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Being Alone in Antiquity
This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.
Scandology 3
This book presents research on mediated scandals and substantiates the understanding of such forms of scandals and their impact on societies. Additionally, it connects the study of scandals with the broader fields of political communication research, organizational communication, journalism studies, and digital communication research. The authors focus on the 21st century as an age of perpetual scandalization and on digital technologies as a catalyst in this respect. Against this backdrop, the book examines different aspects of the transformation of mediated scandals through digital communication practices. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the scandalizing potential of new med...
Scandalogy 4
This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes. While politics appears to have entered a mode of perpetual crisis and growing dysfunctionality, the rapid succession of scandals may be a symptom of this crisis and its catalyst at the same time. The book provides a better definition of political scandals and discusses from an interdisciplinary and critical scientific perspective how such scandals are relevant to political developments and how they impact public discourse and media practices. International experts from various subfields of communication studies, political communication research as w...
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contri...
Character Assassination and Reputation Management
This lively book offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous individual reputations. How does character assassination "work" and when or why does it not? Are character attacks getting worse in the age of social media? Why do many people fail when they are under character attack? How should they prevent attacks and defend against them? Moving beyond discussions about corporate reputation management and public relations canons, Character Assassination and Reputation Management is designed to help understand, cri...
Zerstörung von Geschriebenem
Schrifttragende Artefakte sind einer Vielzahl von Praktiken ausgesetzt, durch die sie in der einen oder anderen Form beschädigt werden. Dabei können die Absichten, Hintergründe und Kontexte dieser Praktiken stark variieren, sodass durch die Zeiten hindurch in verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten, Situationen und Diskursen vielfältige Ausprägungen zu beobachten sind. Solche Fälle sind keineswegs darauf beschränkt, Missbilligung gegenüber Inhalten oder Autoren auszudrücken oder das Andenken an Personen auszulöschen. Anhand von detailliert aufgearbeiteten Fallbeispielen, die vom antiken Ägypten, Mesopotamien und dem Mittelmeerraum über das alte China, das europäische Mittelalter und...
Antike als Modell in Nordamerika?
Der Band richtet den Blick auf die besondere Affinität der frühen USA zur Klassischen Antike und erörtert Fragen der Antikenrezeption in Amerika aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven. Im Mittelpunkt stehen – beginnend in der Antike selbst – die Denktraditionen und Vorstellungsmuster, die die Lektüre antiker Texte beeinflussten, sowie die politischen Diskurse und Sprachen der Zeit. "Konstruktion" und "Verargumentierung" sind dabei nicht als zwei voneinander getrennte Vorgänge zu betrachten, sondern als eine Einheit, die über reine Rezeptionsphänomene hinausgeht. Gefragt wird nach der Ausprägung einer politischen Sprache, die nationaler Identitätsstiftung ebenso diente wie der Suche nach Vorbildern und Legitimationsmustern für die neue politische Ordnung der USA.
NS-Justiz und Rechtsbeugung
Vorwort -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- NS-Justiz : Forschungsstand und einleitende Bemerkungen -- "Der Historiker als Richter : der Richter als Historiker" : Einleitende Bemerkungen zum Umgang mit der Vergangenheit und der Bedeutung der strafrechtlichen Aufarbeitung der NS-Justiz -- Rechtsphilosophische, methodologische und strafrechtsdogmatische Propädeutik -- Die Quelle des Rechts : rechtsphilosophische Grundfragen systemübergreifender Rechtsprechung anhand der Radbruchschen Formel -- Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung der NS-Verbrechen als Kristallisationspunkt strafrechtsdogmatischer Grundfragen und der lange Atem der Jurisprudenz -- Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung der NS-Ve...
Fake News in Ancient Greece
Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news in the ancient world have been carried out in the field of Roman history, the phenomenon of fake news in ancient Greece has received limited attention. The contributions in this volume offer a selective approach to this phenomenon by applying media and cultural studies instruments to ancient texts. They pinpoint parallels and differences between ancient and modern fake news by employing methods of literary and cultural studies, as well as historical-documentary analysis of ancient sources. In particular, they explore questions such as: To what exten...
