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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Es ist weltweit anerkannt, dass Deutschland die in der Wissenschaft führende 'Sportrechts-Nation' ist, so der bekannte Schweitzer Sportrechtler Urs Scherrer. Die Sparte 'Fußballstrafrecht' ist ein Teil davon, die in Deutschland ca. 400.000 Verfahren jährlich abwickelt. Insoweit verwundert es, dass ein Leitfaden für diese Praxis noch nicht auf dem Markt ist. Der Kommentar zur Rechts- und Verfahrensordnung des DFB schließt diese Lücke: Sportrichter und Verteidiger in Sportstrafsachen, Spieler und Vereine, Vorstands- und Vereinsfunktionäre, Schiedsrichter, aber auch Journalisten finden darin und in den angeschlossenen Erläuterungen weiterer Rechtsbereiche den Einstieg in die Materie 'Fußballstrafrecht' zu Fällen aus der Praxis der Amateurvereine an der Basis bis hin zur Bundesliga. Das Fußballstrafrecht des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes (DFB) wird erstmals in einem Kommentar zur Rechts- und Verfahrensordnung des DFB (RuVO) nebst Erläuterungen zu dem Schiedsgerichtsverfahren im Fußball und zu anderen Ordnungsmaßnahmen vollständig dargelegt. Das Werk behandelt die Rechtsprechung in Fußballsachen, das materielle Strafverfahren, das Verfahrensrecht, das Spielwertungsverfahren, daneben staatliche Gerichte und Schiedsgerichte, das Thema Zuschauerausschreitungen, das Strafrecht der FIFA und der UEFA sowie das Recht in sonstigen Bereichen des Fußballs.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 328 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Forschungen zu Deutsch als Zweitsprache und Mehrsprachigkeit umfassen ein weites Spektrum an Themen und Fragestellungen, die von unterschiedlichen Disziplinen untersucht werden. Forschungsmethodische Entscheidungen sind dabei abhängig von Forschungsfragen und theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen. Entsprechend der Vielfalt der Fragestellungen und Ansätze ergibt sich für Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb ein weites Feld an methodischen Verfahren. Der vorliegende Band thematisiert sehr unterschiedliche empirische Methoden, deren Vorteile und Grenzen von den Autoren in Zusammenhang mit konkreten Forschungsprojekten dargestellt werden. Der Band will so Einblicke in Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb in einer mehrsprachigen Gesellschaft geben und Anregungen für weitere Forschungsprojekte bieten.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 384 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Warum nehmen Menschen es hin, daß andere Menschen Herrschaft über sie ausüben Sie lassen sich beherrschen, solange sie die Herrschaft als legitim anerkennen. Ohne Legitimität wird Herrschaft zur Gewalt. Als legitime Form der Herrschaft galt in Europa über ein Jahrtausend lang die Monarchie. Erst Aufklärung und Revolution stellten die Legitimität der Monarchie in Frage. In einem europaweiten Vergleich, der meisterhaft Politik- und Kulturgeschichte verzahnt, zeigt Volker Sellin, wie die Monarchie es verstand, ihre Legitimität trotzdem fast überall noch über Generationen hinweg zu bewahren. Welchen Anteil hatten daran die traditionellen Vorstellungen von dynastischer Herrschaftsberechtigung, Gottesgnadentum und Kriegserfolg Welche Bedeutung gewannen neue legitimitätsstiftende Leistungen wie Verfassungsgebung, nationale Politik oder soziale Reform 'Die Fragen des sehr gelungenen Buches werfen historisches Licht auf die Gegenwart. Das Problem, wie man Macht und Legitimität in umstürzenden Zeiten beibehält, ist nicht nur für gekrönte Häupter in der Vergangenheit relevant.' (Bo Stråth, Professor für nordische, europäische und Weltgeschichte an der Universität Helsinki)De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 356 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Sophies Schwester ¿ das ist Inge Scholl, deren jüngere Geschwister Hans und Sophie 1943 hingerichtet wurden, weil sie sich dem NS-Regime widersetzt hatten. Inge Scholl wusste nichts vom Widerstand ihrer Geschwister. Doch sie begab sich umgehend auf eine private Spurensuche und avancierte damit nach 1945 zu einer ebenso einflussreichen wie prominenten Aktivistin in der bundesrepublikanischen Erinnerungs- und Gedenkkultur an den Widerstand im 'Dritten Reich'. Christine Hikel hat darüber ein erhellend-aufregendes Buch geschrieben. Sie kann eindrucksvoll zeigen, wie familiäre Erinnerungen konstruiert wurden, wie sie sich im Laufe der Zeit veränderten, wie und wann sie sich gegen konkurrierende Widerstands-Erzählungen durchsetzten und das öffentliche Gedenken prägten. Die Geschichte der Weißen Rose wird damit in die Zeit nach 1945 verlängert und als faszinierendes Lehrstück präsentiert: Selbst spektakuläre Taten wie die Flugblatt-Aktion Hans und Sophie Scholls in der Münchner Universität finden im kollektiven Gedächtnis nur dann einen Platz, wenn sie Fürsprecher finden, die sie immer wieder neu zum aktuellen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Zeitgeist in Bezug setzen.Shortlist-Nominierung Opus Primum 2013!De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 288 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Zwierleins Petrusbuch (über den Inhalt im einzelnen unterrichtet der Flyer zur Hardcover-Ausgabe) hat eine lebhafte, fächerübergreifende Diskussion ausgelöst, die neben der vordergründigen Frage nach der Historizität des Wirkens Petri in Rom auch die Stellung des Papsttums in der Kirchenstruktur, den Primat des Papstes (oder der Kirche Roms) und seine Begründung durch die ¿Apostolische Sukzession¿ berührt. Aus diesem Grund sei der Leser anläßlich der Paperback-Ausgabe auf den Folgeband Petrus und Paulus in Jerusalem und Rom (2013 [UaLG 109]) verwiesen. Dort ist die Auseinandersetzung auf breiter Basis fortgeführt, ungerechtfertigte Einwände wurden widerlegt, manches auch präzisiert. Das Ergebnis ist eine Bekräftigung der Grundthesen des Petrusbuchs. Sie sind im Flyer zu Petrus und Paulus (Website) zusammengefaßt.