Brill feb 2016 (44 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The famous Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, ancient Praeneste in central Italy, dating to c. 100 B.C., is one of the earliest large mosaics which have been preserved from the classical world. It presents a unique, comprehensive picture of Egypt and Nubia. The interpretation of the mosaic is disputed, suggestions ranging from an exotic decoration to a topographical picture or a religious allegory.The present study demonstrates that the mosaic depicts rituals connected with Isis and Osiris and the yearly Nile flood. The presence of these Egyptian religious scenes at Praeneste can be explained by the assimilation of isis and Fortuna, the tutelary goddess of Praeneste, and by the interpretation of the mosaic as a symbol of divine providence.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catastrophe and Conflict: Disaster Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Implications examines how and why disaster-related activities (disaster response and disaster risk reduction) do and do not lead to diplomatic endeavours. With respect to foreign policy implications, the main question examined here is: Under what circumstances could disaster diplomacy be actively made to succeed or not to succeed Previous case studies are summarised followed by new case studies of disease diplomacy and climate change diplomacy. From the case studies, disaster diplomacy could succeed when those in power decide that they want it to succeed and then use their power for that goal. This situation is not likely to arise because of only disaster-related activities. Instead, pre-existing interests supporting diplomacy are needed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edited and introduced by Robert Arp, Revisiting Aquinas' Proofs for the Existence of God is a collection of new papers written by scholars focusing on the famous Five Proofs or Ways (Quinque Viae) for the existence of God put forward by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) near the beginning of his unfinished tome, Summa Theologica. It is not an exaggeration to say that not only is Aquinas' Summa a landmark text in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity, but also that the Five Proofs discussed therein--namely, the arguments that conclude to the Unmoved Mover, Uncaused Cause, Necessary Being, Superlative Being, and Intelligent Director--are as compelling today as they were in the 13th Century. Written in a debate format with different scholars arguing for and against each Proof, the papers in the book consist of arguments utilizing various combinations of contemporary science and philosophical ideas to bolster the positions. The result is a revisiting of Aquinas' Proofs that is relevant, stimulating, enlightening, and refreshing.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Katherine Mansfield's French Lives explores how both the literary, cultural, editorial and biographical influence of French arts and philosophy, and life as an émigré in France shaped Mansfield's evolution as a key modernist writer, while setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of Anglo-French modernism.Mansfield's many stays in France were decisive in intellectual, personal and psychological terms: discovering 'Murry's Paris' and the Left Bank; escaping to the War Zone to join Francis Carco; living as a civilian in wartime during the bombardments of Paris; travelling and finding lodgings as a single woman in war-ravaged towns; the experience of bereavement and debilitating ill-health abroad; and the joys and pitfalls for an outsider of a foreign land and idiom.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have been part of the religious and ethnic mosaic of this region. The book has a broad and multi-disciplinary scope and covers the early settlements in Lithuania and Poland, the later immigrations to Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as the most recent establishments in Sweden and Germany. The authors, who hail from and are specialists on these areas, demonstrate that in several respects the Tatar Muslims have become well-integrated here.Contributors are: Toomas Abiline, Tamara Bairasauskaite, Renat Bekkin, Sebastian Cwiklinski, Harry Halén, Tuomas Martikainen, Agata Nalborczyk, Egdunas Racius, Ringo Ringvee, Valters Scerbinskis, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Did the 'seventeenth-century crisis' visit the Ottoman Empire How can we situate the explosion of rural violence and the rebellions of the turn of the seventeenth century in the Anatolian countryside The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia provides the reader with a fresh and innovative perspective on the long scholarly debate over the question of 'decline' in early modern Ottoman history. It offers a new agenda, new type of source material, and a new methodology for the study of demographic crisis. Through a systematic examination of little-known detailed avâriz registers, Oktay Özel demonstrates in detail the mass desertion of rural settlements, the destruction of agricultural economy, and the resulting collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia at the turn of the seventeenth century.