peter lang okt 2014 (286 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Do cognitive/metacognitive abilities favour recognition of sense in life or not Based on a sample of more than one thousand secondary schools students in Japan and Germany, the correlation between intelligence and perception of sense in life has been empirically examined. The study draws the conclusion that there is no clear correlation between cognition and sense. Finding sense in life seems to be independent from the level of thinking and to be independent as well from particular areas of commitment (e.g. science, technology, art and religion). The main factor discovered so far is a cultural/national one: The majority of Japanese students approve of the idea of sense in life whereas the majority of German students do not. The book discusses the different historical background of the two peer groups as a possible explanation and draws conclusions with respect to education. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. It asks whether much of the discourse on the political right - that which attacks their enemies - is hate speech. Extending Michael Waltman's previous work on hate speech, this book examines the discourse and language produced by a variety of right-wing groups and attempts to determine the homology that exists among their discourses. These groups, which include the racist right wing, the political right wing, the Christian right wing, and the paramilitary right wing, are examined respectively through the lenses of the film White Apocalypse, the book Atlas Shrugged, the Left Behind trilogy of movies, and the web pages maintained by the Republic of the United States of America and the National Rifle Association. The author looks at the discourses of hate produced in these seminal texts in order to identify a homology of exclusion that unites the forms of right-wing extremism, giving them a common frame of reference when confronting social and political challenges. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means ¿ culturally, politically, and economically ¿ to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and making sense of difference as a category of subjectivity and as a mode of organizing and distributing change. Using textual analysis of media texts on pandemics and disease, she illustrates how they represent a larger mediascape that drafts stories of global instabilities and global health. Levina explains how the stories we tell about disease matter; that the media is instrumental in constructing and disseminating these stories; and that mediated narratives of pandemics are rooted in global flows of policies, commerce, and populations. Pandemics are, by definition, global crises. 166 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -En esta monografía se pretende realizar un acercamiento sistemático a uno de los elementos más característicos y determinantes de la traducción médica, la terminología específica del ámbito biosanitario, en este caso, en inglés y en español. En esta obra, escrita desde una perspectiva traductológica aplicada (y aplicable) a la enseñanza de la traducción o la terminología médicas (en programas de Grado o de Posgrado Universitario), e, indirectamente, a la mejora de la práctica profesional de la traducción, se abordan los siguientes temas: Formación tradicional de términos médicos a partir de formantes clásicos, diferencias y similitudes en inglés y en español, formación o adopción de términos médicos en español, motivada por la situación preeminente del inglés, entendido como lingua franca de la comunicación biosanitaria a escala internacional, diferencias terminológicas existentes, motivadas por la influencia ejercida por las comunidades científicas de referencia (anglófona e hispanohablante) en la construcción de textos médicos, estrategias adoptadas (o adoptables) en la traducción de la terminología médica (de inglés a español) en encargos de traducción. 170 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically, examining those diasporization processes in the arena of education. Focusing on the education of Puerto Ricans, the second largest Latino/a subgroup, the authors of this volume elucidate themes that are useful not only for those concerned with the education of Puerto Rican youth but also applicable to the study of other diasporic communities. The book is useful as a text in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including foundations of education, multicultural education, anthropology of education, and introductory courses in Latino and ethnic studies departments.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink 'race,' racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several brilliant iconic essays that address the social construction of whiteness and critical resistance, as well as excellent new critical perspectives. It is a compilation that offers new and intermediate readers in critical whiteness theory a valuable and diverse overview of the subject. It also serves as a refresher to those who have themselves contributed to this field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from disciplines often overlooked in the field of education. The authors illustrate the potential of these theories for educators, offering a nuanced critical analysis of the role schools play in nationalistic enterprises and colonial projects. The book fills the current gap between simplified, ahistorical