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 508 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Diskussion über den Euro-Rettungsplan, die Finanzhilfen für Griechenland, Portugal und Irland, die Einführung schärferer Grenzkontrollen durch Dänemark haben einen neuen Streit über die Europäische Union entfacht. Driften die europäischen Staaten nach 60 Jahren der immer intensiveren und weiträumigeren Integration wieder auseinander Spiegeln die Wahlbeteiligungen bei den Europawahlen eine Systemkrise Geht uns der Sinn für die europäischen Gemeinsamkeiten verloren Die 'Europäischen Erinnerungsorte' leisten einen Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung. Autorinnen und Autoren aus mehr als 15 Ländern folgen der Annahme, dass es eine Vielzahl von Erinnerungsorten gibt, die für Europäer aller Länder eine Bedeutung haben, die ihre Identität mit formen und die wir mitdenken, wenn wir 'Europa' sagen. Erstmals werden nicht die Erinnerungsorte einer einzelnen Nation, Region oder Epoche beschrieben, sondern Konzepte, Plätze, Ereignisse, Kunstwerke, Konsumgegenstände, die gesamteuropäisch von Bedeutung sind. Der dritte Band der Europäischen Erinnerungsorte zeigt, wie die Erfahrungen der Europäer in der Welt auf Europa zurückwirkten und wie europäische Einflüsse in gebrochener Form nach Europa re-importiert wurden etwa der in die neue Welt getragene christliche Glaube in Form des Gospel-Gottesdienst.De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 292 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Driften die europäischen Staaten nach 60 Jahren der immer intensiveren und weiträumigeren Integration wieder auseinander Geht uns der Sinn für die europäischen Gemeinsamkeiten verloren Die 'Europäischen Erinnerungsorte' sind ein Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung. Autorinnen und Autoren aus mehr als 15 Ländern folgen der Annahme, dass es eine Vielzahl von Erinnerungsorten gibt, die für Europäer aller Länder eine Bedeutung haben, die ihre Identität mitformen und die wir mitdenken, wenn wir 'Europa' sagen. Erstmals werden nicht die Erinnerungsorte einer einzelnen Nation, Region oder Epoche beschrieben, sondern Konzepte, Plätze, Ereignisse, Kunstwerke, Konsumgegenstände, die gesamteuropäisch von Bedeutung sind. Der erste Band des Werks behandelt, ausgehend vom Mythos Europa, grundlegende Faktoren des europäischen Selbstverständnisses, zum Beispiel Christentum, Judentum, Antike, Aufklärung, Gewaltenteilung. Menschenrechte, Himmelsrichtungen, Sprachenvielfalt, Friedensvisionen, Das Europa der Kriege, Europas Wirtschaftsbegriff.Zum Gesamtwerk gehören noch die Bände 2 'Das Haus Europa' und Band 3 'Europa und die Welt'.De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 336 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Einstellung Konstantins des Großen zum Christengott und die Motive und Ziele der Politik des Kaisers gegenüber den Christen und ihrem Klerus sind bis heute umstritten. In Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschung der letzten 150 Jahre bietet der Autor zunächst eine in verschiedenen Einzelaspekten neue Rekonstruktion der Abwendung Konstantins vom Paganismus und seiner Hinwendung zum Christentum in den Jahren 310 bis 312. Analysiert werden sodann im Kontext des Aufstiegs zur Alleinherrschaft seine frühesten Selbstzeugnisse als Christ, seine 312 massiv einsetzende ideelle und materielle Förderung von christlichem Klerus und Kirchengemeinden und seine Rolle als ¿Bischof der Bischöfe' (episcopus episcoporum, pontifex maximus) bis zu seinem Tod 337. Dabei kommt auch seine Politik gegenüber den nichtchristlichen Religionen zur Sprache. Maßgebend war, so zeigt sich, nicht der Gedanke der ¿Toleranz', sondern angesichts der überwältigend großen Mehrheit der Nichtchristen in den Führungsschichten von Armee und Gesellschaft und in der Reichsbevölkerung insgesamt der Gesichtspunkt der ordnungspolitischen Opportunität. Konstantin strebte keine Parität, keinen Pluralismus, keine Koexistenz der Religionen an: das Christentum sollte zur alleinigen Reichs- und Weltreligion werden.