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland of these empires. The chapters address subject nations within Europe, such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and overseas colonies like Tunisia, Algeria and German East Africa. By combining analyses of both European and extra-European experiences of war, this collection of essays provides a unique comparative perspective on World War I and points the way towards an integrated history of small nations and colonial peripheries.Contributors are Steven Balbirnie, Gearóid Barry, Jens Boysen, Ingrid Brühwiler, William Buck, AUde Chanson, Enrico Dal Lago, Matias Gardin, Richard Gow, Florian Grafl, Dónal Hassett, Guido Hausmann, Róisín Healy, Conor Morrissey, Michael Neiberg, David Noack, Chris Rominger, Danielle Ross and Christine Strotmann.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Eric Dodson-Robinson incorporates essays by specialists working across disciplines and national literatures into a subtle narrative tracing the diverse scholarly, literary and theatrical receptions of Seneca's tragedies. The tragedies, influential throughout the Roman world well beyond Seneca's time, plunge into obscurity in Late Antiquity and nearly disappear during the Middle Ages. Profound consequences follow from the rediscovery of a dusty manuscript containing nine plays attributed to Seneca: it is seminal to both the renaissance of tragedy and the birth of Humanism. Canonical Western writers from Antiquity to the present have revisited, transformed, and eviscerated Senecan precedents to develop, in Dodson-Robinson's words, 'competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Narrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices.Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner, Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface.Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima: History, Careers and Legal Culture, 1575-1775 Mauricio Novoa offers an account of the institution that developed in the vice-royalty of Peru for the protection of Indians before the high courts of justice. Making use of historical materials, Novoa provides a comprehensive view on the formation of the legal elite in Lima during the colonial period; reviews the litigation undertaken by indigenous plaintiffs, and explains the legal culture that allowed the development of juristic doctrine around the Indian personal status. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon's development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major campaign of a war. To achieve this, the essays conform to the common themes of Napoleon's planning, his command and control, his execution of plans, and the response of his adversaries. Napoleon's sea power and the British response to the French challenge at sea is also investigated. Overall, this volume reflects the finest scholarship and cutting-edge research to be found in Napoleonic Military History.Contributors include Jonathan Abel, Robert M. Citino, Huw Davies, Mark T. Gerges; John H. Gill; Jordan Hayworth, Kenneth G. Johnson, Michael V. Leggiere, Kevin D. McCranie, Alexander Mikaberidze, Frederick C. Schneid, John Severn, Dennis Showalter, Geoffrey Wawro, and John F. Weinzierl.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus' Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories, and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard 'Dutch' Thomson (d. 1613), best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired in his own day for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson. It maps his connections with his contemporaries, reconstructs his reading, and edits his surviving correspondence, some seventy-eight letters. Thomson moved among the greatest scholars of his day, and was good friends with Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon. He travelled in Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, became a member of five universities, and worked with manuscripts in the libraries in England, Florence, Geneva, Heidelberg and Leiden. Modern scholarship, working within national boundaries, has tended to see only a part of the whole picture. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world continues to be expressed in energetic global dynamic forms. In contemporary times Christianity is increasingly exposed to divisions, not only through its traditional channels - Roman Catholic, Protestant and the Orthodoxy - nor conservative and liberal streams, but numerous nuanced articulations. This is reflected in the roles of clergy and lay people, in organisational dynamics, sources of allegiance and articulations of the faith, movements of renewal and revivalism, syncretic modes, and broader relationships with wider cultural trajectories and changing social circumstances. Collectively the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive exploration of these themes. The volume is a companion to the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army comprised British-led Indian units, British officered units of the Indian princely states and the British units attached to the Government of India. Based on the archival materials collected from India and the United Kingdom, Sepoys against the Rising Sun assesses the combat/military/battlefield effectiveness of the Indian Army against the IJA during World War II. The volume is focussed on the tactical innovations and organizational adaptations which enabled the sepoys to overcome the Japanese in the trying terrain of Burma.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-two essays, written by top scholars in the fields of early Christianity and Judaism, focus on methodological issues, earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting, Gospel studies, and history and meaning in later Christianity. These essays honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting. Chilton's scholarship has established innovative approaches to reconstructing the life of Jesus, a Jew whose religious ideology developed and therefore must be understood within the Judaism of the first centuries. Following upon Chilton's approaches and insights, the essays collected here illustrate the centrality of the literatures of early Judaism to the critical exegesis of the New Testament and other writings of early Christianity. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility.Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth G. Bernard, Christer Bruun, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Luuk de Ligt, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy L. Prowse, Saskia T. Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf A. Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The final book of the New Testament, the Apocalypse, has been controversial since its initial appearance during the first century A.D. For centuries after, theologians, exegetes, scholars, and preachers have grappled with the imagery and symbolism behind this fascinating and terrifying book. Their thoughts and ideas regarding the apocalypse--and its trials and tribulations--were received within both elite and popular culture in the medieval and early modern eras. Therefore, one may rightly call the Apocalypse, and its accompanying hopes and fears, a foundational pillar of Western Civilization. The interest in the Apocalypse, and apocalyptic movements, continues apace in modern scholarship and society alike. This present volume, A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse, collates essays from specialists in the study of premodern apocalyptic subjects. It is designed to orient undergraduate and graduate students, as well as more established scholars, to the state of the field of premodern apocalyptic studies as well as to point them in future directions for their scholarship and/or pedagogy. Contributors are: Roland Betancourt, Robert Boenig, Richard K. Emmerson, Ernst Hintz, László Hubbes, Hiram Kümper, Natalie Latteri, Thomas Long, Katherine Olson, Kevin Poole, Matthias Riedl, Michael A. Ryan.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Huguenots are among the best known of early modern European religious minorities. Their suffering in 16th and 17th-century France is a familiar story. The flight of many Huguenots from the kingdom after 1685 conferred upon them a preeminent place in the accounts of forced religious migrations. Their history has become synonymous with repression and intolerance. At the same time, Huguenot accomplishments in France and the lands to which they fled have long been celebrated. They are distinguished by their theological formulations, political thought, and artistic achievements. This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenot past, investigates the principal lines of historical development, and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for appreciating the Huguenot experience.