peter lang peter lang aug 2008 (132 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any particularity of cause, and in doing so calls into question many longstanding beliefs about racial violence. The book goes on to portray the riots as a phenomenon, documenting the number of incidents, describing the events in detail, and analyzing the patterns that emerge from looking at the riots collectively. Finally and significantly, Race Riots and Resistance argues that the response to the riots marked an early stage of what came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, authors from four continents share their visions on how democracy needs to be cultivated, critiqued, demonstrated, and manifested throughout the educational experience. The collective concern is how we actually do democracy in education. The essays argue that democracy must be infused in everything that happens at school: curriculum, extra-curricular activities, interaction with parents and communities, and through formal organization and structures.One of the book¿s central questions is: Are educators merely teaching students skills and knowledge to prepare them for the world of work, or is education more about encouraging students to thrive within a pluralistic society This book reveals that democracy is an ethos, an ideology, a set of values, a philosophy, and a complex and dynamic terrain that is a contested forum for debate.From seasoned veterans to emerging scholars, these writers challenge the idea that there is only one type of democracy, or that democracy is defined by elections. Using a range of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches, each essay makes a compelling case for how education can advance a more critical engagement in democracy that promotes social justice and political literacy for all. Diverse examples illustrate the theme of doing democracy. With its numerous models for teaching and learning to encourage critical thinking and engagement, this book is certain to be an invaluable resource to educators, researchers, students, and anyone with a passion for democratic ideals.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Rather than responding authoritatively, each essay acknowledges the contributor¿s own work. This book offers no answers, but invites a conversation that is more akin to a beginning, a joining, an admission that there is more than «me», «us», or «my kind» of people, theory, or wisdom. The book will be an excellent resource for instructors and for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication. 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book addresses the influence of the imperial cult in first-century AD Asia Minor and its subsequent relevance to the reading of the New Testament. In particular, this work argues, through a contrapuntal reading of 1 Timothy 2:1-7, that the early Christian community strongly resisted the Emperor¿s claim to be the «mediator» between the gods and humanity. In contrast to this claim, the author shows that 1 Timothy 2:1-7 can be read as a polemic from a minority community, the Christian church in Ephesus, against the powerful voice of the Roman Empire in regard to divine mediation. 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such processes to the global dynamics of empire building and a suppressed history of American imperialism. Through a comparative analysis of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this study considers the ways in which bodies challenge the categories asserted in nation-building. The book proposes that underwritten by the vast histories of American imperial migrations, there are texts and bodies which challenge and reconstitute the ever-vexed definition of «American». In «re-membering» such bodies, Maria C. Zamora proclaims our bodies as actual living texts, texts that are constantly bearing, contesting, and transforming meaning. Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature will engage scholars interested in cultural and critical theory, citizenship and national identity, race and ethnicity, the body, gender studies, and transnational literature. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Human language is the only proper tool through which man¿s intelligence is capable to attain the truth of reality. In deciphering the truth of reality, however, the human intelligence can establish a twofold meaning of things, namely, ¿meaning-content¿ and ¿meaning-value¿; the former concerning the objectivity of beings, the latter expressing the existential dimensions of human subjectivity. In his philosophy of man and his axiology of human behavior, Karol Wojtyla tries to keep a balance between the objective and subjective truth of man conceived as a person. But, considering human nature as it is found in each and every individual person, Wojtyla tries to establish a synthesis between the language that expresses the truth of man¿s beingness in his/her objectivity, and the language that unfolds various existential values of one¿s own unique subjectivity. In view of the twofold language of meaning, Karol Wojtyla was able to synthesize the traditional metaphysics of being with the contemporary axiology of human moral experience and behavior. 