applications of multiculturalism and critical theory texts with only narrow applicability in the field. This clearly written alternative offers both an entry point to rigorous primary theoretical sources and broad applications of the scholarship to everyday practice in a range of PreK¿12 classrooms and adult education settings globally. The text is designed for educators and advanced undergraduate or graduate students in the growing number of courses that address issues of cultural diversity, equity in education, multiculturalism, social and cultural foundations of education, literary studies, and educational policy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience constitutes a major contribution to the international literature on the work of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educationalists of all time. It provides a fresh perspective on the Freirean notion of conscientization, rethinking this pivotal concept in the light of the history of ideas on conscience. The author offers a holistic, philosophical reading of Freire¿s texts and argues for the cultivation of conscience through love and dialogue. Such a reading, he suggests, allows us to better respond to the moral crises that face us in the age of global capitalism. The ideas advanced in this book have important implications for philosophical and cultural understanding and for educational theory and practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In der Geschichte der Dänischen Literatur von Hanne Marie und Werner Svendsen wird Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) als tonangebende Gestalt des neuen Jahrhunderts gepriesen, ja geradezu dessen Dolmetsch. Seine Werke waren dreißig Jahre lang in Kopenhagen und Berlin sehr beliebter Lesestoff. Gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde ihm in Anerkennung seiner Verdienste als sprachbildender und querdenkerischer Schriftsteller und Dichter der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. Unter allen seinen Übersetzern ins Deutsche ragt Julia Koppel (1876-1937) heraus. Von 1907 bis 1934 hat sie achtzehn seiner Titel übersetzt. In dieser Studie werden Jensens Hauptwerke als künstlerische Sprachexperimente untersucht und als neuartige Gattungsexperimente in Bildern gewürdigt. Auf gattungspoetische Weise werden die deutschen Übersetzungen seiner Erzählungen, Novellen, Romane und Mythen neben seinen fast nur auf Dänisch veröffentlichten Gedichte gestellt. So werden den Leserinnen und Lesern neue Genres und Zusammenhänge der Gattungen Jensens in seiner Schaffenszeit verdeutlicht. 84 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC)Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating context for learning. It argues that curriculum and place is a much deeper subject, with roots in aesthetics, community, and politics that go beyond the individual and profoundly address the formation of our current belief system.Despite the unique efforts described in this book to address the curriculum of space, major issues persist in our educational system. First, the rigor of curriculum studies is not usually applied to this complex field that encompasses philosophy, aesthetics, geography, social theory, and history. Second, the conflict caused by studying the place without contextualizing it within the larger social milieu ignores the nuances of our intimately global social network. Third, current responses ignore the uncritical assessment of underrepresented groups within the theoretical landscape. With these problems in mind, Curriculum as Spaces introduces foundational principles that ask us to imagine the full realization of curriculum spaces and show us how to examine the philosophical and cultural roots of these most essential principles.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways in which content is porous and malleable. In this volume, contributors focus on copyright as it relates to culture. The editors argue that what «counts» as property must be understood as shifting terrain deeply influenced by historical, economic, cultural, religious, and digital perspectives.Key themes addressed include issues of how:¿ Culture is framed, defined, and/or identified in conversations about intellectual property;¿ The humanities and other related disciplines are implicated in intellectual property issues;¿ The humanities will continue to rub up against copyright (e.g., issues of authorship, authorial agency, ownership of texts);¿ Different cultures and bodies of literature approach intellectual property, and how competing dynasties and marginalized voices exist beyond the dominant U.S. copyright paradigm.Offering a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, Cultures of Copyright offers readers ¿ scholars, researchers, practitioners, theorists, and others ¿ key considerations to contemplate in terms of how we understand copyright¿s past and how we chart its futures.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este estudio sobre el mito del héroe en Las Crónicas de Narnia se fundamenta tanto en la crítica literaria y la bibliografía general y específica sobre el autor y su obra, como en las teorías de la literatura infantil y del héroe en las tradiciones literarias occidentales, incluido el Oeste norteamericano. Aun compartiendo rasgos con el mito irónico modernista, la lectura de la obra de Lewis demuestra que los héroes en las Crónicas sintetizan y actualizan estas tradiciones, a la vez que desafían las categorizaciones simples debido al particular tratamiento del héroe como niño y la vocación universal de su trayectoria, cuya raíz reside en el trasfondo cristiano ¿ a la vez occidental y universal ¿ de los planteamientos literarios de Lewis.