Brill mär 2017 (125 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Everyone enjoys having a lot of friends. Find out how much fun you can have with a friend who has Down Syndrome in this book about acceptance and seeing similarities over differences. 'Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.' Verna Myers. Lopez, Olympia (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As Time Goes By offers an overview of different versions of tense realism, or A-theories of time, critically assesses those that have found supporters in the extant literature, and finally explicates and defends a hitherto neglected A-theory of time that combines many of the virtues that the B-theory claims for itself, while avoiding many of the vices that afflict more standard A-theories. Proceeding from certain general assumptions about time and its structure, the authors first provide an exhaustive classification of mutually exclusive realist views of tense in terms of precise criteria. They then critically review the more familiar of these views, such as presentism and relativism, in the light of desiderata any A-theory should satisfy, before showing how their favourite A-theory can satisfy all of these desiderata and how it escapes the McTaggartian trilemma recently expounded by Kit Fine. In the last part, the authors devise a systematic metaphysics for that view, give a reduction of times, and of the temporal order, in its terms, and provide a full semantics, statable exclusively in tensed terms, for both tensed and untensed language. The book closes by addressing and defusing the challenge that the authors' favourite A-theory is a B-theory in disguise.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Jahre 1781 ruft der Philosoph Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) das »Zeitalter der Kritik« aus. Alles muss sich der »freien und öffentlichen Prüfung« durch die Vernunft unterwerfen: die Religion, die Gesetzgebung, in erster Linie aber die reine Vernunft selbst. In ihrem ungezügelten Verlangen nach Erkenntnis verstrickt sie sich in endlose Streitigkeiten mit sich selbst. Kein Wunder also, dass die alte Metaphysik ein Kampfplatz ist, auf dem ein »rüstiger Ritter« den »Siegeskranz« davonträgt, solange er keinen neuen Angriff des Gegners aushalten muss. Abhilfe schafft die Kritik, ein Gerichtshof, den die reine Vernunft einsetzt, um über ihre berechtigten und unberechtigten Ansprüche zu entscheiden. Die Kritik stiftet Frieden im Reich des Denkens. Wir erkennen die Bedingungen, unter denen Metaphysik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft als Wissenschaften möglich sind. Der Comic bietet anschaulich und leicht verständlich Einblicke in Kants Leben sowie den historischen und intellektuellen Kontexten seines Wirkens. Wir schauen dem »Fürsten der deutschen Denker« (K. von Knoblauch) beim Philosophieren über Gut und Böse, Freiheit und Natur, Politik und Recht, das Schöne und Erhabene, die Entstehung des Universums und vieles andere mehr über die Schulter. Und natürlich kommen auch seine Anhänger und Kritiker zu Wort. 96 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Jahre 1781 ruft der Philosoph Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) das 'Zeitalter der Kritik' aus. Alles muss sich der 'freien und öffentlichen Prüfung' durch die Vernunft unterwerfen: die Religion, die Gesetzgebung, in erster Linie aber die reine Vernunft selbst. In ihrem ungezügelten Verlangen nach Erkenntnis verstrickt sie sich in endlose Streitigkeiten mit sich selbst. Kein Wunder also, dass die alte Metaphysik ein Kampfplatz ist, auf dem ein 'rüstiger Ritter' den 'Siegeskranz' davonträgt, solange er keinen neuen Angriff des Gegners aushalten muss. Abhilfe schafft die Kritik, ein Gerichtshof, den die reine Vernunft einsetzt, um über ihre berechtigten und unberechtigten Ansprüche zu entscheiden. Die Kritik stiftet Frieden im Reich des Denkens. Wir erkennen die Bedingungen, unter denen Metaphysik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft als Wissenschaften möglich sind.Der Comic bietet anschaulich und leicht verständlich Einblicke in Kants Leben sowie den historischen und intellektuellen Kontexten seines Wirkens. Wir schauen dem 'Fürsten der deutschen Denker' (K. von Knoblauch) beim Philosophieren über Gut und Böse, Freiheit und Natur, Politik und Recht, das Schöne und Erhabene, die Entstehung des Universums und vieles andere mehr über die Schulter. Und natürlich kommen auch seine Anhänger und Kritiker zu Wort.