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The Honorable Merchant – Between Modesty and Risk-Taking
This volume explores the concept of the honest merchant, taking a broad perspective and covering a wide range of aspects. It looks at the different types of “honest merchant” conceptions originating from different cultures and literary traditions. The book covers Japanese, Islamic, Scandinavian, Russian, German, Spanish, as well as other aspects, and studies different disciplinary backgrounds of the honest merchant, such as philosophical, economic, neuroethical, sociological and literary ones. The concept of the honest merchant has a long tradition in business ethics. In the Hanseatic League and in medieval Italy, the ideal of the honest businessman was taught since the late Middle Ages....
Muslim Bodies
Der Sammelband ist aus einem Panel beim Deutschen Orientalistentag in Marburg 2010 hervorgegangen und beleuchtet aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Körpererfahrungen, -kulturen, -diskurse und -techniken in islamisch geprägten Kulturen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Leitgedanke ist dabei die Frage danach, wie Individuen ihr Wissen über Körper/Sexualität im sozialen Feld konstruieren und welche Deutungssysteme (z. B. Islam, graeco-islamische Medizin) dabei wirksam werden. The present volume, product of a conference panel at the German Orientalists' Conference in Marburg 2010, aims at throwing light on the experiences, discourses and body techniques prevailing in Muslim bodily culture. It combines historical with contemporary case studies and explores the individual and collective patterns of knowledge construction related to body and sexuality, in a social field where different and sometimes conflicting knowledge systems (e.g. Islam, Graeco-Islamic Medicine) can be found at work.
Histories of Sensibilities
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment. From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnic, political, and cultural groups to define their identities; how cross-cultural and cross-chronological encounters reconfigured ideas of gendered selves; how sexuality was used to empower or subjugate non-European ethnicities; and how the circulation of theories about the origin of emotions and taste reinforced or challenged hegemonic ideas of masc...
Bourgeois Equality
The last 200 years have witnessed a 100-fold leap in well-being. Deirdre McCloskey argues that most people today are stunningly better off than their forbearers were in 1800, and that the rest of humanity will soon be. A purely materialist, incentivist view of economic change does not explain this leap. We have now the third in McCloskey's three-volume opus about how bourgeois values transformed Europe. Volume 3 nails the case for that transfiguration, telling us how aristocratic virtues of hierarchy were replaced by bourgeois virtues (more precisely, by attitudes toward virtues) that made it possible for ordinary folk with novel ideas to change the way people, farmed, manufactured, traveled...
Empires and Boundaries
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions – including South Asia, South-East Asia, and Africa – the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British, French, Dutch, German, and Italian colonial contexts. Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology, literary and film studies, and gender studies, Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings, is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study.
Zwischen Bescheidenheit und Risiko
Das Ideal des ehrbaren Kaufmanns hat eine lange Tradition. In Europa wurden Tugenden wie Ehrlichkeit und Verlässlichkeit seit dem Mittelalter in Handbüchern für Kaufleute gelehrt. Das Leitbild des ehrbaren Kaufmannes, welches das Vertrauen in die Integrität des Handelspartners in das Zentrum rückte, entstand in einer Zeit, in der Kaufleute Reisende waren, denen man überwiegend mit Skepsis begegnete. In einer von Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise geprägten Zeit wird das Leitbild des ehrbaren Kaufmanns wieder intensiv diskutiert. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen dieses Leitbild aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Literaturwissenschaft, Geschichte, Rechtswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft sowie erstmalig in kulturvergleichender Sicht (Europa, islamische Welt, Japan).
Stop Teaching!
Neue Theaterformen werden zunehmend mit Kindern und Jugendlichen erarbeitet, die als Akteure und als Experten ihres Alltags ernst genommen werden: Ihr Wissen, ihre Erfahrungen und Persönlichkeiten fließen ein – es geht nicht länger darum, sie durch Theater zu erziehen. Die Arbeit mit Laien ist längst ein wichtiger Teil neuer Formen des professionellen Theaters geworden. Theater bekommt auf diese Weise wieder verstärkt den Charakter eines sozialen Experiments, in dem jeder Mensch mit seiner Persönlichkeit einen Beitrag leisten kann. Dadurch entstehen Freiräume für Kreativität jenseits pädagogischer Zielvorgaben. Dieser Band behandelt das Phänomen erstmals umfassend mit Beiträgen namhafter Wissenschaftler, Besprechungen von Stücken und Interviews mit Künstlern.
Quran and Reform
The author examines three 20th/21st century Muslims' accounts of reading the Quran. To master contemporary social challenges, Fazlur Rahman (d. 1988), Muhammad Arkoun (d. 2010), and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (d. 2010) call for revisiting the Islamic heritage, plus a fresh look onto the Quranic 'spirit'. The investigation leads through following concepts: the nature of the Quran, revelation and prophecy, the role of Muhammad and Prophethood. Discoursing the philosophers' reform ideas leads to an analysis of their exegetical methods. Do the proposed Quran hermeneutics support their reform projects? This book uncovers pros and cons of these socio-intellectual innovations. It finally concludes: the thinkers' scholarly and philosophical attitude exposes itself as a humanistic endeavour.
Who's who in Germany
Vols. for 1956- include a separately paged section: Directory of organizations, associations and institutions.
