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The Arts

Kai Åberg

Ivaylo Alexandroff

Yumin Ao

These Songs Tell About Our Life, You See

Architectonics of Theatricality

A Study on the Thematic, Narrative, and Musical Structure of Guan Hanqing’s Yuan Zaju, Injustice to Dou E

Music, Identity and Gender in Finnish Romani Music Based on intensive fieldwork among the Finnish Roma, the Kaale, between 1995 and 2015, this book explores their traditional songs. It presents an introduction to the subject of traditional Romani music and offers different interpretations of how the Roma themselves produce meaning for the songs. Performing the music is not a repetition of heritage – instead, the meanings of the songs are aimed at different contexts of everyday life in various musical practices. They not only maintain a community spirit, but also underline gender identity or create a boundary with the majority population.

Theatre Performance in a Semiotic Perspective The cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main objective of the study – the formulation of the basic parameters of this architectonics as a fundament of théâtralité. Since the time of Antiquity the theatre has always been discussing general aesthetic, philosophical, ethical and social issues in the context of a visual image of the specific objects of an intellectual discourse. The book takes a close look at this process of signification, formation of meanings, presentation and interpretation on stage: a theatre performance is a product of an intense sign environment and a major symbol of theatricality.

This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260). Although other authors have studied these three aspects of Dou E yuan separately, this is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic as a scholarly monograph in English. Yumin Ao’s analysis is based on the edition of the play in the Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] compiled by the Ming publisher Zang Maoxun (ca. 1550–1620). Ao proposes that Dou E yuan, as a dramatic narrative which develops through its enactment on the stage rather than by verbal presentation as a story, displays its integrative structure of narration through its thematic development and within its musical conventions.

New York, 2015. XVI, 233 pp. Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 275 pp., 42 graphs

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 173 pp.

Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. Vol. 240

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The Arts

Paul-André Bempéchat (ed.)

Jennifer Borkowski

June Boyce-Tillman

Naturlauf

Modernizing Practice Paradigms for New Music

Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual

Periodization Theory and Peak Performance Exemplified Through Extended Techniques

Music as Well-being

Scholarly Journeys Toward Gustav Mahler Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange for his 90th Birthday This collection of essays forms the second Festschrift to honour the dean of Gustav Mahler research, Henry-Louis de La Grange, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. It includes vibrant, new historical, theoretical, and aesthetic research on the complex mind which produced among the best-loved orchestral works and songs of Western classical music. Henry-Louis de La Grange’s passion and tireless devotion to Gustav Mahler began when he first heard his Ninth Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter at Carnegie Hall in New York. He went on to plumb the depths of this composer’s mind and soul and to explore every facet of his existence. Among the many honours he has gleaned since the publication of the first Festschrift, Neue Mahleriana (Lang, 1997), Henry-Louis de La Grange has been named Professor by the Government of Austria (1998) and Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’honneur (2006). He has also been awarded Bard College’s Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters, the Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1. Klasse (2010), the Gold Medal of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft (2010), and an honourary doctorate from The Juilliard School (2010). As another everlasting tribute, the American film director Jason Starr released his documentary film, For the Love of Mahler: The Inspired Life of Henry-Louis de La Grange, in 2015.

The author examines how new music scores with extended playing techniques call for new practice structures. YouTube access to basic instructional videos and the streaming of sound files allows musicians today to learn easily and independently. Yet, the trailblazers in new music tackled new scores without these aids; they used imagination, experimentation and tenacity. Conscious use of both learning modalities can augment ideas of practice and performance preparation; expanding new music’s reach while preserving its fire. Practice is differentiated between the quick learning for an upcoming performance and the transformative learning that new music offers. Periodization theory from sport science provides a pedagogical framework for building both mental and physical stamina leading to peak performance.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 118 pp., 27 b/w fig., 2 tables

This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking in particular at the place of faith narratives in various spiritualities. These strands are linked with the domains of the musicking experience: Materials, Expression, Construction and Values. The book sets out a model of the spiritual experience as a negotiated relationship between the musicker and the music. It looks in detail at various models of musicking drawn from music therapy, ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural studies. It examines the relationship between Christianity and music as well as examining some practical projects showing the effect of various Value systems in musicking, particularly in intercultural dialogue. It finally proposes an ecclesiology of musical events that includes both orate and literate traditions and so is supportive of inclusive community.

The Art and Science of Music Teaching and Performance. Vol. 2

Oxford, 2016. XII, 406 pp., 16 fig.

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The Arts

Michael J. Call

Albrecht Dümling

Bengt Edlund

Claude Monet, Free Thinker

The Vanished Musicians

Questioning Schenkerism

Radical Republicanism, Darwin’s Science, and the Evolution of Impressionist Aesthetics

Jewish Refugees in Australia

This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century libre penseur, a position characterized by radical republicanism, a progressive social agenda, and fierce anticlericalism. His efforts to create a style reflecting his personal political code led him to produce paintings proclaimed by like-minded free thinkers as «a science being constantly perfected» (Gustave Geffroy), that is, emphasizing only observable phenomena in the immediate present through scrupulous, insistent on-site observation, capturing the raw data of sensations and sensory experience, and purporting to record a world free of embedded meaning. Darwin’s world similarly comes with no prepackaged reassurance of humankind’s privileged place in it; it is instead a space in which all varieties of organisms and species compete for limited resources in a struggle for survival. The Darwinian model of nature appears to have influenced Monet’s artistic production increasingly as his style evolved over several decades. In opposition to post-Renaissance art that privileged the human presence in both representation and the viewing act, Monet’s later paintings create a sense of virtual and visual equality among all observable phenomena. The human – and the viewer, by extension – is thus represented as neither separate from nature as a disengaged observer nor superior to it but rather co-equal with all other organic life forms surrounding it.

New York, 2015. XII, 175 pp., num. ill.

Translated from the German by Diana K. Weekes About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural Australia. This book traces the difficult journey of the orchestral performers, virtuoso soloists, singers, conductors and composers who sought refuge on a distant continent. A few were famous artists who toured Australia and stayed, most notably the piano virtuoso Jascha Spivakovsky and the members of the Weintraubs Syncopators, one of the most successful jazz bands of the Weimar Republic. Drawing on extensive primary sources – including correspondence, travel documents and interviews with the refugees themselves or their descendants – the author depicts in vivid detail the lives of nearly a hundred displaced musicians. Available for the first time in English, this volume brings to light a wealth of Jewish, exilic and musical history that was hitherto unknown.

During the past fifty years Schenkerian theory has been adopted as the main method for analysing tonal music. This book questions the value of Schenker’s «tonal analysis» for musical description and interpretation, and discusses its relations to «generative» theory and «implicational» analysis – taking into account its links with linguistic syntax and the perception of tonal closure. It is observed how auxiliary theoretical concepts transform the music so as to pave the way for preordained tonal structures. Alternative readings of the music examples are provided.

American University Studies. Series 20: Fine Arts. Vol. 40

Oxford, 2016. XXVIII, 572 pp., 56 b/w ill. Exile Studies. Vol. 14

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 497 pp., 122 b/w fig.

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The Arts

Constantin Floros

Rosalie Rahal Haddad

Music as Message

Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes

Bernard Shaw in Brazil

An Introduction to Musical Semantics Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents in their music that can be deciphered by a variety of methods. This book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and discusses Beethoven’s committed art, the core ideas of the «Ring of the Nibelung» and of the «Symphony of a Thousand», Wagner’s idea of a religion of art, the relation of music and poetry, the musico-literary conceptions of composers, the large field of program music and the history of the impact of Gustav Mahler.

Studies in Musical Semantics

The Reception of Theatrical Productions, 1927–2013

Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional forms, and both rejected program music. To find an answer to this question, part I tries to elucidate Brahms’ relation to Bruckner in its biographic, historical, artistic and art-theoretical aspects. At the center of the second part, whose subject is Brahms’ early work, is the question whether Brahms was indeed an autonomously working composer. The topic of the third part is a taboo of Bruckner research: Bruckner’s relation to program music.

In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer who had often been rejected by the more sophisticated theatregoer in England. This book analyses the reception of almost a century of Brazilian productions of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, Arms and the Man, Candida and Mrs Warren’s Profession, setting that analysis in the context of the political, economic and cultural climate at the time of each production. What emerges is a faithful portrait of a country where theatre and theatre criticism are precariously established, and the theatregoer with no knowledge of English cannot be certain that the translation or adaptation they are watching bears anything more than a passing resemblance to the original. Nonetheless, Brazil has also witnessed a number of fine productions, presented by highly skilled actors and directors and reviewed by well-informed and articulate critics. As well as supplying fascinating detail on the wide range of Shaw productions staged in Brazil over the last ninety years, this volume also generates valuable insights into the complexities of twentieth-century Brazilian society.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 339 pp., 2 b/w fig., 6 graphs

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 311 pp., 7 b/w ill., 42 graphs

Oxford, 2016. XXXI, 276 pp., 6 tables

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The Arts

Helle Hochscheid

Brian C. Johnson (ed.)

Wei H. Kao

Networks of Stone

The Problematic Tyler Perry

Contemporary Irish Theatre

Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens Networks of Stone explores the social and creative processes of sculpture production in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Using the concept of art worlds, it analyses the contributions and interactions of all those who were in some way part of creating the sculpture set up in the sanctuaries and cemeteries of Athens. The choices that were made not only by patrons and sculptors but also by traders in various materials and a range of craftsmen all influenced the final appearance of these works of art. By looking beyond the sculptor to the network of craftsmen and patrons that constituted the art world, this study offers new insights into well-known archaeological evidence and some of the highlights of classical art history.

Oxford, 2015. XVIII, 506 pp., 2 b/w ill.

Transnational Practices For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as overtly preachy and rife with racially stereotypical characterizations and controversial themes. This book explores the vast chasm between his fans’ adoration and the critical reception of his work: while some argue that Perry’s brand of «blackness» is little more than buffoonery, others claim he offers representations that are missing in entertainment choices, especially among niche audiences. He is applauded by some for offering films and television shows that are «good entertainment», while others label his work trashy. He can be seen either as an oracle whose morality plays provide a gospel message of family healing, or as an actor with a misaligned worldview. This book asks: what are we to do with the «problem» of Tyler Perry?

This monograph is one of the first to examine a collection of Irish plays from a transnational perspective in today’s era of globalization. The works dealt with in this study dramatize how foreign cultures are integrated into contemporary Ireland. In addition, they focus on the experiences of immigrants and marginalized people living on the fringes of Irish society. The aim of this book is therefore two-fold: first, it highlights how specific theatrical productions reflect the global factors at work in modern Ireland; second, it seeks to document how Irish dramatists exert a profound impact on theatre practitioners from non-English speaking countries and enrich their stage aesthetics. Accordingly, the works discussed in this book have not been authored by Irish playwrights only. They are set in the Middle East, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA. This monograph concentrates both on canonical and established playwrights, such as Dion Boucicault, Edward Harrigan, Eugene O’Neill, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry, Tom Murphy, Marina Carr, and on lesser-known writers, including Jimmy Murphy, Dolores Walshe, Damian Smyth, Colin Teevan, among others.

Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts. Vol. 35

New York, 2016. VI, 251 pp.

Bruxelles, 2015. 244 pp., 2 ill.

Black Studies and Critical Thinking. Vol. 83

Dramaturgies. Vol. 35

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The Arts

Tony Kashani

James Kearns • Alister Mill (eds)

Mirosław Kocur

Movies Change Lives

The Paris Fine Art Salon /

On the Origins of Theater

Pedagogy of Constructive Humanistic Transformation Through Cinema

Le Salon, 1791–1881

Translated by David Malcolm

Following on from « Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène »: Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791–1890, published in 2010 as an earlier volume in this series, this volume contains a selection of the papers given at the first major international conference to be held on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art Salon. Hosted by the University of Exeter in September 2013, the conference had its origins in the research project entitled Painting for the Salon? The French State, Artists and Academy, 1830–1852, funded in 2010–2012 by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, and its purpose was to situate findings of this research within the wider framework of the Salon’s nineteenthcentury history. In this collection of twentythree papers, fourteen in English, nine in French, established and new scholars of French art history examine the national and international artistic, political and cultural dimensions of the most important regular exhibition of contemporary art in the nineteenthcentury world.

This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and theater. Scholarship helps us to realize how we have evolved to who we are today and to understand the transformative power of performance. The author proposes to boost and advance theater studies by reviewing new research in anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, classics, ethnography, physics, cognitive science, neuroscience, theater anthropology and performance studies. Referring to his fieldwork in Bali and Tibet, and to his professional experience in theater, the author explains the role of bipedality, toolmaking and trance in the evolution of the performer, examines the performativity of space and writing, and argues that ancient culture emerged from dance.

Movies Change Lives is a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of cinema as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani builds a theory of humanistic transformation by discussing many movies while engaging the works of philosopher/psychologist Erich Fromm, cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall, critical pedagogy theorist Henry Giroux, political philosopher Hannah Arendt, the great French thinker Edgar Morin, the pioneering psychologist Carl Jung, the co-founder of string theory, physicist Michio Kaku, and Frankfurt School philosopher Jürgen Habermas, among others. The book argues that in the globalized world of the twenty-first century, humanity is in dire need of personal and social transformation. Movies have universal appeal and can deeply affect their audiences in a short time. Coupled with critical pedagogy, they can become tools of personal and social transformation. Movies Change Lives is an ideal text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses on film (cinema) and society, visual culture, consciousness studies, transformative studies, media and social change, advanced personal and social psychology, and political philosophy.

«Colloquium proceedings sometimes do not amount to much. This particular collective volume, however, represents a major contribution to scholarship.» (Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies 45(4) 2015)

New York, 2016. XII, 146 pp.

Oxford, 2015. XVI, 516 pp., 24 b/w ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 337 pp., 7 coloured fig., 33 b/w fig.

Minding the Media: Critical Issues for Learning and Teaching. Vol. 14

French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 33

Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance. Historical Narratives. Theater. Public Life. Vol. 4

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The Arts

Lidia Kozubek

Andreas Kramarz

Giancarlo Lombardi • Christian Uva (eds)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli as I knew him

The Power and Value of Music

Italian Political Cinema

Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory

Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film

Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible for the effect of music? This book summarizes and discusses how authors of classical antiquity addressed these questions on musical «ethos» and how they can be approached from a modern-day perspective. After systematically assembling and assessing the value-carrying characterizations of music in poetic literature, the author reviews all noteworthy Greek and Latin writings which enlighten musical «ethos» from the theoretical-philosophical perspective. He then carries the intuitions of the ancients into our time by proposing a coherent model to explain the relationship between music, ethos, and emotions based on the results of contemporary research in the disciplines of music psychology and philosophy. The concept of harmony, understood as the appropriate measure or as the balance of opposites and so central to the reflections of the ancient authors, plays a key role in shedding light on the value and impact, both positive and negative, of music in human existence. This book provides the most comprehensive overview available about the effect and ethos of music in antiquity and discusses many related questions of scholarly interest. It includes numerous references provided in the original language with translation, ample empirical material for further research, and an extensive bibliography.

Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary, and national identity. This book explores these political dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors currently engaged in this filone; and case studies of the films that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two Italian film scholars working in radically different academic settings, Italian Political Cinema brings together a wide array of critical positions and research from Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The tripartite structure and international perspective create a volume that is an accessible entry-point into a subject that continues to attract critical and cultural attention, both inside and outside of academia.

Second Edition This book explores the artistic principles of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, his concert activities, his art of piano playing, as well as his pedagogy and his attitude towards his students. The author presents the biographical data of the artist as well as the list of his recordings and introduces this extraordinary artist to a wider audience, especially to admirers of beautiful music and its performers. The book aims at encouraging in particular the young to follow the high artistic principles required in such a refined and unique art.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 148 pp., 41 b/w fig.

New York, 2016. XXII, 612 pp., num. ill. Medieval Interventions: New Light on Traditional Thinking. Vol. 1

Oxford, 2016. VIII, 439 pp., 31 b/w ill., 3 fig.

Ars Musica. Interdisziplinäre Studien. Bd. 2 hb.

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The Arts

Bernard McCarron

John K. Novak

Andrzej Pieńkos

The Paradigm Case

The Symphonic Works of Leoš Janáček

The House of Art

The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts

From Folk Concepts to Original Style

Modern Residences of Artists as the Subject and Space of Creation Translated by Klaudyna Michałowicz

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock’s cinema – a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence – represents more than the spectre of a supposedly dead art form: it transcends its own filmic and institutional contexts, becoming an important audio-visual lexicon of desire, loss, mystery and suspense. Through a detailed study of the Hitchcockrelated work of artist-filmmakers Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Johan Grimonprez, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon and Atom Egoyan, this book facilitates a dialogue between the creative appropriation of Hitchcock’s films and the cinematic practices that increasingly inform the wider field of the contemporary visual arts. Each chapter is structured around a consideration of how the artwork in question has reconfigured or ‘remade’ key Hitchcockian expressive elements and motifs – in particular, the relationship between mise en scène and the mechanics of suspense, time, memory, history and death. In a career that extended across silent and sound eras as well as the British, European and Hollywood industries, Hitchcock’s film œuvre can be seen as a history of the cinema itself. As the work of these contemporary artist-filmmakers shows, it was also a history of the future, a paradigm case par excellence.

This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody and motivic techniques. His harmonic style and multiple organizations of tonality are examined in rich detail. The analysis section consists of the examination of each musical work’s musical elements, its affective and programmatic associations, as well as four narrative codes through which the listener discovers further meaning in the work: the hermeneutic code (which governs enigmas), the semic code of musical motives, the proairetic (formal) code, and the referential code (which draws on analogous passages from other pieces of music).

Oxford, 2015. XII, 312 pp., 14 coloured ill., 11 b/w ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 305 pp., 9 b/w ill., 8 tables

Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts. Vol. 36

Sources and Studies in Music History from Antiquity to the Present. Vol. 46

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 412 pp., 170 b/w ill.

