englischChina and its rise as Eastern hegemon is both, a geostrategic and economic phenomenon. China challenges the West – what is Europe’s role and position towards China? The editor’s volume “Dragon Games” combines contributions from the fields of cultural studies with insights from international [...]
more informationenglischThis volume presents, for the first time, an assemblage of contributions on the philosophical dimensions of the impersonal, the multiplicity of its linguistic, social, scientific, religious and artistic perspectives, as well as initial approaches to its unified definition.
Linguistic and [...]
more informationenglischThe reconstruction of the concept of labour in Adorno’s work forms the basis of this volume. The book’s recourse to, among others, Hegel and Marx, two decisive influences on Adorno's thinking, reveal a clear contrast through which Adorno's concept of work can be contoured particularly [...]
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englischThis interdisciplinary volume focuses on the interdependence of narrative and architecture and includes different forms of narrating media in its analyses. The relation between narrative and architecture is examined primarily from two oppositional perspectives: The contributions include [...]
more informationenglischThis volume presents, for the first time, an assemblage of contributions on the philosophical dimensions of the impersonal, the multiplicity of its linguistic, social, scientific, religious and artistic perspectives, as well as initial approaches to its unified definition.
Linguistic and [...]
more informationenglischAmong the ceramic vessels of the Hellenistic period, a polychrome group stands out, which, thanks to its flexible painting technique, could absorb influences from wall painting, toreutics and coroplastic. Their ephemeral yet prestigious character was ideal for a symbolic function in cultic [...]
more informationenglischThe museum is a different place of learning for school classes and must be legitimised as a place of reference in the out-of-school learning context.
The leitmotif “change of place” is introduced in a space-theoretical line with Foucault’s heterotopology. The discourse on out-of-school [...]
more informationenglischIn his plays ‘Judith’, ‘Maria Magdalena’ and ‘Genoveva’ Friedrich Hebbel tells different stories about pregnancy. Working with theories from gender, queer, and embodiment studies the book focuses on textual constellations, in which the literary figures start to imagine the unborn in the [...]
more informationenglischThrough this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of [...]
more informationenglischThis book has been inspired by Walter Benjamin’s idea of an afterlife of an original in its translations and probes into a wide variety of extensions of Carroll’s story in six languages. For one thing, it deals with language that speaks and more or less automatically steers its users in a [...]
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