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Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated un...
The Secret in Medieval Literature
The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy tales, but the medieval cases discussed here go far beyond such a simplistic approach to the mysterious dimension of secrets. In fact, as this book argues, medieval poets commonly engaged with alternative forces and described their working...
Women in German Expressionism
This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, “New Man,” viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by—much belatedly—including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.
Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust
Personal Names, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Genocide and Nazi Germany provides readers with an increased understanding of and sensitivity to the many powerful ways in which personal names are used by both perpetrators and victims during wartime. This book concentrates on one of the most terrifying and yet fascinating periods of modern history: the Holocaust. In particular, it examines the different ways in which personal names were used by Nationalist Socialists to hunt and destroy the victims of their genocidal ideology. Even before requiring Jewish residents to wear a yellow Star of David and have the letter “J” stamped on their passports, Nazi leaders had dec...
The Ravine
A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph – an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine. A Times Book of the Year 'A very rare kind of picture... To the murdered others, this book is an act of restitution' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Detective work of the highest and most gripping order' Philippe Sands 'Lower's pursuit of the truth is both captivating and meticuous' TLS 'Extraordinary and spell-binding' Daily Mail 'One photograph. That's what it took to start Wendy Lower on an incredible journey of discovery' Deborah Lipstadt The terrible mass shootings in Poland and the Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust, because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. Wendy Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence – a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them – and has crafted a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus. Shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown.
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Das Geheimnis
‚Das Geheimnis‘ – wir denken dabei an das Klandestine, das Verschweigen und Verheimlichen, an das Geheimnis, das Kinder für ihre Entwicklung brauchen, das aber auch unheimlich werden kann, wenn sie es für sich behalten müssen. ‚Das Geheimnis‘ ist aber auch Mysterium und Rätselhaftes – etwa das Geheimnis der Natur, der Heilung oder der Inspiration. In dieser Bedeutung ist es das Andere und Fremde, das, was sich uns entzieht und was wir nicht bis ins Letzte verstehen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Buches ergründen das Geheimnis in dieser Breite seiner Bedeutungen. Die Beiträge führen von der Begriffsklärung über die Psychologie und Psychopathologie der Geheimhaltung weiter zu rätselhaften Phänomenen aus der Psychiatrie bis hin zu Kultur, bildender Kunst und Literatur, wo das Mysteriöse seinen mannigfaltigen Ausdruck findet.
Eros und Sexus
Liebe – Erotik – Sexualität: Was im romantischen Ideal untrennbar miteinander verbunden ist, scheint zugleich ein seit der Antike unlösbares Rätsel zu sein. Was ist und wie äußert sich das jeweils Besondere? Verläuft das Zusammenspiel von Eros und Sexus in der Regel harmonisch? Oder stellt es die Beteiligten zwangsläufig vor eine Herausforderung? Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Buches nähern sich diesen Fragen von verschiedenen Seiten. Nach einem Ausflug in die Kulturgeschichte und in die Psychiatriehistorie steht die Auseinandersetzung der Gesellschaft und des Einzelnen mit Erotik und Sexualität im Mittelpunkt. Es folgen Betrachtungen aus psychologischer, philosophischer und psychopathologischer Perspektive, bevor abschließend Eros und Sexus in Kunst, Literatur, Architektur und Film thematisiert werden.
Religion within the Limits of History Alone
Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler confronts the historicist challenge by delineating and defending a particular trajectory of historicist thought known as pragmatic historicism. Rooted in the German Enlightenment and fully developed within the early Chicago school of theology, pragmatic historicism is a predominantly American tradition that was philosophically nurtured by classical pragmatism and its intellectual siblings, naturalism and ...
Bilder der Schizophrenie
Was ist Schizophrenie? Wie äußert sie sich? Und wie (re-)agieren Betroffene? Aus vielfältigen Perspektiven werden hier der Begriff und die Metapher „Schizophrenie“, die Krankheit selbst sowie das künstlerische, literarische und filmische „sujet“ und dessen Darstellung in den Medien aufgegriffen und thematisiert. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Konzepte der Schizophrenie vor, bieten Einblicke in die Geschichte der Psychiatrie und beleuchten psychiatrisch-philosophische Aspekte, z. B. des Erkennens und Verstehens schizophren-psychotischer Erlebens- und Ausdrucksformen. Entsprechend dem Titel des Buches liegt dessen Schwerpunkt aber in der Auseinandersetzung mit Bildern der Schizophrenie, wie sie durch die künstlerischen Werke psychotischer Künstler vermittelt werden.