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The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter’s, writer’s or composer’s actual field. This book discusses the most important of these creations from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th, including gardens as well as the artist’s space, broadly understood, annexed by his imagination. An artist’s shaping of his own residence was most commonly a secondary area of his creative work. The formula for a «house of art» is specific to the particular artist and does not have to fit within any given architectural or decorative style. It may conform to the traditions of a residence (artist’s palace, cottage etc), but most often it forms an individual case.

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The Arts

Dhamu Pongiyannan

Film and Politics in India Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept of the politics of sentiment, the author examines the ways in which actorpoliticians constructed their cinematic charisma, projecting themselves as messiahs saving the people from injustices, to create a political appeal to voters. The resilience of cinematic charisma, as Indian society undergoes massive socio-economic changes, provides a compelling study of modern politics, cinema, celebrity and the culture of the subcontinent.

Teresa Proto • Paolo Canettieri • Gianluca Valenti (eds)

Text and Tune On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and music. While in spoken verse the underlying metrical scheme is grounded in the prosody of the language in which it is composed, in sung verse the structure is created by the mapping of specific prosodic units of the text (syllables, moras, tones, etc.) onto the rhythmic-melodic structure provided by the tune. Studying how this mapping procedure takes place across different musical genres and styles is valuable for what it can add to our knowledge of language and music in general, and also for what it can teach us about individual languages and poetic traditions. In terms of empirical coverage, the collection includes a wide variety of (Western) languages and metrical/musical forms, ranging from the Latin hexameter to the Norwegian stev, from the French chant courtois to the Sardinian mutetu longu. Readers interested in formal analyses of vocal music, or in metrics and linguistics, will find useful insights here.

Georg Schmid

The Mind Screen Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena For well over a century cinema has exerted enormous influence, yet many questions regarding its fascination remain unanswered. Films work so well because the viewers tend to unconsciously identify with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal – identifying with them raises the possibility of gaining «deathlessness.» Viewers can, without real life risks, experiment with the existential drafts presented; the power of imagination is mobilized. Based on a multidisciplinary approach (semiotics, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, plus a healthy dose of film history), this book presents prolegomena of a philosophy of cinema.

Bern, 2015. X, 230 pp.

Bern, 2015. 371 pp., num b/w ill., 25 coloured ill.

Film Cultures. Vol. 7

Varia Musicologica. Bd. 21

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 329 pp.

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The Arts

André Sirois

Roswitha Skare

Don L. Smithers

Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology

Nanook of the North From 1922 to Today

Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization

The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife

Trumpets, Horns, and Bach Abschriften at the time of Christian Friedrich Penzel: Probing the Pedigree of BWV 143

Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More importantly, it explores how DJs have impacted the evolution of technology. By looking at the networks of innovation behind DJ technologies, this book problematizes the notion of the individual genius and the concept of invention. Developing a theory of «technocultural synergism,» this book attempts to detail the relationship between culture and industry through the manipulation, exchange, and rights associated with intellectual property. While the subject of hip-hop and intellectual property has already been well explored, this is the first time that hip-hop DJs have been conceptualized as intellectual property because of their role in the R&D and branding of DJ products. The book also addresses the impact of digital technology on the democratization of DJ culture, as well as how new digital DJ technology has affected the recorded music market.

Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is one of the best-known documentaries of the silent era and has remained well-known throughout the world ever since its release in 1922. This study takes as its point of departure the changes Nanook underwent from its premiere at the New York Capitol on June 11, 1922, to the sound version of 1947, the film’s restoration in the 1970s, and later editions on different platforms. Accordingly, the book focuses on the different versions and editions of the film and the significant ways in which the different elements surrounding the film influence our perception.

There can be no doubt as to the authenticity of BWV 143 as a genuine cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. While the originals are lost, there are second and third «generation» copies. This study considers all known facts since the work’s composition in the 18th century and discusses in detail the criteria for judging the authenticity of the work.

New York, 2016. XXI, 221 pp., num. b/w ill. Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Vol. 27

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 160 pp., 46 b/w ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 144 pp.

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History

The Arts

Andrzej Szczerski

Tatsuo Yamamura • Hanns Stekel

Views of Albion

The Happiness in Child-Raising

The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 1890–1918

A Japanese-Austrian Project and Family Culture in Japan

Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris. These new patterns of artistic exchange, often without historic precedence, gave art during this period its unique character and dynamism. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of Central Europe, the book examines knowledge about British art and design in the region. In subsequent chapters the author looks at the reception of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting and graphic arts as well as analysing diverse responses to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Germany, Austria, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Southern Slavic countries. The epilogue reveals the British interest in Central Europe, echoed in the designs Walter Crane, Charles Robert Ashbee and publications of The Studio. The book questions the insularity of British culture and offers new insights into art and design of Central Europe at the fin de siècle. It presents the region as a vital part of the international Art Nouveau, but also shows its specific features, visible in the works of artists such as Alfons Mucha, Gustav Klimt and Stanisław Wyspiański.

The book shows the importance for parents to encourage a child’s imagination. Imagination has a strong connection to language and logical thinking for a child in learning and it promotes their sociability where children are led to success. Presenting a Japanese-Austrian music-project that took place in Utsunomiya (Japan), the study offers a new view on children’s imagination, their different family cultures and the role of parents in raising successful children.

Ana Luísa Amaral • Ana Paula Ferreira • Marinela Freitas (eds)

New Portuguese Letters to the World International Reception Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging feminist approaches, this volume maps the reception of the book in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, the UK, Ireland, the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia. The scandal that surrounded the banning of New Portuguese Letters, under the accusation of ‘pornographic content’, and the trial of the three authors for ‘outraging public morals’, brought the case to the attention of the international community. The book found instant support from feminist movements and well-known writers – such as Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton – and was adopted as «the first international feminist cause». Given its great significance in political and aesthetic terms, New Portuguese Letters was – and remains – a fundamental work in contemporary literature and culture, offering an invaluable contribution to the history of women and raising crucial issues relevant for political agendas today, such as equality, justice and freedom.

«This book will be quoted as a reference text for the discipline in the coming decades.» (Giovanni Mazzaferro, Letteratura artistica 2016) Oxford, 2015. XVIII, 442 pp., 44 b/w ill., 38 coloured ill.

Oxford, 2015. VIII, 324 pp.

Internationalism and the Arts at the Fin de Siècle. Vol. 1

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 91 pp., 8 coloured ill.

Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Vol. 5

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History

Urszula Augustyniak

James N. Bade (ed.)

Francisco Bethencourt (ed.)

History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Karl Hanssen’s Memoirs of his Wartime Experiences in Samoa and New Zealand 1915–1916

Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries

State – Society – Culture Editorial work by Iwo Hryniewicz Translated by Grażyna Waluga (Chapters I–V) and Dorota Sobstel (Chapters VI–X) The book presents an outline of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century and offers a view of the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, the economy, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, high and popular culture and achievements of art. While the federal character of the state and multicultural society is often overlooked in the synthesis of this period, the creation of civil society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the cultural heritage was the joint achievement of its residents, regardless of their state and ethnic divisions.

Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of the DHPG, a large German copra production company, was sent from Samoa to New Zealand to serve a six-month sentence imposed by a New Zealand military court for bypassing war censorship regulations. He served his sentence in a number of prisons in New Zealand, including two months in the highsecurity prison, Mt Eden. Hanssen’s memoirs – in English translation and in the original German – are made available for the first time in this edition, which also features photos from his Samoan album and a comprehensive introduction by Bronwyn Chapman on the historical and political background.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 574 pp., 1 coloured fig., 10 b/w fig., 6 tables, 2 graphs

This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago. The chapters on Angola and Mozambique show how national identity received a major boost through utopian literature – Pepetela is the anchor in the former case, while dance is used as a crucial metaphor to reveal the tension between the colonial and postcolonial gaze in the latter case. The visions of paradise in Tupi tradition and missionary doctrine inform the approach to Brazil, developed by the study of the utopian dimension of the revolts of Canudos and Contestado. Regional contrasts and the quest for Brazilian national identity underlie the chapter on the cinema of Glauber Rocha and Walter Salles. These political and cultural acts can be compared to the strange case of Sebastianism in Portugal, here studied across four centuries of adaptation and transformation. Anarchist, Communist and Catholic political projects are analysed in the context of the early twentieth century to complete this evaluation of the uses and effects of utopian visions in these countries.

Oxford, 2015. VIII, 314 pp., 3 b/w ill.

Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 13

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 214 pp., 15 b/w fig. Germanica Pacifica. Vol. 15

Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Vol. 4

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History

Irene Maria F. Blayer • Dulce Maria Scott (eds.)

Eduardo Blanco

Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries Portuguese Contexts This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance of cross-cultural interferences and influences. Within this framework, and from a variety of perspectives, some of the chapters depict identity-formation paths among Portuguese Jews and Luso-Indians in Australia, as well as the historical, cultural, and literary interplay among Portuguese and other diasporas in Goa, the West Indies, and Brazil. Other chapters analyze Portuguese-American literature and poetry, whereby the intersection of memory, dual identity, and place are meticulously explored. The last section of the book addresses Portuguese writers and poets who lived through (in)voluntary exile or were dislocated to Europe and Asia, and how their diasporic conditions interface with their textualized narratives. Place and memory as means of reconstructing a fragmented existence, in the writings of exiled writers, are also explored. The volume closes with a chapter on Portuguese illegal migration to France. The studies herein open new lines of inquiry into diaspora studies.

New York, 2016. X, 341 pp., num. ill.

Lucia Bonfreschi • Giovanni Orsina • Antonio Varsori (eds.)

Venezuela Heroica

European Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945–1992

Historical Vignettes Translated with notes by Ignacio L. Götz For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of the Venezuelan wars waged against Spain while seeking independence. Stories of the major battles and the most famous heroes of the Independence Wars, as well as reflections on the conditions, political and otherwise, that attended the first decades of the Republic, can now be further enjoyed in this insightful and masterful translation.

New York, 2016. XXI, 361 pp.

The present volume brings together three different traditions of historical study: national politics, European integration, and political parties. Since the 1980s, there has been an enlargement of the scope of political history. This attempt to transcend national boundaries can intersect with the new strands of European integration history, paying much more attention to transnational perspectives and forces. The chapters comprised in this book attempt to forge a dialogue between these new methodologies and the study of political parties in manifold ways. Firstly, in the study of party foreign and European politics – how parties have perceived themselves as belonging not only to the national political game, but also to a wider transnational, and European one. Secondly, party history can transcend national boundaries through the study of international and European party cooperation. Thirdly, it can offer worthwhile avenues of study on how political families deal with European integration not along ideological cleavages but along national ones. This volume fills a crucial gap of European historiography by comparing parties’ discourses/platforms/policies on European integration and by developing national, comparative and transnational approaches.

Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. Vol. 241

Bruxelles, 2015. 420 pp., 2 graphs, 1 table

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History

Mariana Borcoman

Douglas Brode

Scraps of Thought: Margin Notes in Old Romanian Books

Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

Scraps of thought analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from Şcheii Brașovului, the Romanian settlement outside Brașov city walls. Merchants, craftsmen and wealthy people financially supported St. Nicholas Church and the school on its premises. Families of scholars, formed in the school of Şcheii, preserved the light of books and Romanian Orthodoxism in the region. The notes in the books reveal an educated society, passing on fragments of their way of thinking. We learn about unusual weather conditions, covenants for preserving the moral norms, information regarding the meeting of the priests in the area and especially the curses that were meant to protect the books. The study shows the medieval book as a written medium which included glimpses of life, fragments of human emotions and events.

The Evolution of an American Youth Culture

Massimo Bucarelli • Luca Micheletta • Luciano Monzali • Luca Riccardi (eds.)

Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Age of International Détente

Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults. As the entertainment industries came to realize that a youth market existed, providers of music and movies began to create products specifically for them. While Big Beat music and exploitation films may have initially been targeted for a marginalized audience, during the following decade and a half, such offerings gradually become mainstream, even as the first generation of American teenagers came of age. As a result the so-called youth culture overtook and consumed the primary American culture, as records and films once considered revolutionary transformed into a nostalgia movement, and much of what had been thought of as radical came to be perceived as conservative in a drastically altered social context. In this book Douglas Brode offers the first full analysis of how an American youth culture evolved.

World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, during the years of Détente, that rapprochement between Rome and Belgrade became possible and normalization of bilateral relations was attained. Long-lasting territorial disputes, such as the Trieste question, were solved and bilateral relationship greatly improved, so much so that Belgrade became an important asset in Italy’s Balkan and Adriatic strategy, while Rome was a sort of bridge between Socialist Yugoslavia and Western Europe. This book is intended to shed light on the process of Italian-Yugoslav normalization and rapprochement, which ultimately brought to the Adriatic Détente. Based on a wide collection of primary sources and documentary materials, it aims to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Adriatic region, a conflicted European space that had been affected by territorial disputes and ethnic strife for decades during the 20th century.

European University Studies. Series 3: History and Allied Studies. Vol. 1095

New York, 2015. XXXII, 304 pp., num. ill.

Bruxelles, 2016. 414 pp.

Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Vol. 30

Enjeux internationaux. Vol. 38

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History

Susan Buckham • Peter C. Jupp • Julie Rugg (eds)

Death in Modern Scotland, 1855–1955 Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians and literary figures, both before and after the Great War. At the same time, medical and legal developments began to shift mortality into the realms of regulation and control. This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, religion, demography, legal history and architectural and landscape history. The essays employ a range of methodologies and materials – visual, statistical, archival and literary – to illustrate the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland. They highlight a number of intersecting themes, including spirituality and the afterlife, the impact of war, materiality and the disposal of the body, providing new perspectives on how attitudes towards death have affected human behaviour on both personal and public levels, and throwing into relief some of the unique features of Scottish society.

Graham Camfield

Gaia Caramellino • Federico Zanfi (eds)

Among Russian Sects and Revolutionists

Post-War Middle-Class Housing

The Extraordinary Life of Prince D. A. Khilkov In his lifetime Prince Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Khilkov (1857–1914) became known in a number of seemingly contradictory roles and contexts: courageous officer, Tolstoyan, defender of the oppressed, leader of the Dukhobor exodus, revolutionary terrorist and returning Orthodox prodigal. Born into one of Russia’s ancient aristocratic families, with close links to the court, he chose an unexpected path that led him deep into the Russian countryside and brought him to the very edge of the Empire. Renouncing a brilliant military career, he gave up almost all his land to the peasants and settled on a small farm at Pavlovki, Khar’kov province. There, his support for peasants at variance with local landowners and the Church brought him into conflict with authority, both civil and ecclesiastical, and led to his exile, firstly among religious dissidents in Transcaucasia and later among political émigrés in Switzerland. Using a wide range of often obscure published sources, this book explores Khilkov’s extraordinary life through his autobiographical notes and the accounts of many who knew him, among them Lev Tolstoi and his disciples, the Marxist Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, fellow members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Orthodox clergy who guided him back to the Church.

Models, Construction and Change Post-war middle-class housing played a key role in constructing and transforming the cities of Europe and America, deeply impacting today’s urban landscape. And yet, this stock has been underrepresented in a literature mostly focused on public housing and the work of a few master architects. This book is the first attempt to explore such housing from an international perspective. It provides a comparative insight into the processes of construction, occupation and transformation of residential architecture built for the middle-classes in 12 different countries between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates the role of models, actors and policies that shaped the middle-class city, tracing geographies, chronologies and forms of development that often cross national frontiers. This study is particularly relevant today within the context of «fragilization» which affects the middle-classes, challenging, as it does, the urban role played by this residential heritage in the light of technological obsolescence, trends in patterns of homeownership, as well as social and generational changes.

Oxford, 2016. XVI, 336 pp., 12 coloured ill., 14 b/w ill. Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland. Vol. 6

Oxford, 2015. VIII, 290 pp.

Bern, 2015. 446 pp., num. coloured ill., num. b/w ill.

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History

Albrecht Cordes • Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (eds.)

Alice Cunha • Marta Silva • Rui Frederico (eds.)

Dealing with Economic Failure

The Borders of Schengen

Between Norm and Practice (15th to 21st Century) Dealing with economic failure is one of the persistent and ubiquitous features of economic life. This volume brings together international scholars from several academic disciplines – economic and social history, legal history and law. They address a variety of different aspects on economic failure ranging from case studies on bankruptcy, insolvency, speculation, and strategies of coping with economic and financial squeezes. One focus throughout the book is on the in-betweens and the reciprocal impact of law and practice. The timeframe covers the period from the late middle ages to the present day. Irrespective of the temporal, spatial or cultural differences a slow and tedious evolution from a creditor-friendly to a more debtorfriendly perspective can be perceived. The chances for a fresh start have slightly improved.

Currently, we are witnessing a «border game» with participants on a global scale. The massive movement of illegal immigrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe over the last few months has led political leaders, activists’ movements and anonymous citizens to rethink practices and discourses. The media have multiplied news stories about mobilization initiatives that go well beyond the sphere of the state and even operate on the fringes of the law. Nationalism and identity issues have found their way onto the EU and its member-states’ agenda while the international community argues about the urgency to collaborate to address one of the greatest problems seen in Europe since the Second World War. Schengen borders have been suffering reconfigurations on an almost daily basis and Schengen has even been temporarily suspended in some countries, with the ghost of the end of the Union hovering over Europe. The series of multidisciplinary texts collected in this book offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the understanding of the Schengen area. Broadly speaking, this volume includes reflections on subjects that embrace the debates on the concept and practices of the free movement of persons within Europe, the security dimension of the European Union, illegal immigration and migration management, human rights and the role of various players and interests. This is the book to read if you wish to understand the latest developments in the Schengen area on its 30th anniversary.

David Doolin

Transnational Revolutionaries The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866 The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration of the details behind the Fenian invasion, asking why Irish immigrants were motivated to shape American international policy and examining the ways in which the Fenians defined identity as a transnational phenomenon. By taking a fresh look at the Irish foray, the author reveals new aspects to Irish immigrant negotiations of belonging – a prototypical transnationalism, accompanied by a broad-ranging anti-imperialism. This book places the Irish American Fenians in their proper context, demonstrating their central importance within American, Irish and Irish American history. Its publication coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Fenian invasion of Canada.