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien war 1938 eine der kleinsten Hochschulen Österreichs. Ihre Studierenden waren älter und es studierten deutlich mehr Frauen als an anderen Universitäten. Der Anteil der Studierenden, die nach den Nürnberger Gesetzen als Juden galten, war hingegen geringer. Erstmals liegt mit dieser Studie eine Gesamterhebung der Studierenden des Studienjahres 1937/1938 sowie der Beschäftigten an der Akademie während der NS-Zeit vor. Sie zeigt, wer nach dem 'Anschluss' bleiben durfte und wer gehen musste, erläutert die Maßnahmen des Jahres 1938 sowie der Entnazifizierung nach dem Krieg und spannt einen Bogen vom dienstenthobenen Professor über die in die Emigration gezwungene Studentin bis zu dem von KZ-Haft bedrohten ukrainischen Heizer. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Das aktuelle Heft der GiK bietet eine Überblicksdarstellung zu aktuellen Perspektiven der vergleichenden Städteforschung und Beiträge u.a. zum Kölner Erzbischof Rainald von Dassel und seinen Grabdenkmälern, zur Kölner Dommusik im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Erzbischof, Domkapitel, kirchenmusikalischen Ansprüchen und liturgischen Normen, über die Judenverfolgung in der Nordeifel im »Dritten Reich« oder über türkische Arbeitnehmer bei den Kölner Ford-Werken 1961 bis 1983 zwischen Integration und Rückkehrförderung.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Im November 1916 starb der Kaiser von Österreich Franz Joseph I. im hohen Alter nach nahezu 68-jähriger Regierungszeit. Christoph Schmetterer liefert mit dieser Biographie einen prägnanten Überblick, der die verschiedenen Facetten des langen Lebens und Wirkens des Monarchen informativ und eingängig darstellt. Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, zu Beginn der Regierungszeit von Kaiser Franz Joseph I., war Wien noch von Stadtmauern umgeben und die Bauern der Habsburgermonarchie waren mehrheitlich Untertanen adliger Grundherren. Fast sieben Jahrzehnte später starb der Kaiser in einer veränderten Welt: Das allgemeine Männerwahlrecht war eingeführt und das Habsburgerreich befand sich mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg, dessen Ende Franz Joseph nicht mehr erleben sollte. Christoph Schmetterer verwebt die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in der Regierungszeit Kaiser Franz Josephs I. mit dessen Persönlichkeit und Selbstverständnis als Oberhaupt des Hauses Habsburg. Er beleuchtet die Beziehungen des Monarchen zu Familie und Wegbegleitern ebenso wie sein Verhältnis zu Kirche, Kunst und Militär. Diese fundierte Biographie richtet den Blick auf Person und politische Bedeutung und zeichnet das Bild einer wechselvollen Epoche.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Als eigenständige Fakultät an der TU Wien erst knapp vierzig Jahre alt, stellt Elektrotechnik dennoch eine der wesentlichsten Grundlagen technischer Entwicklung seit dem 18. (eigentlich 19.) Jahrhundert dar. Die Forschungsgebiete sind vielfältig und breit gestreut - von den 'Klassikern' Energietechnik und Telekommunikation ausgehend haben sich zusätzlich die Forschungsgebiete System- und Automatisierungstechnik, Mikro- und Nanotechnologie und Photonik als hochkomplexe und für jede moderne Gesellschaft substanzielle Disziplinen etabliert.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Saale ist nach dem Rhein der vielleicht meistbesungene Fluss Deutschlands. Die Schönheit des unteren Saaletales ist trotzdem weniger bekannt. Dort, wo der Fluss die Industrie- und Stadtlandschaften bei Merseburg und Halle verlässt, offenbart er sich einmal mehr als ein wahres Juwel. Zwischen Halle und Bernburg durchschneidet das Saaletal im markanten Wechsel von steilhängigen Durchbruchsstrecken und breiten Auen die Porphyrkuppenlandschaft bei Wettin, die Hochflächen des Mansfelder Landes, die Halle-Hettstedter Gebirgsbrücke und die Ausläufer des Nordöstlichen Harzvorlandes. So verwundert es nicht, dass das Saaletal vor der Haustür der Großstädte Halle, Magdeburg und Leipzig seit Jahrzehnten ein beliebtes Ausflugsgebiet ist. Ob in der Natur oder an historischen Sehenswürdigkeiten - der hier seit 2005 bestehende Naturpark 'Unteres Saaletal' bietet auf Rad- und Wanderwegen, beim Wasserwandern oder bei einem Abstecher in die Städte und Dörfer entlang des Flusses viel Interessantes zu entdecken und zu erleben. Anschaulich erläutert sowie mit zahlreichen Karten, Grafiken, Fotos und Federstrichzeichnungen illustriert wird eine charakteristische und abwechslungsreiche mitteldeutsche Kulturlandschaft mit ihren über 8000 Jahre alten Wurzeln, die mit einer bewegten Geologie, stimmungsvollen Naturschönheiten und interessanten Zeugnissen aus Geschichte, Bergbau und Landwirtschaft aufwarten kann.