Brill aug 2026 (105 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Early 20th-century Warsaw witnessed an unprecedented development of the Yiddish press. This led to a backlash not only between Poles and Jews but also among Jews themselves, over whether Jews constituted a political nation.The book analyzes how mass-circulation newspapers were not just information channels, but active platforms established by Litvak Jews in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution for debating and defining Jewishness. Events such as the 1912 elections to the Duma and the Beilis trial proved that this press was an important factor in shaping modern Jewish national identity, as it created a public sphere that crucially allowed ordinary Jews to 'speak on our own behalf.' For this very reason, it caused anxiety and moral panic in Polish public opinion, thereby turning the Litvaks into a principal enemy of the Polish nation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together the plenary papers presented at the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, reflecting new developments and trends in current research on the Byzantine world and its enduring legacy. Organized into six sections, the studies address multiple aspects of Byzantine history, culture, literature, archaeology, and art. In tune with the overarching theme of the congress, several chapters examine the ways in which Byzantium interacted with and was perceived by others, as well as how Byzantine ideas, culture, and identity were interpreted, adapted, and reimagined in later periods. Together, they illuminate Byzantium's lasting place in the medieval world and its influence both within and beyond its borders.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the centuries between the invention of printing and the birth of copyright, even the most enlightened men and women believed in the need to monitor the circulation of books and repress ideas considered harmful to society. What distinguished the Roman censorship system from the control mechanisms in force in other parts of Europe And, above all, how did ecclesiastical censorship influence the development of Italian culture during the modern age This book reconstructs the tools Rome used to prevent the spread of books considered dangerous and, at the same time, the stratagems authors, printers, and readers used to circumvent these controls. Censorship meant elimination, suppression, and deletion, but also replacement, restitution, and rewriting. The success of the religious and cultural policy of the Counter-Reformation also depended on the ability to provide the faithful with a series of texts to replace books that were no longer available. The books disappeared and then reappeared in different forms, distant but not entirely new compared to their original appearance. Translation of: Libri pericolosi: Censura e cultura italiana in età moderna (Editori Laterza, 2022).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michel de Montaigne, der Begründer der Essayistik, war ein herausragender Denker, der von großer Aktualität ist. Hinzuweisen ist auf seine Essays zur Lebenskunst, wie 'Philosophieren heißt Sterben lernen', den über die 'Freundschaft' sowie über das 'Glück'. Als Stoiker und Skeptiker reflektierte er über Ruhe und Gelassenheit in der Lebensführung. Montaignes Essays können als ein Geschenk und als Orientierung für unser Existieren gelten, das er auf vielfältigste Weise beleuchtet.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine 2022, die Angriffe der Huthi auf die Schifffahrt am Ausgang des Roten Meeres seit 2024 oder auch die Aufrüstung Chinas im Südchinesischen Meer seit der Jahrtausendwende zeigen eindrucksvoll, dass Seemacht und Seestrategie heute genauso bedeutsam sind wie vor Jahrzehnten, Jahrhunderten oder Jahrtausenden. Geändert haben sich durch den Einsatz von Drohnen, Flugkörpern oder auch Cyberattacken nur die technischen Rahmenbedingungen der Seekriegführung und damit der Erringung und Ausübung von Seemacht.Der hier vorgelegte Sammelband zeichnet die Bedeutung von Seemacht und die Diskussionen über Seestrategien in Geschichte und Gegenwart nach.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If the number of Academy activities devoted to international arbitration has increased significantly in recent decades, it is due to the growing importance that this mechanism has gained among peaceful means of resolving international disputes. In many fields, particularly in areas such as international business, investment and sports, arbitration has become the predominant mechanism, creating in some cases a sort of de facto quasi-exclusive jurisdiction. Several of the Academy's recent programs have opened with inaugural lectures specifically addressing international arbitration. This book brings together four of these lectures, originally delivered and published in French and now available in English in a single volume. As with all those invited to open the Academy's programs, the level and prestige of the authors featured in this work are superlative. The works offered by these distinguished lecturers reflect a diversity of perspectives, among the many that international arbitration allows today, and accurately summarize the Academy's permanent interest in the evolution of international arbitration and how it relates to international law. Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, Foreword Dominique Hascher, The Role of International Law in the Supervision of Arbitral Awards Jean-Michel Jacquet, Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Independence and Impartiality of Judges and Arbitrators in Investor-State Disputes Alexis Mourre, The Legitimacy of Arbitration. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine 2022, die Angriffe der Huthi auf die Schifffahrt am Ausgang des Roten Meeres seit 2024 oder auch die Aufrüstung Chinas im Südchinesischen Meer seit der Jahrtausendwende zeigen eindrucksvoll, dass Seemacht und Seestrategie heute genauso bedeutsam sind wie vor Jahrzehnten, Jahrhunderten oder Jahrtausenden. Geändert haben sich durch den Einsatz von Drohnen, Flugkörpern oder auch Cyberattacken nur die technischen Rahmenbedingungen der Seekriegführung und damit der Erringung und Ausübung von Seemacht.Der hier vorgelegte Sammelband zeichnet die Bedeutung von Seemacht und die Diskussionen über Seestrategien in Geschichte und Gegenwart nach.Brill Deutschland GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Breite 10, 37079 Göttingen 287 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers an array of new approaches to the Song of Songs, the Bible's only love poem, which set the work more firmly in relation to its ancient context, the natural world, and theological, literary and bodily engagements, and its artistic representation. It begins with an introduction that summarises approaches to the Song, past and present. Three essays then consider it in the light of specific contexts: the polygynous Solomonic court, aspects of Hellenistic culture and ancient near eastern love poetry. The next three essays explore the Song with respect to the philosophy of plants, the Edenic garden and the integration of nature and divine and human love. Four contributions then focus upon the Song and poetics. Two more essays view the Song in the perspective, respectively, of Julia Kristeva's reading of the Song and its interpretation in relation to a 'bodily archive.' The last essay reproduces and comments on a series of new paintings on the Song.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book offers an array of new approaches to the Song of Songs, the Bible's only love poem, which set the work more firmly in relation to its ancient context, the natural world, and theological, literary and bodily engagements, and its artistic representation. It begins with an introduction that summarises approaches to the Song, past and present. Three essays then consider it in the light of specific contexts: the polygynous Solomonic court, aspects of Hellenistic culture and ancient near eastern love poetry. The next three essays explore the Song with respect to the philosophy of plants, the Edenic garden and the integration of nature and divine and human love. Four contributions then focus upon the Song and poetics. Two more essays view the Song in the perspective, respectively, of Julia Kristeva's reading of the Song and its interpretation in relation to a 'bodily archive.' The last essay reproduces and comments on a series of new paintings on the Song.Brill Deutschland GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Breite 10, 37079 Göttingen 296 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One Long Blue Streak traces the unstoppable flow of indecent, profane, and off-colour language coursing through James Joyce's work, inviting readers to decode and delight in the bawdry and blasphemy that established Joyce as one of the notoriously obscene writers in the canon. From the elided vulgarity of Dubliners to the anarchic wordplay of Finnegans Wake, Joyce seized upon the power of swearing, cursing, and so-called foul language - sacred, sexual, and scatological alike - to create a playful space in which speech is still free.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book offers an array of new approaches to the Song of Songs, the Bible's only love poem, which set the work more firmly in relation to its ancient context, the natural world, and theological, literary and bodily engagements, and its artistic representation. It begins with an introduction that summarises approaches to the Song, past and present. Three essays then consider it in the light of specific contexts: the polygynous Solomonic court, aspects of Hellenistic culture and ancient near eastern love poetry. The next three essays explore the Song with respect to the philosophy of plants, the Edenic garden and the integration of nature and divine and human love. Four contributions then focus upon the Song and poetics. Two more essays view the Song in the perspective, respectively, of Julia Kristeva's reading of the Song and its interpretation in relation to a 'bodily archive.' The last essay reproduces and comments on a series of new paintings on the Song. 296 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Writing and Community in 300 BCE China is the first study to examine the anthology of the canonical Poems (Shi ?) within their social and interpretive community at the ancient capital of Chu. Based on archaeological data and the analysis of recently discovered bamboo manuscripts, it identifies the Poems and other literary texts as the teaching tools of a class of low-ranking intellectuals who served the Chu royal court. From the manuscripts' visual and literary features it reconstructs the procedures of writing, reading, and teaching at a single time and place: the court of Chu around 300 BCE.