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How should liberalism understand ¿ and deal with ¿ religion? Cécile Laborde offers powerful new answers in her book Liberalism¿s Religion, this collection subjects that theory to critical scrutiny from an array of scholars, thereby advancing the scholarly debate.

Der Lebensweg des Berliner Landschaftsmalers Carl Blechen (1798-1840), der mit nur 41 Jahren infolge einer psychischen Erkrankung starb, hat die Forschung zu vielgestaltigen Deutungen seiner Gemälde und Zeichnungen angeregt. Kilian Heck geht in seiner Studie jedoch zunächst nicht von Blechens psychischer Befindlichkeit aus, sondern er untersucht unter anderem Verfahren der Bildprojektion und deren Nutzen für Blechens neuartigen Bildaufbau. Ble...

Guidebook describing 50 graded day walks in Valais, Switzerland, based around the resort towns of Zermatt and Saas-Fee. The routes cover the Mattertal and Saastal valleys and their surrounding mountains and offer spectacular views of the Swiss 4000m giants, including the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa. Welcoming huts offer refreshment on the routes.

The first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies in the field of modern Chinese literature.

The value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, of its contributions in the theoretical and methodological fields and of its influence on the growth of sociology throughout the world and in America in particular.

R.K. Elliott's essays on aesthetics put forward a number of common themes that together constitute a unified approach to aesthetics. Throughout his writing, Elliott combines analytic rigour with sympathy for ideas in continental philosophy. This book, the first to gather together Elliott's key essays, powerfully illuminates the unifying role of imagination and the aesthetic in human experience.

This book investigates the development of what the author terms ¿popular liberalism¿, in order to present a more nuanced understanding of political and cultural patterns in Germany up to the early 1930s. In particular, the author offers an explanation for the success of National Socialism before 1933 in certain regions of South Germany, arguing that the radical liberal sub-culture was not subsumed by the Nazi Party, but instead changed its for...

Analyzes the history of Swedish civil society over a one hundred and fifty year period with the help of such theoretical perspectives as political opportunity structure, life cycle model, waves of organizational development, corporatism and pluralism.

Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673). The essays contained in this volume fit together as studies of various sorts of influence, both literary and historical, setting Cavendish's appropriation of Shakespearean characters and plot structures within the context of the English Civil Wars and the Fronde. The essays trace Shakespeare...

In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys, the first to Peru, the second towards the Arctic Circle. Their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was part of an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, ...

RICHTER: ARBEITSKRÄFTE

The book offers a cognitively realistic account of morphosyntactic alternations through a combination of corpus-based analysis and (psycho)linguistic experiments. The central thesis of the book is that the choice between competing constructions is driven by semantic, syntactic, morphological, phonological, discourse-related, and lectal features. The study outlines ways to assess the relative importance and cognitive plausibility of the various...

This book examines how words are stored in the minds of Chinese speakers. It examines the mental lexicons of both native speakers of Chinese/first language (L1) users and second language (L2) learners of Chinese.

In dem Lehrbuch soll es um die Entstehung und Bedeutung des Dienstleistungsmarketings, Kaufverhalten und besondere Aspekte bei Dienstleistungen, strategische Aspekte einer Dienstleistungsvermarktung sowie um operatives Dienstleistungsmarketing gehen.

Die sog. >Zweiquellentheorie< gilt heute als Konsens in der neutestamentlichen Exegese: Danach haben Matthäus und Lukas neben Markus auch noch eine zweite schriftliche Quelle benutzt. Da sie hauptsächlich Worte Jesu enthält, nennt man sie die Spruchquelle Q. Diese führt uns zur ältesten heute greifbaren Jesus-Überlieferung zurück. Von 1989 bis 1996 hat ein Team von 42 europäischen und nordamerikanischen Wissenschaftlern an der exakten Rekonstr...

The Changing Face of Higher Education explores whether the humanities are in crisis, what form that crisis takes, and what the responses should be. Examinging the state of the humanities in ten countries, this book disectes the claim that there is a worldwide crisis and investigaties the data used to support this claim.

This book advances a novel justification for the idea of "public reason": citizens within diverse societies can realize the ideal of shared political autonomy, despite their adherence to different religious and philosophical views, by deciding fundamental political questions with "public reasons.

Ein Besuch in der Stadt ist für jedes Kind ein Abenteuer. Wer braust durch den Straßenverkehr? Woher kommt der Strom für die Laternen? Wie wird das Glas für all die Fenster im Wolkenkratzer gefertigt? Auf acht großformatigen Wimmelbildern können kleine Entdecker einen spannenden Streifzug unternehmen und dank der vielen Klappen erkunden, was in den Gebäuden und unter ihren Füßen geschieht. Im einzelnen werden der Stadtverkehr, das Büroviertel,...

The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that effect, the author raises fundamental questions that have thus far remained unaddressed: What textual features characterize the critical writings? H...

A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary (in contrast to classical) rhetoric. This current perspective on rhetoric brings together themes in the communication arts, including political literary criticism, bi- and multi-lingualism, multimodality, framing as an artistic and sociological device for composition and interpretation, literacy in the digital age, and the division between ...