englischNarratives and dramatic plays are usually based on a non manifest structure that can be conceived as a moral one, where you can find rules and sentences of having-to-do.
The Moral Contract as a metaphor describes this fundamental basis, composed of three components: competition, exchange [...]
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Der römische Adlige und Humanist Pietro Della Valle bereist von 1614 bis 1626 das Osmanische Reich, Persien und Indien. In einer Zeit des Umbruchs sucht er nach neuen Allianzen für Rom: Gegen die Reformatoren will er die Einheit mit den orientalischen Christen wiederherstellen. Gegen die Osmanen [...]
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englischIn international and national studies on the topic of academic success and drop-outs, the conditions of the university context were given priority in addition to individual competences. Other life domains of the students were rather neglected. This book analyses the influence of important [...]
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englischThe First World War, a historical turning point of destruction and new beginning, has changed strategies of world politics along with military technologies, but also the field of culture and media. The literature of the Great War, shaped mostly by combatant writers, recognised authenticity [...]
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englischHow can inclusivity be implemented in a German international school, a necessarily exclusive type of school which educates children from international expat families and operates according to the particular conditions in the host country? What laws and social conventions have to be taken [...]
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englischHow can inclusivity be implemented in a German international school, a necessarily exclusive type of school which educates children from international expat families and operates according to the particular conditions in the host country? What laws and social conventions have to be taken [...]
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englischIs homophobia in Iranian society a product imported from the West? In today's scholarly contributions to the history of sexuality in the Middle East, this question is often answered with a 'yes', pointing to the replacement of local discourses by the Western discourse on sexuality during the [...]
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Die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung des Phänomens ästhetischer Selbstbezüglichkeit hat weiterhin Konjunktur. Einer Fülle von entwickelten Konzepten sowie simultan und teilweise synonym verwendeten Begriffen steht dabei das auffällige Desiderat einer diachronen und funktionalen Perspektive gegenüber. [...]
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englischThis is the first volume aimed at placing the enormous set of fragments from the Qubbat al-khazna on the map of Middle Eastern history as a corpus. As much as its famous sibling, the Geniza of Cairo, the Qubba was ‘discovered’ in the 19th century, but its over 200,000 fragments have remained [...]
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englischThe Jewish-Canadian and Arab-American writers and professors of literature George Ellenbogen (*1934) and Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) were life companions. In both their memoirs, the authors tell stories of neighborhood, enriching encounters and their search for roots. George grows up in the [...]
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