englischThe art-historical work provides an in-depth insight into the phenomenon of castles converted into monasteries, which was widespread throughout the Western world during the Middle Ages. The author, who is regularly involved in excavations, uses his knowledge of castle research to be able to [...]
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englischThe media is often accused of being manipulated, biased or even controlled. Does it even abuse its power as the ‘fourth estate’? In this book, the author explores these questions from a value-free perspective and concludes that everything the media is accused of is already part of all [...]
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englischIt is hardly known that the brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) drew intensively from their earliest childhood. This publication is devoted to their hitherto unexplored childhood and youth drawings as well as those of their siblings Carl, Charlotte, Ludwig Emil [...]
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englischThe biographical caesurae generated by human failure are the subject of the sociology of failure. From the perspective of literary studies and gender theory, this study connects to the interdisciplinary research of these discontinuities and elaborates the narrative techniques of failure of [...]
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englischThe representation of the 'Arab woman' in Western discourse occurs dualistically - either as a victim of repressive structures or as an eroticised-imagined harem lady. Colonial continuities are thus still evident today. Based on Lila Abu-Lughod's critique anchored in postcolonial theory, [...]
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englischAccording to Sartre, every individual exists necessarily as consciousness of something. Rather implausibly, this seems to imply that one would not survive a dreamless sleep.
The author motivates the issue by, on the one hand, critically and analytically discussing somatic, psychological, [...]
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englischMax Müller's lecture 'Theosophy, or Psychological Religion' marked a long dispute between Müller and members of the Theosophical Society over fundamental questions of world interpretation. While Müller regarded the laws of logic as 'sacred' and therefore irrefutable, reason in the occult [...]
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englischNarrating issues of sustainability creatively is as challenging for journalists as it is full of opportunities. A range of different ‘ecological genres’, combining information and experimental literary qualities, can help to make the current ecological crisis tangible and shape social [...]
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englischThis study examines the image of the priest as it is found in the Church Fathers of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Synodal period (1700–1917). Different models of the priesthood are identified and examined in terms of how they were shaped by the socio-political situation. In the course [...]
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englischWhat German science fiction authors put on paper in the 1920s and early 1930s are not infrequently pre-fascist omnipotence fantasies of galactic proportions. Michael Novian examines literary representations of the “Nordic race” in science fiction novels from the period before the Second [...]
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