Brill feb 2017 (44 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this work, Christopher Chen examines and compares the regulation of over-the-counter derivatives in Hong Kong and Singapore, the two largest international financial centres in Asia Pacific. Chen analyses current or proposed regulations on trade reporting, centralised clearing and mandatory exchange trading mandates regarding OTC derivatives against the backdrop of reforms of international financial regulatory structure after the global financial crisis. The article also relates the reforms in Asia to development in major Western markets such as the US, the UK or the European Union. Apart from technical comparison and dissecting of content of rules from different angles, his work also examines the rationale behind those reforms and policy concerns behind Asian adoption of the regulatory mandates prescribed by G20 as well as potential policy concerns (such as competition and extraterritoriality) in a market that is dominated by Western banks. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints on tense choice within narrative discourse in Peruvian Spanish. Henderson argues for a theory based on Langacker's 'sequential scanning' in Chilean and Uruguayan Spanish. Delmas looks at 'Ua in Tahitian, a polysemic particle with a range of aspectual and modal meanings. Bourdin addresses the expression of anteriority with just in English. Yerastov examines the distribution of the transitive be Perfect in Canadian English. Fryd offers a panchronic study of have-less perfect constructions in English. Eide investigates counterfactual present perfects in Mainland Scandinavian dialects.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last decades have witnessed a growing emphasis on the relationship between environmental law and criminal law. Legislation aimed at tackling environmental crime has been adopted at national, EU, and international level and has been gradually evolving over time. These developments notwithstanding, the current legal framework faces a number of challenges in tackling the largely inter-related phenomena of transnational, organised and economic environmental crime. This study by Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida addresses these challenges by focusing on the role of the European Union- and more specifically its criminal justice agencies (Europol and Eurojust)- in tackling transnational environmental crime. The study analyses the role of Eurojust and Europol in supporting and coordinating the competent national authorities dealing with investigations and/or prosecutions on transnational environmental crime, and it shows that, for the time being, the full potential of these agencies is not adequately exploited with regard to fighting this phenomenon effectively.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Since 2011, democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa have mostly failed to consolidate and have been hindered by the difficult economic heritage of previous authoritarian governments. Yet newly established democratic governments must deliver on the expectations of their people, especially the poorer strata, otherwise disillusionment may open the door to restoration of authoritarian rule. Can democracy succeed Various ideas for economic policies that may help consolidate the early democratisation process are proposed in this volume, while major obstacles on the way to democratic success are also highlighted. Contributors include: Alissa Amico, Laura El-Katiri, Philippe Fargues, Bassam Fattouh, Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani, Samir Makdisi, Adeel Malik, Bassem Snaije, Robert Springborg, and Eckart Woertz.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued. Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes García-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurélien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The filmic commemoration of the republican guerrilla movement and its diverse phenomenology as an armed resistance against the Francoist dictatorship is one of the most privileged topics of the so called Spanish Cinema of Memory. The collection of essays in La memoria cinematográfica de la guerrilla antifranquista analyze the most emblematic films of this thematic cycle, touching on the vast scope of different filmic discourses as well as on the films' intentions to take up a position in the still current and controversial debate about the historical memory of Francoism. The articles emphasize how this Cinema of Memory dismisses concrete historic reference, thus allowing an intense reflection not only on the ethics of resistance and dignity, but also on the power of counterfactual imagination.La finalmente derrotada guerrilla antifranquista y su tan diversa fenomenología como resistencia armada contra la dictadura constituyen uno de los temas privilegiados del cine de memoria español. Los trabajos compilados en La memoria cinematográfica de la guerrilla antifranquista analizan las obras más emblemáticas de este ciclo de películas, incidiendo tanto en su muy variada textura cinematográfica como en su voluntad de posicionarse dentro del todavía hoy controvertido debate sobre la memoria histórica del franquismo. A la vez, tomados en su conjunto, los artículos enfatizan como este cine de memoria, partiendo de un concreto referente histórico, ha sido capaz de desarrollar una intensa reflexión no sólo sobre la ética de la resistencia y de la dignidad, sino también sobre el poder de la imaginación contrafáctica.