peter lang dez 2004 (113 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Scholars, educators, health professionals, and activists from a variety of fields have struggled with one of the most significant questions of contemporary life: How do we rescue the experience of death and dying from the mire of fear, denial, and secrecy that it has been associated with for the better part of a century In When Death Goes Pop, Charlton D. McIlwain describes a striking emerging shift in the way that death is represented in such omnipresent forms of media as television ¿ a shift that seems to be moving the American discourse on death and dying from the private sphere to the public. The book surveys the past thirty years of death-related television programming, from daytime soaps to prime-time dramas, focusing primarily on Home Box Office¿s Six Feet Under and its innovative approach to the subject, and from the Sci-Fi Channel¿s Crossing Over to the genre of paranormal programming as a whole. This book also discusses the increasing use of multimedia and the Internet in the funeral industry and how the new technologies change the way that we remember the dead as they create and sustain what we might call a «virtual community of death».Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Based on the conviction that the arts as integrated into education can transform both teaching and learning, the artist/teachers who contributed to this book describe the effects of bringing arts into prisons, small rural communities in The Far East and Africa, public school classrooms, and teacher preparation in universities and in community arts organizations. Their stories describe how the arts overcome deep-seated conflicts, build skills and confidence, and empower and enliven participants. This book is for educators on all levels ¿ teacher educators and prospective teachers, artists whose work touches on social issues, activists committed to social change, community-based arts organizations, and all who work for justice and equity in any arena. These stories bring hope for the future, as slowly, slowly, change is taking place.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe» sheds new light on the hotly debated issue of Orientalism by looking at the European images of the Ottoman Empire and society over three centuries. Through a careful examination of the European intellectual discourse, this book claims that there was no coherent and constant Europewide vision of the Turks until the eighteenth century and clearly demonstrates that the Age of Reason has not rendered reasonable images of the Turks. Indeed, once inspiring awe, the European opinion of Ottomans was held in contempt during this period. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book gives an overview of paraconsistent logics ¿ that is logics which allow for inconsistency. Although allowing for inconsistency, paraconsistent logics are worth considering: Logical systems are worth considering in their own right since we can learn about very abstract structural properties of logics and the concepts employed within them such as negation, necessity and consistency. Some non-classical logics are especially of interest from a philosophical perspective since they alone offer the possibility of solving or even stating some philosophical problems. These introductory lectures argue from a philosophical perspective that some paraconsistent logics are of interest or even the best candidates for dealing with specific philosophical problems. Although logic is seen from the point of view of its philosophical use, various formal systems are described, compared and employed. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Les auteurs de cet ouvrage se sont efforcés de prendre les discours sur la guerre en Irak pour ce qüils sont, c¿est-à-dire des fabriques du réel, tant pour aujourd¿hui que pour les générations futures. Ils se sont attachés à refuser les fausses évidences qui transforment la politique en show afin de prendre du recul par rapport au temps court, d¿introduire davantage d¿historicité et de société là où nous submerge si souvent une culture de l¿«immédiateté».Les démarches croisées des politologues, juristes, philosophes et anthropologues associés à cette entreprise se focalisent sur le fait de savoir si la guerre d¿Irak constitue la matrice d¿un nouvel ordre politique international. Au travers des changements et des continuités que les discours révèlent, émergera une grille de lecture des représentations des acteurs de cette guerre, aux États-Unis comme en Europe, ainsi que des hypothèses sur les stratégies qui sous-tendent leurs actions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to explore and reflect upon preconditions of a specific European social dimension, or more specifically of a European social citizenship. Welfare and social policies