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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democracies, a radical shift from collective to individual actors and institutions has occurred in several political systems. From the one hand political leaders have gained centrality on the democratic scene, as a consequence of both a more direct, sometimes plebiscitary, relationship with citizens, and a more direct control of the executive administration. From the other hand a process of fragmentation occurs at the mass level, where electoral volatility has strongly increased and especially after the spread of social media each citizen elaborates his convictions in the self-referential autonomy of the digital networks.This book analyses the consequences of personalisation of political leaders on democratic government, by asking whether it is possible to keep together demos and kratos in a post-particratic context. It explores topics such as governmental decrees, Trump-governance, and analysis of the coronavirus outbreak. The book brings to the fore the study of political personalization in relation to some of the most important crises and trends in modern politics. It does so offering comparative insights, exploring how political leaders govern in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and Hungary.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structures. It is often overlooked that inequality is not just about income and wealth but rather a broad spectrum of intersecting factors. This book focuses on each aspect individually, analysing its effect on welfare systems, and informs about the instruments available to reduce inequality.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new ¿ or expands old ¿ areas of accumulative growth for corporate America.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'I need to check with my partner' is a common response of an employee to his manager, emphasizing the tug of war between the employee¿s spouse and the workplace.The challenges in the fields of work and family have been the focus of researchers for decades. Frameworks for work¿family conflict, work¿family enrichment, and work¿family balance have been put forth in light of the complexity of the interface. Yet the relationship between the three stakeholders managing the interface (manager, employee, and spouse), has not received the attention it deserves.Work¿Family Triangle Synchronization takes a holistic look into the triangle of forces involved in the conflict: the manager, the employee, and the employee¿s spouse at home. Using the therapeutic triangle relationship framework, it elaborates on the dynamic of work¿family triangles and offers a structured process for designing a psychological contract among the three players. This process is termed work¿family triangle synchronization (WFTS).Based on the authors¿ 20 years of academic research and field experience in the organizational and family domains this book introduces a novel synchronization model, methodology, and compelling tools. Personal anecdotes and stories make the text accessible and understandable, accompanying the reader step by step in the task of developing a synchronized work¿family triangle psychological contract, as both a diagnostic and a management tool.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical, and existential potency of the new medium. The same applies to the question whether video games are (or are not) art in and on themselves. Based on the Communication-Oriented Analysis, the authors assess the plausibility of games-as-art and define the domains associted with this question.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, translanguaging, and teacher education will find this book thought-provoking.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ruth Klüger (1931 ¿ 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, where she was a guest professor in Göttingen and Vienna. Her memoir, entitled weiter leben (1992), which she translated and revised in an English parallel-text as Still Alive, was a major bestseller and highly regarded autobiographical account of a Holocaust survivor. It was subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages. It has also generated a vigorous critical discussion in its own right. Ruth Klüger received numerous prestigious literary prizes and other distinctions.The present volume, The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century, aims to honor her memory by assessing critically her writings and career. Taking her biography and writings as points of departure, the volume includes contributions in fields and from perspectives which her writings helped to bring into focus acutely. In the table of contents are listed the following contributions: Sander L. Gilman, 'Poetry and Naming in Ruth Klüger¿s Works and Life'; Heinrich Detering, '¿Spannung¿: Remarks on a Stylistic Principle in Ruth Klüger¿s Writing'; Stephan Braese, 'Speaking with Germans. Ruth Klüger and the ¿Restitution of Speech between Germans and Jews¿'; Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, 'Writing Auschwitz: Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, and Ruth Klüger'; Ulrike Offenberg, 'Ruth Klüger and the Jewish Tradition on Women Saying Kaddish; Mark H. Gelber, 'Ruth Klüger, Judaism, and Zionism: An American Perspective'; Monica Tempian, 'Children¿s Voices in the Poetry of the Shoah'; Daniel Reynolds, 'Ruth Klüger and the Problem of Holocaust Tourism'; Vera Schwarcz, 'A China Angle on Memory and Ghosts in the Poetry of Ruth Klüger.'Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America argues that while populist leaders typically claim to speak 'in the name of the people', they rarely allow the people to express their opinion independently through institutions of citizen participation. The argument is rooted in theoretical discussions and empirical analyses of trends and specific cases.The volume deals with the following questions: Why is populism so prolific in the Latin American region How and where do populist leaders arrive to power Is there a connection between populism and fascism as claimed by negative views of Argentinian Peronism Are populist leaders more keen on introducing mechanisms of direct citizen participation Are the erosions of the political party system an explanation of the emergence of populism, as seems to be the case with Fujimorism in Peru To what extent have the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa given voice to the people through the so-called participatory democracy Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When we take a look back at the way Western states have fought terrorist organizations in the last 20 years, it is difficult not to think that these alternatives to war might have been more ethical than the decisions to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and in 2003. These cases speak for themselves as they have both led to the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, which is highly paradoxical in light of the logic that supported these interventions. There is a need to think of alternatives to war that will imply the legitimization of proactive sets of measures that would allow states to effectively prevent terrorist attacks through the use of kinetic force in a limited extent as a way to avoid the terrible and unpredictable effects of wars.Violent Alternatives to War: Justifying Actions Against Contemporary Terrorism engages in a moral discussion of the challenges associated with violent alternatives to war when confronting terrorism and suggests a comprehensive approach to how this form of violence can be legitimized and how it ought to be used against this contemporary threat.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nigeria, Africäs most populous nation and the world¿s seventh most populous nation, also contributes 70% of West Africäs population. She is sub-Saharan Africäs largest oil producer and has remained Africäs largest economy by GDP since 2014. The country has hundreds of diverse ethnic nationalities and languages grouped into 36 states (or federating units) and an independent federal capital territory.Though recognized as Africäs largest democracy, her democratisation process since the 1960s has remained tumultuous with massive electoral violence and political intolerance. This repeatedly compelled the military to intervene in the nation¿s political history in the years 1966, 1983 and 1985. It is these developments that provided the motivation for this volume to capture for posterity the conduct of the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Traditionally, corporate control is all about top-down approaches to management of employees. Executives attempt to influence employees toward achieving business goals, and they attempt to prevent and detect wrongdoing, misconduct, and crime among employees. However, top-down approaches to corporate control do not work when executives and other privileged individuals in the business themselves commit and conceal their wrongdoing, misconduct, and crime in organizational settings. Then there is a need for a bottom-up approach in corporate control as outlined in this book.Bottom-up control refers to the manner in which organizational members can use different types of control mechanisms ¿ such as whistleblowing, transparency, resource access, or culture ¿ to monitor, measure, and evaluate executives¿ avoidance of deviant behaviors and influence them toward achieving the organization¿s goals in efficient and effective ways.The newly emerging perspective of a social license to operate forms part of the bottom-up strategy where criminalization becomes social property independent of the criminal justice system. The social license is predominantly centered on social permission for business activity where the media, social movements, and citizen watchdogs exert pressure, demand change, and bring top management to account.This book presents a novel approach to corporate control of white-collar crime based on the theory of convenience. White-collar crime is financial crime committed by privileged individuals who have legitimate access to resources based on the power and trust inherent through their professional positions. Convenience theory proposes that motive, opportunity, and willingness are the three dimensions that underlie white-collar crime in an organizational context. This book contributes to the study of white-collar criminality through a blend of theoretical discussions and practical materials that illuminate and support the use of convenience theory. The book discusses how bottom-up approaches can overcome the difficulty of detecting white-collar crime and overcome the barriers of preventing executive deviance.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The end of the Cold War marks the geopolitical peak of Americäs global primacy. The centerpiece of U.S. Foreign Policy in the pre-pandemic world order was the assumption that promoting human rights and democracy will secure peace. However, the Coronavirus Pandemic challenged the U.S.-dominated globalized order. The international system in the post-pandemic age embodies a paradox of the American primacy and the Chinese struggle for global domination. Pandemics Among Nations: U.S. Foreign Policy and the New Grand Chessboard addresses the geopolitical puzzle of the post-pandemic world order and seeks to explain how COVID 19 has remastered Brzezinski¿s theory of the Grand Chessboard. In this book, Ivanov offers a two-level approach, emphasizing the consequences of the Pandemic and their impact on U.S. Foreign Policy. He also argues that if the United States wants to maintain its leadership in the post-pandemic world order, Washington should develop a new concept of smart power to deter the Chinese Art of War.The foremost goal of Pandemics Among Nations is to analyze how America could overcome the geopolitical effects of the Pandemic. The author examines three possible scenarios for the future role of the United States on the post-pandemic Chessboard. The analysis rests on the testing of a series of research hypotheses across a structured comparison of all elements of the remastered Grand Chessboard, not just on isolated case studies such as Chinäs rise, Russian New Imperialism or European ambitions for a mutual defense.