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Was ist Liebe Und was bedeutet die Liebe zum Wort, die Dichtung und Philologie verbindet Eine ebenso einfache wie wirkungsmächtige Antwort auf diese Fragen gibt Platons Symposion, indem es Dichtung als Übertragung der Liebe auf die Sprache versteht. Der Begriff der Übertragung, den die Psychoanalyse im 20. Jahrhundert weitergeführt hat, erlaubt es so, an ausgewählten Stationen der Theorie und Literatur der Übertragung nachzugehen: von Platon bis zu Kierkegaard, Freud und Lacan, von Shakespeare bis zu Klopstock, Goethe und Kafka. Ausgehend vom Symposion und seiner Rezeption in Lacans Seminar zur Übertragung ergibt sich eine Theorie- und Literaturgeschichte des dichterischen Eros, die Philosophie, Psychoanalyse und Literatur in einen erneuten Dialog bringt. Bei Kierkegaard, Nietzsche und Freud, bei Shakespeare, Klopstock, Goethe und Kafka zeigt sich, dass die Theorie der Negativität des Begehrens nicht ausreicht, um das Potential dichterischer Sprache zu begreifen. Die Wege der Übertragung, die die Literatur beschreitet, sind Umwege der Sprache, denen nachzuspüren sich diesseits und jenseits des Lustprinzips weiterhin lohnt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ist Bazon Brock ein moderner Vorsokratiker Wie bei ihnen sind es auch bei Brock prägnante einzelne Sätze, die ihn in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer der streitbarsten Gestalten der Kunstwelt machten. Rund 25 Philosophen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlichster Disziplinen haben nun jeweils einen Satz aus Brocks Werk ausgewählt, um sein Denken in den Blick zu nehmen.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Ereignisse des Mauerfalls und der Zusammenbruch der kommunistischen Herrschaft in den ostmitteleuropäischen Staaten 1989/90 markierten das Ende der 45-jährigen Nachkriegszeit nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die Entwicklungen der Jahre 1989 bis 1991 führten nicht nur zur Friedlichen Revolution in der DDR, dem Fall der Mauer und zur Wiederherstellung der Einheit Deutschlands. Zugleich fanden friedliche Umwälzungen in allen ostmitteleuropäischen Staaten statt. Mit dem allmählichen Zerfall der DDR kündigte sich zugleich die Auflösung des Warschauer Paktes an, die einherging mit dem Niedergang der Sowjetunion und Ende 1991 zu ihrem Ende führte. Die Autoren dieses Sammelbandes analysieren in ihren Beiträgen, wie diese Entwicklungen zustande kamen und welche Auswirkungen der Niedergang des Sowjetimperiums auf die Entwicklung in Deutschland hatte.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Auf der Weltausstellung in Sevilla 1992 läutete der provokative Slogan »La Suisse n'existe pas« eine nachhaltige Aufarbeitung des Schweizer Selbstbildes und einen Abschied von vielen seiner Helden und Mythen ein. Die Autoren dieses Bandes übertragen diesen herausfordernden Gedanken auf das Verständnis vom Balkan, um die Vielfalt und Einmaligkeit dieser Region jenseits von Fremd- und Eigenprojektionen ans Licht zu bringen. Entgegen der bekannten Stereotype zeichnet sich der Balkan gerade nicht durch anthropologische Spezifitäten aus. Vielmehr besetzt er geographisch, kulturell und historisch wichtige Bruch- und Schnittstellen, die in diesem Band kenntnisreich in den Blick genommen werden.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simultanément sujet et objet de multiples débats et controverses, Jean-Jacques Rousseau n'a jamais cessé de produire et de susciter des différends, qu'ils soient personnels ou philosophiques. Auteur proprement en conflit avec son siècle, le Citoyen de Genève intervient dans l'arène publique en prenant partie dans d'importants débats idéologiques: ces querelles qui ont structuré le champ littéraire et politique sont l'objet de ce livre. On y analyse le rôle et la force de la polémique dans les oeuvres de Rousseau. Prenant Les Confessions à rebours, cette étude met au jour un autre Rousseau: non la victime passive et innocente d'une réception hostile, mais un acteur majeur de ces conflits, c'est-à-dire un écrivain polémique.Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique focuses on the ways in which Rousseau's career was constructed in a constant engagement with the practice of polemics and refutation in the fields of politics, religion, and philosophy. Known throughout Europe for his highly controversial writings and for the intense polemics to which they gave rise in the realm of public opinion, Jean-Jacques Rousseau became in his lifetime the object of unprecedented public interest and scrutiny. The very public quarrels and controversies that accompanied the publication and reception of his works were instrumental in establishing a new role for the writer, making Rousseau an ideal case study for this major shift in the relationship between writers and a rapidly changing and newly dynamic public sphere.…