Brill jan 2018 (28 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores Hegel's 1820s »Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik«. The objective is two-fold: first, to ask how Hegel's work might illuminate specific periods and artworks in light of contemporary art historical discussions; and second, to explore how art history might help us to make better sense (and use) of Hegelian aesthetics.Given the recent resurgence of interest in 'global' art history, and calls for more comparative approaches to »visual culture«, the volume asks what role Hegel has played or could play within the field. What can a historical treatment of art accomplish How should we explain the »need« for certain artistic forms at different historical junctures Has art history been »Hegelian« without fully acknowledging the fact Indeed, in what ways have art historians shirked the fundamental questions that Hegel raised.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Peshitta is the Syriac translation of the Old Testament made on the basis of the Hebrew text during the second century CE. Much like the Greek translations of the Old Testament, this document is an important source for our knowledge of the text of the Old Testament. Its language is also of great interest to linguists. Moreover, as Bible of the Syriac Churches it is used in sermons, commentaries, poetry, prayers, and hymns. Many terms specific to the spirituality of the Syriac Churches have their origins in this ancient and reliable version of the Old Testament.The present edition, published by the Peshitta Institute in Leiden on behalf of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, is the first scholarly one of this text. It presents the evidence of all known ancient manuscripts and gives full introductions to the individual books. This volume contains Proverbs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Sense of Quoting, Odell-Scott argues that the neutral continuous script of ancient manuscripts of the Greek New Testament composed with no punctuation and no spacing provided readers discretionary authority to determine and assess the status of phrases as they articulate a cohesive and coherent reading of the script. The variety of reading renditions each differently scored with punctuation supported the production of quotations. These cultivated and harvested quotes while useful for authorizing sectarian discourse, rarely convey the sense of the phrase in the continuous script. Augustine's work on punctuating the scriptures in service to the production of plainer quotable passages in support of the rule of faith is addressed. Odell-Scott's textual analysis of a plainer quotable passage at verse 7:1b concerning male celibacy supports his thesis that plainer passages are the product of interpretative scoring of the script in service to discursive endeavours. To quote is often to misquote.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Arctic Ocean Shipping, Donald R. Rothwell assesses contemporary navigation, security and sovereignty issues in the North American Arctic. Shipping in the Arctic Ocean is becoming a critical legal, geopolitical and security issue as a result of climate change and increased interest from non-Arctic States such as China. The law of the sea provides the key legal framework for the regulation of Arctic Ocean shipping, and has been relied upon by Canada and the United States to develop the legal regime for the Northwest Passage and the Bering Strait. Navigation within the EEZ and high seas in the Arctic is also becoming more strategically significant as a result of climate change. Multiple issues are raised with respect to maritime security and the adequacy of the existing legal regime, including how Canada and the United States will respond to interest being expressed in Arctic shipping by Asian States.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Appearing in an era of rapid change in the printing and publishing industries, James Joyce's Ulysses exploited and exemplified those industries to the degree that the book can be seen as a virtual museum of 1904 media. Publishing in Joyce's 'Ulysses' Newspapers, Advertising and Printing, edited by William S. Brockman, Tekla Mecsnóber and Sabrina Alonso, gathers twelve essays by Joyce scholars exploring facets of those trades that pervade the substance of the book. Essays explore the book's incorporation of mass-market weekly magazines, contemporary advertising slogans, newspaper clippings, the 'Aeolus' episode's printing office and the varied typographic styles of successive editions of Ulysses. Placing Joyce's work in its historical milieu, the collection offers a fresh perspective on modern print culture. Contributors are: Sabrina Alonso, Harald Beck, William S. Brockman, Elisabetta d'Erme, Judith Harrington, Matthew Hayward, Sangam MacDuff, Tekla Mecsnóber, Tamara Radak, Fritz Senn, David Spurr, Jolanta Wawrzycka. