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Anthropology
Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it.
The Genesis of the Symbolic
Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of knowledge. This study deals with this question on the basis of Cassirer’s ‘disposition’ of a ‘philosophy of the symbolic’, reconstructed here for the first time. This text shows that the ‘symbolic’ refers to culture as a whole and to its inherent diversity. Therefore, ‘the symbolic’ includes the relationship between the general transcendental conditions of culture and its empirical specificities in language and languages, art and the arts, myth and myths, science and disciplines. Cassirer does not comprehend this empirical and...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Interpretive Social Research
This volume is a clear introduction to methods of data collection and analysis in the social sciences, with a special focus on interpretive methods based on a logic of discovering hypotheses and grounded theories. The chief methods presented are participant observation, open interviews and biographical case reconstruction. The special advantages of interpretive methods, as against other qualitative methods, are revealed by comparing them to content analysis. Empirical examples show how the methods presented can be implemented in practice, and concrete problems connected with conducting empirical research are discussed. By presenting individual case studies, the author shows how to apply the principle of openness when collecting empirical data, whether through interviews or observations, and she offers rules for analysis based on the principles of reconstruction and sequentiality.
Biographies of Scientific Objects
Looks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.
Literature of the Sturm und Drang
Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress.
Die Viel-Einheit des Seelenraums in der deutschsprachigen barocken Lyrik
Das christliche Dogma von der unteilbaren Einheit der Seele wird in der barocken Anthropologie durch vielfältige Hinweise auf eine Pluralität des Psychischen in Frage gestellt. Während dies in der philosophischen Begrifflichkeit zu unüberwindlichen logischen Widersprüchen führt, gelingt es der zeitgenössischen literarischen Bildlichkeit ohne Schwierigkeiten, das Seelische als ‚mannigfaltige Einigkeit‘ zu entwerfen. Mit Hans Blumenberg kann man die plural-einheitlichen Seelenmetaphern der Frühen Neuzeit als unbegriffliche Antwort auf die begrifflich nicht zu beantwortende Frage nach der psychischen (In-)Kohärenz betrachten. An den Seelenbildern barocker Lyrik untersucht die Studi...