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The intrinsic relation between rationality or thought on the one hand and sensory information processing or perception on the other hand is a classical topic in the philosophy of mind. This work contributes to this traditional debate by introducing an interdisciplinary framework, in which the relation between perception and cognition can be explored from a philosophical point of view and, at the same time, on the basis of the latest findings from empirical perception research. Discussing the case of visual object recognition, the proposed model allows us to differentiate between a variety of perceptual phenomena and to clarify our understanding of the role of concepts within perception. As such, it takes a stand in the debate about the conceptuality of perceptual content, exemplifying at which stage of perception and by virtue of which mechanisms perceptual experience becomes enriched or even influenced by prior knowledge or cognition in general. The final chapter is dedicated to the discussion of face perception, its disorders and underlying mechanisms.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Schlacht von Gettysburg war eine der entscheidenden Konfrontationen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Zu keinem Zeitpunkt schien ein Erfolg der Südstaatler im Krieg so greifbar wie am Nachmittag des 3. Juli 1863, als General George Picketts Männer gegen Verteidigungsstellungen der Union anstürmten. Der Angriff wurde jedoch abgewehrt; diese Wende markiert den Moment, an dem kein Zweifel mehr an der Niederlage des Südens bestehen konnte. Die Bewohner der Nord- und Südstaaten bewerteten den Ausgang der Schlacht höchst unterschiedlich. Für Präsident Lincoln war der Sieg der Union in Gettysburg Ausgangspunkt für eine 'Wiedergeburt der Freiheit' in Amerika. Im Süden etablierte sich eine alternative Erinnerung, nach der die Konföderierten heldenhaft für eine gerechte Sache gegen einen übermächtigen Norden gekämpft hätten. Das Buch beleuchtet strategische Diskussionen im Vorfeld des Feldzuges von Gettysburg, schildert den Verlauf des Kampfes, die Wahrnehmung seitens der Beteiligten und geht der Mythologisierung der Schlacht im amerikanischen Süden nach. 232 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Schlacht von Gettysburg war eine der entscheidenden Konfrontationen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Zu keinem Zeitpunkt schien ein Erfolg der Südstaatler im Krieg so greifbar wie am Nachmittag des 3. Juli 1863, als General George Picketts Männer gegen Verteidigungsstellungen der Union anstürmten. Der Angriff wurde jedoch abgewehrt; diese Wende markiert den Moment, an dem kein Zweifel mehr an der Niederlage des Südens bestehen konnte. Die Bewohner der Nord- und Südstaaten bewerteten den Ausgang der Schlacht höchst unterschiedlich. Für Präsident Lincoln war der Sieg der Union in Gettysburg Ausgangspunkt für eine 'Wiedergeburt der Freiheit' in Amerika. Im Süden etablierte sich eine alternative Erinnerung, nach der die Konföderierten heldenhaft für eine gerechte Sache gegen einen übermächtigen Norden gekämpft hätten. Das Buch beleuchtet strategische Diskussionen im Vorfeld des Feldzuges von Gettysburg, schildert den Verlauf des Kampfes, die Wahrnehmung seitens der Beteiligten und geht der Mythologisierung der Schlacht im amerikanischen Süden nach. 232 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The central aim of this volume is to foster a new understanding of Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations and thereby to enrich our knowledge of the beginnings of logical analysis. An important service for the scientific community to support this aim is the edition of a new translation of Aristotle's work into English. The contributions discussing the original work were inspired by a onference in 2009 in Berlin which was the first one exclusively dedicated to Sophistical Refutations of Aristotle and brought together nearly everyone working on the main topics Aristotle deals with in that work. In Aristotle we see the onset of systematic theorizing about argumentation, including an account of the ways in which arguments, despite of being incorrect, may appear to be correct and of the relations between different types of argumentation (in science, in discussions with various purposes, in everyday life), but also of the connections with more general philosophical issues, like the meaning of words and the ontological status of universals. Fallacious Arguments in Ancient Philosophy It is, however, primarily because of its account of argumentation that Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations, together with the Topics, has caught the attention of those working in the field of argumentation theory. This collection shows that the study of argumentation theory in Ancient Philosophy, and with Aristotle in particular, is in good shape. At least some of the points made in the articles brought together here will withstand scrutiny and will advance our understanding of the beginnings of logical analysis. The authors: Jonathan Adler (_), Susanne Bobzien, Robert Bolton, Luca Castagnoli, Louis-André Dorion, Paolo Fait, Adrian Frey, Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, Wolfgang Kienzler, Colin Guthrie King, Raina Kirchhoff, Ermelinda Valentina di Lascio, Yakir Levin, Christof Rapp, Carrie Swanson - the first translation of Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (transl. by P.S. Hasper).