in Europe are deeply entrenched in state histories; the success of the welfare state stems from its ability during a fairly long historical period to unify social citizenship, full employment, mass education and a functional industrial relations system. The historical connection between welfare regimes built upon the nation state, and popular democracy founded in party voting, makes the deepening and widening of a common European project a highly risky undertaking and an open process with a radically uncertain outcome. The dilemma in the form of uneasy relationships among national welfare regimes and the evolutionary process of increased market integration ¿ driven both by market forces (globalisation) and the European Union as a political project ¿ is well known and has been demonstrated by different commentators. Every step of deepening market integration in Europe tends to threaten and put pressure on the existing national welfare regimes. As their own populations generally support them, the legitimacy of the EU is at risk. The book analyses the prospects of a coordinated social dimension at the European level, matching the market integration, and what role the concept of citizenship can play in such a scenario. 366 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -If «the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity», as Karl Rahner said, then what difference does it make for how we read the Bible This book takes up the discussion that has dominated the last several decades of Trinitarian theology ¿ that of Rahner¿s Rule ¿ and brings it into dialogue with the longer history of the doctrine, particularly with the history of interpretation of scripture. The history of Trinitarianism is the history of complex interpretive moves, a long conversation in which the Christian church has sought to learn how to ask the right questions of scripture. Surveying recent theological projects and learning from their successes and failures, The Image of the Immanent Trinity argues that the eternally perfect fellowship of Father, Son, and Spirit is truly present for our salvation in Christ who, as the image of the invisible God, secures God¿s presence in the economy of salvation as the image of the immanent Trinity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 222 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Contemporary cultural practices have blurred and eroded traditional disciplinary boundaries of art and its discourses, and the ways in which they are taught. They have called into question the ideological premises and cultural assumptions on which traditional academic subjects were founded and which have underwritten the segregation between practice, pragmatic and speculative thought. The Scottish Theoros ¿ Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate was jointly initiated by the Department of Philosophy and the School of Fine Art at the University of Dundee to create a space for dialogue between and across the various disciplines that are concerned with the study of visual arts: practice, aesthetics, theory, history and criticism. Theoros has initiated a series of international conferences bringing together professionals who are engaged in the research and teaching of art from different disciplinary perspectives. This volume contains selected contributions to the first Scottish Theoros conference on ¿Aesthetics, Historicity and Practice¿, held in Dundee in 1998. Historicity marks the temporal nature of our existence and experience. It forms a central aspect in the making of and reflection on art. Here historicity is explored as a common ground for the integration of practice, critical thought and historical enquiry in the spaces of higher education and professional engagement. 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Throughout the industrialised world trade unionists are reforming their organisations as part of a strategy to adjust to new labour market, economic and political circumstances. This volume examines the role of merger activity in this process of reform. The book identifies the pattern of merger activity, the factors that promote its development and its impact on union structure and governance. Most merger activity is shown to originate in some adverse environmental change, such as membership decline. Furthermore, there is little evidence to suggest that mergers have improved union performance in the recruitment, retention and organisation of members, although, in some cases, the reform of systems of membership participation has been facilitated. The shift away from industrial unions has been accelerated by merger involvement, which has also brought into question the role of confederations where the number of affiliated unions has declined markedly.The book comprises two sections. The first section examines the merger process in ten countries (Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, UK and US). The second section comprises three ¿horizontal¿ chapters in which authors of the national chapters develop themes that emerge from the national chapters in comparative perspective. 