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Democracy is on the run, and elected governments are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. Legislatures are increasingly seen as unrepresentative. To give legitimacy to democratic government, experts argue that we need more democracy and more opportunities for direct citizen participation. Representative democracy needs to be complemented by forms of direct engagement, such as referendums, popular votes, the recall, citizens¿ juries, eDemocracy, etc. This is what we term Complementary Democracy. In this book experts from the worlds of practice and theory come together to explain ¿ and occasionally critique ¿ these complements to representative democracy. The volume provides an invaluable starting point for anyone who wants to know more about the new directions of democratic governance, and hopes to inspire those who seek to build stronger democracies.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Arguments over the relationship between Canaanite and Israelite religion often derive from fundamental differences in presupposition, methodology and definition, yet debate typically focuses in on details and encourages polarization between opposing views, inhibiting progress. This volume seeks to initiate a cultural change in scholarly practice by setting up dialogues between pairs of experts in the field who hold contrasting views.Each pair discusses a clearly defined issue through the lens of a particular biblical passage, responding to each other¿s arguments and offering their reflections on the process. Topics range from the apparent application of ¿chaos¿ and ¿divine warrior¿ symbolism to Yahweh in Habakkuk 3, the evidence for ¿monotheism¿ in pre-Exilic Judah in 2 Kings 22¿23, and the possible presence of ¿chaos¿ or creatio ex nihilo in Genesis 1 and Psalm 74. This approach encourages the recognition of points of agreement as well as differences and exposes some of the underlying issues that inhibit consensus. In doing so, it consolidates much that has been achieved in the past, offers fresh ideas and perspective and, through intense debate, subjects new ideas to thorough critique and suggests avenues for further research.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible, however, Reed Carlson argues that possession is also depicted in this earlier literature, though rarely according to the typical western paradigm. This new approach utilizes theoretical models developed by cultural anthropologists and ethnographers of contemporary possession-practicing communities in the global south and its diasporas. Carlson demonstrates how possession in the Bible is a corporate and cultivated practice that can function as social commentary and as a means to model the moral self.The author treats a variety of spirit phenomena in the Hebrew Bible, including spirit language in the Psalms and Job, spirit empowerment in Judges and Samuel, and communal possession in the prophets. Carlson also surveys apotropaic texts and spirit myths in early Jewish literature¿including the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this volume, two recent scholarly trends in biblical studies converge: investigations into notions of evil and of the self. The result is a synthesizing project, useful to biblical scholars and those of early Judaism and Christianity alike.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Why do we love wizards Where do these magical figures come from Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring the link between Merlin and Harry Potter, or Morgan le Fay and Sabrina, readers will see how the wizard offers spaces of hope and transformation for young readers. In particular, this book examines how wizards think differently, and how this difference can resonate with both LGBTQ and neurodivergent readers, whöve been told they don¿t fit in.Walter de Gruyter, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the 'mentality' of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the last twenty years, how has U.S.-American writing and the reading public responded to the complexity of an American culture resolutely situated in a larger, highly politicized, globalized world undergoing radical change The 20th-century modes of realism and postmodernism have been succeeded by writerly practices that are that are invested in the idea of embodied ¿authenticity¿ and that are relatable to neorealism, whether it be via outright affirmation or critical experimentation and appropriation. The individual case studies mark the ways in which postmillennial U.S.-American writing is marked by an ongoing awareness toward complexity and the entanglement of writers and the reading public with pressing political concerns, and, at times oppressive, social and economic discursive and structural formations. These contributions further attest to how narrative and structural complexity, grammatical and lexical sophistication, and social nuance endure as the main literary modes of confronting 21st-century political life. This volume is thus of interest for both the study of U.S.-American political culture and U.S.-American literature.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a changing combination of material and immaterial features.The principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of media usage that have shaped literary history: performance, representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test case for a long view of media history, this book combines an unusual bird¿s eye view across periods with illuminating readings of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and for independent study in English or comparative literature and media studies.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare assumed their audiences knew them well¿and they almost certainly did. Yet most Classicists today have either never heard of them or mistakenly attribute them to Cato the Elder. The Distichs are a collection of approximately 150 two-line maxims in hexameters that offer instructions about or reflections on topics such as friendship, money, reputation, justice, and self-control. Wisdom from Rome argues that Classicists (and others) should read the Distichs: they provide important insights into the ancient Roman literate masses¿ conceptions of society and their views of relationships between the individual, family, community, and state. Newly dated to the first century CE, they are an important addition and often corrective to more familiar contemporary texts that treat the same topics. Moreover, as the field of Classics increasingly acknowledges the intellectual importance of exploring the reception of Classical texts, an introduction to one of the most widely read ancient texts for many centuries is timely and important.