brill jun 2010 (45 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegründet. Die Akademie ist in drei wissenschaftliche Klassen für Geisteswissenschaften, für Naturwissenschaften und Medizin sowie für Ingenieur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und in eine Klasse der Künste gegliedert. Mit Publikationen zu den wissenschaftlichen Vorträgen in den Klassensitzungen, zu öffentlichen Veranstaltungen und Symposien will die Akademie die Fach- und allgemeine Öffentlichkeit über die Arbeiten der Akademie und ihrer Forschungsstellen informieren.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such as those of Asklepios, Demeter, or the Sacred Spring; on media (e.g., coins, or burial inscriptions); or on the monuments and populations of nearby Kenchreai or Isthmia. The result is a deeper understanding of the religious life of Corinth, contextualized within the socially stratified cultures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There has been limited research on single women in customary tenure areas. Single women's experiences have been marginalized in research that focuses on notions of property, male headed domestic units and relies on normative research methods to investigate resource access in the communal farming areas of Zimbabwe. This work focuses on the hearth-hold as a domestic unit and uses innovative research methods to investigate how women outside the marriage institution negotiate access to land, livelihood resources and make decisions to cope with livelihood vulnerability in customary tenure areas. The research illustrates through a focus on pathways and rural-urban connections how single women make decisions to secure livelihoods under fast changing conditions. The findings that patriarchy is only one but not the only institution governing land access in customary tenure areas and that women have more room to negotiate land access in communal areas especially through entitlements, family obligations and exploitation of multi-layered tenure systems are some of the publication's contribution to knowledge on single women, customary land tenure and livelihood vulnerability.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited collection has sought contributions from some of the foremost scholars of refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) studies to engage with the conceptual and practical difficulties entailed in realising how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) can be fulfilled by states and the international community to protect vulnerable persons.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2009 it was ten years since the adoption of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of an Armed Conflict. To celebrate this anniversary, a variety of contributions, focussing on the legal and cultural aspects of the Protocol are presented by Van Woudenberg and Lijnzaad. The innovative aspects of the Second Protocol such as enhanced protection, criminal responsibility and jurisdiction, and the protection of cultural property in armed conflicts not of an international character are addressed. Some country-specific studies are included. It is hoped that this publication will inspire States to accede to the Protocol and that it will serve as a source of inspiration to legal advisers, military personnel and cultural property experts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four 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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle's Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano strikes back, offering in effect a fable-tinted history of philosophy. More than a repudiation of local gossip, the text represents a rethinking of the mission of philosophy. This volume offers the first English translation, an edition of the Latin text, and four studies that set this rich example of humanist Latin writing in context.Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 7.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents a comprehensive view of management and leadership in language programs as situated in a complex, globalized context with rapidly changing characteristics. This book offers case studies and overviews of 'nuts and bolts' issues of administration such as financial, data, and people management, as well as suggestions for further research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization, but fail to address historical contingencies and individual agency. This book focuses on the interplay between local bureaucracies and individual lives. Contextualizing individual choices is essential in order to gain insight into how religious meaning is produced, reproduced, contested, discontinued, and disrupted. Bringing together the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and sociology, what unites the articles is their qualitative approach. The collection of articles lays out an impressive mosaic of the religious and the secular in the GDR and contemporary eastern Germany.Contributors are Irene Becci, Anja Frank, Uta Karstein, Anna Körs, Esther Peperkamp, Malgorzata Rajtar, Thomas Schmidt-Lux, Nikolai Vukov, Kirstin Wappler, and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The term 'new atheism' has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books written by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and others. These books and their authors have had a significant