englischIn 1898, the academic discipline Byzantine Studies was founded by Karl Krumbacher at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Since then, Byzantine Studies have been thriving there for more than one hundred years. PD Dr. Sergei Mariev (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, [...]

englischThe present volume examines how the individual becomes and embodies that which he or she is through sport. The interdisciplinary contributions address the benefits of competitive sports for the modern subject. In doing so the lessons learned in sports can be understood as cultural capacities [...]

englischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]

englischFor anyone interested in cultural and intercultural linguistics paired with research into multilingualism, this volume offers multifaceted insights into current research topics, questions and methods. The various contributions include not only traditions and theoretical considerations but [...]

englischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]

englischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]

englischThe poet Rainer Maria Gerhardt (1927–1954), who died young, was a solitaire. At a time when West German literature was only hesitantly discovering the new, he revealed unknown horizons. His translations and publishing projects presented post-war Germans with poetry from all parts of the [...]

englischThe study bridges the gap bewtween Paul Ricœur’s and Jacques Lacan’s interpretations of Freudian psychoanalysis by relating both to dialectical models of reflexive self-consciousness. Both authors conceive of subjectivity as mediated through the Other. While Ricœur, inspired by Fichte’s [...]

englischThis book takes on the forcefulness of post-modernist appeals and their rational fantasies of omnipotence. Since the Enlightenment, theology has sought to bring faith and reason together. In doing so, it usually presupposes an image of the human being that understands the subject as a [...]

englischThis volume sheds light on the status of the humanities in the Soviet Union, using the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as an example. The work presented here for the first time in translation is the literary thesis of the well-known Azerbaijani writer Mir Cəlal (1908–1978), written from the [...]

englischThe concept of "life" has always been part of the basic philosophical topoi. In Greek antiquity, the question of what constitutes a "good" or "successful" life was regarded as a fundamental question of philosophy. As a result, early philosophers engaged in practice-oriented philosophizing [...]

Das Phänomen Freiheit, das einerseits einen nicht-vorbestimmten Handlungsraum und anderseits ein verfolgbares kausales Verhältnis zum Urheber voraussetzt, lässt sich auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Bestimmtheit und Unbestimmtheit zurückführen. Gemäß diesem Leitgedanken erläutert die vorliegende [...]

englischThis volume contains the first printed edition with notes and commentaries of the section on Martin Heidegger's ‘Sein und Zeit’ from Charles Malik's 1937 philosophy doctoral thesis at Harvard University. Malik's pioneering text stands as one of the earliest Anglophone analytic, [...]

englischThe "Islamic Revolution" (1979) was a turning point for the political situation in the Middle East. Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia became adversaries whose enmity continues to shape the region today. Many conflicts in the Middle East are influenced by Tehran-Riyadh relations.

This book [...]

englischThe idea of ›popularity‹ is rarely traced back beyond the 20th century and into the discourses of the time around or before 1800. Nevertheless, questions of popularity and the popularization of knowledge already form an integral part of Enlightenment debates in the 18th century: My study [...]

englischAll educational professions require a professional approach to media: But what are media? Neutral intermediaries? Or does every medium have its own message? Only which one? Are media instruments in teaching? Or do they create conditions for pedagogical practice? Do media represent reality? [...]

englischThis 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 [...]

englischThrough 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 [...]

englischIt is a widespread belief that Husserl’s conception of time obstructs the way to understanding world-time in a heideggerian sense. Unfolding world-time as one of the main topics of the last phases of Husserl’s analyses of time shall refute this criticism. The process of concretization of the [...]

englischThis introduction to pedagogy establishes the principles of pedagogical action. Based on the responsibility of every human being for him- or herself, fellow human beings and the environment, the core task of pedagogy is to convincingly substantiate justified claims. Instruction, education, [...]

englischLies constitute one of several variants of non-factual communication. Based on the Interdisciplinary Graduate School on Factual and Fictional Narration, the contributions in this volume are both theoretical and historical and span a wide range of different approaches. While the essays from [...]

Ist es möglich, untreu zu sein und trotzdem tugendhaft zu bleiben? Schnitzler kreist in seinen mittleren Dramen immer wieder um diese Frage. Mit der Sprachkrise um 1900 im Hintergrund analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit Schnitzlers pragmatische wie ethische Sprachauffassung.Letztere schafft die [...]

englischThe guiding view of this thesis is that Heidegger's essential criticisms of Nietzsche can be inferred primarily from the "Auslegung der II. Unzeitgemäßen Betrachtung". At the beginning of his interpretation, Heidegger responds to the themes of the utility of science and the distinction [...]

englischThe discourse about several worlds is richly illustrated by science fiction and computer games. It seems evident that people have the desire to imagine astounding realities. However, 'alternative worlds' are not only fictions, but are discussed rationally in the scientific community: [...]

englischIn this meta-essay, the author, a visionary inspired by cybernetics, probes the causes of intelligence in our world, with some old questions revealing surprising answers. He advocates a humanistic social order that he calls sapiocracy and, in a ‘Buberian Dialogue’, outlines his comprehensive [...]