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Effects of morphological structure on phonetic detail present us with two challenges. The empirical challenge is that some predictors have produced inconsistent effects. The theoretical challenge is that it is unclear where morpho-phonetic effects originate from. Do speakers decompose words into morphemes Or can such effects also originate from non-decompositional structure This book investigates the durational properties of English derived words in four large-scale corpus studies. In the decompositional perspective, durations are modeled as a function of frequency and segmentability, prosodic structure, and affix informativeness. In the non-decompositional perspective, durations are modeled with predictors derived from linear discriminative learning networks.Results show that the decompositional predictors are far less reliable than previously thought. Meanwhile, some non-decompositional predictors model durations successfully. Discriminative learning is shown to be a promising alternative for modeling speech production. However, the book also demonstrates that many investigated predictors are conceptually interrelated. It ultimately cautions against taking the metaphors we use to describe these predictors as final explanations.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative clauses, specificational clauses have sparked much debate. A key concern is how specificational clauses with indefinite ¿variable¿ NP (e.g. 'A popular holiday go-to is Rome') compare to, and contrast with, other copular clauses, especially specificational clauses with definite ¿variable¿ NP (e.g. 'The main can¿t-miss in Italy is Rome') and predicative clauses with indefinite predicate nominative (e.g. 'Rome is a great city'). This book addresses this concern by offering a functional-structural analysis of these three clause types in terms of their common characteristics and distinguishing features. The analysis of the clauses¿ structure and meaning is substantiated by evidence from corpus research which probes into various aspects of their actual usage (e.g. information structure and prosody, discourse-embedding). In doing so, the book offers an empirical basis for testing existing assumptions about predicative and specificational clauses, while also providing new insights into the interaction between the grammar and discourse usage of copular clauses.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt¿s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ¿time,¿ ¿movement,¿ and ¿spectators,¿ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance¿s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty¿s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form.The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to foster the dialogue between the study of Latin/American and Caribbean literatures¿in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Therefore, the individual essays are not grouped according to geographical or linguistic areas, but follow a trajectory from spatiotemporal constellations of the 19th century to ruined/catastrophic landscapes and the geopoetic inscriptions of time in regions. The essays should appeal to all readers interested in World Literature, Hemispheric Studies as well as temporal approaches to space and geography.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The author explores the thought of one of the most important contemporary philosophers, Axel Honneth, in his attempt to develop a critical theory of society and to develop a third way between liberalism and republicanism. At the heart of this attempt is the concept of recognition, which is explored in all its multiple dimensions in order to develop a new image of subject, society, and freedom.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Researchers in applied linguistics have found medical and health contexts to be fertile grounds for study, from macro-levels of conceptual analyses to micro-levels of the 'turn-by-turn.' The rich array of health contexts include medical research itself, clinical encounters, medical education and training, caregivers and patients in everyday life ¿ from the formal and ritualized to the ad hoc and ephemeral.This volume foregrounds the crucial role of applied linguists addressing real world problems, while simultaneously highlighting the varied ways that health can be understood as a rich site of language inquiry in its own right. Chapters cover a range of health topics including medical training, medical interaction, disability in education, health policy analysis and recommendations, multidisciplinary research teams, and medical ethics. While reporting and reflecting on their specific topics in clinical and health contexts, contributors also articulate their own hybrid identities as professional collaborators in health research, education, and policy.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious authority, then what does stop him from committing any kind of crime Dostoevsky precisely called attention to this danger: if there is no God and no immortality of the soul, then everything is permitted, even anthropophagy. Nietzsche, too, emphasised, although in different terms, the consequences deriving from the death of God and the collapse of Judeo-Christian morality. This context shaped the way in which philosophers, writers and artists thought about violence, in its different manifestations, during the 20th century.The goal of this interdisciplinary volume is to explore the various modern and contemporary configurations of the link between violence and nihilism as understood by philosophers and artists (in both literature and film).Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 330 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ¿dead¿ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ¿ethical turn¿ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault¿s writings on the ¿aesthetics of existence¿ as well as Judith Butler¿s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan¿s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt¿s The Blindfold, Teju Cole¿s Open City, Dionne Brand¿s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson¿s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 308 pp. Englisch.