media presence and have only grown in popularity over the years. This book brings together scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader scholarly discourses. This volume will serve to contextualize and critically examine the claims, arguments and goals of the new atheism so that readers can become more informed of some of the debates with which the new atheists inevitably and, at times unknowingly, engage.Contributors include Richard Harries, Reza Aslan, Amarnath Amarasingam, Robert Platzner, Jeffrey Robbins, Christopher Rodkey, Rory Dickson, Steve Fuller, William Sims Bainbridge, William A. Stahl, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Borer, Richard Cimino, Christopher Smith, Gregory R. Peterson, Jeff Nall, Ryan Falcioni, and Mark Vernon.Studies in Critical Research on Religion, vol. 1.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Much of the scholarly focus on early twentieth-century Pentecostalism is dominated by the origins debates of the United States. The polarization between those who argue for Parham's theological contribution or Seymour's African American experiential contribution is well known. Beyond these debates scholars typically focus on the role of Americans in the development of Pentecostalism. However, the Hebden mission in Toronto, Canadian women, and the Latter Rain revival illustrate the transnational and innovative qualities of the movement. This book contextualizes the global story of Pentecostalism with some important and often neglected contributions by Pentecostals in Canada and their influence on Pentecostalism in the United States and the world. Contributors include: Peter Althouse, Linda Ambrose, Michael Di Giacomo, D. William Faupel, Shane Flanagan, Pamela A. Holmes, Randall Holm, Mark Hutchinson, David Michel, David A. Reed, Adam Stewart, and Michael Wilkinson.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the time, and his writings are regarded as one of the most important sources for study of the period. Kydones' career spanned at least four decades, from the 1340s to the 1380s. A Latin scholar, influenced in particular by the writings of Thomas Aquinas (some of which he translated into Greek), Kydones was a leading advocate of improvement of relations between Byzantium and the Latin West as crucial to Byzantine survival. This book examines Kydones' career and writings, investigating how they can contribute to developing a nuanced understanding of Byzantine political and cultural developments in these years of crisis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work of historical sociology analyzes the development of the profession of pastor in the nineteenth century. It paints a lively picture of the many areas of Dutch society and culture where pastors made their mark--in particular, the literary world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. The historical development and discourse function of applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process. This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is in honour of Danièle Guinot (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), and was born out of our admiration for Danièle's immense contributions to her discipline. She has helped reawaken interest on the systematics of brachyuran decapods crustaceans, the true crabs. Furthermore, she has significantly helped to redefine the study of the complete evolutionary process in crabs. A total of 35 of her colleagues have contributed to this volume, submitting papers on those aspects of the Brachyura to which Danièle, herself, has significantly contributed - taxonomy, evolution, morphology, palaeontology and general biology of crabs. This volume is but a small tribute to a highly respected colleague and friend from the active band of researchers that she has helped so much over the years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Reform of Governance is a translated collection of articles providing a look at how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent governmental history. This volume, as well as the others in the SSRC series, provides Western scholars with an accessible English-language look at the state of current Chinese scholarship, and as such, does not simply provide information for the direct study of economic issues, but also for meta-level analysis of the interplay of China's policy, scholarship, and economy. Specifc topics include democratic reforms, electoral rules, accountability and social welfare.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1 volume, 450-page, 20-chapter, English-language survey of this phenomenon of early modern Iberian culture. To be published in 2010. Mysticism was of particular interest in the popular devotion of early modern Spain, with cross-fertilizations from Jewish and Islamic traditions and representations in literature, art and music. The study of Spanish mysticism has undergone a revolution in recent years with opening of the Spanish archives (especially those of the Inquisition) in the post-Franco era. But scholarship itself is now prepared to consider mysticism in a far wider range of manifestations than before: not just mainstream orthodox saints, but marginal figures are now seen as practicioners of mysticism and evidence is now examined and accepted which does not fall into traditional paradigms or academic traditions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such as those