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150, Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated objects from past and foreign cultures) as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This comparative study addressing five urban centers argues that the multivalence of spolia and their openness to new interpretations made them the ideal visual form to define a distinct Mediterranean identity for the inhabitants of these cities, celebrating the wealth and prestige that resulted from the paired endeavors of war and commerce while referencing the cultures across the sea that inspired the greatest hostility, fear, or admiration.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.This Part 2018-2 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 60 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jeux de mots célèbre le pouvoir créateur des jeux de langage dans la littérature de Rabelais à nos jours. Calembour, mot-valise, bon mot, néologisme, mot-fétiche: ce volume collectif s'attache au jeu de mots littéraire dans des domaines aussi variés que l'onomastique littéraire et l'écriture à contraintes, aussi bien dans la prose que dans la poésie. Les études de spécialistes ici réunies montrent comment, de Rabelais à Richard Millet en passant par Roussel et Roubaud et de Mallarmé à Fargue en passant par Apollinaire et le 'nonsense verse', la prose et la poésie explorent la productivité des mots, leur pouvoir de métamorphose et leur aptitude à faire infiniment glisser le sens. Le volume se termine par une ouverture sur le jeu de mots en philosophie et au cinéma. Jeux de mots celebrates the creative power of wordplay from Rabelais to present times. Puns, portmanteaus, 'bon mots', neologisms, fetish-words: this collective volume focuses on literary wordplay in very different fields such as literary onomastics and constrained writing, both in prose and in poetry. Specialists in the field show how, from Rabelais to Richard Millet through Roussel and Roubaud and from Mallarmé to Fargue through Apollinaire and 'nonsense verse', prose and poetry explore the productivity of words, their power of metamorphosis and their capacity to make meaning shift. The volume ends with a section on wordplay in philosophy and the cinema.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an extraordinary figure on the Polish political scene at the turn of the 20th century. A Marxist and patriot, academic and politician, Kelles-Krauz was most known for his efforts to reconcile the needs of the nation with international socialism. This volume, however, offers a selection of his writings centred on the history of ideas, published for the first time in English. Kelles-Krauz's works, while Marxist at heart, linked ideas stemming from the concepts of German idealists, French positivists, as well as contemporary sociologists who offered a bridge between research on individuals and the workings of social systems. Kelles-Krauz, however, repeatedly transcended Marxist tenets, focusing on the construction of traditions, social norms, and the social role of art.This edited volume was first published in Polish as Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marksizm a socjologia. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego in 2014. This current work has been revised and translated into English.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning -- and the consequences -- of this situation for literature and literary criticism Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka's work.Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Architecture and Control makes a collective critical intervention into the relationship between architecture, including virtual architectures, and practices of control since the turn of the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. Authors from the fields of architectural theory, literature, film and cultural studies come together here with visual artists to explore the contested sites at which, in the present day, attempts at gaining control give rise to architectures of control as well as the potential for architectures of resistance. Together, these contributions make clear how a variety of post-2000 architectures enable control to be established, all the while observing how certain architectures and infrastructures allow for alternative, progressive modes of control, and even modes of the unforeseen and the uncontrolled, to arise.Contributors are: Pablo Bustinduy, Rafael Dernbach, Alexander R. Galloway, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Maria Finn, Runa Johannessen, Natalie Koerner, Michael Krause, Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, Lorna Muir, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Anne Elisabeth Sejten and Joey Whitfield.