Bruxelles, 2015. 195 pp., 1 ill., 1 table

Oxford, 2016. XII, 342 pp., 14 b/w ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 267 pp., 3 tables, 13 graphs

Euroclio. Vol. 93

Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 71

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History

Ben Dorfman (ed.)

Kathryn R. Dungy

Dissent! Refracted

The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850

Histories, Aesthetics and Cultures of Dissent

Elżbieta Katarzyna Dzikowska • Agata Handley • Piotr Zawilski (eds.)

The Great War Insights and Perspectives

This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both nearer to our own times as well as more distant, and through a range of styles reflecting how contested and pressing the problem of dissent in fact is. Drawing on a range of authors and international problematics, the contributions discuss the multiple ways in which we refract memories of dissent in cultural, historical and aesthetic context. It also discusses the diverse ideas, images and phenomena we use to do so.

With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played in the building of a Spanish Caribbean society during the social upheaval of the early nineteenth century. This examination of cultural tensions created by changing regional and national definitions and the fluidity of identity within these structures will appeal to those interested in colonial race issues, Africans in the Americas, and gender and race stratification. Kathryn R. Dungy uses gender, color, and class differences as lenses to understand a colonial society that was regulated by social relationships within Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the Americas. By examining slave and free status, color, gender, work, and immigration, she endeavors to stimulate current debate on issues of gender, color, nation, and empire, utilizing a unique population and culture in the Black Atlantic.

This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations. They further tried to present a closer, more personal overview of wartime drama. As a result the book portrays the impact of the Great War on the lives of multicultural communities, reconstructs individual war narratives and studies consequences of the conflict. The use of various types of historical materials from state archives and from other sources enabled the authors to create a multifaceted portrayal of the war seen from local and international perspectives.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 285 pp., 16 b/w fig., 4 tables Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 230 pp., 4 coloured ill.

New York, 2015. XV, 132 pp., num. ill.

Political and Social Change. Vol. 3

Black Studies and Critical Thinking. Vol. 47

Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Posener Studien zur Geschichts-, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaft. Bd. 13

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History

Christine Feldman-Barrett (ed)

Lost Histories of Youth Culture Young people and their activities always have been a part of history – yet such narratives have remained mostly untold and often lost in the sands of time. This unprecedented and international collection sheds light on youth’s hidden histories from the nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century: whether from the American Civil War, Maoist China, postcolonial Greenland, or contemporary Iran. These tales of leisure, identity, and belonging take readers into the heart of youth history and uncover heretofore unrecognized cultural contributions that young people have made across time and throughout the world.

Uta Fenske • Daniel Groth • Klaus-Michael Guse • Bärbel P. Kuhn (eds.)

Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes • Luísa Rauter Pereira • Sérgio da Mata (eds.)

Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe

Contributions to Theory and Comparative History of Historiography

Modules for History Lessons

German and Brazilian Perspectives

Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, involving partners from Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Great Britain, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Analyzing colonial pasts, processes of decolonization and memory politics in different European countries from comparative and transnational perspectives, the study presents useful sources and practical suggestions for cuttingedge history lessons in European schools.

This book bears witness to the tightening of bonds that has been taking place among the Brazilian and the German historiographical communities in the last years. It presents a wide array of historiographical issues by various scholars: the role played by history writing in modern processes of nation-building, Alexander von Humboldt’s indirect Brazilian experience, the humanistic and methodical legacies of 19th century German historical thinking, current perspectives in the history of concepts, and the potentials and limits of history as a means for political education.

Frankfurt am Main, 2014. 208 pp., 1 coloured ill., 10 b/w ill., 3 tables

New York, 2015. VIII, 247 pp. Mediated Youth. Vol. 22

Frankfurt am Main, 2014. 250 pp., 34 b/w ill.

Civilizations & History. Vol. 36

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History

Terence FitzSimons

Scott Gallimore

Miia Ijäs

The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown

An Island Economy

Res publica Redefined?

Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from Hierapytna, Crete

The Polish-Lithuanian Transition Period of the 1560s and 1570s in the Context of European State Formation Processes

Aeronaut 1827 – 1870 This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia and India. The story of his quest for recognition is deeply researched, while being told in an anti-generic mode – imagined dialogue, play scripts and speculative interventions. To date Brown’s story has not been told in any great detail, and in the few instances where his achievements have been noted the records are marred by inaccuracies. While the story is prima facie an historical biography it also highlights the travail and frustrations faced by the early aviation pioneers – in an age of innovation and advancement they were viewed by many in the scientific community, and the general public, as being no more than providers of novelty entertainment. Brown never accepted this role and had a greater vision of the future of aviation. Brown’s story also reflects the many interesting, and to us, peculiar aspects of contemporary Victorian society.

This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coast of Crete. Recovered from three rescue excavations in the heart of the ancient city, this pottery records a diachronic history of Hierapytna from the third century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. Through meticulous analysis of these assemblages, including a detailed catalogue of all of the major ceramic categories encountered on Greco-Roman sites and an exhaustive economic synthesis that places Hierapytna in regional and international contexts, Scott Gallimore documents the growth and decline of this ancient city. An evolving role in numerous exchange networks enabled Hierapytna to grow from a promising Hellenistic center into a major Roman metropolis before it succumbed to pressures that led to a steady decline throughout the Late Roman period. An Island Economy outlines the historical trajectory of an eastern polis and demonstrates that its rise and fall are connected to pan-Mediterranean exchange networks, a subject that will be of great interest to archaeologists, ceramicists, economic historians, and students of the GrecoRoman world.

The union of Poland and Lithuania was ruled by the Jagiellon royal house from 1385–1572, after which a political transition to an elective monarchy was undertaken. This book studies the political transition from the Jagiellon dynasty to an elective monarchy as a political decision-making process in the 1560s and 1570s. It focuses on the Polish-Lithuanian nobility and clergy as ‘king-makers’ and their relationship with the monarchy. In addition, special attention is paid to the issue of transnational influences and the way in which the international state system affected events in Poland-Lithuania. Thus, this particular political transition is considered in the context of the great events of early modern Europe, such as the Reformation and state-formation processes.

New York, 2015. XX, 366 pp., num. ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 304 pp., 2 tables

Oxford, 2015. VII, 237 pp.

Lang Classical Studies. Vol. 18

Eastern and Central European Studies. Vol. 5

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History

Seymour W. Itzkoff

Jerzy Jedlicki

Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (ed.)

Humanity’s Evolutionary Destiny

A Degenerate World

Exploring History

Translated by Tristan Korecki

British Culture and Society 1700 to the Present

A Darwinian Perspective Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by any of the existing racial categories, rather, intellectual and cultural behavior. They can be symbolized as Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens. In evolutionary history, no two sub-species have ever been able to cohabit a limited ecology. The outcome of this inherent selective conflict is written in the history of the human genus Homo, that is, the successive increases in brain size and intelligence and the disappearance of earlier, less corticalized forms of Homo. Civilization will eventually be shaped by the domination of Homo sapiens sapiens.

Edited by Elena Rozbicka Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why did so many educated and intelligent people despise the innovations that were the work of their contemporaries? This book focuses on English and Polish thought during the 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of relative political stability and great success in science and industry, when many nevertheless voiced concern that Europe is moving in the wrong direction, to its own destruction. After WWI, these warnings became even more dire and have left their mark on the European culture of our times.

Essays in Honour of Professor Emma Harris This volume of essays in honour of Professor Emma Harris explores various branches of British history from 1700 to the present. The range of topics reflects the varied academic interests of the authors, who are friends, colleagues, and former students of Professor Harris. The essays take us on a journey through time, beginning with Queen Anne, eighteenthcentury translations of literature, literary criticism, and ethnographical writings on witches. From there we proceed to Lord Byron, the outcast playwright, Victorian Englishness, modernist foreignness, the effect of World War I on language, and World War II on fashion. The collection also incorporates reflections on subcultural studies and on the fascination of the mystery of Jack the Ripper.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 207 S.

New York, 2016. 276 pp., num. ill.

Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Posener Studien zur Geschichts-, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaft. Bd. 14

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 158 pp.

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History

Wojciech Kriegseisen

Grzegorz Krzywiec

Marcin Kula

Between State and Church

Chauvinism, Polish Style

Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland – Lithuania – Germany – Netherlands

The Case of Roman Dmowski (Beginnings: 1886–1905)

The Anatomy of National Revolution

Translated by Bartosz Wójcik and copy-edited by Alex Shannon The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to analyse the inter-confessional relations in selected European territories in a «longue duree» perspective, between Reformation and Enlightenment. Outlining the relations between the state and the different Churches (confessions) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany, and the Northern Netherlands serves to highlight the specificity of «free» (non-absolutist) composite states, where the particularly complex process of defining the raison d’etat determined the level of religious toleration that was politically feasible and socially acceptable.

Bolivia in the 20th Century

Translated by Jarosław Garliński

Translated by Jan Zagórski-Ostoja

The book addresses the genesis of Polish integral nationalism and the role of Roman Dmowski as a co-founder of this phenomenon in the development of Polish political thought at the fin-de-siècle. Based on extensive documentary research, it attempts to show a broader picture of modern Polish political and social thinking in context of the late 19th and early 20th East Central Europe. The author reflects on the significance of racial thinking and Social Darwinism of the new nationalist imagination, arguing that its intellectual foundations came from anti-positivist and anti-Enlightenment tradition. He challenges the widespread assumption that Polish nationalism in its early version cherished somehow mild attitudes toward minorities, especially the Jews, claiming instead that enmity toward «Otherness» constitutes its ideological core. A major feature of the book is the contextualization of Polish nationalism against the backdrop of the fin-de-siècle European political thought.

The Bolivian revolution in 1952 aimed at modernizing the country: the revolutionaries nationalized the large tin mines, limited the power of the upper classes, proceeded to the agrarian reform, and tried to strengthen the role of the state in the economic life. Because the success of the revolution was limited, it is necessary to discuss the economic instruments, which a country may use to limit its backwardness. The second important point, which makes the 1952 revolution interesting is the alliance of the intellectuals and the workers, an alliance which can also be observed in the Polish «Solidarity» movement at the end of the 20th century.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 626 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 586 pp.

Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 16

Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 18

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 316 pp., 4 b/w fig.

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History

John Laughland

Robert Leroux

Claudia Leskien

A History of Political Trials

The Foundations of Industrialism

Operation Welcome

From Charles I to Charles Taylor Second Edition The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. Many people think that the establishment of special courts to prosecute notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of Political Trials, John Laughland takes a very different and controversial view. He shows that trials of heads of state are in fact not new, and that previous trials throughout history have themselves violated the law and due process. It is the historical account which carries the argument. By examining trials of heads of state and government throughout history – figures as different as Charles I, Louis XVI, Erich Honecker, Saddam Hussein and Charles Taylor – Laughland shows that modern trials of heads of state have ugly historical precedents. In their different ways, all the trials he describes were marked by arbitrariness and injustice, and many were gross exercises in hypocrisy. Political trials, he finds, are only the continuation of war by other means. With short and easy chapters, but the fruit of formidable erudition and wide reading, this book will force the general reader to re-examine prevailing opinions on this subject. «A formidable and well-documented counterblast to a developing modern orthodoxy, expressing a point of view that many readers will not even have suspected existed, let alone read.» (Anthony Daniels, The Spectator)

Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer and Liberal Thought in France From its beginnings, the doctrine of industrialism has inspired writers of varying persuasions. Saint-Simon is often closely associated with it, however, he represents only the socialist variant of the doctrine. By contrast, the variant that relates to liberalism has been virtually overlooked. Jean-Baptiste Say, Benjamin Constant and Joseph Droz, for example, provided crucial elements that would eventually lead two friends, Charles Comte (1782–1837) and Charles Dunoyer (1786–1862), to define industrialism in a more complete manner that was in fact radically opposed in many aspects to the notions of Saint-Simon. This shows that the term «industrialism» has many meanings. Mechanization, the production of wealth, the age of trades and specialization, the notion that progress is unstoppable, the question of liberty and individualism – these are the main themes that we find in the writings of the liberal proponents of industrialism. For Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, industrialism was a kind of philosophy of history, the purpose of which was to identify the tortuous stages through which the idea of liberty had developed. In doing this, as Robert Leroux explains, they shared a conviction, or perhaps a concern, based on clear historical evidence, that liberty is a fragile thing, and that its victory will never be final.

New York, 2016. XII, 141 pp.

How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 1949–1979 An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity at the local level is an important factor as well. A set of highly active political and associational local agents used different strategies to consolidate the city’s position against competing cities and the European Communities. This study finds that a highly specialised group of municipal politicians and civil servants were an important factor for bringing the European institutions to the city.

American University Studies. Series 10: Political Science. Vol. 72

Bruxelles, 2016. 330 pp., 12 graphs, 8 tables

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History

Xiaohui Liu

Yu Liu

Foodscapes of Chinese America

Harmonious Disagreement

The Transformation of Chinese Culinary Culture in the U.S. since 1965

Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends

This book explores the transformation of Chinese food in the U.S. after 1965 from a cultural perspective. The author asks how Chinese food reflects the racial relation between the Chinese community and the mainstream white society and investigates the symbolic meanings as well as the cultural functions of Chinese food in America. She argues that food is not only a symbol that mirrors social relations, but also an agent which causes social and cultural change. A particular geographic focus of this book is California.

The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian orthodoxy from Buddhism. Already in his day, Ricci’s unusual cultural adaptation was controversial; not surprisingly, scholarly studies have hitherto focused almost exclusively on variations of this controversy. Reacting mostly to Ricci’s account of events, this line of research has provided insight, but much more can be learned about the early-modern cross-cultural encounter of Europe and China if the perspective is broadened to include his intricate and intriguing relationships with his Chinese friends. With his distinctively different religiosity, personal charisma, and knowledge of European science and mathematics, Ricci impressed the social and cultural elite of late Ming China, many of whom befriended him and some of whom became Christian converts. However, between him and his Chinese friends there were always disagreements, resulting sometimes from a lack of understanding or misunderstanding, and sometimes even when they apparently understood each other perfectly. Followed closely as the investigative thread of this book, the many kinds of disagreement cast an unusual light on an otherwise long familiar subject and are instructive for the at times tense and even hostile, but in reality always mutually energizing relationship of both competition and complement between China and the West in the early twentyfirst century.

Richard Mason • Jarosław Suchoples (eds.)

Representations of War in Films and Novels This book discusses different aspects of the cinematic and literary representation of war. The papers in this volume consider the roles of war films and war novels in remaking historical memories, the influence of films and novels as social media and debate their roles as instruments of propaganda and mystification. The book is organized along chronological and geographical lines, looking first at the First and Second World Wars in Europe; then the Pacific War; the Vietnam War; and espionage and propaganda in the Cold War and PostCold War.

New York, 2015. VII, 246 pp. Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 238 pp., 6 coloured ill.

Asian Thought and Culture. Vol. 73

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 257 pp.

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History

Kevin McCarthy

Boris Niclas-Tölle

Hans-Heinrich Nolte

Robert Briscoe

The Socialist Opposition in Nehruvian India 1947–1964

Religions in Worldand Global History

Sinn Féin Revolutionary, Fianna Fáil Nationalist and Revisionist Zionist This biography reveals the full significance of Robert Briscoe’s influence within the contentious political culture of the early Irish state, as well as reinforcing his importance to the global Zionist rescue effort of the 1930s. Drawing on a wealth of previously unavailable archival material, the book charts Briscoe’s evolution from a fringe Sinn Féin activist in 1917 to a member of Michael Collins’s personal staff in 1921. It also analyses his agonizing decision to abandon Collins and support the anti-Treaty stance of his close friend and political hero, Éamon de Valera, before becoming a founding member of Fianna Fáil in 1926. Most importantly of all, the book investigates Briscoe’s evolving Jewish awareness, looking at his involvement in a traumatic immigration endeavour and also at his engagement with Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the New Zionist Organisation, under whose auspices he led political rescue missions to Poland, America and South Africa.

This book examines the political and developmental thought of the democratic socialist opposition party of India during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It thereby contributes to a modern global history of political ideas and examines the role of Marxism, Gandhi and modernisation theory for the political development of India during the Cold War. The study focuses on the modernisation policies implemented by the Nehru government: Increasingly facing competing claims from Nehru to be pursuing socialist policies after the mid1950s, the movement eventually broke apart and large numbers of socialists were assimilated by the Congress Party where they continued to shape Indian politics.

A View from the German-language Discussion The author argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. The history of religions is quite often an established sub-discipline within convincing research traditions. In order to reconstruct the past adequately, historians need academically controlled data about the beliefs of the people they are dealing with. This book offers ten examples from a wide range of religious beliefs which show that developments in religion have far reaching consequences for general history – in the change from Empire to the system of European nations, in establishing social disciplines as part of capitalist societies, in attempts of semiperipheral states struggling for a place in the European World-System, in defence of Muslim societies on the peripheries and in postcolonial Africa.

«The odyssey of Robert Briscoe […] is a fascinating one. He was at the crossroads of both Irish and Jewish nationalism. Kevin McCarthy has recovered his story for a wider audience and has thereby made an important contribution to Jewish as well as to Irish history.» (Colin Shindler, The Jewish Chronicle March 31, 2016)

Oxford, 2016. VIII, 275 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 257 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 69 pp.

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History

Sean A. Otto • Thomas P. Power (eds.)

Valerie Pellatt

Gertrud Pickhan • Rüdiger Ritter (eds.)

Reformation Worlds

Sunflowers and Stars

Antecedents and Legacies in the Anglican Tradition

The Ideological Role of Chinese Children’s Rhymes and Poems in the Twentieth Century

Meanings of Jazz in State Socialism

A reassessment of the precedents, course, and legacy of the Reformation has occurred in the present generation of academic writing. This collection of essays brings together research by established and new scholars on themes of the Reformation with a particular focus on its antecedents and legacies in the Anglican tradition. Utilizing a diversity of topics, approaches, and methods, this book adds measurably to our knowledge of the place of the Reformation in Britain and Ireland as well as its European, North American, and African particularities. Exploring a variety of themes, this collection examines the Reformation in relation to key aspects of church organization, belief, sacrament, conversion, relationships with other denominations, theological education, church and state, worship, and issues of resilience and decline. While these themes are pursued broadly, there is a particular focus on the context of the Anglican tradition in terms of Reformation preoccupations and concerns. This collection’s thematic content, chronological span, and geographical range will also challenge accepted views, deepen understanding, and highlight new areas of enquiry, bringing new research and insights to bear on established observations. Academics will find this book of particular interest for courses on the Reformation, Early Modern Europe, and the history of Christianity.