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry's religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Im Jahre 1781 ruft der Philosoph Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) das »Zeitalter der Kritik« aus. Alles muss sich der »freien und öffentlichen Prüfung« durch die Vernunft unterwerfen: die Religion, die Gesetzgebung, in erster Linie aber die reine Vernunft selbst. In ihrem ungezügelten Verlangen nach Erkenntnis verstrickt sie sich in endlose Streitigkeiten mit sich selbst. Kein Wunder also, dass die alte Metaphysik ein Kampfplatz ist, auf dem ein »rüstiger Ritter« den »Siegeskranz« davonträgt, solange er keinen neuen Angriff des Gegners aushalten muss. Abhilfe schafft die Kritik, ein Gerichtshof, den die reine Vernunft einsetzt, um über ihre berechtigten und unberechtigten Ansprüche zu entscheiden. Die Kritik stiftet Frieden im Reich des Denkens. Wir erkennen die Bedingungen, unter denen Metaphysik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft als Wissenschaften möglich sind. Der Comic bietet anschaulich und leicht verständlich Einblicke in Kants Leben sowie den historischen und intellektuellen Kontexten seines Wirkens. Wir schauen dem »Fürsten der deutschen Denker« (K. von Knoblauch) beim Philosophieren über Gut und Böse, Freiheit und Natur, Politik und Recht, das Schöne und Erhabene, die Entstehung des Universums und vieles andere mehr über die Schulter. Und natürlich kommen auch seine Anhänger und Kritiker zu Wort.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Schlacht von Gettysburg war eine der entscheidenden Konfrontationen im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Zu keinem Zeitpunkt schien ein Erfolg der Südstaatler im Krieg so greifbar wie am Nachmittag des 3. Juli 1863, als General George Picketts Männer gegen Verteidigungsstellungen der Union anstürmten. Der Angriff wurde jedoch abgewehrt; diese Wende markiert den Moment, an dem kein Zweifel mehr an der Niederlage des Südens bestehen konnte. Die Bewohner der Nord- und Südstaaten bewerteten den Ausgang der Schlacht höchst unterschiedlich. Für Präsident Lincoln war der Sieg der Union in Gettysburg Ausgangspunkt für eine 'Wiedergeburt der Freiheit' in Amerika. Im Süden etablierte sich eine alternative Erinnerung, nach der die Konföderierten heldenhaft für eine gerechte Sache gegen einen übermächtigen Norden gekämpft hätten. Das Buch beleuchtet strategische Diskussionen im Vorfeld des Feldzuges von Gettysburg, schildert den Verlauf des Kampfes, die Wahrnehmung seitens der Beteiligten und geht der Mythologisierung der Schlacht im amerikanischen Süden nach.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook, Dale Murray presents fifty-one actual, unique, and compelling case studies. The book covers a wide variety of environmental topics from those as global as overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and e-waste, to those topics as local as whether we should place salt on the driveway during winter, construct rain gardens, or believe we have a duty to hunt.The book also features an easy to read, yet rigorous introductory section exposing readers to ethical theories and approaches to environmental ethics. By interweaving these theoretical considerations into long and short case studies, Murray illuminates a comprehensive range of the most pressing environmental issues facing our biosphere both today and in the future.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Secular Grace Dana Freibach-Heifetz addresses the crisis of modernity, proposing an ethic of love based on a new philosophical concept of 'secular grace' as intersubjective relations. Anchored in secular humanism as well as within the existentialist tradition, yet recognizing their limitations, Secular Grace seeks to protrude them by means of dialogue with their other: Christianity. Inspired by a variety of intellectual roots from ancient Greece to post modernist thinkers - chiefly the deliberations of Buber and Levinas in the encounter with the other, and notions of gift and friendship - it offers a rich concept of Secular Grace. It furthermore examines the possibilities of grace towards the dead, self-grace and secular salvation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Phenomenology of Perception: Theories and Experimental Evidence reconstructs and reviews the phenomenological research of the Brentano School, Edgar Rubin, David Katz, Albert Michotte and Gestalt psychology. Phenomenology is commonly considered a philosophy of subjective experience, but this book presents it instead as a set of commitments for philosophy and science to discover the immanent grammar underlying the objective meaning of perception. Pioneering experimental results on the qualitative and quantitative structures of the perceptual world are collected to show that, contrary to the received assumption, phenomenology can be embedded in standard science. This book will therefore be of interest not only to phenomenologists but also to anyone concerned with epistemological and empirical issues in contemporary psychology and the cognitive sciences.