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 178 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Wie gern möchte ich nur einmal Humboldten erzählen hören», so ein Seufzer Ottilies in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften. Aber auch die anderen großen Lateinamerika-Reisenden und Weltumsegler seiner Zeit waren Goethe bekannt. So zum Beispiel Georg Forster, der die zweite Weltumsegelung Kapitän Cooks mitgemacht hatte, oder auch der Vater des brasilianischen Bergbaus Wilhelm von Eschwege und berühmte Brasilienforscher wie Prinz Wied zu Neuwied oder die Bayern Spix und Martius. Diese Entdecker verführten ihn fast zu einer Auswanderung, es blieb jedoch bei Gedankenreisen nach Lateinamerika und in die Südsee ¿ Träume, die sich auch in seinem Werk widerspiegeln. Mehr noch: Der Reisende und Wanderer Goethe ist mit seiner Begeisterung für die Neue Welt in Werken späterer Schriftstellerkollegen selbst zur literarischen Figur geworden.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 118 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In dem 2010 erschienenen Roman Los topos des argentinischen Gegenwartsautors Félix Bruzzone macht sich der Protagonist auf die Suche nach seinem während der argentinischen Militärdiktatur verschwunden geglaubten Bruder, die in der Suche nach der eigenen Identität gipfelt. In aller Radikalität betont Bruzzone die Tradierung der Gewalt bis in die Gegenwart. Der Roman stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Memoria-Debatte dar, indem er die konventionelle Verteilung von Täter- und Opferrollen in Frage stellt. Anhand von Methoden aus der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung wird Bruzzones literarische Inszenierung von Erinnerung und Identität im Kontext der argentinischen Gegenwartsliteratur mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen Gedächtnisdiskurs analysiert. 104 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La doctrina de Tomás de Aquino sobre la abstracción, inducción y analogía ocupa una posición central en su filosofía artistotélica. Esta doctrina se muestra capaz de aportar soluciones a varios problemas actuales que son la consecuencia de la incomprensión y del rechazo de la validez de la inducción en ciertas filosofías modernas. En particular, ofrecen una alternativa robusta a los tentativos por parte de los lógicos de los años 1880¿1930 de dar cuenta del conocimiento a partir de axiomas formales. Estos tentativos formalistas fueron definitivamente frustrados por los teoremas de incompletitud de Kurt Gödel. Este estudio traza las raíces de la dependencia de los métodos deductivos por parte de la modernidad, hasta la crisis de fundamentos ocasionada por los teoremas de incompletitud de Gödel publicados en 1931. Luego ofrece un análisis detallada de los temas de abstracción, inducción y analogía en los escritos del Aquinate, esclareciendo una doctrina a menudo muy mal entendida. Una vez explicado cada uno de los tres temas, se esbozan varias aplicaciones de las intuiciones aristotélico-tomistas a problemáticas actuales. Se concluye que la doctrina de Tomás parece más actual que las filosofías más recientes por ser más en conformidad con la realidad del mundo conocido ahora a través de las ciencias empíricas e informáticas.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 270 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their identity as a «family.»This volume gathers together communication scholars who are working on the many kinds of alternative family forms, from, among others, grandfamilies, diasporic immigrant families, and military families to in (voluntarily) childless families and stepfamilies.The organizing question for the volume focuses on resistance, reconstruction, and resilience: how is it that alternatives to the traditional family are constructed and sustained through communicative practices Several chapters adopt a global perspective, thereby framing the issue of legitimation of «family» in a broader cultural context.None of the family forms described in this volume meets the ideological «gold standard¿ of the nuclear family, and in this sense they all represent a remaking of the family in profound ways.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 326 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq¿ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the men and women called ajq¿ijab do a variety of work to help their visitors, their ancestors, the spirits and the world itself. Nine interviewees from the Quetzaltenango area in the Guatemalan highlands tell about how they cure and avert illness, perform divinations, communicate with the ancestors and do their part in balancing the world. Most of them agree that they have been chosen for this responsibility and they see it as both a gift and a burden. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Handbook of Lifespan Communication is the foundational scholarly text that offers readers a state of the art view of the varied and rich areas of lifespan communication research. The fundamental assumptions of lifespan communication are that the very nature of human communication is developmental, and, to truly understand communication, change across time must be incorporated into existing theory and research. Beginning with chapters on lifespan communication theory and methodologies, chapters are then organized into the various phases of life: early childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, middle adulthood, and older adulthood. Top scholars across several disciplines have contributed to chapters within their domains of expertise, highlighting significant horizons that will guide researchers for years to come.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 460 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study is an empirical and a theoretical contribution to academic labor market research in the social and educational sciences. The main focus is the situation of young academics who teach at German universities. Both the role of research and teaching in the academic labor market as well as opportunities for professional development in academia and beyond for those who teach are investigated. The study reveals how structures of the academic labor market, including academic culture, affect career decisions and development opportunities of young academics. The findings demonstrate how academics reconstruct the relation between teaching and research in their practice and how they seek new ways in making teaching meaningful in their working lives. The monograph proposes a model for evaluating the agency of academics and identifies the potential for social innovations in academia. 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2014, the fourth in the series, provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level.The 2014 Yearbook surveys the activities of the relevant national and local Italian actors, including governmental bodies, civil society organisations and universities. It also presents reports and recommendations that have been addressed to Italy by international monitoring bodies within the framework of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. Finally, the Yearbook provides a selection of international and national case-law that casts light on Italy¿s position vis-à-vis internationally recognised human rights.«Italy and human rights in 2013: the challenges of social justice and the right to peace» is the focus of the introductory section of the Yearbook. With a view on the second Universal Periodic Review of Italy before the Human Rights Council, the Italian Agenda of Human Rights 2014, intended to be an orientation tool with regards to immediate and longterm measures that should be taken to ensure human rights for all in the Country, is integrated by an analysis of the status of implementation of the recommendations made to Italy during the first Universal Periodic Review (2010). 436 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Harold Pinter is inarguably one of the most influential modern British dramatists. The horizon of his literary, cultural and political activity stretches far beyond the borders of his homeland, as well as beyond the theatrical and literary world. The essays in this volume deal with the reception of his literary (and political) heritage in several European and non-European Countries, offering previously unpublished research. They bring together a variety of aspects focusing on Pinter in the former region of Eastern Europe like Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, where his literary ideas as well as political activism seem fully applicable. They are balanced by selected Western perspectives, including Italian, British and American ones. 214 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics that are rarely discussed in the field. These topics include practices related to day-to-day school life that are not part of the formal curriculum or classroom routine, but which nevertheless allow pupils to become actively involved in their own schooling. This book provides historical case studies on such extracurricular and informal schooling processes. It argues that the awareness of such topics is essential to our understanding of school settings ¿ in both past and present. 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -At the end of the First World War, the Raj remained economically or even strategically more central than ever in the general colonial architecture of the British Empire. Yet, between the two World Wars, the colonial regime hung only by a thread when confronted with the rising popularity of the nationalist movements. As a result, independence was granted in 1947 to this major component of the Empire, a truly cataclysmic event for the remainder of the world. This reality conflicts with the idea that a well-managed, peaceful decolonization process was launched by the British authorities. The independence of British India proceeded at the same speed as the Partition of British India which had both immediate and distant, but surely terrible, consequences like the 1971 war with Pakistan over Bangladesh. 260 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices, Resistance in the Deceleration Lane uses the velocentric perspective to examine the phenomenon of «slow living» and its rhetoric. The book analyzes cultural practices which are inspired by the conviction that the increased speed of everyday life cannot be accepted unquestioningly. It portrays slowness as a strategy of contestation and resistance on one hand, and on the other it highlights the process of the gradual commercialization of the slow logo and suggests the rise of a post-slow stage in the history of speed. 