Brill feb 2013 (62 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Marx ist wohl niemals aus der Mode gekommen, heute ist er wieder allgegenwärtig. Politiker, Philosophen, Wissenschaftler, Revolutionäre - alle beziehen sie sich auf den großen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das erstaunliche dabei: Marx scheint trotz der historischen Distanz aktueller denn je. In Zeiten von Wirtschaftskrise, Globalisierung und ausgeprägtem Kapitalismus lohnt es sich, seine Theorien einer immer neuen Lektüre zu unterziehen.Wer nun nicht gleich Das Kapital wälzen mag, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Die liebevoll angefertigten Illustrationen unterstützen das Textverständnis. Was ist und wie funktioniert der historische Materialismus Wie vereinigen sich eigentlich Proletarier Religion als Opium - wie war das gleich Neben grundlegenden Erläuterungen lernen wir, in welchem Verhältnis Marx zur Philosophie Hegels steht, wie er die nationalökonomischen Theorien von Adam Smith beurteilt und worin eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen Marxismus, Sozialismus, Kommunismus, Leninismus, Stalinismus, Maoismus etc. besteht. 83 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Martin Heidegger ist einer der wichtigsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Interesse an seinem Denken und seiner Person ist nach wie vor ungebrochen. Derrida, Foucault, Adorno, Blumenberg, Deleuze - all diese selbst berühmt gewordenen Denker haben sich intensiv und kritisch mit dem Werk Heideggers auseinandergesetzt.Heideggers Werk gehört allein durch seine sprachliche Verfasstheit zu den komplexesten. Wer nicht gleich Sein und Zeit durcharbeiten möchte, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Wie unterscheiden sich Sein und Dasein Welche Rolle spielt der Tod bei Heidegger Welche Rolle spielt die Technik, die Heidegger mit dem Wort »Gestell« als grundlegende Auffassung zur Welt verstand Warum kollaborierte er mit den Nationalsozialisten Neben diesen grundlegenden Erläuterungen stoßen wir auf viel Anekdotisches und Unterhaltsames. 82 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Martin Heidegger ist einer der wichtigsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Interesse an seinem Denken und seiner Person ist nach wie vor ungebrochen. Derrida, Foucault, Adorno, Blumenberg, Deleuze - all diese selbst berühmt gewordenen Denker haben sich intensiv und kritisch mit dem Werk Heideggers auseinandergesetzt.Heideggers Werk gehört allein durch seine sprachliche Verfasstheit zu den komplexesten. Wer nicht gleich Sein und Zeit durcharbeiten möchte, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Wie unterscheiden sich Sein und Dasein Welche Rolle spielt der Tod bei Heidegger Welche Rolle spielt die Technik, die Heidegger mit dem Wort 'Gestell' als grundlegende Auffassung zur Welt verstand Warum kollaborierte er mit den Nationalsozialisten Neben diesen grundlegenden Erläuterungen stoßen wir auf viel Anekdotisches und Unterhaltsames.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Marx ist wohl niemals aus der Mode gekommen, heute ist er wieder allgegenwärtig. Politiker, Philosophen, Wissenschaftler, Revolutionäre - alle beziehen sie sich auf den großen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das erstaunliche dabei: Marx scheint trotz der historischen Distanz aktueller denn je. In Zeiten von Wirtschaftskrise, Globalisierung und ausgeprägtem Kapitalismus lohnt es sich, seine Theorien einer immer neuen Lektüre zu unterziehen. Wer nun nicht gleich Das Kapital wälzen mag, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Die liebevoll angefertigten Illustrationen unterstützen das Textverständnis. Was ist und wie funktioniert der historische Materialismus Wie vereinigen sich eigentlich Proletarier Religion als Opium - wie war das gleich Neben grundlegenden Erläuterungen lernen wir, in welchem Verhältnis Marx zur Philosophie Hegels steht, wie er die nationalökonomischen Theorien von Adam Smith beurteilt und worin eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen Marxismus, Sozialismus, Kommunismus, Leninismus, Stalinismus, Maoismus etc. besteht. .…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Marx ist wohl niemals aus der Mode gekommen, heute ist er wieder allgegenwärtig. Politiker, Philosophen, Wissenschaftler, Revolutionäre - alle beziehen sie sich auf den großen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das erstaunliche dabei: Marx scheint trotz der historischen Distanz aktueller denn je. In Zeiten von Wirtschaftskrise, Globalisierung und ausgeprägtem Kapitalismus lohnt es sich, seine Theorien einer immer neuen Lektüre zu unterziehen.Wer nun nicht gleich Das Kapital wälzen mag, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Die liebevoll angefertigten Illustrationen unterstützen das Textverständnis. Was ist und wie funktioniert der historische Materialismus Wie vereinigen sich eigentlich Proletarier Religion als Opium - wie war das gleich Neben grundlegenden Erläuterungen lernen wir, in welchem Verhältnis Marx zur Philosophie Hegels steht, wie er die nationalökonomischen Theorien von Adam Smith beurteilt und worin eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen Marxismus, Sozialismus, Kommunismus, Leninismus, Stalinismus, Maoismus etc. besteht.