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book challenges you to re-consider how and what you know about critical ideas related to inequality, redistribution, race, gender, violence, and justice. It takes you on a historical journey across capitalist and (former) socialist countries and societies to illustrate why these well-established Anglophonic concepts developed mainly in the United States may lack completeness and political energy when used the world over. Written in accessible language, the chapters equip you with a potent original postsocialist method for evaluating these and other critical concepts across political contexts and academic disciplines.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Infrastructured Landscapes, Elvan Cobb reveals how the arrival of railways originating from the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir reshaped the very fabric of space and experience in western Anatolia during the transformative decades of the late 19th century in the Ottoman Empire. The author argues that trains were significant not only in modernizing the region but also in altering how people perceived and practiced Ottoman spaces. Foregrounding the inherently spatial nature of railways, she examines issues such as how they shifted the sensory geographies of the region, facilitated emergent practices such as tourism and archaeology, and acted as performative spaces where the Ottoman Empire's modernizing ambitions were put on display.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Rabat to al-Quds: Eight Centuries of Moroccan Resilience in Jerusalem documents the enduring historical, spiritual, and cultural bond between Morocco and the Holy City. Drawing on archival sources, travelogues, and endowment records, the book traces the presence of Moroccan pilgrims, scholars, warriors, and settlers from the early Islamic period through the Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern eras. It highlights the foundational role of Moroccan fighters in the liberation of Jerusalem under Salah al-Din, the establishment of the Moroccan Quarter as a waqf, and the influential contributions of Maliki jurists and scholars to the city's religious and intellectual life. The narrative also examines the evolution of Moroccan custodianship, culminating in contemporary initiatives led by the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency. Through its rich documentation, the book affirms the depth, continuity, and cultural significance of the Moroccan-Jerusalem relationship, and its relevance to present-day heritage preservation and communal solidarity.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Step into the pioneering field of Afropean Biblical Studies. This book constructs a Nigerian/British women's hermeneutic that reshapes how we read the New Testament, blending feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches. In this book, readers will meet the author through her autobiographical reflections, which, alongside rich literary and cultural insights, illuminate fresh readings of biblical characters--like Herodias's daughter (Mark 6:17-28; Matthew 14:3-12) and the woman who washed Jesus' feet (Luke 7:36-50)--and engage popular contemporary novels, including Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Original, innovative, and methodologically bold, it challenges Western-dominated scholarship and opens new horizons in biblical interpretation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This monograph examines ethical discourse in Luke-Acts by bringing narrative ethics into sustained conversation with cognitive linguistics. It argues that the Lukan narrative forms moral perception not simply through rules or exemplars, but through narratological patterns and devices that presume readerly agency, freedom, and participation. Focusing on three recurring moral metaphors--the social family, moral accounting, and the life journey--the study offers a phenomenological account of how the Lukan narrative shapes ethical reasoning at the level of embodied cognition. In so doing, it reframes longstanding discussions in Lukan ethics by attending to the largely tacit, formative processes through which narratives shape readers' moral understanding. By attending closely to narrative form, conceptual metaphor, and moral imagination, this book clarifies how Luke-Acts guides ethical interpretation without prescribing it, contributing a methodologically rigorous approach to New Testament ethics.