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The Honorable Merchant – Between Modesty and Risk-Taking
This volume explores the concept of the honest merchant, taking a broad perspective and covering a wide range of aspects. It looks at the different types of “honest merchant” conceptions originating from different cultures and literary traditions. The book covers Japanese, Islamic, Scandinavian, Russian, German, Spanish, as well as other aspects, and studies different disciplinary backgrounds of the honest merchant, such as philosophical, economic, neuroethical, sociological and literary ones. The concept of the honest merchant has a long tradition in business ethics. In the Hanseatic League and in medieval Italy, the ideal of the honest businessman was taught since the late Middle Ages....
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century
This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of tension, conflict and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant in other spheres. Throughout the eighteenth century, Spain and Great Britain passed through phases of open warfare, armed peace and deep suspicion. The British capture of Gibraltar and Menorca dealt a severe blow to the newly established Bourbon dynasty in Spain. Even in times of war, however, not all communication channels were closed, with numerous formal and informal contacts being made despite the volatile political climate and enmi...
W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History
Summary: "W.G. Sebald, frequently mentioned in the same breath as Franz Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov, is one of the most important European writers of recent decades. He has been lauded by such major cultural commentators as Susan Sontag and Paul Auster, and he has combined wide public appeal with universal critical acclaim. His work is concerned with questions of memory, exile, representation, and, above all else, history. But his approach to history is strikingly different from conventional historiographical writing on the one hand, and from the historical novel on the other. His texts are hybrid in nature, mixing fiction, biography, historiography, travel-writing and memoir, and incorporating numerous photographic images. This volume seeks to respond to the complexities of Sebaldʼs image of history by presenting essays by a team of international scholars, all of whom are acknowledged Sebald experts. It offers a unique and exciting perspective on the dazzling work of one of the major literary figures of our times."--Publisher description.
Poetiken
Das Lexikon enthält mehr als 400 Artikel zu Poetiken und poetologischen Texten aus allen Epochen der Literatur der westlichen Hemisphäre. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der poetologischen Reflexion der Moderne und hier besonders auf Autorenpoetiken sowie auf der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Das Lexikon, an dem mehr als 150 Experten aus verschiedenen literaturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen mitgearbeitet haben, beseitigt ein seit langem bestehendes Desiderat der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung.
W. G. Sebald - Image, Archive, Modernity
W. G. Sebald is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers to have emerged onto the global literary scene in recent decades, and is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Nabokov, Kafka, Borges, Calvino, Proust, and Primo Levi. W. G. Sebald-Image, Archive, Modernity offers a unique and original reading of Sebald's dazzling oeuvre, arguing that his work is concerned first and foremost with the problem of modernity. It focuses in particular on the numerous archival institutions and processes that lie at the very heart of modernity and are repeatedly thematised throughout Sebald's work.Adopting a broad definition of the archive to encompass a wide range of material practices...
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Ghostwriting
Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. The title “Ghostwriting” signals the convergence in Sebald's works of a set of diverse historical questions, philosophical views, and litera...
Zwischen Bescheidenheit und Risiko
Das Ideal des ehrbaren Kaufmanns hat eine lange Tradition. In Europa wurden Tugenden wie Ehrlichkeit und Verlässlichkeit seit dem Mittelalter in Handbüchern für Kaufleute gelehrt. Das Leitbild des ehrbaren Kaufmannes, welches das Vertrauen in die Integrität des Handelspartners in das Zentrum rückte, entstand in einer Zeit, in der Kaufleute Reisende waren, denen man überwiegend mit Skepsis begegnete. In einer von Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise geprägten Zeit wird das Leitbild des ehrbaren Kaufmanns wieder intensiv diskutiert. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen dieses Leitbild aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Literaturwissenschaft, Geschichte, Rechtswissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft sowie erstmalig in kulturvergleichender Sicht (Europa, islamische Welt, Japan).
Prekäre Männlichkeiten
Der Mann als »Arbeiter« ist ein Auslaufmodell: Nach dem Boom der Wirtschaftswunderzeit kommt es in den westlichen Industrienationen zu einer Verschärfung sozialer Ungleichheit. Insbesondere der Industriesektor leidet unter den Folgen von Globalisierung und Digitalisierung. Diese Veränderungen führen auch zu neuen Männlichkeitsnarrativen im Schatten von Abstiegsängsten und Prekarisierung. Die Beitragenden des Bandes analysieren auf vielfältige Weise das Motiv des Klassenkampfes auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, die Abstiege und die soziale Frage in Literatur und Film.