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Martin Heidegger ist einer der wichtigsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Interesse an seinem Denken und seiner Person ist nach wie vor ungebrochen. Derrida, Foucault, Adorno, Blumenberg, Deleuze - all diese selbst berühmt gewordenen Denker haben sich intensiv und kritisch mit dem Werk Heideggers auseinandergesetzt.Heideggers Werk gehört allein durch seine sprachliche Verfasstheit zu den komplexesten. Wer nicht gleich Sein und Zeit durcharbeiten möchte, erhält hier, unterhaltsam und klar verständlich geschrieben, Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen. Wie unterscheiden sich Sein und Dasein Welche Rolle spielt der Tod bei Heidegger Welche Rolle spielt die Technik, die Heidegger mit dem Wort »Gestell« als grundlegende Auffassung zur Welt verstand Warum kollaborierte er mit den Nationalsozialisten Neben diesen grundlegenden Erläuterungen stoßen wir auf viel Anekdotisches und Unterhaltsames.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Sawaba movement and its rebellion in Niger are a totally neglected subject. Klaas van Walraven traces this story from a social history perspective, placing an entire generation of activists, removed from the official record, back into mainstream Nigérien history. Representing a genuine social movement, Sawaba formed Niger's first autonomous government under French suzerainty. Overthrown by the Gaullists and persecuted, it attempted a comeback with a guerrilla campaign (1960-1966), which ended in failure and led to the movement's destruction. The Yearning for Relief - based on numerous interviews with survivors and a vast range of archival sources, including France's secret service - is essential reading for the reappraisal of Niger's history and the role of militant nationalist movements in the decolonisation of French West Africa.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Myanmar-Burma has one of the largest concentrations of Buddhist nuns and monks in the world today. In Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma, Kawanami traces the nun's scholarly lineage in modern Myanmar history and examines their contemporary religious position in Myanmar's social and political contexts. Although their religious status may appear ambiguous from a textual viewpoint, it is argued that their large presence is a clear indication as to the important functions Buddhist nuns perform in the monastic community. Sagaing Hill where the main research was conducted, occupies an important educational centre for Myanmar nuns in consolidating their scholarly lineage and spreading the network of dhamma teachers. The book examines transactions that take place in their everyday lives and reveals the essence of their religious lives that make Buddhist nuns an essential bridge between sangha and society.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel from its roots in travel narratives and autobiography into its more mature period of stylistic and thematic diversity in the early 1970s. This study first undertakes an exploration of the political, social and artistic conditions under which the genre developed, then moves to close readings of each of the formative texts, grouped by theme. The analysis of these texts centers around their spatial practices: there is a tension between the labyrinthine space of the street, which deflects legibility, and the sacred interior within the blank walls, wherein a certain equality of gaze and power can be perceived.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Gold and Jade Filled Halls: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Financial and Economic Expressions in Chinese and German Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh offers an account of how we use financial linguistic expressions every day. They include various linguistic vehicles and cultural models that are related to the real world, such as gold, the stock market, animals, and plants. The cross-linguistic research benefits the understanding of the cultural value and model of cognition embedded in languages. It also provides useful strategies for learning language and possible social factors that influence human behaviors.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Scholarship on religious printed images during the English Reformation (1535-1603) has generally focused on a few illustrated works and has portrayed this period in England as a predominantly non-visual religious culture. The combination of iconoclasm and Calvinist doctrine have led to a misunderstanding as to the unique ways that English Protestants used religious printed images. Building on recent work in the history of the book and print studies, this book analyzes the widespread body of religious illustration, such as images of God the Father and Christ, in Reformation England, assessing what religious beliefs they communicated and how their use evolved during the period. The result is a unique analysis of how the Reformation in England both destroyed certain aspects of traditional imagery as well as embraced and reformulated others into expressions of its own character and identity.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Arbitration is a staple of international dispute resolution. Though the international community now has a plethora of courts and tribunals at its disposal, for numerous reasons international arbitration remains a central mechanism-perhaps even the central mechanism in third-party resolution of international commercial disputes. International Arbitration: Contemporary Issues and Innovations brings together some of the world's most distinguished experts to examine important contemporary issues and trends in international arbitration. The volume offers a broad range of analysis beginning with current key procedural issues. Both Private and Public International Law are examined, including such topics as investor-state relations, arbitration in the law of the sea and human rights and investment arbitration.