418 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Greek Bible and the services of the Orthodox Church have proved a rich source of language for many poets of modern Greece, and perhaps for none more than for Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Odysseas Elytis, whose overlapping careers span the period 1876-1996. A blurring of the boundaries between Orthodoxy and ¿Greekness¿ (hellênikotêta, which all three poets celebrate) has often led critics to assume from the Christian borrowings in the poetry the Christian allegiance of the poets.Through detailed analyses of selected poems, focusing on their relation to Biblical and liturgical source texts, this book questions whether the work of these poets is compatible with Christianity at all. It asks whether a Christ who is assimilated, along with the Virgin Mary, into the ancient Greek pantheon, or presented as a symbol of Beauty, or as object of the erotic desire of the women of the Gospels is still within the realm of Orthodoxy. Above all it asks whether, when the poetic ego appropriates to itself words which in their original context belong to Christ or Jehovah, there is any room left for the divine, or whether the poet has not in fact elbowed God off the stage altogether. 428 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Autor stellt die Entwicklung der urheberrechtsgesetzlichen Vergütungspflicht von kultischer Kirchenmusik in Deutschland in musikwissenschaftlichen, kirchenrechtlichen und urheberrechtlichen Aspekten dar. Ausgehend von der theoretischen Grundlage, der Lehre vom geistigen Eigentum, arbeitet er die Hauptaspekte der Entwicklung, die Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und die grundsätzlich fördernde Haltung der Kirchen Deutschlands heraus. Durch Einbeziehung zweier, der katholischen Kirche nahestehender Archive läßt sich die Darstellung anschaulich nachvollziehen. Die Frage der Vergütungspflicht für andere, bisher gesetzlich freigestellte, etwa soziale Bereiche, ist damit für die Zukunft gestellt. 168 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What can one say about eschatology in the Old Testament For a number of scholars there is no eschatology in the Old Testament and for many others eschatology only occurs at the fringes of that section of the Bible. Biblical Studies have tried to clarify the issues around eschatology, but different views remain.It is from this general background that this book examines the eschatology of the unit of Isa 65 and 66. The author throws new light on what Old Testament eschatology really is and offers a practical view of the unit of Isa 65 and 66, situating it within the larger Isaian tradition. 430 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Walter Benjamin hat mehrfach in seinem Werk die Möglichkeit von «Offenbarung» postuliert, in der die Wahrheit und nichts als ¿die¿ Wahrheit Ereignis würde, sowie die Möglichkeit einer «reinen» Sprache, in der die Wahrheit vollkommenen Ausdruck fände. Beiden Postulaten tritt diese Untersuchung entgegen. Sie faßt darüber hinaus die Anschauung Benjamins von der Konstitution der menschlichen Sprache durch ¿subjektive Vermögen¿ kritisch ins Auge. Im Zentrum stehen die beiden großen Arbeiten des frühen Benjamin zur Sprachphilosophie, Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen (1916) und Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers (1921), die immanent sowie im Rekurs auf thematisch benachbarte Texte, vor allem auf Benjamins umfangreiche Notizen zur Sprachphilosophie neu gelesen werden. 144 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Zuge der aktuellen kriminalpolitischen Entwicklung hat der Gesetzgeber 1999 die StPO um 155a als «prozessuale Grundnorm für die Anwendung des TOA im Strafverfahren» ergänzt. Durch eine dogmatische Betrachtung der möglichen Probleme und die Ausarbeitung einer jeweiligen ¿ sich in das Gesamtgefüge des Strafverfahrensrechts integrierenden ¿ Lösung untersucht die Arbeit, wie sich diese Ergänzung auf die StPO auswirken wird und will so Anhaltspunkte für den Umgang mit dem TOA in der strafverfahrensrechtlichen Praxis liefern. Besondere Beachtung findet dabei die Frage, ob der TOA in Zukunft sogar als neuer Verfahrensgrundsatz der StPO berücksichtigt werden muss. Anlass zu dieser Frage gibt insbesondere die Formulierung des 155a StPO, der die Berücksichtigung der Möglichkeit des TOA in «jedem» Verfahrensstadium fordert. 