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Die Staufer in der populären Geschichtskultur
Die Erinnerungen an die Staufer sind für die deutschsprachige Geschichtskultur bis 1945 gut untersucht. Jüngste Erzählungen sind bislang in der Forschung jedoch nicht thematisiert worden. Am Beispiel von Stauferstädten und den zwei großen Stauferausstellungen - 1977 in Stuttgart und 2010/11 in Mannheim - untersucht Isabelle Luhmann, wie die Staufer ab den 1970er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart auf verschiedenen räumlichen Erinnerungsebenen und in unterschiedlichen Medien der Populärkultur thematisiert wurden. Sie legt dar, welche geschichtskulturellen Funktionen diese Darstellungen erfüllten, und liefert damit ein Panorama der jüngsten Stauferrezeption.
Das Echo des ,Erzbürgers'
Sebastian Schlinkheider beleuchtet ausführlich die geschichtskulturelle Verarbeitung des Sammlers Ferdinand Franz Wallraf in den vergangenen rund 200 Jahren: Vor allem die Figur des 'Erzbürgers' Wallraf stellt geradezu eine Personifikation der städtischen Kultur dar, die seit seinem Tod 1824 seinen Mitbürger:innen vielfältige Identifikationspotentiale geboten hat und bietet. Sich auf Wallraf zu beziehen ist ein wichtiger Ausgangspunkt für die historisch-kulturelle Selbstverortung und -vergewisserung des modernen Köln. Das zweite, theoretisch-methodische Ziel der Arbeit liegt darin, einen neuen Analyseansatz zu entwickeln, der für einen offenen Begriff von "Geschichtskultur" plädiert, und diesen anhand des Fallbeispiels Wallraf zu erproben. Die Analyse operiert mit einem diskursanalytisch grundierten und wissensgeschichtlich ausgerichteten Blick, um das in der Öffentlichkeit zirkulierende Geschichtswissen zu untersuchen und zu interpretieren.
Niklas Luhmann's Modernity
An introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late-20th century, Niklas Luhmann. The book injects concepts derived from Luhmann's influential systems theory into debates about modernity and postmodernity, constructivist and foundationalist epistemologies, the relationship between politics and ethics, and the possibilities of interdisciplinary work that spans the great divide between science and the humanities. The book stages challenging engagements with suchthinkers as Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Drucilla Cornell, Judith Butler, Michel Serres, N. Katherine Hayles, and such political theorists as Chantal Mouffe and Carl Schmitt. The book closes with two interviews: one a discussion with Luhmann and Hayles on epistemology, the other with Luhmann on the functional differentiation of modern society.
Democracy at work: pressure and propaganda in Portugal and Brazil
Democracy at Work: Pressure and Propaganda in Portugal and Brazil addresses democracy both as an institutional value system and as a practice. How are the media exerting their mediation role? How are the media re-(a)presenting the political world to society? Are different media voices offering diversified and complementary perspectives on politics? How is propaganda perceived within different democratic and economic contexts? Is political trust and mistrust shaping the strategy of propaganda? These questions are addressed in theoretical and empirical chapters in a book that addresses problems which are in need of urgent discussion, as their impact and consequences are deeply transforming politics and the way politics is communicated, lived and understood by its main actors. Within this framework, Political Communication Studies has a major role in identifying and urging new diagnosis of, and insights into, the political and the media systems, and, above all, how both the people and political institutions can both survive crisis and improve democracy in the Lusophone world. This book aims at making a contribution to that acknowledgment.
The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
This Handbook presents key ideas of philosophers and social theorists whose ideas inform process approaches to organization studies. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research.
Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy
Whether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of aesthetic categories. Covering examples from Philosophy, Music and Art History and drawing on continental and analytic sources, this volume clarifies the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic considerations, including historic, cultural or economic factors. It presents a comprehensive overview of the question of aesthetic autonomy, exploring its relevance to both philosophy and the comprehension of specific artworks themselves. By closely examining how the creation of artworks, and our judgements of these artworks, relate to society and history, Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy provides an insightful and sustained discussion of a major question in aesthetic philosophy.
Social Theory and Social Movements
Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement research through the lens of different social theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What can these theories learn from the analysis of social movements? From this double vantage point, the book discusses the theories of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Jeffrey Alexander, and Judith Butler, as well as rational choice theory, relational sociology, and organizational neo-institutionalism.
Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy
International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development. Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize accepted theories and inform how places can cope in the knowledge economy. Based in concept on Cooke's Knowledge Economies (Routledge, 2002), Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy is a well-grounded work exploring this increasingly important theme with relevance to innovation systems and related economic development literature.
Contemporary Collaborative Consumption
This book provides critical perspectives on contemporary collaborative consumption, a recent societal phenomenon shaking up previously fixed socio-economic categories such as the producer and the consumer. The contributors discuss the role of trust and reciprocity in collaborative consumption through seven case studies. The chapters advance debates on the contradictions of positioning collaborative consumption as possible solutions for a more sustainable development and exacerbating new forms of inequalities and injustice. The book contributes a nuanced appraisal of social and economic activity for reflecting socio-technological changes in contemporary societies.
The Normative Order of the Internet
There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order integrates norms at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical standards). Matthias C. Kettemann assesses their internal coherence, their consonance with other order norms and th...