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Printed Pandemonium is a fresh take on one of the most violent political upheavals in early modern history: the popular riots, the political murders and the brutal purifications of local governments in the Dutch Republic during the so-called 'Year of Disaster' 1672. Printed Pandemonium gives an insight into the relationship between political event and political communication in the early modern world. The popular revolts of 1672 were the work of 'normal' citizens who rioted and killed, but also politically participated by reading, writing and debating hundreds of different pamphlets and petitions that were put on the market during that momentous year. In total somewhere between one and two million pamphlets flooded the Dutch Republic in 1672. This study is the first analysis of all these pamphlets. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640, twelve scholars assemble the latest interdisciplinary research in the fields of translation and print in Britain and appraise for the first time the connection between the two.The section Translation and Early Print discusses how translation shaped the beginnings of British book production. 'Translation, Fiction and Print' examines some Italian and Spanish literary translations and their paratexts. Instruction through Translation demonstrates how translators established an international fund of knowledge. Shaping Mind and Nation through Translation focusses on translations specifically disseminating knowledge of medicine, navigation, military matters, and news.The volume constitutes a timely contribution to the ever-expanding fields of translation studies and print history but is also relevant to cultural, social and intellectual history.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Introducing a new hermeneutics, this book explores the correlation between the personal faith of F.M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and the religious quality of his texts. In offering the first comprehensive analysis of his ego documents, it demonstrates how faith has methodologically to be defined by the inaccessibility of the 'living person'. This thesis, which draws on the work of M.M. Bakhtin, is further developed by critically examining the reception of Dostoevsky by the two main representatives of early dialectical theology, Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen. In the early 1920s, they claimed Dostoevsky as a chief witness to their radical theology of the fully transcendent God. While previously unpublished archive materials demonstrate the theological problems of their static conceptual interpretation, the 'kaleidoscopic' hermeneutics is founded on the awareness that a text offers only a fixed image, whereas living faith is in permanent motion.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Faith and the State offers a comprehensive historical development of Islamic philanthropy--zakat (almsgiving), sedekah (donation) and waqf (religious endowment)-- from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia. It shows a rivalry between faith and the state: between efforts to involve the state in managing philanthropic activities and efforts to keep them under control of Muslim civil society. Philanthropy is an indication of the strength of civil society. When the state was weak, philanthropy developed powerfully and was used to challenge the state. When the state was strong, Muslim civil society tended to weaken but still found ways to use philanthropic practices in the public sphere to promote social change.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The volume explores the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and languages, these indoor architectural structures have hitherto not been the subject of a monographic study. Revisiting and integrating multiple sources, the author re-evaluates the relationship of the Jewish culture in Renaissance Poland with the medieval Jewish heritage, sepulchral art of the Polish court and nobles, and earlier adaptations of the Christian revival of classical antiquity by Italian Jews. The book uncovers the evolution of artistic patronage, aesthetics, expressions of identities, and emerging visions among a religious minority on the cusp of the modern age.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Theology as Improvisation, Nathan Crawford reimagines the possibilities for how theology thinks God within a postmodern world. He argues that theology is improvisation by analyzing the nature of attunement within theological thinking and how this opens certain possibilities for theology. He does so by engaging a number of thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, David Tracy, and Saint Augustine. He navigates the nature of thinking God in a postmodern world by using these thinkers to offer critiques of onto-theological thinking and totalizing systems while also following their embrace of the fragment and focus upon the nature of thinking as attunement. The result is a unique way of approaching theological thinking in our contemporary context.