386 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the twentieth century, Christian eschatology, the doctrine about the final reality, became a storm center for Christian systematic theologians because of the rediscovery of the eschatological character of Jesus Christ. In the twenty-first century, Christian theologians continue to wrestle with the claims of Christian eschatology because of a postmodern suspicion of eschatological certainty claims about a future that is, after all, objectively unavailable, yet still of great human concern. Human beings live on hope for the future. An Eschatological Imagination recognizes the problem of the future for Christian eschatology. Building on the major theological writings of David Tracy, it offers a revised way of thinking and living eschatologically in the form of an eschatological imagination as a rhetoric of virtue, an exhortation to live in Christian hope in a postmodern world and into an objectively unavailable and uncertain future. Within such a rhetoric, hope becomes action - not mere sentiment - that seeks to create a Christian eschatological future. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study examines the short-term and long-term wealth effects of 96 cross-border bank mergers between 1985 and 2005. In the short-term, even after a thorough accounting for information leakage, transactions are found to be wealth-creating, albeit only on a net basis with target gains more than compensating for bidder losses. Contrary to earlier evidence, no abnormal long-term returns are detected, which supports the validity of the inferences drawn from the short-term. Furthermore, a thorough analysis of factors that can explain wealth creation ex-ante suggests that bidder and net wealth creation is higher if bidders take over targets that are already relatively cost efficient ex-ante and do not acquire in «hot» deal markets. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The microstructure approach provides valuable insights into high-frequent exchange rate dynamics. Recent studies, including this book, evidence the prominence of information asymmetries for asset pricing as well as order flow's important role during information aggregation processes via trading. However, results indicate that dealers quote prices in contrast to predictions of standard theory of asset pricing under asymmetric information. By analysing a unique data set of EUR/USD transactions at a German bank, this work investigates whether this pricing behaviour is due to dealers' strategic dealing considerations or traders' relative market power. The study concludes that it is market power rather than strategic dealing that determines dealers' pricing strategy. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The European Union's internal market is the «hard core» of integration and by far its most precious asset. However a number of deep-seated factors have impeded the development of a systematic and wide-ranging academic research programme dedicated to the internal market. The purpose of this book is to begin to address this predicament with a tri-disciplinary analysis of the internal market, as scant opportunities for mutual understanding and learning across disciplines (law, economics and politics) currently exist. Internal market scholars from all three disciplines collaborated on this project, in which each chapter was read and critiqued by a scholar from a different discipline. The editors trust that this unique exercise reveals to many readers the enormous potential for in-depth and continuous analysis of the internal market and all that it entails. It also provides an accessible text for students and scholars from all three disciplines interested in the internal market. 318 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology, Ian Bell takes on the issue of the separation of the interior and exterior lives that has come to dominate mystical theology over the years. The mystical life, he claims, is necessarily involved in the establishment of social structures and institutions that govern human living, and the work of Bernard Lonergan on the human subject provides a means by which the connection between the interior and exterior lives may be established. Because human persons operate in a consistent pattern regardless of a given moment's particularities, mystical experience is no longer relegated to so-called spiritual matters, and the insights of mystics may be applied to the Christian call to live as agents of love. With this connection in place, mystical theology and political theology come together in a theology that is both mystical and political. 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The nineteenth century saw a fundamental change in the practice and psychology of shopping with the appearance of the department store: La Samaritaine in Paris (1869), Macy¿s in New York (1858) and Harrods in London (1849) were early representations of Western consumer culture. The Sentiment of Spending examines this shift first on a socio-historic level and then through the literary lens of some of the century¿s most vital authors, the exponents of Naturalism ¿ Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, and Jori-Karl Huysmans ¿ as well as the fascinating, if rarely studied, Rachilde. In the works discussed, the characters reveal through their interpersonal, sexual, and sentimental relationships the penetrating effects of a consumerist culture. As