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between 'demonic' illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume's Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013. 'Ultimately, Demons and Illness admirably performs the important task of reminding modern scholars of premodern health of the integral role played by these complex and shifting entities in the lives of people across the globe and through the centuries.' -Rachel Podd, Fordham University, in: Social History of Medicine 32.3 (2019) 'Given the sheer breadth of its scope, the volume is, of course, illustrative rather than comprehensive in its coverage, yet there is a definite coherence to its content, aided by the introduction and afterword which bookend the work and help begin to draw out the threads of commonality and difference. As such it constitutes a significant and welcome resource for comparative explorations of historical-cultural links between demons, illness, medicine, and magic, while offering a clear invitation to future work.' -Matthew A. Collins, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l'Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697 ; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l'abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Politics of Honor, Basak Tug examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tug demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing 'discretionary authority' of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial 'disorder'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Since ancient times Leviathan and other monsters from the biblical world symbolize the life-threatening powers in nature and history. They represent the dark aspects of human nature and political entities and reveal the supernatural dimensions of evil. Ancient texts and pictures regarding these monsters reflect an environment of polytheism and religious pluralism. Remarkably, however, the biblical writings and post-biblical traditions use these venerated symbols in portraying God as being sovereign over the entire universe, a theme that is also prominent in the reception of these texts in subsequent contexts.This volume explores this tension and elucidates the theological and cultural meaning of 'Leviathan' by studying its ancient Near Eastern background and its attestation in biblical texts, early and rabbinic Judaism, Christian theology, Early Modern art, and film.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Eric Montgomery and Christian Vannier provide an ethnographically informed text on the cultural meanings and practices surrounding the gods and metaphysics of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo. The authors approach this spirit possession and medicinal order through 'shrine ethnography,' understanding shrines as parts of sacred landscapes that are ecological, economic, political, and social. Giving voice to practitioners and situating shrines and Vodu itself into the history and political economy of the region make this text pertinent to the social changes and global relevance of Millennial Africa.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin TopicAlthough many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius's work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Ownership Paradigms in American Civil Law Jurisdictions Agustín Parise assists in identifying the transformations experienced in the legislation dealing with ownership in the Americas, thereby showing that current understandings are not uncontested dogmas. This book is the result of research undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic, and covers the 16th to 20th centuries. Agustín Parise offers readers a journey across time and space, by studying three American civil law jurisdictions in three successive time periods. His book first highlights the added value that comparative legal historical studies may bring to Europe and the Americas. It then addresses, in chronological order, the three ownership paradigms (i.e., Allocation, Liberal, and Social Function) that he claims have developed in the Americas.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Walter Spink's intense concern with the development of the Ajanta caves and their architectural, sculptural and painted features finds its most insistent reflection in his present richly illustrated study. In part 1, Spink explains the many connections between the Bagh caves and its 'sister site', Ajanta. He particularly emphasizes the leading role that Bagh plays in establishing the 'short chronology' and in the crucial matter of Buddhist shrine development from the aniconic to iconic forms of worship. In part 2, along with his colleague Professor Naomichi Yaguchi, who also provided the photographs and the newly informative plans, the authors show how, over the course of a mere decade, better and better ways were discovered to fit the doors in the cells where the monks lived. Such an analysis reveals the vigor of the conceptual and technical changes that characterize Ajanta's evolution from its start in the early 460s to its traumatic collapse in about 470. Moving from Ajanta's beginning to its ending, the evolution of door fittings parallels the precise and dramatic development of Indian history in the remarkable course of the emperor Harisena's reign.