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this particular church. These interpretations are based on the special wisdom tradition which embraces monistic ontology, communal ethics in botho, and the indigenous belief in God as the Source of Life, and the Root of everything that exists. The constructing theological principle in the ELCB is the downward-orientated and descending God in Christ which interprets the 'Lutheran spirit' in a liberating and empowering sense. It deals with the cultural mythos which brings Christ down into people's existence, unlike Western connotations which are considered to hinder seeing Christ and to prevent existential self-awareness.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Dependent Archipelagos in the Law of the Sea examines the archipelagic concept in international law of the sea with respect to dependent archipelagos, both coastal and outlying. The monograph offers a thorough examination of the regime of straight baselines, and the implications arising from their application to archipelagos. It further analyses the practice of States with regard to the delimitation of the maritime zones of archipelagos, and assesses its value both as an element contributing to the interpretation of the Law of the Sea Convention - especially related to the application of article 7 - and as a factor leading to new developments in international law with an emphasis on customary law.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Highlander has never enjoyed a good press, and has been usually characterised as peripheral and barbaric in comparison to his Lowland neighbour, more inclined to fighting than serving God. In Clerics and Clansmen Iain MacDonald examines how the medieval Church in Gaelic Scotland, often regarded as isolated and irrelevant, continued to function in the face of poverty, periodic warfare, and the formidable powers of the clan chiefs. Focusing upon the diocese of Argyll, the study analyses the life of the bishopric, before broadening to consider the parochial clergy - in particular origins, celibacy, education, and pastoral care. Far from being superficial, it reveals a Church deeply embedded within its host society while remaining plugged into the mainstream of Latin Christendom.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of the context, history or development of the language of the New Testament. The first section of the volume focuses on the social contexts and registers that provide the environment for language use and selection. The second section deals with issues surrounding the history of the Greek language and how its development has impacted the Greek found within the New Testament.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The first volume of the English-language Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development (formerly The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers. This volume starts with an excellent overview of educational developments in 2010, which witnessed the formulation of the Outline of China's National Plan for Medium and Long Term Educational Reform and Development 2010-2020. With the formulation of the Outline and the start of implementation in 2011, China saw progress by the government, at all levels, in prioritizing educational development. Scholars and practitioners discuss the significance of the Outline and its implications on the development and reform of pre-school education, basic education and higher education. In addition, this volume provides timely surveys and research on a variety of topics from government's investment in education to the mental health of Elementary and Secondary school teachers and students. Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, Volume 1 informs the Western readers of the current educational development in policy, practice, and research in China.Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development is a co-publication of Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Rights of Victims in Criminal Justice Proceedings for Serious Human Rights Violations addresses a question of critical importance to policy-makers, international lawyers, academics, and affected societies throughout the world: Should victims of serious human rights violations be granted under international law the rights of access to and participation in criminal proceedings before international, hybrid and domestic tribunals Juan Carlos Ochoa applies a thorough analysis of international and comparative domestic law and practice to this question, taking into account a host of international human rights instruments and case law, the theory, law and practice of international and hybrid criminal tribunals, the law and practice in several domestic jurisdictions, and many theoretical and empirical studies. After first determining the current state of, and emerging trends in, international law in this area, he argues that the lack of recognition of these rights under customary international law is inadequate, because access to and participation in criminal proceedings for victims of these infringements are based on several internationally recognised human rights and principles, contribute to the expressivist objectives of these procedures, and are consistent with the principles that inform the enforcement of criminal law in democratic States. On this basis, Ochoa convincingly suggests concrete reforms.