This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, children’s rhymes and children’s poems from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. It draws on anthologies of traditional and modern rhymes and poems published in The People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, exploring the form, function and content of these texts in the light of rapid political change in China. The role of traditional rhymes is examined within the context of a male-dominated family hierarchy of Confucian thinking that profoundly shaped children’s development. The language and literature reforms of the 1920s brought a poetry revolution in China, as authors began to write for children in the vernacular language and offer a purposeful argument against Confucianism, in favour of science and democracy. Literary approaches evolved, first into the socialist-realist approach of the 1940s and 1950s, then into the «three prominences» of the Cultural Revolution. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, children’s rhymes promoted the messages of modern science, but maintained a traditional Confucian outlook. In the 1980s, children’s poetry in the People’s Republic of China began to follow a new direction, in keeping with the new era of cultural and economic liberalization. This book uses the evolution of the children’s poetry genre to provide a fascinating insight into Chinese political, moral and social life in the twentieth century.

New York, 2016. VIII, 243 pp.

During the Cold War, jazz became a cultural weapon that was employed by both sides to advance their interests. This volume explores the history and roles of jazz in Poland, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and the Baltic States by means of several case studies. The American administration attempted to destabilize the political systems of the Eastern Bloc countries, while the powers responsible for culture in the Eastern Bloc countries tried to curtail the US propaganda campaign. This resulted in distinct jazz traditions and jazz scenes, each governed by a distinct behavioural codex, as well as official responses in each of the Eastern Bloc countries.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 227 pp.

Studies in Church History. Vol. 13

Oxford, 2015. XII, 190 pp.

Jazz under State Socialism. Vol. 4

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History

Xavier Pla • Maximiliano Fuentes • Francesc Montero (eds)

A Civil War of Words The Cultural Impact of the Great War in Catalonia, Spain, Europe and a Glance at Latin America The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a broad and transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural and political impact of the Great War. Using a comparative approach and focusing on Catalonia and Spain, this volume reflects the enormous variety of representations of the ‘theatre of war’ in both neutral and belligerent countries, causing a significant rejuvenation in fiction and journalistic genres in the subsequent decades. This book features essays by some of the most important specialists in the First World War from Spain, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Latin America, who, in the centenary of the conflict, provide an innovative critical approach to this crucial event in contemporary history.

B. Mairéad Pratschke

Jeremy Stephen Roethler

Visions of Ireland

Germany’s Catholic Fraternities and the Weimar Republic

Gael Linn’s Amharc Éireann Film Series, 1956–1964 The Amharc Éireann film series (literally translated as Views/Visions of Ireland) was a cultural nationalist project sponsored by Gael Linn, an organization whose mandate was the revitalization of the Irish language through the use of modern media and technology. It was produced by Colm Ó Laoghaire, a member of a well-known Irish literary and nationalist family, the Plunketts. As the first and longest-running Irish-language documentary and news-film series, Amharc Éireann represented an attempt on the part of a few committed Irish-language enthusiasts to present Ireland to the Irish in a way that would instil a sense of pride in the country, and to promote the language in a way that the public would accept. Created during a period of rapid social, economic and political change, it reflects and records the dramatic transformation of Ireland from a rural, underdeveloped and relatively isolated nation into a modern member of the international economic and political community. This book, the first full-length investigation of the Amharc Éireann series as a historical artefact, makes an original and important contribution to our understanding of the complexities of twentieth-century Irish history.

Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, presidents, federal ministers, state executives, and leading voices in Germany’s parliament. They have played leading roles in the Catholic press, in Catholic youth groups, in Catholic civic associations, and in the German Catholic hierarchy. After World War II, Catholic fraternity alumni played founding roles in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), the two parties that led West Germany’s transition from its catastrophic defeat («zero hour») to the economic miracle (1949–1969). This book considers the ideas that many of these Catholic leaders encountered as college students or as active alumni in their fraternities in the fifteen years before Adolf Hitler came to power.

Oxford, 2016. VII, 441 pp.

Oxford, 2015. VI, 287 pp., 9 b/w ill.

New York, 2016. XVI, 231 pp., num. b/w ill.

Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas. Vol. 72

Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 65

Studies in Modern European History. Vol. 70

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History

Flocel Sabaté (ed.)

Historical Analysis of the Catalan Identity The book derives from an European Science Foundation project about the cohesion of European regions developed between 2010 and 2013. Flocel Sabaté led into this framework a team of fourteen scholars looking for the reason of the cohesion and permanence of Catalonia from Middle Ages to current days. This collective book arrives at an updated explanation, far from neoromantic visions and attentive to social vectors, such as socioeconomical convergence, external and internal perception, social representation, institutional development, creation of a justificative discourse and influence of the law, the language, the art and other cultural items.

Jacek Soszyński • Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak (eds.)

Book versus Power Studies in the Relations between Politics and Culture in Polish History Editorial assistance by Dan Embree Translated by Jacek Soszyński This volume considers the various interactions between the culture of the book and politics in Polish history. Each of the fourteen authors deals with a different topic, chronologically starting with the beginnings of the early Piast monarchy in the 10th century up to contemporary times: for instance, E. Potkowski discusses the political ambitions of Duke Mieszko I and his descendants with regard to the introduction of early writing and reading in Poland; A. Kamler analyses the attitude of the Jagiellonian dynasty in the 1500s towards books and education; and D. Jarosz traces the changing approach of the communists towards book production and the promotion of readership in their attempts to persuade Polish society to accept their ideology.

Urszula Sowina

Water, Towns and People Polish Lands against a European Background until the Mid-16th Century Translated by Justyna Woldańska The book describes the functions of water in Polish towns from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Early-Modern Era against a wide European background. It presents the issue of water supply in the context of the town as a complex social and economic organism, taking into account social relations, administration and power as well as living and working conditions. Describing water supply devices, the author reconstructs the ways in which the techniques were transferred to the Polish lands. She analyses municipal court books and documents concerning towns of various sizes in the Polish lands from the 14th to the 16th century, with particular emphasis on Kraków. In addition, she also considers archaeological and iconographical sources. Her findings provide a new insight into the alimentary and hygienic uses of water, its importance for production and crafts, and its use as a source of energy, transport and communication. This is the first broad comparative presentation of the subject in Polish and European literature.

Bern, 2015. 462 pp., 30 b/w ill., 13 coloured ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 358 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 529 pp., 71 b/w ill.

Identities. An interdisciplinary approach to the roots of the present. Vol. 6

Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 15

Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 17

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History

Jarosław Suchoples • Stephanie James (eds.)

Tomasz Szarota

Mikołaj Szołtysek

Re-visiting World War I

On the Threshold of the Holocaust

Interpretations and Perspectives of the Great Conflict

Anti-Jewish Riots and Pogroms in Occupied Europe

Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

This book discusses various aspects of World War I. It focuses on topics proposed by contributors resulting from their own research interests. Nevertheless, as a result of common efforts, re-visiting those chosen aspects of the Great War of 1914–1918 enables the presentation of a volume that shows the multidimensional nature and consequences of this turning point in the history of particular nations, if not all mankind. This book, if treated as an intellectual journey through several continents, shows that World War I was not exclusively Europe’s war, and that it touched – in different ways – more parts of the globe than usually considered.

Warsaw – Paris – The Hague – Amsterdam – Antwerp – Kaunas In the early months of the German occupation during WWII, many of Europe’s major cities witnessed anti-Jewish riots, anti-Semitic incidents, and even pogroms carried out by the local population. Who took part in these excesses, and what was their attitude towards the Germans? Were they guided or spontaneous? What part did the Germans play in these events and how did they manipulate them for their own benefit? Delving into the source material for Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas, this study is the first to take a comparative look at these questions. Looking closely at events many would like to forget, the volume describes various characters and their stories, revealing some striking similarities and telling differences, while raising tantalising questions.

Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns of leaving home and life-cycle service, marriage and household formation, along with domestic group structures and living arrangements among different subpopulations of PolandLithuania, highlighting a variety of ways in which these patterns were nested in their respective local and regional contexts. By showing that at the end of the 18th century at least three distinct family systems existed in the Polish-Lithuanian territories, Szołtysek challenges a number of orthodoxies in the ‘master narratives’ on the European geography of family forms of F. Le Play, J. Hajnal, P. Laslett, and their followers. Volume two of the book contains an extensive bibliography along with a thorough archival documentation of the census-like microdata used in the book, and provides detailed information on their quality and further technicalities pertaining to data analysis.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 217 pp., 20 b/w fig. Bern, 2015. 1066 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 544 pp., 25 b/w ill.

Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Posener Studien zur Geschichts-, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaft. Bd. 11

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Population, Famille et Société – Population, Family and Society. Vol. 21 ISBN 978-3-03911-781-9 CHF 160.– / €D 142.60 / €A 146.60 / € 133.30 / £ 107.– / US-$ 173.95 ISBN 978-3-0352-0327-1

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History

Tõnu Tannberg (ed.)

Edward Timms

Christopher Toenjes

Behind the Iron Curtain

Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War

Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation

A Democratic German Feminist’s Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism

The History of the Ottoman Empire in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments

Soviet Estonia in the Era of the Cold War During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international relations and the border regime to tourism and the media. The papers are based on extensive archival research and make use of many previously unexamined documents. The resulting book offers new insights into the history of Estonia and of the Cold War on a local level.

How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed German political propaganda day by day, giving her critique a gendered focus by challenging the ethos of masculinity that sustained the Nazi regime. This pioneering study interprets her diaries, secretly written in twenty notebooks now preserved at the Stuttgart City Archive, as a fascinating source for the study of everyday life in the Third Reich. The opening sections sketch the paradigms that shaped Haag’s creativity, analysing the impact of the First World War and the feminist and pacifist commitments that influenced her literary and journalistic writings. Extensive quotations from the diaries are provided, with English translations, to illustrate her responses to the cataclysms that followed the rise of Hitler, from the military conquests and Jewish deportations to the devastation of strategic bombing. The book concludes with a chapter that traces the links between Haag’s critique of military tyranny and her contribution to postwar reconstruction.

John Foxe wrote the first English history of the Ottoman Empire in his magnum opus, The Acts and Monuments. He exceeds contemporary representations in his extremely negative image of Islam and the «Turks,» who are identified as Antichrist and the epitome of wickedness. By juxtaposing Foxe’s work with that of his sources, fascinating conclusions can be drawn. The author analyzes the factors prompting Foxe to insert a lengthy digression on a topic that does not directly concern the main theme of his ecclesiastical history, shedding new light on the established notions of his historiographic methodology and his perception of Catholicism as the greatest enemy of «true religion».

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 431 pp., 8 tables

Oxford, 2016. XVI, 268 pp., 2 coloured ill., 18 b/w ill.

Tartu Historical Studies. Vol. 5

Women in German Literature. Vol. 20

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. XVI, 447 pp., 9 b/w fig., 4 tables

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History

History of Religion

Joanna Wawrzyniak

Anna Wolff-Powęska • Piotr Forecki (eds.)

Mardoeke Boekraad

Veterans, Victims, and Memory

World War II and Two Occupations

Ecological Sustainability in Traditional Sámi Beliefs and Rituals

The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland Translated by Simon Lewis In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.

Dilemmas of Polish Memory Translated by Marta Skowrońska and Blanka Zahorjanova This anthology presents the work of several authors from different academic disciplines. Film and literature experts, sociologists, historians and theatrologists analyse the Polish memory of the Nazi and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish collective identity. Before the political turn of 1989, the memory of World War II was strictly controlled by the state. The elements of memory related to the Soviet occupation were eradicated, as well as any other elements that did not fit the official narrative about the war. Unblocking the hitherto limited public discourse resulted in the process of filling the blank pages of history and the development of different and frequently conflicting communities of memory.

The book gives a detailed overview of relevant traditional indigenous Sámi myths, beliefs and rituals based on empirical findings. The author inquires whether and how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. Her main sources are ancient missionary texts, writings by Sámi and contemporary interviews with Sámi individuals. The traditional value system included ecological sustainability as a survival strategy. Beliefs and rituals, transmitted via stories, incorporated these values and transmitted a feeling of a round life, despite the strict rules for right behavior and punishment for transgressions. The term round symbolized a sense of safety, interconnectedness, reliance on mutual help and respect, identification and empathy with all living beings.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 282 pp., 10 tables, 1 graph Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 166 pp.

Studies in Contemporary History. Vol. 4

Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Posener Studien zur Geschichts-, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaft. Vol. 12

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History of Religion

Monika Ożóg

Jacob Paxy Alumkal

Adrián Slavkovský

Inter duas potestates: The Religious Policy of Theoderic the Great

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Implied in the Image of the Paschal Lamb in 1 Cor 5:7

Religious Studies

Translated by Marcin Fijak

An Intertextual, Exegetical and Theological Study

This book discusses Theoderic the Great’s years of political activity, which coincided with the advent of a new era and were marked by features of two distinct civilizations. From the political and cultural viewpoint, he stood at the boundary between the Roman tradition and his Germanic origin. From the religious perspective, when he came to power in Italy at the Emperor’s behest, he found himself amid the conflict embroiling Rome and Constantinople at that time. It was the so-called Acacian schism centred around the issue of the recognition of the Council of Chalcedon (451) with its teaching on the two natures in Christ as well as the acknowledgement of Constantinople as the principal see of the Church in the East. Another ecclesiastical – and strictly Roman – problem noted in the Liber Pontificalis is the Laurentian schism, named after Lawrence, who was elected Pope on the same day as Symmachus.

St. Paul uses the image of Paschal Lamb only once. What is the real meaning of this symbol in his theology? It symbolises the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ but with a different emphasis. What does he emphasize? The aim of this study is to show the exegetical meaning of 1 Cor 5:7 in order to have an overt theological emphasis of the imagery used in this particular context. The linguistic analysis from a historical critical method is used here to arrive at its theological significance. The study propounds the meaning, reality and the significance of the Hebrew original Paschal celebration and its commemoration from Semetical, Hellenistical and Greco-Roman culture and as understood in the OT Scriptures of various periods. The result is quite different from the hitherto theological understanding of the symbol and its significance. Paul is the first NT theologian to use this symbol and others have followed him with varying degrees of understanding of this symbol. A comparative study on this is made in this book. It shows to what extent it is rele-vant for Christians in postmodern Europe and India.

This textbook offers a brief overview of the basic approaches to the scientific scrutiny of religion. To remain uninterested in examining religion is more difficult than examining any other object of research. In relation to issues of religion, we cannot stand as impartial observers, because we are always somehow involved. Therefore, this book emphasizes not only knowledge of religions, but also how to find ways to get closer to impartiality. It offers an overview of topics, questions, and context, rather than a coherent theory.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 271 pp.

Bern, 2015. 414 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 116 pp.

European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 11

European University Studies. Series 23: Theology. Vol. 23

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 6

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Philosophy

Ludo Abicht • Hendrik Opdebeeck

Fred Ablondi

Steven L. Bindeman

The Point of Philosophy

Reading Nature’s Book

The Antiphilosophers

An Introduction for the Human Sciences

Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

The core questions of philosophy about the origin of the world and people, the distinction between good and evil, and the meaning of life – these questions keep us all busy. In this introduction to philosophy, these three questions lead our journey. You want to understand the world and man. Then you try to acquire an outlook on the proper course of action. Perhaps you especially hope to gain insight into the meaning of your own life. And our society, as well, repeatedly collides with questions of its economic, social, and ecological limits. Again and again, philosophy is the necessary condition for finding answers in a rational manner to the demands for in-sight, outlook, and the search for meaning. This is a fascinating story of more than 2,500 years of thought, where the reader might feel inspired to add his or her own responses to the most important personal and social questions. But also to ask new questions – the point of philosophy.

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philosopher and Chief Mathematician.» Reading Nature’s Book: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy is the first book-length study written with undergraduates in mind that examines the philosophical implications (both theoretical and historical) of Galileo’s scientific discoveries, including many matters that were later taken up by seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury philosophers. This close analysis of Galileo’s philosophical insights demonstrates the prominent place his thought should have in the history of early modern philosophy.

In this volume, author Steven L. Bindeman presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. Noting that the main thrust of their work can be found in their need to respond to the threat of nihilism, he is guided by the question, if the path to abstract truth is no longer viable, what then? He shows how the antiphilosophers turn their focus on the complexity of lived experience in place of the search for certainty, which was in their view what previously had guided the dominating discourse of the modernist philosophical tradition. Through close examination of a broad variety of texts, Bindeman illuminates how the anti-philosophers initiate a new way of doing philosophy, one which prefers to examine the question, Does it work? instead of, Is it true? Moreover, Bindeman demonstrates how the antiphilosophers are united in questioning the centrality of the great cornerstones of western metaphysics – time, self, universe, and God – because of their insistence that there is no way to reach beyond any of these words to the actual things to which they refer.

New York, 2016. X, 96 pp.

New York, 2015. XVIII, 269 pp.

Philosophy & Politics. Vol. 28

American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 221

American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 220

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Philosophy

Julie N. Books

Jan Čížek

The Supersensible in Kant’s Critique of Judgment

What Is Film?

The Conception of Man in the Works of John Amos Comenius

In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Drawing upon her extensive background in the visual arts, art history, and philosophy, Dr. Books provides a unique discussion of Kant’s supersensible, illuminating how it cannot justify his a priori nature of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. She uses examples from the history of art, including paintings by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Constable, to support her views. This book will make a significant addition to courses on the philosophy of Kant, aesthetics, philosophy of art, metaphysics, the history of Western philosophy, ethics, psychology, and art history.