of Asklepios, Demeter, or the Sacred Spring; on media (e.g., coins, or burial inscriptions); or on the monuments and populations of nearby Kenchreai or Isthmia. The result is a deeper understanding of the religious life of Corinth, contextualized within the socially stratified cultures of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Delving into the tangled involvement of academic institutions with the benefice system in the Early Modern Period, this book focuses on an anomaly: medieval privileges that provided academics at Louvain, the self-declared storm-troopers of Catholic and dynastic restoration in the Netherlands, with access to the Post-Tridentine clerical job market. Despite their anachronistic flavour in a regional job market characterised by its openness for graduates, these privileges were considered vital for the survival of the university and of Catholicism. This conundrum, addressed via the analysis of the privileges and the conflicts they provoked in Louvain colleges, local church administrations, Brussels secretariats and Roman palaces during the archducal period (1588/1598-1621/1625), leads to refreshing explorations of a fabric of Academia in the making and of the multiple worlds of early modern Catholicism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Man kann die Freiheit nur wahrnehmen, wenn man gesichert ist; aber die Bemühungen um Sicherheit gefährden die Freiheit.Die berechtigte Sorge um die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Freiheit lässt uns die Freiheit selbst vergessen und errichtet das soziale Gefängnis, das heute vorsorgender Sozialstaat heißt. Dieses Gefängnis braucht keine Ketten und Schlösser. Die Angst vor der Freiheit schließt die Menschen ein. Nicht Freiheit wollen sie, sondern Glück. Aber das unmittelbare Interesse am Glück ist kurzschlüssig. Wer das Glück sucht, muss einen Umweg nehmen - über die Freiheit.Aus dem Inhalt:VorwortFreiheit als PassionDie absolute Wichtigkeit des MenschenDer Glaube an den freien WillenEuropäischer StilDas metaphysische System des LiberalismusDie Macht des EinzelnenDas lange Leben der Letzten MenschenDie Krankheit des VerwaltetwerdenwollensSoziale TyranneiÖffentliche Meinung und Politische KorrektheitDer Götzendienst der GruppeParadoxien der FreiheitDer Mensch als Überraschungszentrum der GesellschaftEntfremdung in die InstitutionenBürgerliche Lebensführung.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Erste Weltkrieg, 'Urkatastrophe' des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat rund 10 Millionen Kriegstote gefordert. In der knapp gefassten Monografie werden übersichtlich innen- und außenpolitische, militärische, sozioökonomische, psychologische, mentalitäts- und kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte dargestellt. Berücksichtigt werden auch alle Fronten inklusive des See- und Luftkrieges sowie die innere Lage aller kriegsführenden Staaten zwischen 1914 bis 1918.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der spektakuläre Zusammenbruch des internationalen Finanzsystems hat mit einem Schlag die enormen Selbstzerstörungskräfte der aktuellen Wirtschaftsordnung offenbar werden lassen. In den drei Dekaden davor hatte sich - ausgehend von minoritären Positionen - eine Expansion des Neoliberalismus zum ebenso unhinterfragten wie konkurrenzlosen Wirtschaftsdogma vollzogen. Im Übergang von einem produzierenden zu einem spekulativen Kapitalismus führte die neoliberale Transformation zu einer Neuordnung der Arbeitsmärkte und zu markanten sozialen Einschnitten. Im Kontext dieser weltweit wirksamen Prozesse richten die Beiträge des Bandes ihren Fokus vornehmlich auf die österreichische Entwicklung seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre und konstatieren im Zuge der ökonomischen Veränderungen eine langsame, aber kontinuierliche Korrosion des Sozialen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Band versammelt eine Reihe von Essays, in denen Weggefährten, Kollegen, Freunde und Schüler von Heinrich Klotz ihre Begegnung mit dem bedeutenden Kunst- und Architekturhistoriker schildern. Die sowohl persönlichen als auch theoretischen Texte beleuchten sein Lebenswerk von den Anfängen an der Yale-Universität und in Marburg über die Gründung des Deutschen Architekturmuseums in Frankfurt am Main bis hin zur Entwicklung des Zentrums für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) und der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Karlsruhe. Mit Beiträgen von Hans Belting, Horst Bredekamp, Bazon Brock, Ursula Frohne, Ludger Hünnekens, Michael Mönninger, Marvin Trachtenberg, Martin Warnke, Peter Weibel u.v.a.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simonetta Sanna präsentiert einen post-ideologischen Georg Büchner. Das Buch lädt dazu ein, Büchners Drama »Dantons Tod« als einen modernen politischen Text zu lesen. Büchner modern lesen heißt, die Komplexität seines Werkes zu erkennen und im Durchgang durch die widerstreitenden Positionen eines Danton und Robespierre die inneren Konvergenzen der politischen Gegensätze aufzuspüren. Büchner schlägt sich auf keine Seite der politischen Parteien. Vielmehr schickt der Autor seine Leser und Zuschauer, auf die Suche nach einer »unbekannten und ewig verweigerten« dritten Perspektive im politischen Schlagabtausch - und damit nach einer friedlichen Alternative. Das ist die immer gegenwärtige Botschaft seines Stückes und seiner ideologisch nicht festgelegten Ästhetik.