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This book elaborates a new framework for considering and understanding the relationship between law and memory. How can law influence collective memory? What are the mechanisms law employs to influence social perceptions of the past? And how successful is law in its attempts to rewrite narratives about the past? As the field of memory studies has grown, this book takes a step back from established transitional justice narratives, returning to the core sociological, philosophical and legal theoretical issues that underpin this field. The book then goes on to propose a new approach to the relationship between law and collective memory based on a conception of ‘legal institutions of memory’...
Giuseppe Bonaviri zählt zu den bedeutendsten sizilianischen Gegenwartsautoren. Sein mangelnder Bekanntheitsgrad steht im Widerspruch zu seiner regen literarischen Produktion. Mit Hilfe eines repräsentativen Korpus von acht Werken des 1985 für den Nobelpreis vorgeschlagenen Schriftstellers und eines strukturalistisch-poststrukturalistischen Textverständnisses legt die Autorin eine binomische Formel für die gänzlich individuell geprägte «narrativa» Bonaviris vor. Der sich schreibend stets seiner Kindheit und seines Geburtsorts Mineo erinnernde Bonaviri legt den phantastisch-kosmischen Diskurs grundsätzlich auf Offenheit an. Mit Hilfe einer am «close-reading» orientierten Textanalyse belegt die Verfasserin ihre Thesen, die auf einem breiten Querschnitt moderner Erzähltheorien basieren.
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Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change is a pioneering collection of essays on the historical developments, ideals, and practices of Islamic learning and teaching in the formative and classical periods of Islam (i.e., from the seventh to fifteenth centuries CE). Based on innovative and philologically sound primary source research, and utilizing the most recent methodological tools, this two volume set sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities that arise from a deep engagement with classical Islamic concepts of knowledge, its production and acquisition, and, of course, learning. Learning is especially important because of its rel...
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