Brill jan 2002 (66 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The autobiographical turn in biblical criticism reveals the interpreter's 'I' and reclaims it as an essential critical category, issuing a challenge to traditional, 'objective' criticism. Pioneers in the field have contributed essays both practical and theoretical. They offer stimulating auto…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (MB IIA) in Canaan (ca. 1950-1740 B.C.E.) set the stage for many of the cultural, political, and economic institutions that shaped the ancient Near East. Particular theoretical models for the analysis of complex societies are used in this study to examin…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Each volume in the very well known series The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Irelandcontains special introductory chapters on important aspects of the study of British Lepidoptera; keys to families and species; a systematic section consisting of a full description, details of the…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The 'conversations' recorded here demonstrate pragmatism's versatility and contemporary relevance. Whether it be rhetoric, literature, philosophy,…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book deals with a rejection of the widespread fakeries that have emerged in twentieth-century art, which we call by their Platonic name, sophistry. The book also presents brief descriptions of some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev as to what constitutes a beautiful w…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present collection of essays grew out of a conference, held in Dresden in December 2001, exploring the relationship between the public sphere and legal culture. The conference was held in connection with the ongoing research undertaken by the Sonderforschungsbereich 537 'Institutionalisat…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book advocates a return to the spirit of the Greek notion of paideia, emphasizing a pedagogy of becoming. The authors offer a holistic approach to education that aspires toward the inclusion, promotion, and nurturance of virtue and valuation. Topics range from the purely conceptual to ap…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphaël Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish poets - Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. This study explores the inter…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How is it possible to imagine what is unknown and therefore unimaginable How can the unimaginable be represented On what materials do such representations rely These questions lie at the heart of this book. Copernican theory redefined the role and importance of the imagination even as it impl…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to the violence lurking in today's classrooms. Where education becomes wisdom-based, it transfor…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ideas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of 19 essays is the first one devoted to function-oriented analyses of intermedial interrelationships in literature, art, music, and film. The contributors -- among others, Werner Wolf, James Heffernan, Walter Bernhart, Siglind Bruhn, Claus Clüver, Valerie Robillard, and Tamar…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Demonstrating Richard Rorty's breadth of scholarship and his influence on diverse issues across the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive bibliography contains 1,165 citations. A unique reference work on neo-pragmatism, this bibliography is essential for anyone researching Rorty'…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates that the most forceful contribution to George Gurdjieff's world-view is Sufism, understood as the tradition of seeking truth wherever it can be found, especially at the meeting place of the world religions. Gurdjieff's masterpiece, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this study, Geoffrey Westgate offers a new understanding of Irmtraud Morgner by reading her as a specifically East German writer. Through close analysis of her works - the early journalism and socialist realism, the 'socialist modernism' of the banned Rumba auf einen Herbst, the largely ne…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arab immigrants to Southeast Asia and their descendants have not received much attention in comparison with immigrants from other parts of the world such as the Chinese, Indians and Europeans. Numerically the Arabs as they are called up till now, have always paled into insignificance besides…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The British have been involved in numerous wars since the Middle Ages. Many, if not all, of these wars have been re-constructed in historical accounts, in the media and in the arts, and have thus kept the nation's cultural memory of its wars alive. Wars have influenced the cultural constructi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or wh…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical and comparative aspects: they look into the status of Wilde as poet, dramatist, essayist and int…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a unique view of the current state of development of bioethics in Latin America. Twelve Latin American thinkers who share a primary interest in bioethics address a vast range of questions, including autonomy, rights, justice, and the role of culture and religion in bioethic…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book gathers six trenchant new analyses of the idea of the person as raised by the German philosopher and social theorist Max Scheler (1874-1928). The issues raised in the volume are both timely and perennial, from considerations of postmodernity, phenomenology, and metaphysics, to sharp…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae. The general cultural framework with its social and material factors is largely neglected, despite the obvious impact on both collective and individual m…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The question of memory intrigues us more and more as industrialized societies move further and further away from the written word. In the past the role of memory was integral to literary history, precise mnemonics served as the support systems for erudition, and Mnemosyne was mother of the Mu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind's architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical cons…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Shape of Change, Anne L. Birberick and Russell Ganim bring together essays by fourteen established scholars who dedicate their studies to David Rubin as they explore the ways in which artistic endeavor shapes and is shaped by literary memory. The volume is divided into two sections. Th…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - French Prose in 2000 stems in some important measure from work presented in September 1998 at the International Colloquium on French and Francophone Literature in the 1990's held at Dalhousie University. A good number of papers given at that time, and since revisited in the light of exchanges…