218 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Aufsätze dieses mehrsprachigen Bandes vermitteln einen besonderen Blick auf die vielfältige europäische Poesie des 19. Jahrhunderts, die hier konsequent unter dem Aspekt des Gedichtzyklus bzw. des komponierten Gedichtbuches betrachtet wird. Dies hat einen eigenen ästhetischen und intellektuellen Reiz. Die Zyklisierung versetzt das individuelle Gedicht in eine spezifische Bewegung, die aus dem Einzeltext selbst nicht hervorgeht. Auch schafft sie ein Widerspiel zwischen Ganzheitssuggestionen und poetischen Ganzheitsdestruktionen, die einer Architektur der ständig bewegten Wolken gleicht. Wie kann ein epochentypisches «Zyklusbewusstsein» rekonstruiert werden Wie reflektieren sich die verschiedenen Stadien der europäischen Romantik und der Postromantik in Kompositionsformen und -stilen zyklisierter Gedichtgruppen Wie lassen sich grenzüberschreitende Inspirationen und Anknüpfungen in diesem Bereich erfassen Wie steht es um eine Theorie des Gedichtzyklus samt verwandten Formen und seiner literarhistorischen Evolution Und wie lassen sich solche Kompositionsformen ohne allzu viel Pedanterie darstellen Solche Fragen ziehen sich durch alle Beiträge. Der komparatistisch gedachte Band ist aus einem mehrjährigen Nationalfondsprojekt der Freiburger Professoren Rolf Fieguth (Slavistik) und Alessandro Martini (Italienische Literatur) hervorgegangen, die Autoren sind zumeist Mitarbeiter der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz. 450 pp. Französisch, Deutsch, Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Johannes VIII. zählt zu den großen Päpsten des 9. Jahrhunderts. Als erster Papst krönte er einen Kaiser, dessen Wahl und Erhebung auf seine Initiative zurückging. Das Kaisertum wurde damit konstitutiv an den Papst gebunden. In welcher Weise war es Johannes VIII. im Anschluss daran möglich, den päpstlichen Herrschaftsanspruch und die päpstliche Vorrangstellung zu formulieren und zur Geltung zu bringen Welchen Handlungsspielraum hatte er in den einzelnen karolingischen Teilreichen Was bedeutete päpstliche Herrschaft im 9. Jahrhundert In der Diskussion dieser Fragen wird anhand der unterschiedlichen Überlieferungen die Verbindung von Herrschaft und Schriftlichkeit untersucht. Zudem werden die Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen päpstlicher Herrschaft und deren weitere Ausbildung eruiert. 268 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Werk Ernst Schönwieses wird nach Gattungen aufgeteilt kritisch gewürdigt: die Lyrik, die Prosakunst, die außer dem Erzählenden auch Aphorismen und Essays einschließt, die Lyrikübertragungen aus anderen Sprachen, das Hörspiel sowie die Tätigkeit Schönwieses als Herausgeber und Förderer von Dichtung. Ein letztes Kapitel beinhaltet in der persönlichen Form unter dem Titel Glück der Erinnerung den Bericht des Autors über seinen Freund. Es enthält ferner eine Reihe von bisher nicht veröffentlichten objektiven Fakten, wie etwa die Tatsache, dass Schönwiese 1986 für den Nobelpreis vorgeschlagen worden ist. 198 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In einem Teil der Arbeit werden die Grundlagen und die Stellung des Prüfingenieurs insbesondere im öffentlichen Baurecht erläutert. Dabei interessiert vor allem, wann es sich um einen beliehenen Unternehmer handelt, wobei Parallelen etwa mit dem Vermessungsingenieur oder dem Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister zu ziehen sind. In einem weiteren Teil steht das Anerkennungsverfahren, wie es auch bei ähnlichen Zweitberufen (z.B. bei Anwaltsnotaren und staatlich anerkannten Sachverständigen) durchlaufen werden muss, im Mittelpunkt. Der dritte Teil beleuchtet die Rechtsbeziehungen zwischen beleihender Körperschaft und dem Prüfingenieur. Ferner geht die Arbeit auf die haftungsrechtliche Verantwortung bei der Einschaltung des Prüfingenieurs im Bauaufsichtsverfahren ein. Dabei werden auch Fehler des Prüfingenieurs bei unterbliebener Aufdeckung von Mängeln, insbesondere bei der Tragwerkskonstruktion eines Bauvorhabens, untersucht. 362 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Walter Brueggemann bietet in diesem Band die Konturen seiner viel diskutierten theoretischen und methodologischen Überlegungen zu einer Neugestaltung der alttestamentlichen Theologie anhand der aktuellen Texte des Alten Testaments. Es kommen mehrere Perspektiven zum Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und alttestamentlichem Text unter die Lupe. Der Verfasser bemüht sich, in einer exemplarischen Entwicklung von Detailthemen sowohl die theologische Relevanz von Motiven wie Gebet, Gehorsam und Gotteslob, als auch die gefährlichen und anstößigen Aspekte des prophetischen Verständnisses vom göttlichen Wort aufzuzeigen. Das Buch ist ein programmatischer Versuch, Theologie als Vergegenwärtigung von spezifischen Texten statt als Systembildung anläßlich solcher Texte zu verstehen. 