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 224 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vinod Acharya presents a new existential interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy. He contends that Nietzsche's peculiar form of existentialism can be understood only by undertaking a thorough analysis of his characterization and critique of metaphysics. This reading remedies the shortcomings of previous existential interpretations of Nietzsche, which typically view existentialism as concerned primarily with the meaning of individual existence, and therefore necessarily at odds with the abstraction and objectivity of metaphysical thought. Acharya argues that the approach of Nietzsche's philosophy, especially in his mature works, is to make the typical existential position foundational, and then to develop to the fullest the implications of this position. This meta-existential approach necessarily yields an ambiguous and open-ended critique of metaphysics. Taking issue with the Heideggerian, the poststructuralist, and the naturalistic interpretations, this book contends that Nietzsche neither simply overcomes metaphysics nor remains trapped within its confines. Acharya argues that an ever-renewed encounter with and critique of metaphysics is an essential aspect of Nietzsche's meta-existentialism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Jochen Oltmer bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Hintergründe, Formen und Folgen von Migration in Deutschland seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert. Die komplett überarbeitete und aktualisierte Neuauflage reicht nun bis in die Gegenwart und stellt den gegenwärtigen Stand einer Forschung dar, die seit den 1990er Jahren rasch an Fahrt gewonnen hat. Eine umfangreiche, thematische gegliederte Bibliographie schließt den Band ab.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 220 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Journalism is under ever-increasing pressure, due in large part to the phenomenon of media convergence. Not only does media convergence redefine the tasks of journalists and newsrooms, it also re-shapes the business environments of media companies. In this book, international media practitioners and researchers describe and analyze the relationships between media convergence and advertising, public relations, social media and other areas of communication posing a challenge to journalism.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social media operate in conjunction with mass media in the construction of discourses of religion and spirituality. It includes: a longitudinal study of British news media coverage of Christianity, secularism and religious diversity (Knott et al.); an analysis of responses to two documentaries 'The Monastery' and 'The Convent' (Thomas); an evaluation of theories of the sacred in studies of religion and media within the 'strong program' in cultural sociology in the US (Lynch); and a study of the consequences of mass and social media synergies for public perceptions of Islam in the Netherlands (Herbert). Part 2 examines the role of social media in the construction of contemporary martyrs and media celebrities (e.g., Michael Jackson) using mixed and mobile methods to analyse fan sites (Bennett & Campbell) and jihadi websites and YouTube (Nauta). Part 3 examines how certain bounded religious communities negotiate the challenges of social media: Judaism in Second Life (Abrams & Baker); Bah'ai regulation of web use among members (Campbell & Fulton); YouTube evangelists (Pihlaja); and public expressions of bereavement (Greenhill & Fletcher). The book provides theoretically informed empirical case studies and presents an intriguing, complex picture of the aesthetic and ethical, demographic and discursive aspects of new spaces of communication and their implications for religious institutions, beliefs and practices.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger. Schalow takes up the question: ¿Why should a philosopher like Kant, for whom language seemed to be almost inconsequential, become the crucial counter point for a thinker like Heidegger to develop a novel way to understand and express the most perennial of all philosophical concepts, namely, ¿being¿ as such ¿Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their violent claims to mastery with a sense of ¿sovereign impunity.¿They then recuperate the same strategies of selfhoodfor our contemporary world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can empower and encourage usto bear the burden of historical responsibility ¿ and be happy doing so.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz¿s work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz¿s Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature ¿completely comprehensible¿, which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz¿s work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the system of natural science be empirically closed.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. ¿Phases¿ provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective.If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that this expectation is borne out: there is an empirical clustering of properties, whereby the phrases that undergo pied-piping are also the phrases that host intermediate traces of cyclic movement. The same phrases also host partial and secondary movement. Finally, the immediate complements within these phrases never strand the embedding heads. The phrases that show this behaviour are the phases (CP, vP, DP, and PP).To account for the cluster of properties, phases are claimed to have two special properties: their complement is inaccessible to operations outside, the Phase Impenetrability Condition; their heads may be endowed with unvalued features that are neither connected to the categorical status of the phase nor interpreted on it. It is shown how the cluster of empirical properties flows naturally from these two assumptions, supporting the idea that phases are indeed a fundamental construct in syntax.