In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative works of art. By examining contemporary films, such as computer-animated films and films with computer-generated images, Dr. Books shows how films are creative works of art, thereby undermining the longheld view that films are slavish recordings of reality. This book is ideal for academics and courses on the philosophy of film, film theory, film history, filmmaking, metaphysics, and the philosophy of art.

This book maps the entire development of Comenius’s considerations on man, from his earliest writings to his philosophical masterwork. Although this book primarily offers an analysis and description of the conception of man in Comenius’s work, it may also serve the reader as a more general introduction to his philosophical conception. The author shows that, in spite of the fact that Comenius has received no small amount of academic attention, funded studies or monographs in English language remain in single figures. Thus, a range of Comenius’s remarkable ideas are still unknown to the wider public.

New York, 2016. 112 pp.

New York, 2016. IX, 160 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 233 pp.

American University Studies: Series 5. Philosophy. Vol. 222

American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 224

European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 15

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Philosophy

María Isabel Corbí Sáez • María Ángeles Llorca Tonda (éds.)

Simone de Beauvoir. Lectures actuelles et regards sur l’avenir Simone de Beauvoir. Today’s readings and glances on the future Ce volume collectif regroupe des articles appartenant à divers domaines de recherches (Philosophie, Études féministes et de Genre, Études littéraires, Études biographiques, Réception, Études politiques et juridiques). Les lecteurs y trouveront des analyses qui proposent des approches nouvelles sur Simone de Beauvoir et mettent en relief jusqu’à quel point la pensée, l’œuvre et la vie de l’auteure continuent d’être un référent pour nos sociétés actuelles et pour l’avenir. Cet ouvrage vient sans aucun doute à enrichir les études beauvoiriennes.

Stanisław Czerniak • Rafał Michalski

Jan Philipp Dapprich • Annika Schuster

Philosophy as Critique of the Mind

Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics

The Doctrinal Evolution of Critical Theory

An Investigation of the Metaphysical and Logical Implications of Quantum Physics

The authors trace the essential aspects of the evolution of critical theory from its classics Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno to its leading second- and third generation propagators Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. They defend the thesis about the «meandering», dialectical character of this evolution. In their polemic with Habermas, both Honneth and Gernot Böhme (who is close to critical theory) refer to the classics, and specially their mimesis concept. The author of the first part of this book argues in favour of this interpretative approach. The author of the second part adds a confrontation between critical theory, Michel Foucault’s philosophy of power and Arnold Gehlen’s philosophical anthropology.

The book investigates the ontology and logic of quantum physics. The first part discusses the relationship of theory and observation and different views on the ontological status of scientific theories. It introduces the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and some of its interpretations and their compatibility with various ontological positions. In the second part, implications of quantum mechanics on classical logic, especially on the distributive law and bivalence, as discussed by Garrett Birkhoff & John von Neumann (1936) and Hilary Putnam (1968), and their counterarguments are reconstructed and discussed. It is concluded that classical logic is sufficient for dealing with quantum mechanical propositions.

This collective volume gathers articles belonging to different fields of knowledge (Philosophy, Feminist studies, Gender studies, Literary studies, Biography studies, Reception studies, Law and Political studies). Readers will find in it research papers which propose new approaches on Simone de Beauvoir, and which lay stress on how the author’s thinking, work and life go on being a referent for our societies and for the future. This volume comes undoubtedly to enrich beauvoirian studies.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 134 pp., 5 tables, 14 graphs

Bern, 2015. 258 p. Espacios literarios en contacto. Tomo 9

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 248 pp.

Philosophical Foundations of the Sciences and their Applications. Vol. 5

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Philosophy

Andrej Démuth

Prolegomena to the Study of Modern Philosophy

Introduction to the Study of the History of Epistemology

This book is divided into nine chapters trying to draw attention to the various aspects of the understanding of God, to the question of the individual, the ideal state arrangement, and the question of freedom (free will) as well as of history. Special attention is paid to the issue of cognition, the question of reason and sense, as well as language and the issue of a system in philosophy. The chapters are arranged to show the historical characteristics of the issues with an introduction of the key approach and ideas with references.

The text is structured in chronological and ideological order and presents nine basic types of the classical perception of the problem of knowledge through an analysis of the atomistic theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle’s doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant’s theory, phenomenological-xistential, pragmatic, and (post) analytical perceptions. The proposed work aspires to be an introduction (not a complete presentation, neither in the number of types, nor in a full interpretation) and a basis for the reader’s interpretations which is reflected in the structure of the text.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 126 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 152 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 379 pp.

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 2

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 1

Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism. Vol. 8

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Irina Deretić • Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (eds.)

From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism? The relationship between humanism, metahumanism, posthumanism and transhumanism is one of the most pressing topics concerning many current cultural, social, political, ethical and individual challenges. There have been a great number of uses of the various terms in history. Meta-, post- and transhumanism have in common that they reject the categorically dualist understanding of human beings inherent in humanism. The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections and artistic perspectives on this subject-matter. The goal is to obtain a multifaceted survey of the concepts, the relationship of the various concepts and their advantages as well as their disadvantages. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.

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Philosophy

Marek Dobrzeniecki

Zbigniew Drozdowicz

Bernd Fischer • May Mergenthaler (eds)

The Conflicts of Modernity in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Cartesian Rationalism

Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere

The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch. The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning. The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus and comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist. With this insight, he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism and its mystical part.

Understanding Descartes Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism, his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism. Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. While Descartes had reservations with respect to all of them, he still adopted some of their elements: not even such a self-directed and critical philosopher as Descartes could have proceeded on the difficult journey towards truth without any baggage of tradition whatsoever. Those who treated this baggage as a useless burden and have attempted to pursue truth without carrying it, have only discovered things which had long been known.

Contemporary and Historical Perspectives The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international conflicts. However, the role of culture and aesthetics in the formation of the public sphere has received insufficient analytical attention. The essays in this volume explore different strategies for enriching the ongoing debates on this issue, ranging from historical case studies to theoretical examinations of cultural interdependencies and the aesthetic potential of literature and art. The contributions implicitly challenge Jürgen Habermas’ assumption that the public discourse about art and literature should be seen as a mere precursor to the emergence of the public sphere in the eighteenth century, which, from his point of view, is best discussed in the terminology of political theory. Topics range from the French Revolution’s exclusive social metaphors to Herder’s anticipation of virtual publics, from the distortions of public communication to revolutionary potentials of popular taste, and from postcolonial feuilletons to the global bio-political imaginaries evoked by mobile communication. The essays are intended for scholars and students in political theory and philosophy as well as in German, Latin American, and Modern Hebrew literature and culture.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 273 pp., 3 tables

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 152 pp.

European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 12

Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences. Vol. 3

Oxford, 2015. VI, 348 pp., 1 coloured ill., 2 b/w ill.

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Philosophy

Silvia Gáliková

Igor Hanzel

Academic Writing

The Death and Life of the Self

Selected Topics in Writing an Academic Paper

Post-Wittgensteinian Investigations

Studies in the Methodology of Science

The textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing. The author considers writing as thinking made visible, as thinking in slow motion, a process whereby we can inspect and reflect on what we are thinking about. Writing doesn’t simply convey thought, it also forges it. It is a two-way street, both expressing and generating ideas.

What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions the author reconsiders the «turn to the self» in contemporary philosophy of mind. The human self is considered as a natural phenomenon open to careful theoretical analysis, empirical and experimental research. The loss of everyday intuitions on the nature of self plays a significantly liberating role in self-understanding and explaining man’s behaviour.

The book discusses methodological issues relating to the philosophy of science and the natural and social sciences. It reconstructs the methods of measurement and scientific explanation, the relation of data, phenomena and mechanisms, the problem of theory-ladenness of explanation and the problem of historic explanation. From the sciences chosen for methodological analysis are those of early classical mechanics, early thermodynamics, Bohr’s theory of atom, early quantum mechanics, research into great apes and political economy.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 96 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 97 pp.

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 3

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 4

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 300 pp., 21 tables, 24 graphs

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Philosophy

Jan Hartman

Patrick Aidan Heelan

Nicole Holzenthal (ed./Hrsg.)

Philosophical Heuristics

The Observable

Constructing Reality

Translated by Ben Koschalka

Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

«Philosophical Heuristics» aims to translate philosophical issues into meta-philosophical issues examined from a unique perspective. The analytical and interpretive practice of heuristics seeks to grasp synchronously all the processes leading to the formation of philosophical discourse, its language, form and content. The book takes hermeneutics and pragmatism as a starting point for a multifaceted and systematic examination of philosophical heuresis and promotes a style of philosophising «in the suspense of heuristic reflection», something more than ordinary theoretical self-awareness.

Foreword by Michel Bitbol

Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wallner in Celebration of his 70th Birthday

Edited with a Foreword by Babette Babich Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist and a philosopher to his reflections on Werner Heisenberg’s physical philosophy. Including considerably broader connections to the contributions of Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, and Albert Einstein, this study also reflects Heelan’s experience in Eugene Wigner’s laboratory at Princeton along with his reflections on working with Erwin Schrödinger dating from Heelan’s years at the Institute for Advanced Cosmology in Dublin. A contribution to continental philosophy of science, the phenomenological and hermeneutic resources applied in this book to the physical and ontological paradoxes of quantum physics, especially in connection with laboratory science and measurement, theory and model making, will enrich students of the history of science as well as those interested in different approaches to the historiography of science. University courses in the philosophy of physics will find this book indispensable as a resource and invaluable for courses in the history of science.

Realität konstruierend Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wallner zu Ehren seines 70. Geburtstages This collection of essays assumes the main thesis of Constructive Realism: reality is created. In this volume, it is constructed by authors from various scientific disciplines and very different cultures. The Festschrift is dedicated to the founder of this philosophical approach, Professor Dr. Friedrich Wallner (University of Vienna), in celebration of his 70th birthday. Dieser Sammelband geht von der Hauptthese des Konstruktiven Realismus aus – wir konstruieren Realität. Hier wird sie von Autoren aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und sehr unterschiedlichen Kulturen aufgebaut. Dem Gründer des philosophischen Ansatzes Professor Dr. Friedrich Wallner (Universität Wien) ist diese Festschrift anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstags gewidmet.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 247 pp.

New York, 2016. XL, 185 pp., num. ill.

Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities. Vol. 7

History and Philosophy of Science: Heresy, Crossroads, and Intersections. Vol. 1

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 192 pp.

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Philosophy

Seymour W. Itzkoff

John Justice

Dariusz Karłowicz

2284 World Society

Truth Be Told

The Archparadox of Death

Iaian Vernier’s Memoir

Sense, Quantity, and Extension

Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category

2284: World Society, Iaian Vernier’s Memoir is a fascinating study of mankind. Written as a work of fiction, it looks at the human condition 200 years in the future. Predicting the outcome of today’s social policies, 2284 is a cultural anthropology study that adds to Itzkoff’s extensive writing on the topic. Iaian Vernier writes in 2284 of the revolutionary internationalism that has been established in Nairobi, Africa. He chronicles the disasters that almost destroyed the twenty-first-century world. He describes in anecdote and philosophical depth the new scientific and secular world that has been established to bring peace, equality, ethnic diversity and democracy to humanity, while scrutinizing the plans for demographic stability that will sustain humanity into the future. In the twenty-third century, the forbidden rationality of the scientific minds of the twenty-first century have been unleashed.

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes. Currently, semantic theory employs generalized quantifiers as the extensions of noun phrases in explanations of the composition of truth-values. Generalized quantifiers are direct descendants of the second-level functions to truth-values that Gottlob Frege considered to be the referents of his unrestricted quantifiers. During the past fifty years, Frege’s original quantifier referents have been revised and generalized with the result that now every noun phrase, of any type, has a generalized quantifier as its extension. This evolution of noun-phrase extensions from Frege’s referents has retained two of the original theory’s flaws. First, generalized quantifiers inherit a troublesome intrusion of predicate extensions. Second, the senses of names and deictic terms are still not identified, with the result that their extensions are not sharply distinguished from their referents. Truth Be Told frees semantic theory from these Fregean flaws. Its theory of sense, quantity, and extension yields an intuitive composition of sentence truth-values and secures an accurate understanding of truth. Its final chapter applies the theory in a diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes that is immune to the notorious revenge paradoxes.

The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death. The author approaches an answer through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the evidential role of martyrdom. Numerous historical documents confirm that ancient martyrdom might have been considered as a kind of proof also by people unaffiliated with the Church. The author observes the theology and the reality of martyrdom through the perspective of the ancient philosophy of death and radical personal transformation. He believes that the Christian stance in the face of persecutions could have been understood as the realization of the unrealized ambitions of philosophy, thereby proving indirectly the veracity of the teaching revealed by Jesus Christ.

New York, 2015. VIII, 79 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 274 pp.

Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics. Vol. 97

European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 10

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Philosophy

Tony Kim

Renáta Kišoňová

God and Human Freedom

Introduction to Philosophy

Metaphysics

A Kierkegaardian Perspective In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim’s central analysis between the relation of God and human freedom in Kierkegaard presents God’s absoluteness as superseding human freedom, intervening at every point of His relation with the world and informing humanity of their existentially passive being. Kim argues Kierkegaard is not a strict voluntarist but deeply acknowledges God’s absoluteness and initiative over and against human life. Moreover, the author’s exploration of unity in Kierkegaard points to the very ethics of who God is, one who loves the world. Ultimately, God manifests that love in Jesus Christ, representing God’s ultimate reconciliation with the world in his humility.

The first part of this textbook introduces philosophy to the reader as a part of culture, in addition to science, religion, art. It outlines various disciplines of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind etc. The second part maps the understanding of history, or the philosophical reflection of history in the history of philosophy.

Selected Problems of Metaphysics and Ontology The presented text offers a basic overview of the terms and topics of the very wide philosophical discipline called metaphysics. The text includes, besides an overview of individual problems, reflections to consider and recommended literature. Readers will become familiar with the basic terms (metaphysics, ontology, existence, being), with the metaphysics of archaic nations, Parmenides’s approach to understand being as The One, the understanding of time and events of the Greeks, the problem of categories according to Aristotle and Kant, the problem of intuition and fundamental ontology.

New York, 2015. VI, 95 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 108 pp.

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 354

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Philosophy

Mette Lebech • John Haydn Gurmin (eds)

Daria Lebedeva

Yoram Lubling • Eric Evans

Intersubjectivity, Humanity, Being

Quaternion of the Examples of a Philosophical Influence: Schopenhauer-DostoevskyNietzsche-Cioran

Peace in Motion

Edith Stein’s Phenomenology and Christian Philosophy This volume brings together revised versions of papers presented at the inaugural conference of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES). The conference papers are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays in order to provide a representative sample of the best research currently being carried out on Stein’s philosophy in the English speaking world. The first part of the volume centres on Stein’s phenomenology; the second part looks at her Christian philosophy; and the third part explores the contexts of her philosophical work.

The philosophical influence is a concept, a methodological tool and a process worth inquiring, because it sets the frame for the philosopher’s contribution into tradition. This study takes a close look at the philosophical influence on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts, currents and tendencies and the experiences that every philosopher inherited from past tradition. It also presents four philosophers in order to identify the roots of influence: Arthur Schopenhauer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Emil Cioran.

John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such theories fail to provide an authentic account of well-being due to a false understanding of experience as either epistemic or cognitive. Next, using Dewey’s theory of experience, they reconstruct «happiness» as the target for evaluation of well-being. This leads them to reject the traditional view of a private encapsulated self, and to offer in its place a transactionally situated self which is an embodied, enculturated agent. Through their emphasis on the importance of the qualitative aspects of Dewey’s understanding of a situation, the pervasive quality of the situation emerges as the most plausible criterion for the evaluation of well-being. The authors use Dewey’s theories of inquiry, ethics, value and art to establish the naturalistic conditions under which such pervasive quality enters into a situation as either settled or unsettled, in other words, as peace in motion. Consequently, a problematic situation becomes the primary condition under which all inquiry initiates whether it is in the context of science, ethics, values, art or ordinary living. Lubling and Evans conclude that a Deweyan account of well-being involves embodied knowing instead of the traditional view of cognitive knowledge.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 150 pp.

New York, 2016. XVIII, 270 pp., num. ill.

Oxford, 2015. XII, 622 pp., 2 coloured ill., 4 b/w ill.

Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences. Vol. 4

American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 212

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Philosophy

Anastasia Marinopoulou (ed.)

Bengt Molander

Patrick Quinn

Cosmopolitan Modernity

The Practice of Knowing and Knowing in Practices

Wittgenstein on Thinking, Learning and Teaching

This book is a philosophical analysis of knowledge in practices, focused on knowing how, tacit knowledge and expert knowledge. Knowing in action is the key concept. It covers understanding, well-functioning routines as well as successful learning processes. It is argued that knowledge-in-action is more basic than propositional or theoretical knowledge. Key notions are knowing as a kind of attentiveness or a way of being in the world, knowing as continued learning, and knowledge as what leads people in the best way. The book is a contribution to the contemporary philosophical discussions about knowing how, tacit knowledge and expert knowledge. At the same time, it is written as an interdisciplinary and case-based introduction to the epistemology of knowing and learning.

Wittgenstein is not generally thought of as a philosopher of education, yet his views on how we think, learn and teach have the potential to contribute significantly to our contemporary understanding of pedagogy. Wittgenstein himself was a lifelong learner whose method consisted of thinking intensely about a wide range of topics, including not only the philosophy of language, logic and mathematics but also architecture, music, ethics, religion, culture and psychoanalysis. He then shared his observations and conclusions with his students as a way of teaching them how to think and learn for themselves, and his personification of the learner-teacher deeply impressed those who witnessed his pedagogical performances during his ‘lectures’. This study presents a detailed exploration of Wittgenstein’s legacy as an educationalist, now accessible to us through the extensive published collections of his thoughts on the subject.

New Visions of the Cosmopolitan. Vol. 4

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 315 pp.

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This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to what extent cosmopolitanism corresponds to «second modernity», with the latter concept referring to the potential for consensus, the creation of multiple political alternatives and the recognition of otherness. The book accordingly explores questions about democratic legitimacy and the formation of social and political institutions and presents empirical research on phenomena such as global violence. The volume is intended to constitute a cosmopolitan project in itself, comprising contributions from scholars with very diverse approaches. Together, these contributions provide a stimulating analysis of what cosmopolitanism can offer to socially and politically diverse twenty-first-century societies.

