brill sep 2016 (81 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Es ist schon kurios, dass die Soziologie eines der anspruchsvollsten und innovativsten Theorieunternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert ausgerechnet der Arbeit eines ehemaligen Verwaltungsbeamten verdankt. Schließlich war Niklas Luhmann nur durch Zufälle und über Umwege überhaupt in der akademischen Soziologie gelandet . Komplexe Einführungen zum Thema Luhmann gibt es zuhauf. Die Reihe Philosophie für Einsteiger geht einen anderen Weg. Zeichnung und Text sind gleichberechtigt, was diese kurze und äußerst unterhaltsame Einführung besonders leicht verständlich macht. Mit reichlich anekdotischem und biographischem Material ausgestattet, wird der Leser mit Leben und Denken Luhmanns vertraut gemacht. Kleine Exkurse machen sein Denken besser verständlich - wer Luhmanns Einfluss auf die Soziologie verstehen will, muss nicht gleich seine gesammelten Werke wälzen! Warum verabschiedete dieser außergewöhnliche Denker die klassischen Grundbegriffe der Soziologie Warum war bei ihm nicht mehr von 'Menschen', 'Klassen' oder 'Handlungen' die Rede, sondern stattdessen von 'Autopoiesis' und 'System', von 'Funktion' und 'Doppelter Kontingenz' Und welche Rolle spielte dabei sein legendärer Zettelkasten 88 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Es ist schon kurios, dass die Soziologie eines der anspruchsvollsten und innovativsten Theorieunternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert ausgerechnet der Arbeit eines ehemaligen Verwaltungsbeamten verdankt. Schließlich war Niklas Luhmann nur durch Zufälle und über Umwege überhaupt in der akademischen Soziologie gelandet . Komplexe Einführungen zum Thema Luhmann gibt es zuhauf. Die Reihe Philosophie für Einsteiger geht einen anderen Weg. Zeichnung und Text sind gleichberechtigt, was diese kurze und äußerst unterhaltsame Einführung besonders leicht verständlich macht. Mit reichlich anekdotischem und biographischem Material ausgestattet, wird der Leser mit Leben und Denken Luhmanns vertraut gemacht. Kleine Exkurse machen sein Denken besser verständlich - wer Luhmanns Einfluss auf die Soziologie verstehen will, muss nicht gleich seine gesammelten Werke wälzen! Warum verabschiedete dieser außergewöhnliche Denker die klassischen Grundbegriffe der Soziologie Warum war bei ihm nicht mehr von ¿Menschen¿, ¿Klassen¿ oder ¿Handlungen¿ die Rede, sondern stattdessen von ¿Autopoiesis¿ und ¿System¿, von ¿Funktion¿ und ¿Doppelter Kontingenz¿ Und welche Rolle spielte dabei sein legendärer Zettelkasten.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Literary Forms of Argument in Early China, Gentz and Meyer explore a new analytical approach to the study of written thinking by focusing on the argumentative function of literary patterns in early Chinese texts.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In early modern times, Seville was the most important hub for the transatlantic economy. It attracted a large number of foreign merchants who connected the American with the European markets. While the transatlantic axis of this trade has drawn much attention in historiography, the connection between Seville and the European Atlantic coast has largely been ignored. Therefore, this book analyzes the central actors of this trade route who were the Flemish and French merchants of Seville. Following their commercial activities, it shows features of their private and business networks in Seville and displays fundamental structures and processes of the European and transatlantic economy.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first complete English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), together with introduction, commentaries and indices.Topics include the apostleship of Mani, the practices of the Manichaean community, accounts of the heavenly and demonic beings and worlds, as well as discussions of astrology and religious psychology.In Manichaeism many of the gnostic and dualistic themes of early Christianity achieved the status of a world religion, and the subject is the heir to contemporary interest in heterodoxy and the deconstruction of received histories (see the Nag Hammadi codices).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume focuses on the postwar rehabilitation of Jews returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch elsewhere. Migrant Holocaust survivors and Jews from Arab and Muslim countries had to rebuild their lives after suffering extreme persecution.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies it is pioneering in its international, comparative approach to the population.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and important area of research. Both established experts and new voices address typological debates, comparative theology, multiple religious belonging or identity, and how dialogue between different religious traditions affects our understanding of these issues. Different perspectives and traditions are represented, and, while focusing upon debates in Christian theology, voices and perspectives from a range of religious traditions are also included. This volume is an essential tool for research students and established scholars working within the theology of religions and interreligious studies.Contributors are: Graham Adams, Tony Bayfield, Abraham Velez de Cea, Gavin D'Costa, Reuven Firestone, Ray Gaston, Elizabeth Harris, Paul Hedges, Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, Haifaa Jawad, Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Paul F. Knitter, Oddbjørn Leirvik, Marianne Moyaert, Mark Owen, Alan Race, Sigrid Rettenbacher, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Leonard Swidler, Philip Whitehead, Janet Williams, Ulrich Winkler.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the 'dynamic plant' through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The problem of the limits of science - of the 'barriers' and the 'confines' - requires a new analysis, which is the task of this book. The issue is considered from the perspective of science as a human activity.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Persistence of the Human explores literary and cinematic works dealing with personal identity and consciousness. Escobar examines works in which traumatic loss challenges identity and the question of 'the human' arises concluding that narrative is essential for the self.