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense. For instance, sin is described as a debt, and righteous deeds are said to earn wages with God or treasure in heaven. This study analyzes Matthew¿s economic language against the backdrop of other early Jewish and Christian literature and examines its import for the narrative as a whole. Careful attention to this neglected aspect of Matthew¿s theology demonstrates that some of the Gospel¿s central claims about atonement, Jesus¿ death and resurrection, and divine recompense emerge from this conceptual matrix. By tracing the narrative development of the economic motif, the author explains how Jesus saves his people from their sins and comes to be enthroned as Son of Man, sheds new light on numerous exegetical puzzles, and clarifies the relationship of ethical rigorism and divine generosity.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Age and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explorations of this topic, Simone de Beauvoir¿s seminal work The Coming of Age (1970). For much too long, it has been overshadowed by her other groundbreaking work, The Second Sex (1949). Now, for the first time, this volume focuses on Beauvoir's essay on old age and critically explores its significance from a phenomenological and feminist perspective. International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from Europe and North America offer a unique look at one of the 20th century¿s most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. Thematically, the articles and short comments collected in this volume cover three main issues which are crucial with respect to an investigation of Beauvoir's study on age: gender, ethics, and time. The volume essentially contributes to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a ¿final judgment¿ on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs. Kant is often given an important place in their narratives, despite the fact that Kant himself asserts that some of such beliefs are necessary (necessary, at least, from the practical point of view). Many contemporary neo-Kantian moral philosophers have embraced these ¿disentangling¿ narratives or, at any rate, have minimized the connection of Kant¿s practical philosophy with controversial metaphysical commitments ¿ even with Kant¿s transcendental idealism. This volume re-evaluates those interpretations. It is arguably the first collection to systematically explore the metaphysical commitments central to Kant¿s practical philosophy, and thus the connections between Kantian ethics, his philosophy of religion, and his epistemological claims concerning our knowledge of the supersensible.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by ¿come¿ and ¿gö in familiar and less familiar languages. No single book volume has been dedicated to the topic of grammatical targets different from tense and aspect so far. This study will increase our insight in grammaticalization processes in general as they force us to rethink certain aspects of grammaticalization.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings¿ military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation. Military violence is thereby cast not only as morally tolerable but as morally imperative. Deviations from this point of view reflect two phenomena: the preservation of variable social perspectives and the impact of historical changes on ethical thinking.The research begins the discussion of ancient Near Eastern ethics outside of Israel and Judah and fills a scholarly void by placing Israelite and Judahite ethics within this context, as well as contributing methodologically to future research in historical and comparative ethics.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Kant's critical philosophy is rife with conflicting and aporetic doctrines. Amongst several difficult doctrines, one of the most salient and obscure discussions surrounds Kant's view of the imagination, Einbildungskraft. One finds Kant's initial discussion of the imagination in the section entitled the Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason; by Kant's own admission, the section that cost him the most labor. Instrumental in these most critical passagesis Kant's discussion of the imagination, but, due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change in doctrine from the 1st to the 3rd Critique, Kant's considered view of the imagination remains unclear. Many scholars eschew the discussion altogether, considering it arcana of an obsolete faculty pyschology. Even prominent Kant scholars have typically overlooked or marginalized pivotal sections in Kant's works in order to avoid dealing with this issue. Recently, however, a new interest in the imagination has resurfaced. This volume is a collection of essays that addresses the many uses of imagination throughout Kant's entire critical corpus, and intends to gain a better understanding of this lacuna.