414 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Sein wurde als einer der bedeutendsten Grundbegriffe in der Geschichte der Philosophie immer wieder behandelt; das Nichts wurde in der Philosophie des Abendlandes zwar ebenso wie das Sein von Anfang an, aber wohl nicht von allen Denkern mit gleicher Nachdrücklichkeit erörtert. Betrachtet man die Philosophiegeschichte Ostasiens, so findet man dort die Genealogie der Reflexion über das Sein und Nichts. Das dynamische Verhältnis von Sein und Nichts wurde im Zen-Buddhismus intensiv reflektiert und es überlieferte der Philosophie der Kyoto-Schule und der zeitgenössischen Zen-Philosophie eine wichtige Grundlage. In dieser Schrift wurde beabsichtigt, die Dynamik von Sein und Nichts sowohl aus der Perspektive des Zen u.a. als auch aus der der Werke von Kant, Hegel, Heidegger u.a. zu reflektieren und vergleichend abzuhandeln. Zur Zen-Philosophie und zur Philosophie der Kyoto-Schule sind nötige sprachwissenschaftliche und philologische Erläuterungen beigefügt. So klären sich offene Fragen, und dem Leser wird die Möglichkeit der dynamischen Umwandlung seiner Reflexionsgrundlage an die Hand gegeben. 420 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new plane - in search of a new synthesis. With its specific focus on the three-tiered matrilineal narratives, Mother, She Wrote is distinguished by its complex and innovative deployment of psychoanalytic subject-relations theories, and a meticulous and detailed discussion of various literary texts, which calls forth a powerful reformulation of these narratives. One of the main strengths of this book is this simultaneous and tactful command of theory and literary practice. Apart from advocating the burgeoning development of women's writing of matrilineal narratives, the author also sheds new light on further research in the area of feminist motherhood and mothering. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Conspiracy of the Good addresses nagging questions that are part of the public debate over schooling. Why do our public schools, especially those in poor and working-class communities of color, fail to live up to the promises of the American dream Why do reforms, those standard items in political campaigns, fail to create meaningful change This book argues that «progressive», well-meaning, good-hearted men and women, who often advocate «good intentions» in the name of «helping those in need», have ended up doing more harm than good. The Conspiracy of the Good explores how these «good intentions» go awry. Michael E. James argues that the core value of the American experience is conflict - not consensus - despite what mainstream historians have espoused over the last few decades. 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The internationalisation of social phenomena, in general, and the emergence of a European society and the ever-tighter integration of European nation states within the context of the European Union, in particular, are challenging international social science research. Knowledge about the implications of a transnational research approach for the practice of social research is still poor. This book sheds light on the experiences and challenges of a new international social research approach based on empirical data about European transnational socio-economic research projects - which were conducted under the European Union's social science research programmes, featuring transnational, interdisciplinary, and applied or policy relevant social research. Building the European Research Area also presents considerations and recommendations regarding how to establish social sciences research infrastructures scaffolding transnational research in Europe. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the authors investigate the issue of language conflict situations in Nigeria resulting from the contact of Nigeria's indigenous languages with one another as well as with English and Pidgin English. The study captures patterns of language preference with the help of a survey of language attitudes and loyalties covering five Nigerian states. This book provides essential material for researchers and students in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics as well as for educationists and language policy specialists. 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appropriated much from Kierkegaard, but recast the mass into the fundamental ontology of Das Man. Moreover, his work was informed by Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism and the will of power. Finally, the masses are considered from the vision of Ortega y Gasset's philosophy of human life. This book relates all four of these thinkers into a philosophical perspective upon the nature of the mass. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is well known that Flaubert harboured an obsessive hatred of the bourgeois and his mentality which erupts constantly and explosively in his correspondence, informs large parts of the works set in his own time, Madame Bovary, L'Éducation sentimentale, Un Coeur simple and Bouvard et Pécuchet and even overflows into Salammbô and his theatrical experiments. Since most of his thought and writing is so visibly and vitally affected by this obsession, it seems valuable to investigate its origins, its development and its significance for his art. That is the aim of this study which begins with a look at representations of the bourgeois in French literature before Flaubert and goes on to examine in detail what proves to be a more complex phenomenon than might at first sight appear. 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study examines the life and works of the poet Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819). It begins with an analysis of Stolberg's essays on poetic expression in relation to Romantic thinking, and the impact of his poetic style on Novalis's early poetry. Stolberg's aesthetic education in Italy is examined as well as his challenge to the idea that classical sculpture was always the pinnacle of beauty and that the culture of antiquity was the highest form of humanity. The detection of melancholy in Greek sculpture, which arises from the transfer of anxieties about redemption from the artist to the artefact, affected his response and detracted from the beauty of the sculpture. This view amounted to an attack on Goethe and Schiller, as it identified the issue of salvation and death as a weakness in the classical paradigm. The picture of Italy that Stolberg offered was overshadowed by a crisis of confidence in the aesthetic insights both of Winckelmann and of Lessing and was also the basis for his reception of Raphael and Michelangelo. Stolberg arrived at a response to Renaissance art and artists that marginally predates the early German Romantic worship of artists in the 1790s. The book concludes with a discussion of Stolberg's support of Romantic politics and Romantic conversions. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study offers a critical assessment of the two contested issues, religious pluralism and iconoclasm, from a Korean perspective by looking at a number of Isaiah's central themes, which can be identified as particularistic and universalistic. It also seeks to elucidate the contemporary implications of Isaiah's particularistic and universalistic themes for a pluralistic world, especially for Korean religious communities, which have been overwhelmed by a fiery debate about these issues. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Designing a contract is often more of an economic than a legal problem. A good contract protects parties against opportunistic behavior while providing motivation to cooperate. This is where economics and, especially contract theory, may prove helpful by enhancing our understanding of incentive issues. The purpose of this book is to provide specific tools which will help to write better contracts in real world environments. Concentrating on moral hazard literature, this book derives a tentative checklist for drafting contracts. As an economic contribution to a field traditionally considered an art rather than a science, this treatment also gives much attention to methodological issues. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book At the Threshold of Mystery: Poetic Encounters with Other(ness) addresses the problem of literary dialogue as it appears in the philosophical, poetic and aesthetic discourses in the last two centuries. Central to the dialogue with Other(ness) is a background discussion of the idea of friendship as an encounter with another individual, with another man, with God (or gods) and also with another culture, the issues present in Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy. Merleau-Ponty's concept of intersubjectivity becomes a crucial point in the creative construction of the philosophy of dialogue, whose ideological antecedents date back to the times of Plato. At the border of language, or at the threshold of mystery, there crowds what is «metaphysically arcane» or immediate, that which signals «the other», the «out there». The central idea which this book examines is how to reconcile the hermetically sealed historical past with modern times in order to inaugurate the genuine philosophy of dialogue. It is the author's strong belief that by interrupting totality, the poetic work, which often turns into the prophetic signature or voice, «the trace of other(ness)», seems to give testimony to the primordial experience so essential for the birth of poetry. The poetic examples of the mysterious encounters with Other(ness) are selected, each in its most idiosyncratic way, from Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Seamus Heaney, and two Polish poets, Zbigniew Herbert and Adam Zagajewski (but also from Walter Pater's aesthetic epiphanies). 246 pp. Englisch.