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Babylonian Disputation Poems Enrique Jiménez studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems that feature discussions between animals and trees. Using intertextual parallels and comparison with similar works in other literatures, he espouses a new classification of the Babylonian disputation poems as parodies. After examining neighboring traditions of literary disputation, he argues that the Babylonian poems influenced them, and that some may have been translated from Akkadian to Aramaic, from Aramaic and Syriac to Arabic.In addition, The Babylonian Disputation Poems provides editions of several previously unpublished Babylonian disputations, such as Palm and Vine and the Series of the Spider. It also offers the first edition of the latest known Babylonian fable, The Story of the Poor, Forlorn Wren. 'The present book is an exemplary model for editing and commenting upon ancient texts, and almost every approach has been taken into account.' -Markham J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Brill's Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx explores the life, works, and thought of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three genres of his works --sermons, spiritual teaching, and history-- scholars survey such central topics as Marian devotion, love and friendship, the sacramental nature of community, lay spirituality, and saints' lives. The work also includes the first supplement to the Bibliotheca aelrediana secunda, listing publications by and about Aelred from between 1996 and 2015. Aelred is rapidly becoming one of the best-known and most loved of the 12th-century Cistercians; this book provides welcome new insights into his contributions to the spiritual and political concerns of his place and time.Contributors are Damien Boquet, Pierre-André Burton, Marsha L. Dutton, Elizabeth Freeman, Daniel M. La Corte, Marie Anne Mayeski, Domenico Pezzini, John R. Sommerfeldt, and Katherine Yohe.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects, Strayer shows how the fundamental conditions of making and apprehending works of art can be used, in concert with language, thought, and perception, as 'material' for producing the more Abstract and radical artworks possible. Certain limits of Abstraction and possibilities of radical identity are then identified that are critically and philosophically considered. They prove to be so extreme that the concepts artwork, abstraction, identity, and object in art, philosophy, and philosophy of art, have to be reconsidered.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Literature and Artistic Practice in the Sixteenth Century Angela Cerasuolo, art historian and restorer, tracks the technical processes of painting through the cross-analysis of literary texts and works of art. Having traced the critical fortunes of the texts of the authors-Leonardo, Vasari, Armenini, Borghini, Lomazzo-she compares the information on drawing and painting, analysing the specific terminology, and identifying the materials and methods. Central themes of the theoretical debate-'disegno', 'invenzione', the contrast between 'prestezza' and 'diligenza', the 'paragone'-are examined in the light of their relationship with the techniques. On the basis of scientific studies on the technical execution of paintings, works from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples are analysed as case studies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The present volume is the last in the Entangled Balkans series and marks the end of several years of research guided by the transnational, 'entangled history' and histoire croisée approaches. The essays in this volume address theoretical and methodological issues of Balkan or Southeast European regional studies--not only questions of scholarly concepts, definitions, and approaches but also the extra-scholarly, ideological, political, and geopolitical motivations that underpin them. These issues are treated more systematically and by a presentation of their historical evolution in various national traditions and schools. Some of the essays deal with the articulation of certain forms of 'Balkan heritage' in relation to the geographical spread and especially the cultural definition of the 'Balkan area.' Concepts and definitions of the Balkans are thus complemented by (self-)representations that reflect on their cultural foundations.