Oxford, 2015. XVI, 318 pp.

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Philosophy

Gabriela Ratulea

Johann A. R. Roduit

Adrián Slavkovský

From the Natural Man to the Political Machine

The Case for Perfection

Indian and Chinese Philosophy

Sovereignty and Power in the Works of Thomas Hobbes It is unusual to connect Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy with liberal thought. This study argues that liberal philosophy is indeed indebted to Hobbes: as a modern thinker he was the first to deduce political rights and obligations from self-interest. While we may say today that Hobbes sustains the capacity of government at the expense of democratic institutions, it is equally clear that he invented the idea of political legitimacy in the modern sense. Analyzing the tradition of natural law, the doctrine of social contract, and the sources of moral and political obligation, the study shows how Hobbes’ assumptions help us to understand that there is no liberty without political authority.

Ethics in the Age of Human Enhancement The author critically examines what role the notion of perfection should play in the debate regarding the ethics of human enhancement. He argues that the concept of «human perfection» needs to be central when morally assessing human enhancements. This anthropological ideal provides an additional norm to evaluate enhancing interventions, extending the well-established bioethical principles of autonomy, justice, and safety.

This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India and China. Most important philosophical concepts of that region like holistic or ceremonial approach to reality, openness to transcendence, pluralism of opinions, behaviour leading by a sense of harmony are somehow complementary to our prevailing contemporary Western thought. Therefore they can be enriching and balancing for us and our culture.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 120 pp. Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 132 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 130 pp.

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Philosophy

Ben Stahlberg

Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.)

Spinoza’s Philosophy of Divine Order

Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference

While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza’s idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed totality of all that exists. God is entirely immanent to this totality, to such an extent that all things are fundamentally of God. Appreciating the full extent to which God permeates and orders every aspect of reality, allows the full sense of Spinoza’s theories of tolerance and the social contract to come into view. Rather than assuming that human beings involved in political relationships are independent, autonomous individuals, for Spinoza they are parts of a larger whole subject to distinct natural laws. Spinoza maintains that such laws manifest themselves equally and identically in the seemingly distinct realms of religion and politics. In this respect, Spinoza’s theories of religion and biblical interpretation are not properly secular in character but rather blur the standard boundary between the religious and the political as they try to recognize and codify the inviolable laws of nature – or God.

Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics.

The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions, individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The contributions show the importance and lasting influence of theories proposed by John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Individual chapters assess traditional analyses and modern controversies, and contribute to the debate on proper names in contemporary philosophy of language.

New York, 2015. VI, 206 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 244 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 228 pp.

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 353

Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 2

Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 1

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Piotr Stalmaszczyk • Luis Fernández Moreno (eds.)

Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names

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Philosophy

Paolo Stellino

Antal Szerletics

Ladislav Tkáčik

Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

Paternalism

On the Verge of Nihilism

Moral Theory and Legal Practice

Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky happened on the verge of nihilism. Nietzsche announced the death of God, whereas Dostoevsky warned against the danger of atheism. This book describes the double encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Following the chronological thread offered by Nietzsche’s correspondence, the author provides a detailed analysis of Nietzsche’s engagement with Dostoevsky from the very beginning of his discovery to the last days before his mental breakdown. The second part of this book aims to dismiss the wide-spread and stereotypical reading according to which Dostoevsky foretold and criticized in his major novels some of Nietzsche’s most dangerous and nihilistic theories. In order to reject such reading, the author focuses on the following moral dilemma: If God does not exist, is everything permitted?

This book explores and critically evaluates conceptual and justificatory models related to paternalism in the context of moral philosophy. Paternalistic interventions promoting someone’s good or protecting the person from self-harming actions raise controversial questions from a legal and an ethical perspective. The tension between the benevolent character of paternalism and its interference with personal autonomy seems to hinder the development of a coherent theory that could specify the «proper» limits of protective state interventions. The theoretical investigation is complemented by selected cases from the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Hungary.

Bern, 2015. 247 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 239 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 118 pp.

Lisbon Philosophical Studies – Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields. Vol. 6

Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences. Vol. 5

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To be confronted with a text can lead us to open our own living world, to its expansion and saturation with something new or even with something else, something unpredictable. What then makes a human a human? Can philosophical hermeneutics say anything about that? It can! «Language is the real centre of a human being… The human is a real, as Aristotle used to say, being who has language» (Hans-Georg Gadamer). What makes a human a human is the fact that internal reflection is performed behind his voice. This is the most original topic of philosophical hermeneutics.

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Philosophy

Ladislav Tkáčik

Jana Trajtelová

The History of Medieval Philosophy

Philosophy of Transcendence: Selected Problems

Philosophical Anthropology: Selected Chapters

Does God exist? Is it meaningful to speak of the Infinite or the Absolute? What is to be understood by concepts such as soul, spirit, or love? Are religious truths philosophically relevant and philosophically tenable? The reflective critical thinking of philosophy tries to embrace each side of human reality, even the matters and themes which arise out of the religious experience. This auxiliary textbook intends to present several selected topics of the philosophy of religion and it is primarily intended for bachelor students of philosophy.

This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several specific aspects which essentially characterize human beings (such as rationality, formation of culture, freedom, personality and interpersonality). The text is primarily intended for bachelor students of philosophy.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 102 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 100 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 102 pp.

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Selected Figures of Scholastic Tradition I Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. It was a varied living space in which philosophy, mystique and practice could exist side by side. It is a world which is lost today and which we can get a hold of again only by intellectual appropriation.

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Philosophy

Jana Trajtelová (ed.)

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015

Nora S. Vaage • Rasmus T. Slaattelid • Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen • Samantha L. Smith (eds.)

Images of Knowledge

New Generative Aspects in Contemporary Phenomenology

The Epistemic Lives of Pictures and Visualisations

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015 is dedicated to the question of generativity, and more broadly to the generative aspects of and in contemporary phenomenology. We continue to proceed in Husserlian research as well as to address newly emerging contemporary cultural, political, and ecological phenomena. This invites and welcomes a creative involvement with a generative phenomenological approach, which tries to address such phenomena as the liminality and volatility of experience, interpersonal and intercultural communication, home and alienness, identity and difference, globalization and fundamentalism, migration and interculturalism, and searches for the meaning of authentic sociality, morality or religiosity of human persons.

The authors consider the relationship between knowledge and image, though multi-faceted, to be one of reciprocal dependence. But how do images carry and convey knowledge? The ambiguities of images means that interpretations do not necessarily follow the intention of the image producers. Through an array of different cases, the chapters critically reflect upon how images are mobilised and used in different knowledge practices, within certain knowledge traditions, in different historical periods. They question what we take for granted, what seems evident, what goes without saying. This approach spans across established categories such as «scientific imaging», «religious images» and «artworks», and considers how images may contribute meaning across such categories.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 138 pp.

Nathan Van Camp

Redesigning Life Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Challenge of the Techno-Human Condition The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions as equally problematic, as both presuppose the existence of a stable, autonomous subject capable of making decisions concerning the future of human nature, while in the age of genetic technology the nature of this subjectivity shall be less an origin than an effect of such decisions. Bringing together a biopolitical critique of the way this controversial issue has been dealt with in liberal moral and political philosophy with a philosophical analysis of the nature of and the relation between life, politics, and technology, the author sets out to outline the contours of a more responsible engagement with genetic technologies based on the idea that technology is an intrinsic condition of humanity.

Bruxelles, 2015. 166 pp.

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology. Vol. 3

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 238 pp., 50 coloured ill.

Philosophy & Politics. Vol. 27

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Philosophy

Peter J. Weigel • Joseph G. Prud’homme (eds.)

The Philosophy of Human Nature in Christian Perspective In this work, leading contemporary philosophers discuss key facets of the human person from a variety of perspectives in Christian thought. This closely woven volume includes chapters by Nicholas Wolterstorff on the distinction between humans and other animals; Robert Sokolowski on language; Marilyn McCord Adams on the presence of the Holy Spirit in human beings; Roland Teske on the soul and soteriology; Nicolas Austriaco on bioethics and human nature; J. Hayes Hurley on consciousness; and Germain Grisez on death and immortality. An excellent source for scholars, this book is also ideal for courses in philosophy, theology, and psychology.

New York, 2016. 149 pp.

Rick Welch

Cezary Wodziński

Physiology: The Language of Life and Nature

Heidegger and the Problem of Evil

This book paints a flowing picture of the relationship beween life and nature, through the evolution of a word – physiology. Today, it denotes a scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and medicine, signifying the «study of life». Yet, physiology manifests a split personality in the course of history. It came down to us from the ancient Greeks, where it represented the «study of nature», or «natural philosophy» – the precursor of modern-day «science». Physiology originates from an older Greek root, physis – meaning «nature» itself – that stretches far back to the birth of Greek thought. How did this word generate two such disparate meanings? What does this word tell us, historically, about humankind’s grasp of the essence of nature and the essence of life – and the interrelationship between the two? The author follows an etymological path into the distant past, in writing the biography of the word «physiology». The book delves into linguistic pre-history, in search of the primordially interwoven views of life and nature – and the words that symbolized those views. It tracks the evolving meaning of those words in Western civilization across time, space, language, and culture.

Translated into English by Agata Bielik-Robson and Patrick Trompiz This book provides an encompassing and thorough study of Martin Heidegger’s thought. It is not only a presentation but also a profound critique of the thinker’s beliefs. In the context of Heidegger’s cooperation with Nazism, the author reflects on the reasons behind his inability to confront the problem of evil and vulnerability to the threats of totalitarianism.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 330 pp.

Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Vol. 7

Bern, 2016. 202 pp. Nature, Science and the Arts. Vol. 13

Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas. Vol. 15

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Philosophy

Theology

Michal Zvarík

Jannel Abogado

History of Philosophy I

History of Philosophy II

From Heraclitus to the Sophists

Plato and Aristotle

Hilary of Poitiers on Conciliating the Homouseans and the Homoeouseans

This coursebook addresses key presocratics from Heraclitus to the sophists, who stand at the origin of philosophy as cornerstone of European spirituality. Readers might find that already at this point we encounter timeless and actual questions concerning the human condition in the world, limits of our knowledge, or the problem of adequate articulation of reality. Later thinkers did not philosophised from scratch, but criticised or were inspired by their predecessors. The coursebook thus provides an introduction to presocratic thought as an important field of our spiritual history.

The coursebook presents Plato and Aristotle as the two most significant and groundbreaking thinkers of European thought from the era of classical Greek philosophy. The author provides prefatory orientation in the labyrinth of their complex thought and sketches their metaphysics, problems of knowledge and ethics. He departs from the fact that both thinkers are similar in striving to overcome problems of their period by localizing the human being into a hierarchical order of beings, which obliges in questions of the possibility of knowledge as well as of the right conduct.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 104 pp.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 110 pp.

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 11

Uni Slovakia. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law for Universities. Vol. 12

Bern, 2016. 318 pp.

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An Inquiry on the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversy The concern of the book is whether Hilary of Poitiers compromised the Nicene faith, a charge suggested even in Hilary’s own day, when he attempted to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans. The author revisits the arguments offered by recent studies on the issue and analyzes the primary sources to assert confidently that Hilary did not compromise the Nicene confession. The book demonstrates that the confession of faith of the homoeousean group with whom Hilary conciliated was not another form of Arianism. Similarly, the author clarifies that the distinction between the numeric unity and specific unity on which modern authors unsympathetic to Hilary base their negative assessment of the Hilarian program of rapprochement was not operative in the fourth century Trinitarian discourse. Hilary merely affirmed the orthodoxy of the homoeousean confession by demonstrating its affinity with the Nicene doctrine through his explication of the significance of the nativitas of the Son from God the Father, a theological concept employed by both ecclesiastical parties to establish their respective beliefs in the divinity of the Son and His substantial relationship with the Father.

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Theology

Bartosz Adamczewski

James Donkor Afoakwah

Sylvester Onyemaechi Ajunwa

The Gospel of Luke

The Nathan-David Confrontation (2 Sam 12:1–15a)

HI-Touch Pastoral Approach in the 21st Century

A slap in the face of the Deuteronomistic hero?

A response to the problem of insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria

A Hypertextual Commentary This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were sequentially illustrated by Luke with the use of numerous literary motifs, taken from other Pauline and post-Pauline letters, the letters of James, Peter, and Jude, the Gospel of Mark, wellknown classical Greek and Hellenistic works, the Septuagint, the Damascus Document, and the works of Flavius Josephus. Consequently, the Lucan Jesus narratively embodies the features of God’s Son who was revealed in the person, teaching, and course of life of Paul the Apostle. The Gospel of Luke should therefore be regarded as a strictly theological-ethopoeic work, rather than a biographic one.

The study discusses the Old Testament’s parable of Nathan and the subsequent condemnation of King David. The intriguing episode of the Prophet Nathan pronouncing judgment on the erring King David has always attracted the interest of the exegete and various researchers have used different methods to separate the condemnation of King David from the ancient author. This study presents a synchronic reading of the canonical text that reveals the episode as the mirror image of the oracle of eternal dynasty pronounced to David by the same prophet in the Second Book of Samuel 7. It is indeed the work of the deuteronomistic writer who has adapted an oracle against the dynasty of David and trimmed it to the advantage of his hero in the unfolding of history.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 256 pp.

«Human Integrated Touch» (HI-Touch) is a pastoral care approach that could be a response to the lingering problems of Christianity marred by an insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria. Arguing for an integrated approach to humans and the human condition, the study presents the HI-Touch as a form of pastoral care that is not only based on religious affiliations, but also on human authentic values vis-a vis an authentic Christian faith in a dynamic society. The growth of atheism in modern societies is not only a conceptual denial of the existence of God but an elimination of God from the affairs of man. The right way to overcome this is through a new order of human relations that calls for love, mutual respect, hospitality, empathy, communion, and dialogue with one another in all human situations.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 300 pp.

European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 13

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. XVI, 308 pp., 2 coloured ill.

African Theological Studies. Vol. 7

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Theology

Wilfred Asampambila Agana

Erik Berggren

Scott A. Celsor

«Succeed Here and in Eternity»

Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity

The Prosperity Gospel in Ghana

An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa

Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Personhood coram Deo

This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number of different angles, surveying its historical and ideological background, analysing its specific context in a Ghanaian environment and, finally, looking at its theological and soteriological relevance, compared with classical Christian teaching and especially Catholic systematic teaching. The theological investigation carried out here reveals both divergences and convergences, demonstrating areas where the Catholic tradition is challenged by the Gospel of Prosperity as well as vice versa. This analysis of the strengths and weaknesses within both traditions constitutes a springboard for a possible dialogue and access to common ground. Such a dialogue should be of great interest not only because of its significance for theological scholarship, but also because of the practical influence it could have on the lives of Christians, both in Ghana and elsewhere in the West African subregion.

This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided along ethnic lines. South Africa was a divided society under apartheid, which also shaped the churches ethnically. The legacy of apartheid continues to cause division between people through inequality, injustice, skewed power relations, and marginalisation. The author presents an analytical tool that has been derived from key documents of the Faith and Order movement and the World Council of Churches concerning the catholicity of the Church. In addition, he tests the catholicity of the Church against an operative ecclesiology of South African congregations and churches twenty years after the dismantling of apartheid.

Gerhard Ebeling’s Rejection of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification By the end of the twentieth century, ecumenism’s deteriorating state had become evident. This deterioration can be attributed to many causes, however, the erstwhile German ecumenist Dr. Gerhard Ebeling’s rancorous, public debate among theologians in Germany in 1998 over the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification remains a contributing factor in its decline. Through an investigation of Ebeling’s systematic theology and his lifelong examination of the theology of Martin Luther, much of which is based upon German texts not translated into English, Scott A. Celsor identifies the hermeneutical and ontological concerns at the heart of Ebeling’s objection to the Joint Declaration. Consequently, this book provides scholars with ardent historical insights into the bitter, public debate in Germany over the Joint Declaration in addition to critical insights into the hermeneutical and ontological objections that some evangelicals still lodge against it. This, along with the accompaniment of an extensive bibliography dedicated to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, make this text an ideal, advanced introduction for graduate seminars on ecumenism, the doctrine of justification, and the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification as well as philosophical theology in general.

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 448 pp., 2 coloured fig., 1 b/w fig. Oxford, 2016. XVI, 364 pp.

European University Studies. Series 23: Theology. Vol. 954

New York, 2016. X, 185 pp.

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Ecumenical Studies. Vol. 1 ISBN 978-1-4331-3142-4 CHF 76.– / €D 67.40 / €A 69.30 / € 63.03 / £ 50.– / US-$ 81.95 ISBN 978-1-4539-1645-2

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Theology

Kwang Sun Choi

Liam Francis Gearon

Shamai Gelander

Ecozoic Spirituality

Religious Authority and the Arts

The Symphony of God, Humanity, and the Universe

Conversations in Political Theology

The Religious Experience in the Book of Psalms

This book guides the reader to the emerging Ecozoic Era when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner. Indeed, this book calls for an Ecozoic spirituality that is timely and much needed. It also illustrates an important direction for theology and spirituality and for deep ecumenism that is yet to be fully realized and opens more doors for such dialogue. By giving special attention to the integral relationship among God, the cosmos, and humanity, the works of Thomas Berry (1914–2009, USA) and Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073, China) provide insights that speak to the current ecological crisis, a cosmological context for developing an Ecozoic spirituality, while helping to advance clear values and ethical parameters that lead to a more authentic human presence on Earth.

New York, 2015. XVI, 190 pp., num. ill.

The transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures from a diversity of religious traditions, this book represents a physical and political-theological journey around England – from metropolitan capital through provincial cities and rural hinterlands, from rural episcopal palaces to industrial estates, from London mansion houses to remote mountain monastery – and provides a snapshot of how religious leaders and authority figures respond to contemporary issues of freedom of expression. Religious Authority and the Arts has a substantial introduction that situates the conversations within a theological, political, and cultural framework.

