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Tango Dance and Music
(2025)
This book investigates choreomusical aspects of tango argentino in translocal practice, in particular its current manifestation in Europe. It looks at translocal tango argentino in its many facets: movement structures, ...
New Perspectives on Imagology
(2022)
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary ...
A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
(2023)
‘Anticlassicisms’ react to the various forms of ‘classicisms.’ This volume discusses the history and possible implications of the label in Renaissance studies and analyzes such ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various ...
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
(2023)
This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil ...
Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography
(2020)
The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, ...
Professionelles Schreiben in mehreren Sprachen: Strategien, Routinen und Sprachen im Schreibprozess
(2019)
How do professional writers adapt their strategies, routines and use of language resources to different writing situations? 17 case studies explore patterns and interrelations in writing processes of multilingual writers: ...
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons
(2024)
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for ...
Hermann Czech
(2023)
The present book documents, analyzes and interprets the background and career as well as the works of Hermann Czech, probably the most important living architect and architectural theorist in Austria. An introductory section ...
Arthur Schnitzler : Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin
(2023)
The 14th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler's novella “Der Witwer” and the one-act play “Die Gefährtin,” which ...
Imagining Air
(2023)
This book tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and ...
Collecting Asian Art
(2024)
Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.
Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in ...
A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
(2024)
The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical model that revises their ...
Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies
(2024)
The volume offers insights into new theoretical approaches that should make it possible to analyse cultural change through migration. It focuses on concrete activities in local contexts and their significance for national ...
Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900
(2024)
This study examines the ‘travel’ of political concepts between women's movements in the West around 1900 and argues that for the historical analysis of social movements, regardless of whether they were transnationally ...
Faktum, Faktizität, Wirklichkeit
(2023)
The research volume contains contributions from phenomenological research that deal with questions of fact, facticity, reality and the real. What concept of the real or reality, for example, is phenomenology able to develop, ...
Das Wagnis des Scheiterns
(2023)
In sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives, an interdisciplinary discourse is designed that names both the depths and potentials of the experiential field of failure. In a didactic transformation of ...
Arthur Schnitzler »Das Zeitlose ist von kürzester Dauer.« , Band 2 : Interviews, Meinungen und Proteste (1891–1931)
(2023)
The first volume contains almost 90 documented interviews with Arthur Schnitzler. The second volume includes his public expressions of opinion and letters to the editor. Together, they create a 'public biography' of ...
Worauf ich mich verlassen kann
(2023)
Along with cognitive factors, emotions and existential concerns such as the search for reassurance and autonomy shape adolescents' attitudes toward creation and evolution.
Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
(2023)
Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a crossborder space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. However, their power ...
Die Schenkung unter Auflage im römischen Recht
(2023)
The book presents a coherent theory of the law of donatio sub modo in its diachronic sequence and brings new results for the understanding of unjustified-enrichment-thinking, especially in the form of the condictio ob rem ...
Entwicklungslinien und Entwicklungsperspektiven im Mobiliarsicherungsrecht
(2023)
This book analyses main lines of legal development in the area of proprietary security rights in movable assets (comprising pledges/charges, transfer of ownership for security purposes, assignment of claims for security ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This book focuses on the philosophy of the sixteenth-century Mādhva Vedānta philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. Vyāsatīrtha’s Nyāyāmr̥ta influenced philosophers throughout India and propelled his tradition to the center of the ...
The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa
(2020)
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice. The politics of housing ...
Geschichte der Krim
(2020)
Die Chronologie der Kuretenstraße: Archäologische Evidenzen zur Baugeschichte des unteren Embolos von Ephesos von der lysimachischen Neugründung bis in die byzantinische Zeit.
(2020-07)
The contextual analysis of find contexts from the excavations that were conducted in the area of the lower Embolos (Curetes Street) resulted in a new understanding of about one thousand years of use (3rd century BCE – 7th ...
The Ontological Nature of Part-Whole Oscillations: An Interdisciplinary Determination
(2020-07)
The nature of structures comprising part-whole relations belongs to the oldest, most fundamental and still discussed questions of philosophical ontology. Unlike many former approaches, which either give priority to the ...
Ikonen der Nation: Heldendarstellungen im post-sozialistischen Kroatien und Serbien
(2017-10)
The book icons of nations is dealing with the transformation processes in ex-Yugoslavia in the early 90s that is focussing on the national myths and their heroes and heroins in the region and their representation in visual ...
Performing Hysteria
(2020)
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender ...
Rudolf Carnap, Tagebücher. Band 2. 1920-1935: Herausgegeben von Christian Damböck, unter Mitarbeit von Brigitta Arden, Roman Jordan, Brigitte Parakenings und Lois M. Rendl
(2022-03)
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was among the most important representatives of interwar European philosophy as well as of postwar American analytic philosophy. His early diaries, with whom the edition of his writings from the ...
Spectatoriale Geschlechterkonstruktionen: Geschlechtsspezifische Wissens- und Welterzeugung in den französisch- und spanischsprachigen Moralischen Wochenschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts
(2022)
The study sheds light on the development of modern gender discourses and constructions through the literary-journalistic genre of the Spectators. It offers insight into the stereotypical gender discourses of the emerging ...
Üble Dinge: Materialität und Fetischismus in der Prosa Paulus Hochgatterers
(2022-01)
Bernhard Oberreither analyzes in the context of historical and contemporary fetish discourses how supposedly innocent things often turn out to be the key to the enigmatic structure of Paulus Hochgatterer's texts, and how ...
The Reception of Thucydides in the Theory and Practice of Hellenistic Historiography
(2021)
The book explores the significance of that work for the generations of historians and other authors in the Hellenistic age (323-31 BC). It is the first monograph that fully treats the question of the fate of the History ...
Rudolf Carnap, Tagebücher. Band 1. 1908-1919: Herausgegeben von Christian Damböck, unter Mitarbeit von Brigitta Arden, Roman Jordan, Brigitte Parakenings und Lois M. Rendl
(2022)
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was among the most important representatives of interwar European philosophy as well as of postwar American analytic philosophy. His early diaries, with whom the edition of his writings from the ...
Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, c. 400 – 1000 CE
(2021)
This book deals with the ways in which empires affect smaller communities – for instance, ethnic groups, religious communities, local or peripheral populations. It addresses Byzantinium, the early Islamic World and the ...
Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
(2022-03)
Living in Refuge is a unique dense socio-historical portrait of two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon for which there is almost no recorded literature and that have changed greatly, especially after 2011 and the influx ...
Psalterium Demetrii Sinaitici et Folia Medicinalia (Monasterii sanctae Catharinae codex slavicus NF 3): NF3_PsDem_rgb
(2021)
After the 2012 facsimile edition this volume contains critical editions of Demetrius’ Psalter and the Medical Folia preserved in it in Cyrillic transliteration. Besides treatises on textual criticism and the lexical ...
Österreichs Skisport im Nationalsozialismus: Anpassung – Verfolgung – Kollaboration
(2021-12)
The history of Nazi indoctrination in Austria’s skiing does not begin in March 1938. Even before that, a turn to National Socialism can be traced. Andreas Praher investigates power structures and scope for action in skiing ...