Isbn: 9783825354879 - americanisms: discourses of exception, exclusion, exchange (american studies: a monograph series, band 173) (6 Ergebnisse)

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungelesenes, vollständiges Exemplar; in sehr gutem Zustand mit leichten Lagerspuren, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet Bestellungen bis 15 Uhr werden am gleichen Werktag verschickt ; -The idea of a distinctive and even exceptional character of American society and culture has long enjoyed persuasive power. It has lastingly affected not only the self-images of the United States, but also perceptions from without. Canada as well as further North American cultures and regions, too, sometimes embrace a topos resembling that of the exceptional. This volume employs diverse methodical approaches from the humanities together with the social and geographical sciences to explore the North American contents of the topos of Americanism, which have become decisive for the project of the modern. Transdisciplinary exchange opens an opportunity to re-assess the effects and dynamic metamorphoses of Americanism. The protean shapes of identification with or counter-identification against the United States, and at times Canada, are vital for the acceleration rate of cultural innovation. 403 pp. Englisch.…

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungelesenes, vollständiges Exemplar; in sehr gutem Zustand mit leichten Lagerspuren, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet Bestellungen bis 15 Uhr werden am gleichen Werktag verschickt ; -The idea of a distinctive and even exceptional character of American society and culture has long enjoyed persuasive power. It has lastingly affected not only the self-images of the United States, but also perceptions from without. Canada as well as further North American cultures and regions, too, sometimes embrace a topos resembling that of the exceptional. This volume employs diverse methodical approaches from the humanities together with the social and geographical sciences to explore the North American contents of the topos of Americanism, which have become decisive for the project of the modern. Transdisciplinary exchange opens an opportunity to re-assess the effects and dynamic metamorphoses of Americanism. The protean shapes of identification with or counter-identification against the United States, and at times Canada, are vital for the acceleration rate of cultural innovation. 403 pp. Englisch.…

Zustand: Sehr Gut. Zustandsbeschreibung: Lagerspuren. Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange. Edited by Michael Steppat. 23 contributions employ diverse methodical approaches from the humanities together with the social and geographical sciences to explore the contents of the topos of Americanism, which have become decisive for the project of the modern. Transdisciplinary exchange opens an opportunity to re-assess the effects and dynamic metamorphoses of Americanism. The protean shapes of identification with or counter-identification against the United States, and at times Canada, are vital for the acceleration rate of cultural innovation. Contributions by T. Michael Maher, David T. Sumner, Jay David Bolter, Martina Leeker, Oliver Lepsius, Hellmut Fröhlich, Glenn W. Shuck/John M. Stroup, Karsten Fitz, Anno Mungen, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Thomas Bargatzky, James A. Miller, Marc Murschhauser, Helen May Dennis/Michael Steppat, Ute Fendler, Jürgen E. Müller, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Guy Thomson, Georg Kamphausen, Anke Matuschewski, Marion Linhardt, Bernd Müller-Jacquier and Susanne Mühleisen. IX,406 Seiten mit 22 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 173/Universitätsverlag Winter 2009). Früher EUR 56,00. Gewicht: 583 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Aufl. IX, 406 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. Ein sehr gutes Exemplar. - Is Ahab, Ahab? -- A Monstrous Reader -- Natura non facit saltus: Classical Physics and the Reign of Continuity -- The Uninterrupted Succession of Events: Causality and the Philosophy of Determinism -- A Homogeneous Space of Knowledge: Colonizing the Local -- Representing the Real -- The World a Machine: Disenchantment and Domination -- The Age of Machinery: Nineteenth-Century Reflections -- Truth Without Confines: Ahab's Newtonian Logics -- Wonderful Prescience of Experience: The Empirical Basis of Ahab's World Picture -- The Newtonian Order of Ahab's Cosmos -- Well Nigh as Reliable as the Steadfast Land: The Sea Solidified -- An Unavoidable, Straight Wake: The Teleological Whale -- Khan of the Plank, King of the Sea: A Utilitarian Scientist -- No Mere Machine of an Automaton: Ahab's Machinicity -- Subverting the Metaphysics of Continuity: Moby-Dick's Cetological Center -- The Classical Dimensions of Natural History -- Discovering the Essence of Things -- The Nomination of the Visible -- The Continuous Tabulation of Difference -- Versions of Continuity: Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier -- The Classification of the Constituents of a Chaos: Cetology and Classical Natural History -- Ripping the Taxonomic Surface: The Failure of Classification The Failure of Nomenclature -- Discontinuity and the Failure of Classical Description -- Bohr's Principle of Complementarity -- A Dead, Blind Wall, Pleated with Riddles: Un-Reading the -- Whale -- Visualizing Atomic Phenomena, Visualizing the Whale: The -- Discontinuity of Object and Representation -- Complementary Taxonomies: Cetology Revisited -- Cetology as Revolution -- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Gifted With the High Perception: Ahab's Visual Scheme -- A Little Lower Layer: Ahab's and Ishmael's Differing -- Schemes of Perception -- Cetology as Revolution: Ishmael's Perception of Anomaly -- The Whiteness of the Whale -- An Impalpable, Malicious Agency -- Colorless All-Color. ISBN 9783825354879 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 576 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.…

8vo. Original-Hardcover, fine. IX / 406 pp. -TEXT IN ENGLISH- Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

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