both a literary and social analysis, this book also addresses the moral question inherent in a world where shopping and sentiment are so inextricably intertwined. The Sentiment of Spending provides profound insights into some essential texts, and is an engaging read for anyone with an interest in French literature and its reflection of our society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book, which developed from an understanding of the dialectical relationship between theology and the church, provides information about the function and domain of language in the church through an analysis of its creedal statements. The study begins with an historical investigation of the crisis in linguistic interpretation in the church and theological community. Subsequently, a philosophical framework is presented through an investigation of particularly significant aspects of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later writings. Following a discussion of the alternative readings of Wittgenstein by theologians, examples are presented for ways in which we can apply Wittgenstein's linguistic approach to the interpretation of creeds. After distinguishing optional approaches to the creeds, the book presents an understanding of creedal statements in light of Wittgenstein. Reclaiming the functional nature of doxological language within its liturgical context provides a central connection between the language of the church and the actions of its members.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 178 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a judicial case involving the custody of two Jewish orphans mushroomed into a major crisis of Jewish-Christian relations in France. A New York Times journalist called this affair «the worst religious storm of post-war France». The Finaly Affair (1945-1953), which is best understood in the context of post-Vichy anti-Semitism, came about when Catholic fundamentalist beliefs came into conflict with France's republican principles. This affair polarized the French nation and was transformed into a national crisis by the explosive power of the French press. It had lasting consequences for interfaith relations in France and for the French Jewish community. In the Shadow of Vichy captures this astonishing story of how the Church's kidnapping of two Jewish children just after World War II helped to hasten the revolutionary changes of Vatican II. 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents a selection of essays by established Italian and international scholars in the field of Romantic drama. It is divided into four main sections: 1) Dramatic Theory and Practice; 2) On the Romantic Stage: History, Arts, and Acting; 3) Interaction of Genres: from Fiction to Drama; 4) The Romantics¿ Debate on Theatre and Drama: a Selected Anthology. The crucial area of debate these essays address is the way in which the problem of the dramatic representation of the self becomes in Romantic drama the very centre of reflection on the constitution of the modern subject. Each essay explores one or more aspects of the formation of modern subjectivity through dramatic representation of the self and through critical enquiry into the modes of that representation. The first and the fourth sections discuss the complex interaction between the theoretical questions that animated the debate around the Romantic theatre and the multifarious and often unruly performance practices of the time. The other two sections deal with the many and diverse ways in which Romantic drama engaged with and incorporated other artistic genres such as painting, performing arts, music, and the novel. 358 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In contrast to the other synoptic evangelists the author of Matthew proceeded differently in many respects. Why did he modify the text so much and arrange ten miracle narratives one after the other at one stretch with minor interruptions Why did he place the so-called «miracle chapters» immediately after the Sermon on the Mount. Why did he enclose them between two summary statements on either side These are only some of the unanswered questions about chapters 8 and 9 of Matthew¿s Gospel.Beginning with Aristotle¿s theory of the drama or tragedy, the author suggests that the way the evangelist has reworked and reorganized the miracle narratives is similar to the structure of the classic drama. By discovering the narrative strategies and the discourse aspect, we are able to demonstrate how each episode corresponds to the different moments of a plot such as the initial situation, inciting moment, complication, climax with suspense and finally resolution and denouement. 366 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume summarizes the results of a research project organized at Mainz University in Germersheim, Germany. It focused on the Jewish community in Kaifeng in China (12 to 19 century). In recent years, increasing research has been done about the history and culture of the Jews in China, and in the future, more academic interest in all questions connected with it can be expected. Main topics are the perception of Chinese Judaism in European history as well as in Chinese society itself, the self-image of the descendants in Kaifeng and their present status in China, and how China deals with foreign ethnics and religions as part of its own history and identity. These topics were discussed from various interdisciplinary points of view. The authors from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Great Britain, France, and Germany are prominent sino-judaists who present their latest results of research in the light of new facts and approaches. 