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a 'societal shaper' - a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldron of ideological ferment for political ideology, via diverse culture-, community-, and history-based phenomena. The volumes discusses what it means to be a Muslim in today's Central Asia by looking at both historical and sociological features, investigates the relationship between Islam, politics and the state, the changing role of Islam in terms of societal values, and the issue of female attire as a public debate. Contributors include: Aurélie Biard, Tim Epkenhans, Nurgul Esenamanova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Marlene Laruelle, Marintha Miles, Emil Nasritdinov, Shahnoza Nozimova, Yaacov Ro'i, Wendell Schwab, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Rano Turaeva, Alon Wainer, Alexander Wolters, Galina M. Yemelianova, Baurzhan Zhussupov.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the dress and personal appearance of members of the middle and lower classes in the eastern Mediterranean region during the 4th to 8th centuries. Written, art historical and archaeological evidence is assessed with a view to understanding the way that cloth and clothing was made, embellished, cared for and recycled during this period.Beginning with an overview of current research on Roman dress, the book looks in detail at the use of apotropaic and amuletic symbols and devices on clothing before examining sewing and making methods, the textile industry and the second-hand clothing trade. The final chapter includes detailed information on the making and modelling of exact replicas based on extant garments.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The truck system was a global phenomenon in the period 1865-1920, where workers were paid through the company store. In Beyond Racism and Poverty Karin Lurvink looks at how this system functioned on plantations in Louisiana in comparison with peateries in the Netherlands. In the United States, the system is often viewed as a 'second slavery' and strongly associated with racism. In the Netherlands, however, not racism but poverty has been seen as the main reason for its continued existence.By using a variety of historical sources and by analyzing the perspectives of both employers and workers, Lurvink provides new insights into how the truck system worked and can be explained. She reveals how the system was not only coercive but had advantages for the workers as well, which should not be overlooked.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty's 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis focuses on elements that are under-theorized or omitted entirely from the economists' analysis. This includes the importance of considering class and labor dynamics, the recent rise of finance capitalism, insights from feminism, demography, and conflict studies, the Frankfurt School, the world market and the world-system, the rise of a transnational capitalist class, the coming environmental catastrophe, etc. Our goal is to fully understand and suggest action to address today's capitalist inequality crisis.Contributors are: Robert J. Antonio, J.I. (Hans) Bakker, Roslyn Wallach Bologh, Alessandro Bonanno, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Harry F. Dahms, Eoin Flaherty, Daniel Krier, Basak Kus, Lauren Langman, Dana Marie Louie, Peter Marcuse, Sandor Nagy, Charles Reitz, William I. Robinson, Saskia Sassen, David A. Smith, David N. Smith, Tony Smith, Michael Thompson, Sylvia Walby, Erik Olin Wright.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sustainable Ocean Resource Governance offers perspectives on the legal interface between sustainable economic growth, effective marine resource management and environmental protection of the sea.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Death was a constant, visible presence in medieval and renaissance Europe. Yet, the acknowledgement of death did not necessarily amount to an acceptance of its finality. Whether they were commoners, clergy, aristocrats, or kings, the dead continued to function literally as integrated members of their communities long after they were laid to rest in their graves.From stories of revenants bringing pleas from Purgatory to the living, to the practical uses and regulation of burial space; from the tradition of the ars moriendi, to the depiction of death on the stage; and from the making of martyrs, to funerals for the rich and poor, this volume examines how communities dealt with their dead as continual, albeit non-living members.Contributors are Jill Clements, Libby Escobedo, Hilary Fox, Sonsoles Garcia, Stephen Gordon, Melissa Herman, Mary Leech, Nikki Malain, Kathryn Maud, Justin Noetzel, Anthony Perron, Martina Saltamacchia, Thea Tomaini, Wendy Turner, and Christina Welch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines a long-standing dispute regarding the prerequisite for the exercise of the right to self-defence and aims to offer a possible better alternatives for interpreting the significance of the precondition provided for in the Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, by taking a historical perspective on the development of that concept from the mid-19th century to 1945. The book defines the right of self-defence as understood in and before 1945, suggesting the typology which represents the strata of the concept. It will contribute to the current debate regarding the right of self-defence in contemporary international law, including that against terrorism, by providing a framework to analyse the state practice since 1945.