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost studies Réda's influential work since the 1950s-poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. It particularly examines places explored and how the 'world's energy' becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one's arms.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Radical Planes 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed 'everything, ' and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the 'Biblical Studies' in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book argues that Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism leading international scholars provide a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dusan Zupka examines rituals as means of symbolic communication in medieval political culture focusing on the Hungarian Kingdom under the rule of the Árpáds.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Sanford N. Katz nineteen leading family law scholars in the US and Britain pay tribute to Sanford Katz, Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor Emeritus and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School by giving a critical account of developments in family law in their jurisdictions since 2000. Areas covered include the institution of marriage, financial and property issues, parents and children, the state and children, access to justice, and international issues as well as an overview by the Editor. The volume will provide a stimulating and accessible account of the state and current direction of travel of family law in those countries.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of the Old Testament quotations in Matthew's prologue which establish a redemptive-historical context, and develop expectations for David's son to end Israel's exile and rule the nations.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dance in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an authentic expression of Islam by analyzing the objects themselves.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Food is at the centre of human existence. We eat every day, not only to satisfy our physical needs but also as part of cultural and social interaction. Food choices and markets shape the agricultural landscape and the cities we live in. Whereas what we choose to eat and feed our family is part of who we are, a growing number of actors compete to influence our food habits, through marketing strategies and nutritional advice. And ethical considerations are coupled with every choice over food - whether related to production, distribution, consumption, food waste, policy in general, marketing or advice. Given the variety of implications the 'food problem' entails, the construction of an inclusive society must redirect the concerns about food in the present to the imagination of future alternatives. The search for innovative solutions calls for multidisciplinary critical enquiry - and utopian thinking will be instrumental in that regard. This book brings together work by scholars in a wide range of disciplines addressing many different topics related to food futures. Topics covered include food and literature, food waste, food communication, food policy, corporate social responsibility and public procurement in food supply, responsible research and innovation in food production as well as sustainability and animal ethics and welfare.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book involves a historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works and its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The study is supported by intertextual comparison, narratological and papyrological investigations.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago delineates the legacy and further development of the picaresque in a selection of novels by contemporary Italian and Anglophone writers along several thematic and stylistic lines.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Scanning the Hypnoglyph by Nathaniel Wallace is concerned with the representation of sleep, with emphasis on postmodern verbal art and literature. Theories of subjectivity, narrative, and gender are considered, along with key works relevant for delineating a contemporary genre.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book analyses the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. It discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imaging a possible postnational world in twenty-first century East Asia and beyond.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The so-called eighth Stromateus is a series of excerpts on inquiry, demonstration, scepticism, and causal theory, made or adopted by Clement of Alexandria. This book provides a translation and commentary of the text and a study of its origin and purpose.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Color has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. 'Color worlds', consisting of practices, concepts and objects, form the central category of analysis in this volume. The essays examine a rich variety of 'color worlds', and their constituent engagements with materials, productions and the ordering and conceptualization of color. Many color worlds appear to have intersected and cross-fertilized at the beginning of the seventeenth century; the essays focus especially on the creation of color languages and boundary objects to communicate across color worlds, or indeed when and why this failed to happen.Contributors include: Tawrin Baker, Barbara H. Berrie, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karin Leonhard, Andrew Morrall, Doris Oltrogge, Valentina Pugliano, Anna Marie Roos, Romana Sammern (Filzmoser) and Simon Werrett.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This collection of articles is a Festschrift for prof. Johann Cook of Stellenbosch University. The articles present original research, new topics of study and novel insights on subjects related to the Septuagint, early Jewish sages and various ancient scriptures.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - John A. González, Director of the Rozhkov Historical Research Centre, examines the evolution of the thought of the most important and prolific historian after V.O. Kliuchevskii. Rozhkov's transformation from liberal thinker to social democrat is explored against the background of Russia's paradigmatic shift from tsarist regime to revolutionary government.