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Metaphysical Vision: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Art and Life and Samuel Beckett's Own Way to Make Use of It expands upon the ideas and theories set forth in the author's Die eigentlich metaphysische Tätigkeit: Über Schopenhauers Ästhetik und ihre Anwendung durch Samuel Beckett, published (in German) in 1982 and hailed by Catharina Wulf in her book The Imperative of Narration (1997) as an «excellent study» and «the most thorough enquiry into Beckett and Schopenhauer.» In the last years of the twentieth century, new documents regarding Samuel Beckett's reading and thinking, especially important not Elektronisches Buch and letters, have become accessible to scholars. These documents show much more clearly than could ever be demonstrated previously that Beckett had a strong, lifelong interest in Schopenhauer's philosophy. There is no other philosopher to whom Beckett refers more often in his personal comments throughout the years of his writing up to his seventies; no other philosopher whose view of life and the world comes closer to the image of human existence we find in Samuel Beckett's literary work. The striking similarity in matters of world view and human life, and especially the evidence obtained from Beckett's previously unknown not Elektronisches Buch and letters, call for a close systematic study of the Beckett-Schopenhauer relationship. Due to its comprehensiveness and in-depth approach, The Metaphysical Vision is, and will be for many years to come, what its forerunner was for more than two decades: the most thorough enquiry into Beckett and Schopenhauer. 262 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study of the Matthean narrative uses the interpretive lens of food exchange to explore the Matthean community's relationship with the wider world. While many studies depict this community as withdrawing from or in conflict with the larger society, James P. Grimshaw's focus on the daily need for food reveals a community that, while distinct, progressively integrates itself into the larger Jewish and Gentile society and the natural world. In addition, this view of community corresponds to the view of a God who actively provides for and relates to all creation. Grimshaw's alternative portrayal of the Matthean community, whose interactions with its surrounding environment are more complex and sustained than often imagined, is a compelling interpretation for today's stratified and disconnected world. 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any particularity of cause, and in doing so calls into question many longstanding beliefs about racial violence. The book goes on to portray the riots as a phenomenon, documenting the number of incidents, describing the events in detail, and analyzing the patterns that emerge from looking at the riots collectively. Finally and significantly, Race Riots and Resistance argues that the response to the riots marked an early stage of what came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Rather than responding authoritatively, each essay acknowledges the contributor's own work. This book offers no answers, but invites a conversation that is more akin to a beginning, a joining, an admission that there is more than «me», «us», or «my kind» of people, theory, or wisdom. The book will be an excellent resource for instructors and for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Les multiples facettes de l¿hyperactivité interpellent parents, enseignants et autres professionnels de l¿enfance et de l¿adolescence. Afin de mieux comprendre ces difficultés comportementales, la première partie de cet ouvrage présente plusieurs modèles théorico-cliniques, passés et récents, qui rendent compte de l¿agitation pathologique des enfants. La question complexe du diagnostic est notamment discutée. La seconde partie porte plus spécifiquement sur les liens particuliers qüentretiennent les enfants hyperactifs avec la temporalité. Ces enfants parviennent-ils à se représenter le temps, à évaluer des durées et à utiliser les marqueurs temporels L¿utilisation d¿épreuves piagétiennes et de questionnaires (aux enfants, aux parents) permet de répondre partiellement à ces questions et ouvre de nouvelles perspectives dans la compréhension des enfants agités. La difficulté d¿instauration d¿un temps transitionnel constitue l¿une des pistes avancées. 310 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage offre une vision d¿ensemble sur les recherches en slavistique menées actuellement en Suisse. Toutes les facettes y sont représentées : la littérature de la Russie et des autres pays de langue slave, la linguistique des langues slaves, et enfin l¿histoire des idées scientifiques dans le domaine des sciences humaines en Europe orientale. On voit ainsi peu à peu se dessiner le renouveau de la slavistique, avec des thèmes engagés dans les débats de l¿épistémologie contemporaine.Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Forschung in der Schweizer Slavistik. Dabei werden alle Bereiche berücksichtigt: Literatur aus Russland und anderen slavischen Ländern, slavische Linguistik und nicht zuletzt die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften in Osteuropa. Die zentralen Themen, welche die heutigen wissenschaftlichen Debatten beleben, zeugen von einer Erneuerung innerhalb der Slavistik. 406 pp. Französisch, Deutsch, Russisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage explore une question centrale : est-il encore permis de croire, aujourd¿hui, au principe de l¿égalité des chances et au rôle de l¿institution éducative dans la poursuite de cet idéal Les auteurs, ancrés dans diverses disciplines des sciences sociales et de l¿éducation, apportent à cette interrogation une réponse prudente.Quatre démarches complémentaires sont articulées et correspondent aux quatre grandes parties de l¿ouvrage : la discussion des théories de la justice et de leur pertinence dans le champ de l¿éducation et de la formation ; une sociologie des cadres cognitifs et normatifs de l¿action publique ; la documentation empirique des inégalités et des processus qui les sous-tendent ; et l¿analyse des politiques publiques contemporaines dans ce domaine, jusque dans les dispositifs pragmatiques qui les incarnent.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 428 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Erfolg der Implementierung von Gender Budgeting als finanzpolitischem Instrument der Strategie des Gender Mainstreaming hängt wesentlich von den Geschlechterleitbildern der zentralen Akteur/innen ab, da deren Vorstellungen die Problemwahrnehmung samt den in der Folge beschlossenen Maßnahmen grundlegend beeinflussen, dabei aber häufig nicht mit dem eigentlichen Ziel der Herstellung von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit kompatibel sind. Interviews mit Akteur/innen des Pilotprojektes im Wiener Bezirk Meidling wurden im Hinblick auf dominante geschlechtsspezifische Zuschreibungen geführt und ausgewertet. Im Ergebnis zeigte sich häufig ein Verfestigen gängiger, einschränkender Leitbilder anstelle kritischen Reflektierens und ernstzunehmender Bemühungen, faktische Chancengleichheit herzustellen. 122 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Entwicklung der Krankenpflege innerhalb der Strukturen des preußischen Medizinalwesens im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei die Macht- und Interessenkonstellationen, die den gesetzgeberischen Entscheidungsprozessen im Kaiserreich zugrunde lagen und in das staatliche preußische Krankenpflegeexamen von 1907 mündeten. Den berufspolitisch engagierten Pflegenden stand aufgrund ihrer organisatorischen Zersplitterung, der stark ausgeprägten weltanschaulichen und sozialen Gegensätze innerhalb der Pflege sowie geringem politischem Einfluß ein erdrückendes Übergewicht gegenüber. Alle relevanten an den politischen Entscheidungen beteiligten Akteure, insbesondere Ärzte sowie staatliche und kirchliche Gremien, wirkten zu Ungunsten des Krankenpflegeberufs zusammen. Dies führte dazu, daß die Krankenpflege nicht nach angloamerikanischem Vorbild professionalisiert, sondern als ärztlicher Hilfsberuf auf sehr niedrigem Niveau normiert wurde.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 342 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ausgehend von historischen, institutionellen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen wird untersucht, ob die politischen Parteien in der Ukraine ihre Funktionen in Wahlen, Parlament und Regierung erfüllen und wie sich Funktionsdefizite auf das politische System auswirken. Ausgewertet werden Umfragedaten, Wahlprogramme, Gesetzestexte, Internetreporte usw. Der zeitliche Fokus liegt zwischen Herbst 2004 und Herbst 2007. Damit ist diese Arbeit zugleich eine aktuelle Darstellung der politischen Entwicklung der Ukraine in diesem Zeitraum, die besonders seit der «Orangen Revolution» auch für den Westen von Interesse sein muss. Nach wie vor weisen die Parteien zahlreiche Defizite in der Funktionsfähigkeit auf, nehmen aber einen wichtigen und für die Zukunft bestimmenden Platz im politischen System ein. 128 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Jede fesselnde Geschichte macht aus uns gespaltene Persönlichkeiten. Ein Buch lang sehen wir mit den Augen eines Helden aus Druckerschwärze; zwei Filmstunden über stehen wir mit einem Bein in der digitalen Welt. Umso größer ist die Herausforderung, wenn wir uns der Perspektive einer in sich zerrissenen Figur anvertrauen. Eine Vorstellung, die zu bestimmten Zeiten auf das Publikum eine gesteigerte Faszination ausübt. Im Kino der Gegenwart etwa ist die Persönlichkeitsspaltung zu einem der beliebtesten Motive geworden. Vergleichbar häufig begegnete man dem Alter Ego zuletzt in der Literatur der Schwarzen Romantik. Waren es damals E. T. A. Hoffmanns Erzählungen, so sind es heute David Lynchs Filme, die dieses Thema besonders virtuos umsetzen. An ihrem Beispiel geht diese Arbeit den Fragen nach: Mit welchen Mitteln gelingt es Literatur und Film, den Eindruck dissoziierter Subjektivität zu erzeugen Sind Filme den Büchern tatsächlich darin voraus, die Grenze zwischen unserer Welt und der des Kunstwerks aufzuheben Ist es die letzte Konsequenz der Medien, uns zu verschlingen oder bleiben wir gespalten ¿ beruhigt und sehnsüchtig 128 pp. Deutsch.