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Vor 70 Jahren, im harten Nachkriegswinter 1946/47 erlangte eine Predigt des Kölner Erzbischofs Frings fulminante Wirkung: Die Kohle-Diebstähle nahmen signifikant zu und das Wort 'fringsen' hielt dauerhaft Einzug in den rheinischen Sprachgebrauch. Hintergründe und Auswirkungen von Frings' Sylvesterpredigt werden in der aktuellen 'GiK' ebenso untersucht wie ein Fall von Königsraub im 11. Jahrhundert: die Entführung Heinrichs IV. in Kaiserswerth. Weitere Beiträge behandeln die Vita Brunonis des Ruotger, die Persönlichkeit des Kölner Erzbischofs Rainald von Dassel und seine Bedeutung für die Entstehung des Kölner Dreikönigskultes, die rheinische Kultlandschaft im 11./12. Jahrhundert, den Kölner Polizei-Skandal von 1913/14 und die Geschichte des Anatomischen Institutes des Universität Köln im 'Dritten Reich'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Das musikalische Erbe Weimars wird zumeist an den Großen dieser Zunft festgemacht: Johann Walter, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Franz Liszt. Diese und viele andere begegnen den Lesern bei den Streifzügen durch mehr als drei Jahrhunderte (1513-1867) Weimarer Musikgeschichte. Kenntnisreich setzt Wolfram Huschke Momente in Szene, die die musikkulturelle Entwicklung der Stadt geprägt haben: so die Ernennung Weimars zur Residenzstadt 1513 und die Entfaltung fürstlicher Repräsentationsbedürfnisse samt Hofkapelle, die Reformation und die protestantischen Kirchenlieder des Lutherfreundes Johann Walter, die Uraufführung der 'Bekümmernis'-Kantate Johann Sebastian Bachs 1714, die Weimarer Erstaufführung der 'Zauberflöte' Mozarts 1794 oder die Aufführung der 'Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth' Franz Liszts im Festsaal der Wartburg 1867.Wolfram Huschke hat ein sehr persönliches Buch geschrieben, vor allem die musikalischen Ereignisse zusammengetragen, die ihn bewegen, faszinieren und inspirieren. Die Musik erscheint dabei als die Verbündete der in Weimar so gewichtigen Literatur - und ihre Melodien und Klänge tönen fort. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale deals with the history, the historical geography and the cultural sociology of Phrygia Paroreios and Northern Pisidia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (IVth cent. BC - IVth cent. AD). This region of inner Anatolia, mostly inhabited by Pisidians and Phrygians, faced gradually the settlement of Greek, Macedonian, Jewish, Thracian, Lycian and Roman colonists who deeply modified the local cultures and geopolitics. With an approach based on epigraphic, archaeological, literary and numismatic sources, this work is the first historical synthesis devoted to a region showing strong cultural identities, which makes it essential to the understanding of the Graeco-Roman East.La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale traite de l'Histoire, de la géographie historique et de la sociologie culturelle de la Phrygie Parorée et du Nord de la Pisidie aux époques hellénistique et romaine (IVe s. av. J.-C.-IVe s. ap. J.-C.). Cette région de l'Anatolie intérieure, surtout peuplée par les Pisidiens et les Phrygiens, eut successivement à faire face à l'installation de colons grecs, macédoniens, juifs, thraces, lyciens et romains qui modifièrent en profondeur les cultures et la géopolitique locales. Grâce à une approche fondée sur l'examen des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques, littéraires et numismatiques, cet ouvrage constitue la première synthèse historique sur une région aux identités culturelles marquées, essentielle à la compréhension de l'Orient gréco-romain.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Während die kunsthistorische Forschung sich vielfach dem Phänomen Zeit in der Malerei widmete, ist die Untersuchung von Zeitphänomenen in der Skulptur bis heute ein Desiderat. Leon Battista Albertis frühneuzeitliches Diktum, die wichtigste Aufgabe der Malerei sei das Ereignisbild, hingegen die des Bildhauers der Koloss, die unbewegte Statue, zeigt bis heute seinen Einfluss. Die in diesem Sammelband vereinten Beiträge widmen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Zeitlichkeit in der Skulptur von Rodin bis zur jüngsten zeitgenössischen Kunst. Klassische Positionen der Moderne stehen dabei ebenso im Fokus wie die 'Skulptur im erweiterten Feld'.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Das Strafrecht der Kirche steht vor einer Reform. Das erste Reform-Schema von 2011 für ein neues Buch VI des CIC wird in der römischen Kurie nach vielen Voten aus der Weltkirche bearbeitet. Wohin geht die Rechtsentwicklung der Kirche in diesem Bereich Wann kommt das neue Strafrecht Fragen, die auch in Zukunft aktuell bleiben. Das kirchliche Strafrecht steht seit 2010 im Interesse der Öffentlichkeit, wie selten zuvor. Die Entdeckung des Missbrauchs an Minderjährigen durch Bedienstete der katholischen Kirche hat sich nicht als ein lokal beschränktes, sondern ein globales kirchliches Phänomen erwiesen. Die ersten Reaktionen der Kirche waren rechtspraktisch und kommunikativ nicht gelungen, obwohl normative Vorgaben für eine sachgerechte Bearbeitung der Fälle hätten angewandt werden können. Hier gibt die Strafrechtsreform die Chance, verlorenes Vertrauen wiederzugewinnen. Eine weitere Problematik, die nicht nur rechtlich, sondern zuerst auch lehramtlich zu lösen ist, ergibt sich aus dem Umgang der Kirche mit Menschen, deren Lebensführung von der bisherigen Mehrheitsmeinung zur kirchlichen Lehre nicht gedeckt ist. Die Meinungen über die kanonistisch korrekte Subsumtion dieser Lebensschicksale unter die entsprechenden Normen weichen nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch im Vatikan voneinander ab. Das kanonische Strafrecht bearbeitet naturgemäß alle heiklen Fragen kirchlicher Rechtsfragen. Der Umgang damit wird die Glaubwürdigkeit der Institution Katholische Kirche auf Zukunft hin nachhaltig beeinflussen.