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas¿s discourse ethical reformulation of Kant¿s universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens.The premises of their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines the specific function of public reason; (2) their anthropologies and theories of action; (3) the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework; (4) the different views of religion that follow from these factors, including their understanding of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims, and the role of religion as a practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public reason, and the task of translation from faith traditions, as well as the role they might have in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement¿s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, the essays document inter- and intra-religious conflict from a variety of angles. Topics relevant to the early centuries range from religious conflict between different parts of the Christian canon, types of conflict, the origins of conflict, strategies for winning, for conflict resolution, and the emergence of a language of conflict. For the fourth to seventh centuries case studies from Asia Minor, Syria, Constantinople, Gaul, Arabia and Egypt are presented. The volume closes with examinations of the Christian and Jewish response to Islam, and of Islam¿s response to Christianity. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The ¿aphoristic form causes difficulty,¿ Nietzsche argued in 1887, for ¿today this form is not taken seriously enough.¿ Nietzsche¿s Aphoristic Challenge addresses this continued neglect by examining the role of the aphorism in Nietzsche¿s writings, the generic traditions in which he writes, the motivations behind his turn to the aphorism, and the reasons for his sustained interest in the form. This literary-philosophical study argues that while the aphorism is the paradigmatic form for Nietzsche¿s writing, its function shifts as his thought evolves. His turn to the aphorism in Human, All Too Human arises not out of necessity, but from the new freedoms of expression enabled by his critiques of language and his emerging interest in natural science. Yet the model interpretation of an aphorism Nietzsche offers years later in On the Genealogy of Morals tells a different story, revealing more about how the mature Nietzsche wants his earlier works read than how they were actually written. This study argues nevertheless that consistencies emerge in Nietzsche¿s understanding of the aphorism, and these, perhaps counter-intuitively, are best understood in terms of excess. Recognizing the changes and consistencies in Nietzsche¿s aphoristic mode helps establish a context that enables the reader to navigate the aphorism books and better answer the challenges they pose.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Although influential in his own day, Karl Leonhard Reinhold's contribution to late 18th and early 19th century thought has long been overshadowed by the towering presence of Immanuel Kant, the thinker whose ideas he helped to interpret and disseminate. Today, however, a more nuanced understanding of Reinhold's contribution to post-Kantian thought is emerging. Apart from his exposition of Kant's critical philosophy, which played a significant role in the development of German idealism, Reinhold's role in the intellectual movement of Enlightenment and his contributions to early linguistic philosophy are now receiving scholarly attention. In the English-speaking world, where few translations of his work have been attempted, Reinhold has mostly been overlooked. This imbalance is corrected in the present work: the first translation into English of Reinhold's major work of philosophy, the New Theory of the Human Capacity for Representation (1789). The translators provide an overview of the main currents of thought which informed Reinhold's philosophical project, as well as notes on his reading of Kant and other important thinkers of Reinhold's day. A glossary of key terms, a bibliography of scholarly work on Reinhold and suggestions for further reading are also included.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the 'other' Kant has been discovered, i.e. the one of the doctrine of virtue and the anthropology. Through the rediscovery of Kant's investigations into the empirical and sensuous aspects of knowledge, our understanding of Kant's philosophy has been enriched by an important element that has allowed researchers to correct supposed deficiencies in Kant's work. In addition, further questions concerning the nature of Kant's philosophy itself have been formulated: the more the 'other' Kant comes to the fore, the stronger the question concerning the connection between pure philosophy and empirical investigation becomes.The aim of this study is to show that the psychological and anthropological interpretations of Kant's pure philosophy are not convincing and at the same time to illustrate some connections between his critical and anthropological investigations by means of an analysis of the theory of the faculties.Against both a 'transcendental psychological' and an 'anthropological' reading, the book presents Kant's theory of the facultiesas a constitutive part of his critical philosophy andshows that there is a close connection between Kant's pure philosophy and his moral aesthetic.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) 'holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings.' Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.