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Listen to podcast on 'Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case'. In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors--including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery--engage with the 'Slaving Zones' theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the 'Slaving Zones' theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history.The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of 'Slaving Zones', helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Mytho-poetics at Work Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources - pamphlets, chronicles, and literature - this monograph tries to unravel why and how the alleged freedom fighter became an icon in European thought. It demonstrates that Egmont unfurled an evocative power over several centuries and cultural regions, as his name could be deliberately instrumentalized by different groups of people in order to corroborate their own confessional and political programs. In addition, this book offers the very first systematic study of the phenomenon of mytho-genesis and provides a conceptual model that can be applied to analogous historical myths.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important 'export' product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Justice Without Borders is the theme of this collection of essays that honours Judge Wolfgang Schomburg on the occassion of his 70th birthday on 9 April 2018. The contributions of distinguished authors in the area of international criminal law, European criminal law and international cooperation focus on topics that are important for Wolfgang Schomburg: the pursuit of international criminal justice with respect for the interests of the accused, the facilitation of international cooperation subject to the rule of law, and the principle of fair trial .…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Als Reaktion auf die Industrielle Revolution entstand 1867 in Berlin das Deutsche Gewerbe-Museum mit Unterrichts-Anstalt, Sammlung und Bibliothek. 1885 wurde es als 'Kunstgewerbemuseum' in den Verbund der Königlichen Museen aufgenommen und erhielt mit dem heutigen Martin-Gropius-Bau ein prachtvolles Gebäude. Der Umzug in das Berliner Schloss 1921 leitete die Blütezeit der Sammlung als 'Schlossmuseum' ein, zu der auch der Erwerb des Welfenschatzes und bedeutender Privatsammlungen beitrugen. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg konnten Tausende Kunstschätze vor der Zerstörung gerettet werden, der das Schloss und die Hälfte des Bestandes anheimfielen. Diese kehrten 1956 1958 aus West und Ost in ein geteiltes Berlin zurück. In 'Zwillingsmuseen' zeigten sich die Kostbarkeiten, rasch um Neues anwachsend, ab 1963 in den Schlössern Charlottenburg und Köpenick wieder der Öffentlichkeit. Die Chronik von Barbara Mundt blättert fast 100 Jahre der Geschichte dieser zentralen Sammlungsinstitution unter Berücksichtigung der wichtigsten Akteure auf.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Das Handeln und Deuten ländlicher Akteure aus neuer Perspektive.Diese mikrohistorische Studie untersucht, wie in der Landwirtschaft Funktionäre der nationalsozialistischen Agrarpolitik, Landwirte und deren Familien im ländlichen Raum interagierten.Am Beispiel einer Region im Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont bietet die Arbeit umfassende Einblicke in ländliche Lebenswelten im Nationalsozialismus. Vielfältige Anpassungsweisen der Bevölkerung an die politisch-ideologischen Vorgaben im 'Dritten Reich' kommen ebenso in den Blick wie Konflikte. Durch den Einbezug der allgemeinen Bedingungen und Strukturen des NS-Staates kann die Autorin die Handlungslogiken der Akteure im Dorf und die stetigen Aushandlungsprozesse beleuchten, die zwischen den staatlichen Vorgaben einerseits sowie den lokalen Erfahrungen und Erwartungen andererseits vermitteln sollten.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Konrad von Gelnhausen griff die Vorstellung, dass nur ein Konzil die durch das Schisma von 1378 hervorgerufene Kirchenspaltung werde beseitigen können, auf und entwickelt sie weiter. Mit seinen kirchenpolitischen Schriften trug er maßgeblich zum Erfolg der konziliaren Theorie bei.Das Große Schisma von 1378-1417 hatte die abendländische Kirche gespaltet. Erst die Einberufung eines allgemeinen Konzils öffnete den Weg zu seiner Beseitigung. Bei der Entwicklung der zugrundeliegenden 'konziliaren Idee' spielte Konrad von Gelnhausen eine bedeutende Rolle. In der Abhandlung zeigt der Autor auf, worin genau diese Rolle besteht, aus welchen Wurzeln Konrad schöpfte und wie sein Werk dazu beitrug, den Weg zu den Reformkonzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts vorzubereiten. Dies analysiert der Autor mithilfe einer mit Übersetzungen versehenen Edition seiner kirchenpolitischen Schriften.…