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Im Alltag wie auch in der Wissenschaft erlangen wir einen Großteil unseres Wissens durch die Worte anderer. Doch - geblendet vom Individualismus des 'Do-ityourself'-Verfahrens in der Erkenntnistheorie - scheinen in der europäischen Philosophietradition Zeugnisse in Wort, Schrift und Bild als Voraussetzungen des Wissenserwerbs kaum eine Rolle gespielt zu haben. Erst in neuerer Zeit findet die Idee einer sozialen Epistemologie eine angemessene Beachtung. Doch das Bild von der zeugnisvergessenen Philosophietradition trügt. Diese Anthologie unternimmt daher erstmals eine Spurensuche zur philosophischen Thematisierung von Zeugenschaft seit der Neuzeit und bezieht dabei auch zeitgenössische Autoren mit ein. Anhand konkreter Quellen wird gezeigt, dass es eine reichhaltige Geschichte der philosophischen Reflexion von Zeugenschaft gibt, deren zentrale Positionen erschlossen werden. Dabei stellt sich eine grundlegende Mehrdeutigkeit des Phänomens der Zeugenschaft heraus: In den vielfältigen Konstellationen des Glaubenszeugnisses, des Gerichtszeugnisses, der Zeitzeugenschaft und des Opferzeugnisses verschlingen sich jeweils Ethik und Episteme, Sozialphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie miteinander. Zeugenschaft, so zeigt sich, ist nicht auf das epistemologische Problem des Wissens durch die Worte anderer zu reduzieren.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Auftaktband der neuen Reihe Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens beschäftigt sich mit dem Staunen als einem Moment der Grenzerfahrung und Grenzziehung, der Neugier und Überwältigung, der Erkenntnis und Blindheit, aber auch als Anfang von Denken, Erkennen, Sehen und Dichten.Staunen indiziert eine (noch) nicht kategorisierbare Fremdheit und konstituiert damit eine Grenze des Verstehens und Wissens. Damit wird es zum Ausdruck einer semantischen Leere vor dem Fremden. Als Moment der verunsichernden Reflexion kann es so zum Stimulus eines Begehrens nach Grenzüberschreitung werden. Andererseits kann es Ausdruck eines Zustands sein, in dem sich ein radikal anderes, nicht mehr an Körper und Verstand gebundenes Wissen ereignet. In den interdisziplinären Beiträgen des Bandes wird Staunen, historisch und diskursiv je unterschiedlich akzentuiert, als Phänomen der Grenze reflektiert, das dann im Kunstdiskurs, von der Antike bis heute, zu einem Moment des lustvollen Verharrens auf den Grenzen der Wahrnehmung, des Wissens und der Erfahrung werden kann.Mit Beiträgen von Udo Friedrich, Jan Niklas Howe, Reinhard Möller, Anna Laura Puliafito, Stefan Matuschek, u.a. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Die Überzeugung, dass es moralische Pflicht ist, die Interessen eines jeden so zu berücksichtigen, als wären es die eigenen, ist der gedankliche Hintergrund jener Vertreter der »Willkommenskultur«, die für ein unbeschränktes weltweites Niederlassungsrecht plädieren.Eine Lehre, die diese Überzeugung vertritt, bezeichnet man als »moralischen Universalismus«. Sie gilt es, auf den Prüfstand zu stellen. Den Nächsten zu lieben wie sich selbst ist innerhalb enger Grenzen möglich. Tatsächlich ist eine Ausweitung des Gültigkeitsbereichs unserer moralischen Überzeugungen auch historisch beobachtbar. Als eine solche Tendenz unterliegt der moralische Universalismus auch gar nicht der Kritik. Der moralische Universalismus fordert jedoch eine nachgerade grenzenlose Ausweitung dieser Grenzen. Eine solche aber ist verletzbaren und sterblichen Wesen, die in einer Welt endlicher Lebensräume und knapper Ressourcen um ihre Selbsterhaltung kämpfen, entweder nicht möglich oder nicht zuzumuten.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Athenäum - das ist die berühmte Zeitschrift der Brüder Schlegel. Der Name war zugleich Titel für ein Forschung- und Bildungsprogramm mit höchsten Ansprüchen. Insbesondere mit den philologischen, kritischen und philosophischen Arbeiten Friedrich Schlegels hat das Athenäum die Romantik begründet.Schlegels Theorie der modernen Poesie und sein Konzept der literarischen Kritik sind noch immer aktuell. Das neue Athenäum macht Schlegels bahnbrechende Neuerungen für die aktuelle Forschung in Philologie und Medienkulturwissenschaft produktiv. Zugleich rückt von Friedrich Schlegel aus die ganze Romantik in den Blick: Literatur, Sprache, Kunst, Musik, Recht und Staat, Philosophie, Religion und Natur. Das Jahrbuch ist also interdisziplinär und übernational, offen für Sachwissen, Selbstreflexion und Irritation. Es enthält neben dem Editorial, das sich aktuellen Themen widmet und sie auf Überlegungen Friedrich Schlegels bezieht, neue Beiträge zur Schlegel- und zur Romantikforschung, die zuvor ein Peer-Review-Verfahren passiert haben müssen. Zudem bietet es in unregelmäßiger Folge neue Funde, Diskussionen, Interviews, Features, Berichte und Experimente sowie einen Rezensionsteil.Herausgegeben wird das Athenäum seit 2008 von Ulrich Breuer (Mainz) und Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton).…