks stehen dessen Aufarbeitung, produktive Weiterentwicklung und grundsätzliche Kritik sowie wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Verortung bis dato noch aus. Dieser Band macht nun den Anfang.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Blaise Pascal zeigte, dass Wissenschaft und Religion miteinander verbunden sind, weil sich in beiden eine je spezifische Dimension des menschlichen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses entfaltet. Dieses hat sein Fundament im Herzen, dem personalen Zentrum des Menschen. Nach dem französichen Mathematiker und Philosophen ist die Vernunft nicht eine Domäne der Wissenschaft allein, denn sie bleibt eingebettet in eine grundlegendere Weltbeziehung des Menschen. Mit dem Herzen erkennt er sein Eingebundensein in den Gesamtzusammenhang der Wirklichkeit und berührt damit auch die religiöse Frage nach Grund und Ziel seines Daseins. Herzens- und Vernunfterkenntnis verweisen wechselseitig aufeinander und sie entfalten sich beide in unterschiedlichen Systemen: Wissenschaft und Religion. Unter Bezugnahme auf die philosophische Anerkennungstheorie (Axel Honneth, Paul Ricoeur) zeigt Markus Knapp, dass die Einsicht Pascals auch heute aktuell und wichtig bleibt. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - August 1991: Panzer auf Moskaus Straßen, Ausnahmezustand, der sowjetische Staatspräsident unter Hausarrest. Der Putsch am 19. August markiert das Ende der Ära Gorbatschow und den von da an nicht mehr aufzuhaltenden Untergang der Weltmacht Sowjetunion. Diese Zäsur in der russischen Nachkriegsgeschichte konnte mangels solider Quellen bisher nicht verlässlich und umfassend untersucht werden. Das Buch von Ignaz Lozo schließt diese Lücke. Der Russlandexperte und ehemalige Moskau-Berichterstatter hat zahlreiche Dokumente ausgewertet, die in Russland offiziell als Staatsgeheimnisse deklariert sind, und mehr als 30 Zeitzeugen befragt, darunter ehemalige Putschisten und Michail Gorbatschow selbst. War der sowjetische Präsident, wie oft behauptet, selbst einer der Verschwörer oder zumindest stiller Mitwisser Lozos spannend geschriebenes Buch, das in Kürze auch als Übersetzung in Russland erscheint, legt die Hintergründe des Putsches dar, erläutert die Ursachen für sein Scheitern, zeigt die politischen Folgen auf und fragt nach Gorbatschows politischer Mitverantwortung. Ein historisch-politisches 'Aufklärungsbuch' im besten Sinne!; Dissertationsschrift.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Vor gut zwei Jahrzehnten schien es schlecht um die Fotografie bestellt zu sein. Von ihrem Ende war die Rede, ja sogar von ihrem Tod. Heute jedoch sind fotografische Bilder so präsent wie noch nie zuvor. Denn mit ihrem Eintritt in ein digitales Zeitalter hat sich die Gegenwart des Fotografischen auf bemerkenswerte Weise ausgedehnt und intensiviert.In seiner grundlegenden Studie nimmt Steffen Siegel Kontinuitäten wie Brüche zwischen analogen und digitalen Belichtungen in den Blick. Anhand künstlerischer Fotografien aus den zurückliegenden vierzig Jahren werden hierbei zentrale Fragen einer Ästhetik dieses Bildmediums diskutiert.Kritisch betrachtet werden international prominente Positionen der jüngeren Fotogeschichte, unter ihnen Jeff Wall und Andreas Gursky, Ugo Mulas und Duane Michals, Timm Rautert und Thomas Struth. Vorgestellt und erstmals eingehend untersucht werden außerdem jüngst entstandene fotografische Werke, unter anderem von Philipp Goldbach und Adrian Sauer, Idris Khan und Sebastian Stumpf, Shizuka Yokomizo und Frank Höhle.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der vorliegende Band fragt nach dem Begriff der »Bühne« als Übergangszone par excellence, ihrer experimentellen Entgrenzung, Umformulierung bzw. ihres möglichen Verschwindens in der Gegenwart medialer Figurationen.Historisch betrachtet wird die Bühne des Theaters im 18. Jahrhundert zunächst als Bild/Tableau definiert und erst in den Avantgardebewegungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts als Raum entdeckt und begriffen. Zwar bilden Bild und Raum dabei ein Gegensatzpaar, die Vorstellung des Raums als Container allerdings bleibt davon unberührt. Die Bühne bleibt der Alternative von Nacheinander und Nebeneinander unterstellt und wird bis heute fast ausschließlich unter dem Aspekt der Zwei- oder Dreidimensionalität diskutiert. Demgegenüber beleuchtet der Band, welche Kategorien von Bühne zeitgenössische Theater- und Tanzperformances nahe legen.…