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Public Sphere and Religion
Das Verhältnis zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Religion ist einer der großen Klassiker der Geistesgeschichte, der bis heute nichts von seiner Bedeutung eingebüßt hat. Mit großer Regelmäßigkeit rekurrieren Soziologen und Politikwissenschaftler auf eine Rückkehr der Religionen in den öffentlichen Raum. Im Zuge von Säkularisierung, Globalisierung und Digitalisierung stehen moderne Öffentlichkeiten und Religionen in einem stetig komplexeren Netz wechselseitiger Transformation. Einen besonderen Kristallisationspunkt dieses intensiven Wechselverhältnisses bilden die beiden großen Schlüsselthemen öffentliche Bildung und universitäre Forschung. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beit...
Secondhand China
This transcultural study of cultural production brings to light the ways Spanish literature imagined China by relying on English- and French-language sources. Carles Prado-Fonts examines how the simultaneous dependence on and obscuring of translation in these cross-cultural representations created the illusion of a homogeneous West. He argues that Orientalism became an instrument of hegemony not only between “the West and the rest” but also within the West itself, where Spanish writers used representations of China to connect themselves to Europe, hone a national voice, or forward ideas of political and cultural modernity. Uncovering an eclectic and surprising archive, Prado-Fonts draws ...
2013
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Cultural Transfer Reconsidered
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions. With its focus on the North, the book opens perspectives mainly implying textual, intertextual and artistic practices and postcolonial interrelatedness.
Decentering European Intellectual Space
Decentering European Intellectual Space reconsiders the nature of cultural Europe by challenging intellectual historians to pay closer attention to the asymmetries and encounters between Europe’s fluctuating cores and peripheries.
The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino
The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century’s key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.
Sisters Crossing Boundaries
The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped by the missionary encounter and how they affected colonial societies more generally. Privileging the ...
Oswald Spengler als europäisches Phänomen
Kaum ein anderer deutscher Denker der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit ab 1918/1919 so intensiv zitiert, besprochen und kritisiert worden wie der Kultur- und Geschichtsphilosoph Oswald Spengler (1880–1936). Die in diesem Band zusammengeführten Beiträge bieten erstmals einen systematischen Zugang zum Phänomen der zahlreichen und vielschichtigen »Transfers« der Kultur- und Geschichtsphilosophie Spenglers im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit und behandeln die Rezeptionswege ausgewählter Länder West-, Ost- und Südosteuropas. Die Tiefenwirkung der unterschiedlichen »Spengler-Rezeptionen« löste bereits in seiner Frühphase einen transnationalen Europa-Diskurs kultureller Selbstbehauptung aus, der bis weit in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hinüberstrahlen sollte. »Oswald Spengler als europäisches Phänomen« erweist sich dabei als überaus geeignetes Fallbeispiel zur Überprüfung und Weiterentwicklung neuerer Ansätze der Kulturtransferforschung.
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Oswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic. In Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, Ben Lewis completely transforms our understanding of Spengler by showing how well-connected this philosopher was and how, at every stage of his career, he attempted to intervene politically in the very real-life events unfolding around him. The volume explains Spengler’s politics as the outcome of a dynamic interplay between his meta-historical considerations on world history on the one hand, and the practical demands and considerations of Realpolitik on the other hand.
