Publications
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History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society
(2021)
Make believe we are in 2028, attending the 26th World Congress of Philosophy, then the question is: how will philosophers delve into historic texts? Not on paper, but on devices. And each philosophical proposition uttered ...
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
(2022)
Kanashi is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the West Himalayish subbranch of this language family. It is spoken by fewer than 2,000 individuals in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, ...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
(2022)
Should we take the author’s intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no signs of abating. The notion of authorial intent, however, has ...
Der Engel in der Moderne
(2022)
Active Materials
(2021)
What is an active material? This book aims to redefine perceptions of the materials that respond to their environment. Through the theory of the structure and functionality of materials found in nature a scientific approach ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
Paul on the Human Vocation
(2021)
This book offers a new explanation for Paul’s puzzling use of λογικὴ λατρεία (Rom 12.1). Based on a detailed investigation of ancient philosophical parallels, it argues that Paul here alludes to discourse on the role of ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
Rhapsodic Objects
(2021)
Circulation and imitation of cultural products are key factors in shaping the material world.The contributions explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impacted the production and consumption ...
Marriage Discourses
(2021)
Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the ...
Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon
(2021)
This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from ...
Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture
(2021)
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Ausstellungskommunikation
(2021)
Narrative der Migration
(2021)
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies
(2021)
In the second volume a wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. ...
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials
(2021)
Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of suspensions of micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields, ...
Die Macht des Definierens
(2021)
Theatre and Metatheatre
(2021)
In this book, experts discuss the use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ to describe ancient Greek dramatic activities. By examining how these two concepts are used in very different ways by scholars of various horizons, this ...
Differential Object Marking in Romance
(2021)
After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
(2021)
The fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, ...
The Politics of Service
(2021)
Stocks for All
(2021)
Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad ...
Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
(2021)
This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays that try to demarcate scientific Latin ...
Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart
(2021)
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
(2021)
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions ...
Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems
(2022)
The essential principles of green chemistry are the use of renewable raw materials, highly efficient catalysts and green solvents linked with energy efficiency and process optimization in real-time. Experts from different ...
Wood. Rethinking Material
(2021)
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
gewohnt: un/common
(2021)
Fragile Familien
(2022)
Youth and Memory in Europe
(2022)
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. ...
Digital History and Hermeneutics
(2022)
For doing history in the digital age, we need to investigate the “digital kitchen” as the place where the “raw” is transformed into the “cooked”. The novel field of digital hermeneutics provides a critical and reflexive ...
Rethinking Orality II
(2022)
This is the second of two volumes on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, which had deep roots in orality. Combining the tools of cognitive science with the historical and literary ...
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany
(2022)
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All ...
Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different ...
Kant and Artificial Intelligence
(2022)
How are artificial intelligence (AI) and the strong claims made by their philosophical representatives to be understood and evaluated from a Kantian perspective? Conversely, what can we learn from AI and its functions about ...
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
(2022)
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its relevance today. The volume ...
Time and Soul
(2022)
In Book IV of his Physics, Aristotle asked whether time could exist without a soul that counts it. As a result, philosophers throughout antiquity tackled the problem of subjective time and its relation to the physical time ...
Possession and Dispossession
(2022)
When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between ...
New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory
(2022)
The aim of this book is to present recent results in both theoretical and applied knot theory—which are at the same time stimulating for leading researchers in the field as well as accessible to non-experts. The book comprises ...
Die fragmentierte Stadt
(2021)
Grundrechte
(2022)
The World's First Full Press Freedom
(2022)
The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment ...
Coping with Urban Climates
(2022)
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to ...
A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
(2022)
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, it ...
Rethinking Orality I
(2022)
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. It focuses on the 'cultural message' of the texts, considered under two perspectives: the methodologies of cognitivism, and ...
A Basic Theory of Everything
(2022)
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions ...
Genus – Sexus – Gender
(2022)
Japan der Regionen
(2019)
Acetylsalicylic Acid
(2022)
This book is the first and to date only compendium on the history, pharmacology, toxicology, and clinic of acetylsalicylic acid – not only the best known, but probably the most successful drug in medical history. Written ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom through "Investigative Aesthetics" (MACBA 2017). ...
Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2018)
Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates ...
Digital History
(2022)
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Klassische Archäologie
(2015)
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
(2022)
Medieval manuscripts combining multiple languages, whether in fusion or in collision, provide tangible evidence for linguistic and cultural interactions. Such encounters are documented in this volume through case studies ...
Gefährliche Forschung?
(2022)
Geburt Leben Sterben Tod
(2022)
Staatsorganisationsrecht
(2022)
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
(2022)
Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of ...
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
(2022)
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, ...
Precarity in European Film
(2022)
This volume explores how contemporary European cinema engages with the increasing precarization of life and work on the continent. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic ...