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Days Without Number
The international bestselling author of the James Maxted series delivers a twist-filled thriller of an ancient secret that threatens to shatter a family. Days Without Number is classic Robert Goddard: intricately plotted, richly detailed, and suspenseful to the very last page. Nick Paleologus, a coolly efficient Englishman, is summoned home to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. His father, Michael, is a retired archaeologist and supposed descendent of the last Emperors of Byzantium. Michael has received a hugely generous offer for the family estate in Cornwall, but refuses to sell—and refuses to divulge why. Soon the stalemate between Nick’s siblings and their fat...
The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs
This book focuses, for the first time ever, on the protection roles of human rights NGOs since the establishment of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also looks at how NGOs are responding to future challenges such as artificial Intelligence, robots in armed conflicts, digital threats, and the protection of human rights in outer space. Written by leading NGO human rights practitioners from different parts of the world, it sheds light on the multiple roles of the leading pillar of the global human rights movement, the Non-Governmental Organizations.
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Restless Cities on the Edge
This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of the protagonists involved, proposing interpretations to each reality described, but also making cross-connections with politics and migration when pertinent. It offers a new understanding of urban collective actions cognizant of the 'common goods', but also of the emergence of new right-wing populism.
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key figures in post-modernist and post-structuralist philosophy such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In recent years, the number of works published on Georges Bataille, as well as the variety of contexts in which his work is invoked, has markedly increased. In Georges Bataille: Key Concepts an international team of contributors provide an accessible introduction to and survey of Bataille's thought. The editors’ introduction provides an overvi...
Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History
This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history. By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some of the disciplinary tensions between analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory, and normative ethics. The ethical and existential character of temporality reveals itself within a collection that resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school. The book's distinctive cross-cultural approach ensures a wide range of perspectives with contributions on life and death in Japanese philosophy, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, non-traditional temporalities and philosophical anthropology, as well as global approaches to ethics. These new directions of study highlight the importance of the ethical in the temporal, inviting further points of departure in this burgeoning field.
Examining War and Conflict around the World
This volume addresses 10 issues pertaining to war and conflict, such as ethics of war, national security, and refugees, and examines how countries around the world are facing these issues. To truly explore war and conflict, one must consider why the peoples and the leaders of the world behave the way that they do toward one another. For instance, why are refugees, in a variety of circumstances, treated so inhumanely in times of conflict and unrest through no fault of their own? How are women and those in the LGBTQ community treated in terms of service to their country? Examining War and Conflict around World includes ten chapters, each addressing a specific issue relating to war and conflict...
Der lyrische Augenblick
Der Augenblick ist Ewigkeit. Goethes Satz formuliert den Anspruch und die Komplexität des Begriffs „Augenblick“. Seine lange Tradition hat ein Bedeutungsspektrum hervorgebracht, das so Unterschiedliches bezeichnet wie Ekstase, leere Gegenwart oder Epiphanie. Der Augenblick stellt eine Kristallisationsfigur dar, in der das Ganze auf dem Spiel steht: In der Gegenwart zu leben, verheißt die Möglichkeit eines glücklichen Lebens. Der göttliche Kairos muss wie die sprichwörtliche Gelegenheit beim Schopfe gepackt werden. Ein Ereignis kann wie ein Blitz einschlagen: Schöne Augenblicke ebenso wie traumatische Erlebnisse sind die Fixpunkte der persönlichen Existenz. Der Moment der göttlic...
Künstliche Welten zwischen Multisensorik und Multimedialität
Kunst und Kultur des 21. Jahrhunderts sind dominiert von multimedialen wie multisensorischen Sinneserfahrungen und Wahrnehmungsprozessen. Allerdings fehlt es an wissenschaftlichen Begriffen und Analyseinstrumentarien zur systematischen Untersuchung dieser Prozesse, die tradierte Vorstellungen von Erzählen, Fiktionalität und Rezeption herausfordern. Relevante Fragen in diesem Kontext sind beispielsweise, inwiefern die sinnliche Komponente der Werke ein narratives Potential aufweist und an der Erzählung der Geschichte mitwirkt, wie sie Bedeutung erzeugen kann, wie sich das Verhältnis zwischen Medienspezifik und Medienzusammenspiel fassen lässt, welche Mehrwerte sich aus der Kombination mehrerer medialer Darbietungsformen ergeben, wie sich das sprachlich oft nur schwer fassbare sinnliche Erleben bei der Rezeption konzipieren lässt und welche Konsequenzen sich für den Werkbegriff ergeben. Zur Beantwortung dieser und weiterer Fragen setzt sich der Band mit Beispielen multimedialer wie multisensorischer Kunst aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven auseinander.