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - To which extent is it legitimate, in view of freedom of conscience and religion, to sanction individuals for refusing to take part in an activity they claim to be incompatible with their moral or religious convictions To answer this question, this study first clarifies some of the concepts of conscientious objection. Then it examines the case law of international bodies and draws distinctions in order to differentiate several types of objections, hence identifying the evaluation criteria applicable to the respect that each one deserves. Finally, this study proposes indications as to the rights and obligations of the State in front of those different types of objections.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews' multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion. 'This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America.' - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, in: E.I.A.L. 28.2 (2017) 'Overall, this collection serves as a stimulating invitation to scholars of Latin American ethnic studies. It offers multiple models of scholarship that go beyond and against traditional narratives of Jewish Latin America.' -Lily Pearl Balloffet, University of California Santa Cruz, in: J.Lat Amer. Stud. 50 (2018) 'These essays manage to bring to the fore stories of Jews whose journeys have been sidelined until now. Their stories demonstrate that identities are always a work in progress, a continuous dance between ancestry, history, and culture.' - Ariana Huberman, Haverford College, in: American Jewish History 103.2 (2019).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.In the Elektronisches Buch version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass's 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain--a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins' collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes--landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas.ContributorsLee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O'Brien, Eoin O'Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan Woehlke.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Richard Kaeuper's career has examined three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - most directly in three of his monographs: War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy Warriors (Penn, 2009). Kaeuper approaches historical questions with an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human ideas and ideals, and he has worked to untangle the various threads holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit violence, and lay piety. The present festschrift in his honor brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with those same concerns in medieval society from a variety of perspectives.Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Samuel A. Claussen, David Crouch, Thomas Devaney, Paul Dingman, Daniel P. Franke, Richard Firth Green, Christopher Guyol, John D. Hosler, William Chester Jordan, Craig M. Nakashian, W. Mark Ormrod, Russell A. Peck, Anthony J. Pollard, Michael Prestwich, Sebastian Rider-Bezerra, Leah Shopkow, and Peter W. Sposato. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Book one of the Man'yoshu ('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book one is the seventh volume of the Man'yoshu to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013), seventeen (2016) and eighteen (2016). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the civil wars in China (1925-1928) from the perspective of the often-overlooked 'warlords,' who fought against the joint forces of the Nationalist and Communist parties. In particular, this work focuses on Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the 'Fengian Clique' who was sometimes seen as the representative of the Japanese interest in Manchuria. Using primary and secondary sources from China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, this work tries to revisit the wars during the period from international, political, military, and economic-financial perspectives. It sheds new light on Zhang Zuolin's decision to fight against the Nationalists and the Communists and offers an alternative explanation to the Nationalists (temporary) victory by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to Transpacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis.Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race is now available in paperback for individual customers.