222 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Matters of Time provides an unorthodox array of perspectives on materialist thought and representation in twentieth-century French intellectual culture. Time is figured as the quintessential revolutionary concept, through key historical moments from Jean Jaurès¿ orientation of the socialists at the turn of the century to the inter-generational conflict and politicization of everyday life in May ¿68. Essays on dialectics and theories of teleological progress are placed side by side with accounts of the existential turn in Marxist thought in France. Contributions on Heidegger and Sartre inject meditations on human mortality into considerations of a new politics of finitude. The volume also emphasizes the inseparability of aesthetic and political thought for the French avant-gardes: chapters on Sade, Artaud and Jarry place Marx¿s theories of production and commodity fetishism into contact with bodily abjection. The manipulation of time in cinema and matter in painting are examined as a testament to the twentieth century as a period of continuing experimental tension between form and signification. Generational futurity is explored through Genet¿s spatial representations of filiation and Verlaine¿s proto-ecological attunement to nature. The volume as a whole constructs a necessarily fragmented timeline of the breaks, tensions and antagonisms in twentieth-century French thought, culture and politics, with particular focus on questions of late capitalism and political, intellectual and aesthetic progress and regress.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -When religious and political leaders debate the question of establishing diplomatic relations between the Vatican and China, they frequently misunderstand that religious relation inevitably intertwines with politics. For instance, the Vatican has to terminate any diplomatic relation with Taiwan if reconciliation is to be considered between the Vatican and the Chinese Catholic Church (CCC). Religious relation, nevertheless, exceeds this conditional requirement. This book opens a window to globalization of the CCC, though for its survival, it still has to shelter under the umbrella of the Beijing government. There is in fact a bridge to connect the Vatican and the CCC in a religious way, i.e., communion and inclusiveness. The ministry of the Chinese Catholic Spiritual Center, thus, is to create possible channels for mutual understanding between the two. The author raises a crucial question whether the Vatican would separate the political management from religious leadership in order that new hope for reconciling the Vatican to the CCC through religious communion can be prospected.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 94 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book intends to grasp the meaning of up¿saka / up¿sik¿ or Buddhist laity in D¿gha- and Majjhima-nik¿ya of the P¿li canon. Considering the texts as oral literature, the author examines and interprets the structure and stock phrases constructing the narrative with a theory of religious experience. Up¿saka / up¿sik¿ is hence seen as the non-monastic follower, who, having experienced the significance of dhamma and the superiority of the Buddha, has the trust in the goal and spiritual path that the Buddha has shown. In this connection, Buddhist community is the assembly of the followers, monastic and non-monastic alike, sharing the same common ground and following the spiritual path in pursuit of individual liberation, which in tandem contributes to perpetuation of the community. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Works of Richard Oschanitzky analyses the German-Romanian composer and pianist¿s output in the context of Socialist Romania (1965 to 1979). By the means of music historiography, archive research and musicological analyses, the composer¿s contributions to the symphonic/chamber jazz genres, pioneering role in ethno-jazz and film music scores are analysed. The book lays particular stress on Richard Oschanitzky¿s attempt to find common ground between European academic music and American jazz, as exemplified in his symphonic jazz works. The Romanian edition of this book has raised awareness of the musical potential to be retrieved, resulting in additional audio-visual products, such as documentary films and new CD editions of his work. It has become part of the academic curriculum for the course History of Jazz, taught at the George Enescu University of Arts in Iäi, Romania. 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines and critiques secular modes of self-writing in Ethiopia that put considerable emphasis on the enactment of national/ethnic identity leading to an equivocal situation wherein the ethos that binds people has been greatly eroded. Its analysis demonstrates that such modes of thought are flawed not only on the notion of the human subject, but also inappropriately position the religious or the theological. The book argues that a theological turn generates theological resources for a social horizon of hope ¿ for the apotheosis of the bond of togetherness ¿ which risks thinking politics in an altogether different way beyond the ethno-national logic. This, as the author argues, paves the way for the possibility of a new political subject and the reinvention of politics. 250 pp. Englisch.