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This unique collection of essays celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the seminal journal the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, as well as the outstanding and uninterrupted work over that period of its founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Cyrille Fijnaut. The volume consists of a selection of some of the most ground-breaking articles published over the past twenty years, covering the three areas of focus of the journal: problems of crime, developments in criminal law and changes in criminal justice. It thus explores such diverse issues as the problems of crime in Central and Eastern Europe after the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Yugoslavia; the allocation of criminal law power in the European Union; police cooperation in the border areas of the Member States; the criminalization of white collar crime; the establishment of European police services and of a European Public Prosecutor's Office; new forms of criminal justice cooperation between the Member States; and many others. The journal's unique multidisciplinary approach and its commitment to offer insights from a wide variety of European countries and language areas ensure that a varied range of perspectives are offered on the topics discussed. The result is an enlightening and highly readable anthology, shedding light on the extraordinary developments that have taken place in the area of crime and punishment in Europe.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Najm al-Din al-?ufi's (d. 716/1316) extraordinary commentary on the Christian scriptures has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. Illustrating the way in which the Bible was read, interpreted and used as a proof-text in the construction of early 14th century Muslim views of Christianity, his al-Ta'liq 'ala al-Anajil al-arba'a wa-al-ta'liq 'ala al-Tawrah wa-'ala ghayriha min kutub al-anbiya' (Critical Commentary on the Four Gospels, the Torah and other Books of the Prophets) is an invaluable treasure for the study of Muslim-Christian dialogue and its history. In Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo, Lejla Demiri makes this important and unusual work available for the first time in a scholarly edition and English translation, with a full introduction that places ?ufi in his intellectual context.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Evidence in International Criminal Trials Mark Klamberg compares procedural activities relevant for international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court, including evaluation, collection, disclosure, admissibility and presentation of evidence. The author analyses what objectives are recognized in relation to the aforementioned procedural activities and whether it is possible to establish a priority between them. The concept of 'robustness' is introduced to discuss the quantity of evidence in addition to concepts that deal with quality. Finally, the exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis of innocence method is examined as one of several analytical steps that may contribute to the systematic evaluation of evidence. The book seeks to provide guidance on how to confront legal as well as factual issues.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war and its focus on the period 768-777 makes clear that the topic, for his forty-six year reign, is immense. The neglect of Charlemagne's campaigns and the diplomacy that undergirded them has truncated our understanding of the creation of the Carolingian empire and the great success enjoyed by its leader, who ranks with Frederick the Great and Napoleon among Europe's best.The critical deployment here of the numerous narrative and documentary sources combined with the systematic use of the immense corpus of archaeological evidence, much of which the result of excavations undertaken since World War II, is applied here, in detail, for the first time in order to broaden our understanding of Charlemagne's military strategy and campaign tactics. Charlemagne and his advisers emerge as very careful planners, with a thorough understanding of Roman military thinking, who were dedicated to the use of overwhelming force in order to win whenever possible without undertaking bloody combat. Charlemagne emerges from this study, to paraphrase a observation attributed to Scipio Africanus, as a military commander and not a warrior.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - »Geschichte in Köln« entstand 1977 als studentische Zeitschrift am Historischen Seminar der Universität zu Köln. Ihr Konzept, neben etablierten Autoren auch Beiträge von jungen Wissenschaftlern zu veröffentlichen, erwies sich als überaus erfolgreich, zumal so wichtige Forschungen einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zugänglich wurden. Seither hat sich GiK zu einer führenden Zeitschrift der Region entwickelt. Die Bände enthalten Aufsätze, Miszellen und Rezensionen. Der Schwerpunkt der Beiträge liegt auf der kölnischen Stadtgeschichte, der rheinischen Landes- und Regionalgeschichte sowie der vergleichenden Stadtgeschichte. Das breite Themenspektrum von GiK 59 (2012) reicht von der Kölner Königspfalz des Mittelalters bis zu den Arbeiten Willy Mellers für die NS-Ordensburgen. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt bildet die seinerzeit spektakuläre Sonderbundausstellung von 1912.…