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a genealogy and critique of 'global religions' as a scholarly category. Beginning with competing narratives of 1492 and Columbus, it traces how the notion was curated by figures like Ninian Smart and Mark Juergensmeyer, staged at the 1993 Parliament of World's Religions, and deployed in Buddhist studies scholarship. It culminates in an examination of how religion functions within liberal, neoliberal, and algorithmic modes of governmentality. Drawing on decolonial theory, Foucauldian analysis, and critical religious studies, it argues that global religions is not a neutral descriptor but a tool for organizing, disciplining, and commodifying cultural difference -- and one serving increasingly authoritarian ends.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do revolutionary gender policies work amid political transformation and conflict Based on ethnographic research in Rojava, north Syria, this book examines gender as a power relation organized around access to material resources, positions of authority, and the capacity to make life choices. You follow a processual analysis of how the interplay of war-related dynamics--economic hardship, mass emigration, shifts in the gender composition of society and the workforce, and the gender legislation and policies of the Rojava administration--reshapes everyday interactions in homes, workplaces, and public spaces. The book argues that while women gain new opportunities, these advances remain precarious, constrained by dominant patriarchal norms. Situating Rojava alongside historical cases from the United States and Britain during World War II and from Nicaragua and Vietnam during revolutionary and liberation wars, the study offers comparative insight into when wartime gains may--or may not--translate into lasting gender change in the post-conflict era.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a British woman who traveled to India and Afghanistan at end of nineteenth century and served as a medical advisor and physician to Amir 'Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan. Hamilton's accounts of her experiences in Afghanistan are unique because they chronicle her double-layered interaction with the Royal Court and the Royal Harem. They provide insight into Amir 'Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan's personality and court life. Additionally, they offer singular insights into harem, domestic life, and slavery in Afghanistan in the late nineteenth century.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Fin-de-Siècle Paris, private art collections abounded, and were celebrated and promoted in the lavish sales catalogues of the time as 'bouquets', 'symphonies' and 'stage sets' among other metaphors and their collectors were praised as 'amateurs' or lovers of art. Valerie Mendelson shows that these anti-museological collections brought together arts of many differing periods, including contemporary art, enabling a comparative and conversational viewing that gave artists such as the Impressionists validation and support. This book offers a close and sustained exploration of how these texts and related photographs map the nuances of the amateur as artist with vivid examples drawn from industrial, intellectual and theatrical circles. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China and the World: New Perspectives on Classical Topics invites you to see China's rise through a fresh lens. It provides the depth often absent in geopolitical discussions on China, revealing how Chinese scholars reinterpret their own political, philosophical and religious traditions to re-conceptualize contemporary law, governance, and global order. From the revival of tianxia ('all under Heaven') and dayitong ('Great Unity') to legal innovations under the Belt and Road Initiative, it uncovers China's strategic use of philosophy, religion and international law for national rejuvenation. Drawing on historical sources and insider perspectives, this volume provides a vital foundation for cross-disciplinary engagement.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging. This book series aims to offer a way into this complex oeuvre by analysing the genesis of Beckett's bilingual (English/French) works according to a basic principle: knowing how something was made can help us understand how and why it works. Beckett donated many of his manuscripts to university archives. His papers are dispersed over more than a dozen public archives and several private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. The series brings this material together. Every volume focuses on a work (or in the case of shorter texts: a cluster of works) and discusses the making-of. This volume investigates the genesis of Beckett's first published novel, Murphy (1938). It describes and analyses the six not Elektronisches Buch containing the novel's draft, the typescript, the short story 'Lightning Calculation' as well as the outline and the notes (including the 'Whoroscope' Notebook) which Beckett used during the writing process.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of Leonidas Donskis' political thought, revealing a distinctive liberalism grounded in an embrace of mutual vulnerability, moral responsibility, and human connection against the backdrop of the vicissitudes of modernity. Tracing Donskis' insights on existential insecurity, hatred and conspiratorial thinking, populism, and the abuses of power, the book aims to uncover a recipe for recovering democracy as a moral order. By foregrounding repersonalisation and the recovery of genuine encounters, the book illuminates Donskis' hopeful, yet sober, vision: that in an unstable world, responsibility and reflective agency remain the foundations of a resilient democratic life.