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in 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 2017-2 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 50 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this volume specific cognitive sub-functions are identified and indications of how basic vestibular input contributes to each are described. The broad range of these functions is consistent with the broad spread of vestibular projections throughout the cortex. Combining vestibular signals about the head's orientation relative to gravity with information about head position relative to the body provides sufficient information to map body position onto the ground surface and underlie the sense of spatial position. But vestibular signals are also fundamental to sensorimotor control and even to high-level bodily perception such as the sense of body ownership and the anchoring of perspective to the body. Clinical observations confirm the essential role of vestibular signals in maintaining a coherent self-representation and suggest some novel rehabilitation strategies.The chapters presented in this volume are previously published in a Special Issue of Multisensory Research, Volume 28, Issue 5-6 (2015).Contributors are: M. Barnett-Cowan, O. Blanke, J. Blouin, G. Bosco, G. Bottini, J.-P. Bresciani, J.C. Culham, C.L. Darlington, A.W. Ellis, E.R. Ferrè, M. Gandola, L. Grabherr, S. Gravano, P. Grivaz, E. Guillaud, P. Haggard, L.R. Harris, A.E.N. Hoover, I. Indovina, K. Jáuregu Renaud, M. Kaliuzhna, F. Lacquaniti, B. Lenggenhager, C. Lopez, G. Macauda, V. Maffei, F.W. Mast, B. La Scaleia, B.M. Seemungal, M. Simoneau, P.F. Smith, J.C. Snow, D. Vibert, M. Zago, and Y. Zheng. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up by Betsy Chunko-Dominguez is the first book to move beyond textual dependence and traditional iconographic analysis when examining misericords. It likewise builds the most thorough discussion to date of the relationship between the misericord's several potential audiences - including patron, craftsman, occupant of the seat, and modern viewer.Beyond the bounds of misericord studies, there are implications here for study of the relationship between center and margin in late medieval art; and, indeed, what constitutes 'center' and 'margin' as conceptual realms. Ultimately, this book attempts both to re-integrate the study of misericords into the study of Gothic art in general, and to re-center them in relation to our understanding of late medieval culture.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities, Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco. Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Zizek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity--indeed, all who recognize that 'modernity' was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energies. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Authorship and Greek Song is a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of authorship in the song culture of Ancient Greece. In this cultural context the idea of the poet as author of his poems is complicated by the fact that poetry in archaic Greece circulated as songs performed for a variety of audiences, both local and 'global' (Panhellenic). The volume's chapters discuss questions about the importance of the singers/performers; the nature of the performance occasion; the status of the poet; the authority of the poet/author and/or that of the performer; and the issues of authenticity arising when poems are composed under a given poet's name. The volume offers discussions of major authors such as Pindar, Sappho, and Theognis.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents a new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism. The once vibrant debate on these touchstones of modernism has gone stale. Viewed from the Sao Paulo megalopolis the art of Paris and New York - embodying Revolution, Thermidor, Bonapartistm and Bourgeois 'Triumph' - once more pulsates in tragic key.Equally attentive to form and politics, Martins invites us to look again at familiar pictures. In the process, modern art appears in a new light. These essays, largely unknown to an English-speaking audience, may be the most important contribution to the account of modern painting since the important debates of the 1980s.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages. At the center of attention are the Premyslids, the Piasts, the Rurikids, and the Árpáds, but also the main dynasties of the Balkans, namely the Trpimirovic and the Nemanjic dynasties, as well as the House of Bogdan, and the Moldova dynasty of the Mu?atins. Unlike previous work, which has focused on narrative sources of male ruler hagiography, Homza studies texts concerning female royal figures. More broadly, this book also attempts to bridge the artificial gap between West and East in Europe.…