New York, 2015. X, 286 pp.

This book deals with the world of the psalms, in order to reveal the elements of faith as expressed in the various prayers. It includes an encompassing study of the variety of experiences: How can an individual in distress experience a situation which contrasts his actual reality altogether? What causes an individual to believe that God wants him to live and does not want him to die? What are the individual’s sources of confidence in justice as ruling over the universe, and his confidence that the harmony of the universe leaves no room for evil? Virtually all books of the Old Testament express the world view and opinions of their authors, with a didactic purpose on mind. Not so the Book of Psalms: Here we can find an expression of the pious individual’s world and his beliefs. The psalms are what the authors sought to place in the mouth of the worshippers, thinking that they would aptly express what was on their mind. Anybody who seeks to understand how faith and thoughtfulness join together with the individual’s emotions through a wonderful creative shaping, is invited to read this book.

Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Vol. 5

Bern, 2016. 250 pp.

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An Outline of an Old Testament Dialogue. Vol. 10 ISBN 978-3-0343-2091-7 CHF 78.– / €D 69.60 / €A 71.50 / € 65.– / £ 52.– / US-$ 84.95 ISBN 978-3-0351-0920-7

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Theology

Jogy Cheruvathoor George

Jonathan Grossman

The Metaphor of Shepherd in the Gospel of Mark

Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries

Abram to Abraham

This book takes a close look at the theme of the shepherd in the Gospel of Mark and how it relates to different motifs in the narrative. Jesus’ seeing the condition of the crowd and his teaching and nourishing the crowd in the wilderness, allude to the shepherding activities of Yahweh in the Old Testament. The motif of nourishment continues, when Jesus extends his care towards the Gentile woman and later to a crowd in a Gentile region. Interestingly, the motif of «way» introduced in the prologue merges with the theme of the shepherd in the epilogue of the narrative, when Jesus leads his disciples, the «scattered sheep», to Galilee.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 266 pp.

Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries is a literary close reading of the text as a bridge between the anarchic period of the Judges and the monarchic age that begins with the birth of David, as reflected through Ruth’s absorption process within Bethlehemite society. This bridge is constructed from three main axes: the theological perception that human actions have the power to shape and advance reality; the moral-legal perception that the spirit of the law must be privileged over the letter of the law and social conventions; and the principle that the institute of monarchy must be based upon human compassion. The commentary traces the narrative sequence through the paradigm of this three-fold cord, showing how these threads are woven throughout the book. This innovative reading is illustrated with an unprecedented psychological analysis of Ruth as a narrative of transition, using modern psychological theories. This contemporary yet textually faithful literary commentary offers new insight into the inner workings of the text of Ruth as literary masterpiece. Academic yet accessible, this work provides tools for readers of Ruth and the field of biblical narrative in general.

A Literary Analysis of the Abraham Narrative Abram to Abraham explores the Abraham saga (11:27-22:24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the arduous odyssey to nationhood. Rather than overlook the textual discrepancies, repetitions and contradictions long noted by diachronic scholars, this study tackles them directly, demonstrating how many problems of the ancient text in fact hold the key to deeper understanding of the narrative and its objectives. Therefore, the book frequently notes the classic division of the text according to primary sources, but offers an alternative, more harmonious reading based on the assumption that the narrative forms a single, intentionally designed unit. The narrative’s artistic design is especially evident in its arrangement of the two halves of the story around the protagonists’ change of name. The stories of Abram and Sarai in the first half of the cycle (11:27-16:16) are parallel to the stories of Abraham and Sarah in the second half (18:1-22:24). A close reading of this transformation in the biblical narrative illuminates the moral and theological values championed by the figure of Abraham as luminary, soldier, family man, and loyal subject of God.

European University Studies. Series 23: Theology. Vol. 950

Bern, 2015. 348 pp.

Bern, 2016. 570 pp.

An Outline of an Old Testament Dialogue. Vol. 9

An Outline of an Old Testament Dialogue. Vol. 11

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Theology

Andreas Heuser (ed.)

Vahan S. Hovhanessian (ed.)

Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond

The School of Antioch

Prosperity Gospel, a controversial strand in global Christianity, relates material wealth to divine blessing. Originating in American Pentecostal milieus, it is most successful in Africa. Authors from four continents present interdisciplinary, multi-sited and comparative analyses of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and beyond. Prosperity theologies adapt to varied political contexts and travel outside Pentecostalism into the wider religious arena. Its components trigger discourses within ecumenical Christianity and are transformed in transnational Christian networks of migrants; they turn up in African shrine religion and African Islam. Pastures of Plenty maps the evolving religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 374 pp., 2 fig.

Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria The School of Antioch: Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria contains the latest conclusions and findings of academic research by specialized biblical scholars in biblical theology of the Church in the East commonly referred to as the School of Antioch. This collection of essays will be of special interest to scholars of theology and religion, including those interested in the fields of hermeneutics, Apocrypha, Chrysostom, Orthodox Eastern Christianity, and Eastern Christianity.

Hyacinth E. Ichoku • Martin Joe U. Ibeh (eds.)

Expanding the Frontiers of Pastoral Leadership in a Changing Society Festschrift for Peter Damian Akpunonu on the Occasion of His Priestly Golden Jubilee Providing effective leadership in Church and society is one of the most difficult human endeavors. It influences the dynamics and quality of social and spiritual life. The Church in the developing countries needs more than ever charismatic and prophetic leaders. Peter Damian Akpunonu – ordained a Catholic priest in 1966 at the young age of 23 – is one of the most outstanding seminary formators and influential Biblical scholars in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. His priestly golden jubilee provides occasion to reflect on his sterling qualities as a leader, an administrator and a pastor. This Festschrift also examines a wide spectrum of leadership models from biblical, historical and cultural perspectives. Seminary formation today needs urgent reform. Contemporary social challenges, including the potential retirement welfare crises for priests in Africa, are also crucial issues the Church has to address.

Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity. Vol. 161

New York, 2016. 136 pp. Bible in the Christian Orthodox Tradition. Vol. 6

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 180 pp.

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Theology

Jieun Kim

Xavier Lakshmanan

Carole J. Lambert

Jerusalem in the Achaemenid Period

Textual Linguistic Theology in Paul Ricœur

Against Indifference

The Relationship between Temple and Agriculture in the Book of Haggai This is the first book to explore the importance of agriculture in relation to the restoration of the Jerusalem temple in the Book of Haggai during the Achaemenid period. Scholars discussing the rebuilding of the temple have mainly focused on the political and social context. Additionally, the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah have been used as a basis for analysing the economy of postexilic Judah. This has, however, understated the wider socio-economic significance of the temple by disregarding the agricultural capacity of Judah. The Book of Haggai is primarily concerned with agriculture and the temple. This analysis of Haggai includes an examination of the temple’s reconstruction from a historical and economic point of view, with agriculture playing a central role. Archaeological records are examined and show that prized commodities such as olives and grapes were produced in and around Jerusalem in large quantities and exported all over the ancient Near East. This book is intended to shed new light on the value of agriculture for the people of Judah and the whole imperial economy. It also presents a new interpretation of the Book of Haggai and a new perspective on the temple economy in Jerusalem.

In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul Ricœur’s philosophical thought, demonstrating how Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy can inform the way Christians interpret and appropriate biblical narratives without delimiting the potential of the text or eroding the distinctiveness of its language. The text can be appropriated in ways that address the fundamental questions of life. New meanings are constantly generated from the same text in order to describe and redescribe existence, and form human identity. The self is linked inseparably with narrative; every interpretation of narrative is at the same time a reinterpretation of the self and of its possibilities. In such interpretative processes, the reader interprets the text and the text interprets the reader at the same time through an interactive reading. Accordingly, the aim of interpreting the narratives is to open up the world of the text in front of the text and in front of the reader. Here what the text uncovers is the «textual» structure of existence itself. The reality that unfolds through language discloses the possibilities of existence, and in this way the text creates a future. A revised identity emerges against the horizon of that future to give a coherent and dynamic account of the self against a horizon of hope.

Four Christian Responses to Jewish Suffering during the Holocaust (C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, André and Magda Trocmé) Against Indifference analyzes four responses to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, moving on a spectrum from indifference to courageous action. C. S. Lewis did little to speak up for victimized Jews; Thomas Merton chose to enclose himself in a monastery to pray for and expiate the sins of a world gone awry; Dietrich Bonhoeffer acted to help his twin sister, her Jewish husband, and some other Jews escape from Germany; and the Trocmés established protective housing and an ongoing «underground railroad» that saved several thousand Jewish lives. Why such variation in the responses of those who had committed their lives to Jesus Christ and recognized that His prime commandment is to love God and others? This book provides answers to this question that help shed light on current Christians and their commitment to victims who suffer and need their help.

New York, 2016. 196 pp. Oxford, 2016. XIV, 288 pp.

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 358

New York, 2015. X, 178 pp.

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Theology

Minkyu Lee

Dan Lioy

Roman Mach

The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries

Facets of Pauline Discourse in Christocentric and Christotelic Perspective

The Elusive Macrostructure of the Apocalypse of John

A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its cognitive concept implicitly connect to Israel’s indigenous sense of identity and religious imagination, while integrating the socio-religious context and the identity of Matthean community through the metaphoric action: breaking of bread. While using this metaphor as a narrative strategy, Matthew not only keeps the Jewish indigenous socio-religious heritage but also breaks down multiple boundaries of religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and the false prejudice in order to establish an alternative identity and ideological vision. From this perspective, this book presents how the Matthean bread functions to reveal the identity of Matthew’s community in-between formative Judaism and the Roman Empire. In particular, the book investigates the metaphor of bread as a source of Matthew’s rhetorical claim that represents its ideological vision for an alternative community beyond the socio-religious boundaries. The book also reviews Matthean contexts by postcolonial theories – hybridity and third space – subverting and deconstructing the hegemony of the dominant groups of formative Judaism and the imperial ideology of Rome.

In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul’s discourse. The journey begins with an analysis of the old Adamic creation in Genesis 1–3 before digressing into representative passages from Paul’s writings, touching on such themes as new creation theology, the apostle’s apocalyptic interpretation of reality, and his theology of the cross. Then Lioy examines the influence of the Old Testament on Paul’s Christological outlook, how the apostle viewed Satan operating as the counterfeit word, and the way in which the writings of Paul correlate with the letter from James, leading into a deliberation that Paul, rather than Christ, is to be seen as a new or second Moses. Contrast is then provided regarding the historical authenticity of the Adam character in Paul’s discourse, along with the Genesis creation narratives. Facets of Pauline Discourse in Christocentric and Christotelic Perspective is the ideal volume for college and seminary classes dealing with the teaching and theology of Paul.

The Complex Literary Arrangement of an Open Text Foreword by Stephen I. Wright The author applies Umberto Eco’s literary theory of the open work to the perennial problem of the literary macrostructure of the Apocalypse. Revisiting the complexities of its genre, intertextuality, language and communication, he cumulatively traces all indications of literary openness in Revelation. Then the book discusses the extraordinarily diverse scholarly approaches and analyses from this viewpoint. As a result, John’s multiple and varied structural signals are recognised as demonstrably clustered within specific subsections – complex transitions creating a specifically open literary arrangement. More generally, the wider concept of literary openness is offered as a theoretical framework applicable to the specific complexities of some apocalyptic writings.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 429 pp.

New York, 2015. XII, 230 pp.

New York, 2016. X, 357 pp.

Studies in Biblical Literature. Vol. 161

Studies in Biblical Literature. Vol. 166

Friedensauer Schriftenreihe. Reihe A: Theologie. Bd. 13

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Theology

Chris McKinny

Michael Kodzo Mensah

Johnson Mudavassery

My People as Your People

I turned back my feet to your decrees (Psalm 119, 59)

The Role and Function of Charism in the Theology of Yves Congar

A Textual and Archaeological Analysis of the Reign of Jehoshaphat My People as Your People provides an in-depth analysis of the chronology, history, and archaeology associated with the reign of Jehoshaphat of Judah. The synthesis of these various elements illuminates a diverse geo-political picture of the southern Levant in the mid-ninth century BCE. In recent years, archaeologists and biblical scholars have dealt quite extensively with the tenth and eighth centuries BCE due to both the controversial aspects of recent interpretations associated with the so-called United Kingdom and the established archaeological data relating to Judah’s rise as a significant polity in the eighth century BCE. On the other hand, the ninth century BCE has received considerably less scholarly treatment, despite the fact that many new archaeological strata have been uncovered in recent years that have a direct bearing upon this period. My People as Your People is an attempt to fill this gap in our knowledge. In accomplishing this, it both provides a nuanced understanding of Judah in the midninth century BCE and also demonstrates the significance of this period in the larger setting of the history of the Divided Kingdom.

New York, 2016. XVI, 188 pp., num. ill.

Torah in the Fifth Book of the Psalter Scholars have described Psalm 119 as the «crux criticorum» of the Fifth Book of the Psalter (Pss 107–150). While the length of the psalm and its insistence on the question of YHWH’s Torah are basic indices pointing to its importance in the Book, the question of its message, that is, the logical development of its theme has remained an exegetical problem. The author proposes a solution, namely, that Psalm 119 is structurally arranged to show the Psalmist’s own experience of straying and returning to YHWH’s Torah. The resolution of the problem has implications for understanding the organisation of the Fifth Book and for the place of psalms such as 111 and 147, which also reflect on the theme of Torah in the final Book of the Psalter.

This book reveals the ecclesiological values of charisms in the context of the growing values of personalism in the Church. Yves Congar understands charisms in the light of pneumatological christology. The study discovers that Congar’s concept of charisms mirrors the values of the arrangement of the first three chapters in Lumen Gentium. The role of charism is most intensive when Congar combines it with the concept of the people of God. His ecclesial diagrams bring out the complementary roles of hierarchy and laity. Thanks to charisms, the Church is neither a pyramid nor is she ready-made. She is always on the process of being built-up by God. Congar exalts the priesthood of the faithful and advocates prophecy of the whole Church without departing from the apostolicity of the Church.

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 355

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 370 pp. Österreichische Biblische Studien. Bd. 45

Frankfurt am Main, 2016. XII, 261 pp.

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Theology

Andrzej A. Napiórkowski

Hye Kyung Park

Michael E. Peach

The Divine-Human Communion

Why Not Her?

An Outline of Catholic Integral Ecclesiology

A Form and Literary-Critical Interpretation of the Named and Unnamed Women in the Elijah and Elisha Narratives

Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph

Translated by Jerzy Warakomski This book contains a methodological fundamental-dogmatic study, which frames a comprehensive overview of the Church in the light of reason and faith. The understanding of the Church in the history of Christianity was – and still is – a subject of numerous misunderstandings, either among the believers themselves or those who observe it from the outside. Presenting the post-conciliar approach of the integral ecclesiology, the author puts a stronger emphasis on biblical origins and nature of the Church and on the split between the synagogue and the young community of followers of Jesus Christ. He expands the hallmarks of the Church from the usual four to five (Marianity) and displays a growing communio in practice and in ecclesial self-awareness.

In this book, Hye Kyung Park examines the functions and roles of the women who appear in the Elijah and Elisha narratives. The named and unnamed female characters in the Elijah and Elisha cycles frequently drive the plot of these narratives, giving a voice to important theological, historical, and social concerns that are otherwise overlooked. Consequently, this book elaborates upon the critical meaning of women’s voices through a close interpretation of the roles and functions attributed to women in 1 Kings 17:8–24; 2 Kings 4:8–37, 5, and 8:1–6. These female figures and presences include the Zarephath woman in 1 Kings 17:8–24, twentynine third-person feminine verbs to emphasize the Shunammite woman’s frequent appearances in 2 Kings 4:8–37, the Israelite girl as a prophetess in 2 Kings 5, and the Shunammite woman’s return in 2 Kings 8:1–6. Even though the various women in 1 Kings and 2 Kings have not been named throughout the biblical traditions, their presence and actions were crucial for advancing the prophetic narratives concerning Elijah and Elisha. Indeed, the women are crucial to the Elijah and Elisha narratives, both in terms of advancing the plot of the narratives and defining the roles of the prophets presented within.

An Investigation of the Usage of Jewish and Greco-Roman Imagery in 1 Thess. 4:13–18 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 has long been the quintessential Pauline text on the parousia of Christ. Nowhere else does Paul reveal a more vivid picture of Christ’s coming. The apostle Paul employs a number of images to describe the parousia to the Thessalonian congregation who have become anxious, grief-stricken, and despairing in the midst of the loss of their loved ones. Until recently scholars have held that Paul’s use of imagery in 1 Thess. 4:13–18 was either inspired by Greco-Roman imperial categories or Jewish apocalyptic categories. Michael E. Peach provides a fresh examination of imagery in 1 Thess. 4:13–18 arguing that Paul synthesizes both the Jewish and Greco-Roman imagery. With careful analysis, Peach traces the history of interpretation of Pauline eschatology finding patterns of thought concerning the source of inspiration of Paul’s use of imagery. Utilizing these patterns, the author further examines the meaning and function of four images employed by Paul: «a loud command,» «the sound of an archangel,» «the trumpet of God,» and «the meeting of the Lord.» Ultimately, Peach’s discoveries demonstrate that Paul synthesizes apocalyptic and Greco-Roman triumph imagery to create a dramatic mosaic of the apocalyptic triumph, the parousia of Jesus Christ.

New York, 2016. XII, 198 pp.

New York, 2015. XX, 291 pp. Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 423 pp.

Studies in Biblical Literature. Vol. 164

Apocalypticism: Cross-disciplinary Explorations. Vol. 1

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Theology

James E. Pedlar

Kyle A. Schenkewitz

H. Sidky

Division, Diversity, and Unity

Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism

Religion

A Theology of Ecclesial Charisms The term «charism» is drawn originally from Pauline literature and refers to a gift given by the Spirit for the upbuilding of the body of Christ. Since the mid-twentieth century, Christians from a broad spectrum of theological positions have applied this term, in varying ways, to groups within the Church. However, no book thus far has provided a rigorous and sustained critical investigation of this idea of ecclesial charisms. In Division, Diversity, and Unity, James E. Pedlar provides such an investigation, drawing on biblical and systematic theology as well as literature on church renewal and ecumenism. Against those who justify denominational separation in order to preserve particular gifts of the Spirit, Pedlar insists that the theology of charisms supports visible, organic unity as the ecumenical ideal.

Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in the monastic life.

An Anthropological Perspective Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence. In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements. A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject. Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences. Its scope and critical scientific orientation sets Religion: An Anthropological Perspective apart from all other treatments of the subject.

New York, 2015. X, 279 pp.

New York, 2016. 190 pp.

New York, 2015. XIV, 279 pp., num. ill.

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 351

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 357

American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 348

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Theology

Chizurum Ann Ugbor

Frederick Van Fleteren (trans.)

Peter Nguyen Van Hai

Living the Future in Dialogue

The Life of Augustine of Hippo

Lay People in the Asian Church

Towards a New Integral and Transformative Model of Religious Education for Nigeria in the 21st Century

Part Three: The Pelagian Crisis (411–430)

A Critical Study of the Theology of the Laity in the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences with Special Reference to John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia and the Pastoral Letters of the Vietnamese Episcopal Conference

This book challenges the faith-oriented conversion that encourages an exclusivist and monological approach to religious education in schools. «Living the Future in Dialogue» develops a new pedagogical paradigm for Nigeria: the «Integral and Transformative Model». Using a systematic approach, the book discusses the Christian tradition in light of the existence of other religions and worldviews. Religious education must encourage pupils to develop their own religious identities and respond to plurality to become members of a multicultural and multi-religious society. It is presented as an enrichment of a human being in relation to the self, world and God and the community as the locus where the human person is taught to develop the language of love, trust and hope.

The seventeenth century was the century of Saint Augustine. In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont, finished volume 13 of his Mémoires ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. The volume consisted of approximately 1200 pages wherein Louis Sébastien gathered from the works of Augustine and elsewhere all extant passages relevant to the biography of Augustine of Hippo. Completed in 1695, the biography was published posthumously in 1700. The work lies in the tradition of Jansenism from Port-Royal and the Leuven. Though an ascetic recluse on the family estate for the last twenty years of his life, he was in touch with important French scholars and the ecclesiastical movements of his time. Louis’ work is the first modern biography of Augustine and the most comprehensive of all Augustinian biographies, even today. Modern authors consult him and frequently adopt his theories without citation. His method exercises influence on contemporary Parisian scholar ship on Augustine. This English translation has been divided into three volumes covering three time periods: part 1: birth to episcopal consecration (354–396); part 2: the Donatist controversy (396–411); part 3: the Pelagian controversy (411–430).

This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops of Asia have offered fresh ideas to address three global trends in society: the revolution in communications technologies which blurs the cultures; the conflicts between followers of different religions; and the advance of globalisation which leaves in its aftermath the poverty of the masses.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 529 pp., 5 graphs African Theological Studies. Vol. 8

New York, 2015. XXV, 528 pp., num. ill.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. X, 290 pp., 8 graphs

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Theology

Women’s and Gender Studies

Kayle B. de Waal

Kayle B. de Waal • Robert K. McIver (eds.)

Angelika Bammer

An Aural-Performance Analysis of Revelation 1 and 11

No One Better

Partial Visions

Essays in Honour of Dr. Norman H. Young

Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s

This book breaks fresh ground in the interpretation of the Apocalypse with an interdisciplinary methodology called aural-performance criticism that assesses how the first-century audience would have heard the Apocalypse. Firstcentury media culture is probed by assessing the dynamics of literacy, orality, aurality, and performance in the Gospels, parts of the Pauline corpus, and also Jewish apocalyptic literature. The audience constructs of informed, minimal, and competent assist the interpreter to apply the methodology. Sound maps and an aural-performance commentary of Revelation 1 and 11 are developed that analyze aural markers, sound style, identity markers, repetition, themes, and the appropriation of the message by the audience. The book concludes by examining the sociological, theological, and communal aspects of aurality and performance and its implications for interpreting the Apocalypse.

In honour of the work and legacy of Norman H. Young, this compilation of essays covers a range of topics on the Old Testament, New Testament, mission, sociology of religion, identity, and church history. The Old Testament essays include typological readings of Esther, the goodness of God, and the centrality of the cross in understanding all of Scripture. The New Testament essays reflect research in the Gospel of Matthew, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the book of Revelation, offering new insight into the interpretation of the Apocalypse. Additional essays provide focus on mission, identity, and sociology of religion. This cutting-edge collection breaks fresh ground in research and analysis, bringing the latest scholarship to bear on each chosen topic.

New York, 2015. XVIII, 210 pp.

What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly generative and feminism was at their core. The imaginative literature that emerged out of American, French, and German feminisms of the 1970s engaged the dialectic between the actual and the possible in radically new and creative ways. Ranging from conventional utopian and science fictions to avant-garde and experimental texts, they countered the idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with the idea of the utopian as a process of «dreaming forwards.» This book explores the transformative potential of feminist visions of change, even as it sees their ideological blind spots. It does more than simply look back to the 1970s. Instead, it looks ahead, anticipating some of the shifts and changes of feminist thought in the following decades: its transnational scope, its critique of identity politics and the gendered politics of sexuality, and its embrace of affect as an analytical category. The author argues that the radical utopianism of second wave feminisms has not lost its urgency. The transformations they envisioned are still our challenge, as the vital work of social change remains undone.

Oxford, 2015. LI, 365 pp., 8 b/w ill.

Studies in Biblical Literature. Vol. 163

New York, 2016. VI, 170 pp.

Ralahine Utopian Studies. Vol. 16

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Women’s and Gender Studies

Cherry Maynor Beasley • Mary Ann Jacobs • Ulrike Wiethaus (eds.)

American Indian Women of Proud Nations Essays on History, Language, and Education This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in indigenous oral culture, and traditional educational systems in the context of the ongoing colonization of American Indian educational practices and values. This volume highlights Southeastern Indian issues and demonstrates the unique situation of women in tribes lacking (full) federal recognition or a more inclusive and multidisciplinary discussion of Native women in more than one tribal nation. Southeastern themes are linked with topics of concern by other tribal nations to show commonalities and raised awareness about the central experiences and contributions of Native women in the encounter and ongoing struggle with Euro-American systems of oppression and cultural erasure. This book spans the full gamut from naming women’s experiences of historical trauma to their ongoing efforts at preserving and rebuilding their Native nations. The collection of essays is distinctive in its Indigenous hermeneutics in that it insists on a holistic view of time and place-based knowledge – the past still fully affects the present and gives the present depth and meaning beyond the linear flow of time.

Brenda Downing

Anja Hänsch

Feeling the Fleshed Body

Symbolic Patterns of Childbirth

The Aftermath of Childhood Rape In 1971, on two separate occasions, Brenda Downing was raped. She was in her final year of primary school. In the immediate aftermath, the shame she harboured, coupled with a failed disclosure the same year, meant she did not risk talking of her experience again until almost thirty years later and did not begin to address the trauma, held frozen in her body, for a further ten years. In this book, she not only explores her long-term somatic response to the trauma of rape, but also examines the bodily responses of nine other women raped in childhood. Using a combination of somatic inquiry, writing and performance-making, her pioneering reflexive and embodied methodology reveals the raped body as agentic and subversive, with the capacity to express trauma through symptoms not always readily recognized or understood. Her findings have significant implications for the care and treatment of rape victims, for further research into the multiple impacts of sexual trauma, and for materialist knowledge-making practices.

This study investigates long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth. Four symbolic patterns of childbirth emerge from the analysis of a variety of texts ranging from myths, philosophy, literature and religion to ethics of modern medicine. On a symbolic level «The Supremacy of the Male» attributes the coming into existence of a child primarily to male «pro-creation.» «The Supremacy of the Female», contrarily, relates childbirth to conception, pregnancy and giving birth on part of the woman. «Theoretical, Spiritual and Political Natality versus Childbirth» pictures childbirth as lower in value as the realms of ideas, religion, the political or the arts. In contrast to this, «Harmony between Spiritual/ Theoretical Natality and Childbirth» shows that spiritual birth and childbirth can also be intertwined. It is argued that different symbolic patterns of childbirth may imply different gender relations and different views on «life» in general. The theoretical part of the book is based on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of natality and on Martin Heidegger whose ideas on death are used for a philosophical conception of the woman giving birth.

New York, 2016. 184 pp., num. b/w ill., 4 coloured ill. Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies. Vol. 2

Oxford, 2016. VIII, 326 pp., 30 b/w ill.

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Women’s and Gender Studies

Heather L. Hundley • Sara E. Hayden (eds.)

Frank Jacob (Hrsg./ed.)

María Amelia Viteri • Manuela Lavinas Picq (eds)

Prostitution

Mediated Moms Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mothers» in the media, arguing that these images are a necessary counterpoint that serves to buttress the «good mother» myth. While mediated images of women who fail to enact good motherhood may promote good mothering as an ideal, the essays in Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth, suggest that this is not all that is occurring in contemporary portrayals of maternity. The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.

Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit A Companion of Mankind Prostitution ist scheinbar genauso alt wie die Menschheit selbst und gilt nicht von ungefähr als das «älteste Gewerbe» überhaupt. Dieser Band versteht sich als interdisziplinäre, chronologisch sowie global umfassende Analyse des Phänomens und bietet dem Fachpublikum und dem interessierten Leser gleichermaßen eine breite Darstellung der Prostitution aus historischer, soziologischer, genderorientierter sowie kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Untersucht werden dabei die Rolle von Prostituierten in der Gesellschaft, die Rezeption des Gewerbes per se sowie die Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen sich ein solches etablieren kann. Prostitution seems to be as old as humanity itself and is consequently not described as the «oldest profession» without cause. This anthology is an interdisciplinary, chronological and regional extensive approach to analyze the phenomenon. It provides a broad historical, sociological, cultural, and gender perspective on prostitution for the academic as well as the interested reader alike. It examines the role of prostitutes in society, the reception of the profession per se and the conditions due to which it is established.

With Marcelo Aguirre and Ana María Garzón

Queering Paradigms V Queering Narratives of Modernity The authors of this edited volume use a queer perspective to address colonialism as localized in the Global South, to analyse how the queer can be decolonized and to map the implications of such conversations on hegemonic and alternative understandings of modernity. This book is distinct in at least four ways. First, its content is a rare blend of original scholarly pieces with internationally acclaimed art. Second, it is a volume that blends theoretical debates with policy praxis, filling a gap that often tends to undermine the reach of either side at play. Third, its topic is unique, as sexual politics are put in direct dialogue with post-colonial debates. Fourth, the book brings to the forefront voices from the Global South/ non-core to redefine a field that has been largely framed and conceptualized in the Global North/core.

Oxford, 2016. XIV, 336 pp., 13 coloured ill., 6 b/w ill. New York, 2016. VIII, 288 pp.

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Edit Zsadányi

Gendered Narrative Subjectivity Some Hungarian and American Women Writers This book wants to make Hungarian women writers accessible to an English-speaking public and presents interpretations of Hungarian and American literary texts by writers such as Margit Kaffka, Anna Lesznai, Jolán Földes, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Agáta Gordon, Virág Erdős, Zsuzsa Forgács, Alaine Polcz, Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker and Jhumpa Lahiri. In literary narratives it is possible to represent female political interests in a decentered narrative subjectivity. The book illustrates that literary narratives readily accept the contradictory nature of identity issues and create an exciting and complex network of articulating female voices.

Frankfurt am Main, 2015. 149 pp., 3 coloured fig. pb.

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Index

A Åberg, Kai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Fernandes, Luiz Estevam de Oliveira . . . . . 19

Abicht, Ludo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fernández Moreno, Luis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Kuhn, Bärbel P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ablondi, Fred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Ferreira, Ana Paula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Kula, Marcin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Abogado, Jannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Fijak, Marcin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adamczewski, Bartosz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Fischer, Bernd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Afoakwah, James Donkor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

FitzSimons, Terence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lambert, Carole J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Agana, Wilfred Asampambila . . . . . . . . . . 52

Floros, Constantin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Laughland, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Aguirre, Marcelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Forecki, Piotr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Lavinas Picq, Manuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Ajunwa, Sylvester Onyemaechi . . . . . . . . . 51

Frederico, Rui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lebech, Mette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Alexandroff, Ivaylo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Freitas, Marinela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lebedeva, Daria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Amaral, Ana Luísa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Fuentes, Maximiliano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Lee, Minkyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Krzywiec, Grzegorz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lakshmanan, Xavier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Leroux, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Ao, Yumin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

G Garzón, Ana María . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Leskien, Claudia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Gáliková, Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Lewis, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

B Babich, Babette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Gallimore, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lioy, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Bade, James N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Garliński, Jarosław . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Liu, Xiaohui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Bammer, Angelika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Gearon, Liam Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Liu, Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Beasley, Cherry Maynor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Gelander, Shamai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Llorca Tonda, María Ángeles . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Bempéchat, Paul-André . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

George, Jogy Cheruvathoor . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lombardi, Giancarlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Grossman, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lubling, Yoram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Berggren, Erik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Götz, Ignacio L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Augustyniak, Urszula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Bethencourt, Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Groth, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

M Mach, Roman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Bielik-Robson, Agata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Gurmin, John Haydn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Malcolm, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Bindeman, Steven L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Guse, Klaus-Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Marinopoulou, Anastasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Mason, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Blanco, Eduardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Blayer, Irene Maria F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

H Haagensen, Trine Krigsvoll . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Mata, Sérgio da . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Boekraad, Mardoeke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Haddad, Rosalie Rahal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

McCarron, Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Bonfreschi, Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Handley, Agata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

McCarthy, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Books, Julie N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Hänsch, Anja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

McIver, Robert K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Borcoman, Mariana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Hanzel, Igor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

McKinny, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Borkowski, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Hartman, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Mensah, Michael Kodzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Boyce-Tillman, June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Hayden, Sara E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Mergenthaler, May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Brode, Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Heelan, Patrick Aidan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Michałowicz, Klaudyna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Bucarelli, Massimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Heuser, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Michalski, Rafał . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Buckham, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Hochscheid, Helle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Micheletta, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Holzenthal, Nicole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Mill, Alister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Call, Michael J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Hovhanessian, Vahan S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Molander, Bengt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Camfield, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Hryniewicz, Iwo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Montero, Francesc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Canettieri, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hundley, Heather L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Monzali, Luciano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Caramellino, Gaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Celsor, Scott A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Mudavassery, Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Ibeh, Martin Joe U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chamera-Nowak, Agnieszka . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Ichoku, Hyacinth E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

N Napiórkowski, Andrzej A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Choi, Kwang Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Ijäs, Miia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Niclas-Tölle, Boris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Čížek, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Itzkoff, Seymour W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 , 40

Nolte, Hans-Heinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Novak, John K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Corbí Sáez, María Isabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cordes, Albrecht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Jacob, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Cunha, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Jacobs, Mary Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

O Opdebeeck, Hendrik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Czerniak, Stanisław . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

James, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Orsina, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Jedlicki, Jerzy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Otto, Sean A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

D Dapprich, Jan Philipp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Johnson, Brian C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ożóg, Monika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Démuth, Andrej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Jupp, Peter C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Deretić, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Justice, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

P Park, Hye Kyung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Paxy, Alumkal Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Dobrzeniecki, Marek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Doolin, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

K Kao, Wei H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Peach, Michael E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Dorfman, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Karłowicz, Dariusz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Pedlar, James E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Downing, Brenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Kashani, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Pellatt, Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Drozdowicz, Zbigniew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Kearns, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Pickhan, Gertrud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Dümling, Albrecht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Kim, Jieun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Pieńkos, Andrzej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Dungy, Kathryn R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Kim, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Pla, Xavier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Dzikowska, Elżbieta Katarzyna . . . . . . . . . 18

Kišoňová, Renáta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Pongiyannan, Dhamu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Kocur, Mirosław . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Power, Thomas P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Edlund, Bengt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Koschalka, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Pratschke, B. Mairéad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Embree, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Korecki, Tristan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Proto, Teresa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Evans, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Kozubek, Lidia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Prud'homme, Joseph G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Kramarz, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Feldman-Barrett, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Krawczyk-Żywko, Lucyna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fenske, Uta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Kriegseisen, Wojciech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Q Quinn, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Index Humanities

R Ratulea, Gabriela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Woldańska, Justyna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Rauter Pereira, Luísa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Wolff-Powęska, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Riccardi, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Ritter, Rüdiger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Y Yamamura, Tatsuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Roduit, Johann A. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Roethler, Jeremy Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Zagórski-Ostoja, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Rozbicka, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Zahorjanova, Blanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Rugg, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Zanfi, Federico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Zawilski, Piotr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Sabaté, Flocel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Zsadányi, Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Schenkewitz, Kyle A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Zvarík, Michal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Schmid, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Schuster, Annika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Scott, Dulce Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Shannon, Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sidky, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Silva, Marta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Sirois, André . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Skare, Roswitha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Skowrońska, Marta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Slaattelid, Rasmus T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Slavkovský, Adrián . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 , 44 Smithers, Don L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Smith, Samantha L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sobstel, Dorota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Soszyński, Jacek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Sowina, Urszula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Stahlberg, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Stalmaszczyk, Piotr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Stekel, Hanns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Stellino, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Suchoples, Jarosław . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 , 29 Szarota, Tomasz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Szczerski, Andrzej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Szerletics, Antal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Szołtysek, Mikołaj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Tannberg, Tõnu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Timms, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tkáčik, Ladislav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 , 47 Toenjes, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Trajtelová, Jana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 , 48 Trompiz, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

U Ugbor, Chizurum Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Uva, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

V Vaage, Nora S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Valenti, Gianluca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Van Camp, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Van Fleteren, Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Van Hai, Peter Nguyen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Varsori, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Viteri, María Amelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

W Waal, Kayle B. de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Waluga, Grażyna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Warakomski, Jerzy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Wawrzyniak, Joanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Weekes, Diana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weigel, Peter J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Welch, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Wiethaus, Ulrike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Wodziński, Cezary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Wójcik, Bartosz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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