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book posits 'orientophilia' as a committed tendency among European Enlightenment philosophers to admire and appropriate the aesthetics of Asiatic religions--especially Indic, Chinese, and Far Eastern iconography--as a kind of art that could be understood with the help of a homegrown, mainly Northern-European spiritualist ontology. The author evinces references from Herder, Hegel, and impassioned orientalists like Schopenhauer and Ernest Fenollosa, to expose how European idealistic hermeneutics of Asiatic iconography suffers from limitations imposed by its own rational aesthetics and how it fails to connect with the deepest and most nuanced mythical ontology that defines these depictions. Yet, European philosophers provoked their Asian counterparts in the Anglophone world to write a neonarrative of pan-Asian hermeneutics. Philosophically astute, historical orientophilia bridges the immense philosophical traditions that Western thinkers have long imagined. In this bold and enlightening book, the author reminds us that the West could strive to truly 'know' the East only by uniting ways of knowing.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the transformation of corporate capitalism under conditions of financialization and the rising centrality of intangible capital. It challenges conventional distinctions between financial and non-financial activity by tracing the historical reorganisation of corporate capital, its balance-sheet structures, and valuation tools. The book shows how the growing role of liquidity and intangibles has undermined long-standing valuation anchors, reshaping accumulation, valuation practices, and corporate power. By reinterpreting Marxian value theory from a critical political economy perspective, it reconnects debates on value with changes in accounting conventions, financial practices, and the evolving forms of corporate capital from the late nineteenth century to the present.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the Factory to the World offers a landmark historical and theoretical reconstruction of Antonio Negri's political thought, from Italian Operaismo in the 1960s and 1970s to his global influence via Empire (2000), and up to his death in 2023. The book highlights Negri's epistemic continuity, showing how he extended the core tenets of Operaismo - such as the working class's autonomy and Tronti's 'Copernican revolution' - beyond the Fordist factory into a 'global Marxism' for the present. Employing a methodology at the intersection of the history of political thought and intellectual history, it elucidates Negri's ideas and innovations, engages major critiques, and distinguishes his approach from Western Marxism, post-Marxism, and neo-Marxism, assessing its contributions to critical theory and social movements.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholars of Qur?anic studies have commonly acknowledged the significance of pre-Islamic Syriac Christian literature for the study of the Qur?an. By offering new evidence, the present volume refines and challenges the arguments of previous studies and unearths hitherto unexplored recurring themes and motifs. It focuses on selected themes related to prophets, military and non-military forms of jiha d, concepts of darkness and light, depictions of the Garden and the Fire, Satan's fall, and bodily purity. The volume also seeks to highlight the importance of Syriac texts to the Qur?an's theology relative to comparable Jewish and non-Syriac Christian sources. Moreover, it investigates how Qur?anic concepts diverge from Syriac Christian parallels and develop a distinct theological message. Contributors are Daniel Bannoura, Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov, Johanne Louise Christiansen, Ryann Elizabeth Craig, Ana Davitashvili, Mohammad Ghandehari, Mohammad Haghani Fazl, Mark Hoover, Nestor Kavvadas, Jacob M. Kildoo, Christian Lange, Gavin McDowell, MohammadReza Moini, and Lasse Løvlund Toft.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Texts as Living Objects brings together nine contributions on dhayls (supplements) and textual transmission in the Islamic world. Integrating case studies of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew, and spanning a wide geographical and chronological scope, the volume proposes a renewed definition and understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena. Rather than examining supplementation in isolation, the volume also considers other forms of textual modification, such as commentary and translation, with which the production of supplements often overlapped. This approach underscores the dynamic yet persistent nature of authorship and knowledge production in the Islamic world and sheds light on the remarkable stability and cohesiveness of a plurisecular written production and its cultural milieu. Contributors Sacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Colinda Lindermann, Nadine Löhr, Roy Marom, Zeynep Tezer, Fikret Turan, Christoph U. Werner, and Guglielmo Zucconi.…