RIGHTS CATALOGUE AUTUMN 2017
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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Media & Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Languages & Literatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Theology & Religious Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Politics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Law & Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are delighted to share our new Rights Catalogue for autumn 2017 with you. In Privileged Mobilities – Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class (p. 5), Erika Polson, assistant professor at the University of Denver, explores how a new global middle class is emerging in our current age of «workforce globalization». Through ethnographic studies of a new generation of expatriate groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, who explicitly seek to work abroad and lead a cosmopolitan lifestyle, she illustrates how these groups use location technologies to create new mobile «places» – offline social events where foreigners can meet face to face. Her book opens up a new field of study, which pays more attention to global middle class mobility, but also questions the privileging of mobility in general. Harvard professor Rajani Kanth – economist, philosopher and social thinker – provides an original, groundbreaking and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In Farewell to Modernism – On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century (p. 27), he unsettles virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse, arguing that philosophers and social scientists must also take into account a true, realist anthropology of the human species that sets limits to both political idealism and social engineering. Professor Klaus Schroeder and Jochen Staadt present the results of an extensive study at the Free University of Berlin which investigated almost 1,500 cases related to the East German border to determine how many people died at the old border during the Cold War. The Death Victims of the GDR Border Regimes at the Inner-German Border from 1949–1989 (p. 37) features biographies of the 327 victims, who were mostly young civilians from East Germany, but also East German border guards. The handbook is meant to help commemorate those who died. With 1,800 new titles released every year, this catalogue features select highlights only, and we kindly invite you to visit us online at www.peterlang.com to discover further publications in your areas of interest. A selection of front- and backlist titles can now also be found on online rights trading platforms IPR License (www.iprlicense. com) and PubMatch (www.pubmatch.com). Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to receive further information, advance material and electronic or physical reading copies. We will be happy to help. We would also be delighted to discuss our list with you at Frankfurt Book Fair (4.2/H1). Please don’t hesitate to contact us to arrange a meeting. We hope you will enjoy browsing through our catalogue and look forward to hearing from you. Claudia Stegmann International Rights Sales Manager Peter Lang Group
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Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Media & Communication
Carol Ames
Entertainment Public Relations Communicating with Audiences
New York, 2016. XIV, 316 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3054-0 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95 Textbook, English
Every show needs an audience. How do we find them? How do we reach them? How do we motivate them to buy tickets? This informative book provides an essential look at the public relations strategies, tactics, and tools that have put Hollywood entertainment at the center of global popular culture. It uniquely focuses on the public relations cycle in each segment of the entertainment industry. PR cycles connect strategy to benchmarks in product development, production, and distribution, as well as to seasons and industry events. Chapters focus on the basics and challenges of successful public relations for: blockbuster movies; independent films; network, syndicated, and streaming television; personal publicity and celebrity representation; award events; music; video games; sports; and tourism. Also discussed are charity tie-ins, public service campaigns, and corporate public relations, as well as the use of digital and social media for two-way conversations with audiences. Sidebars give examples and instructions for writing effective entertainment media releases, media alerts, press statements, pitches, PSAs, social media postings, and campaign proposals. Other sidebars analyze the ways industry organizations use events such as the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl to build public awareness and place their industries at the center of popular culture. This book is a valuable resource for those who already know the basic strategies, tactics, and tools of PR and for those who want to learn them in the context of the rapidly changing field of entertainment and tourism marketing. Carol Ames (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) is Associate Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. After working for more than 20 years in entertainment corporate communications and publicity, she now teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public relations, entertainment, audience studies, and communications projects. She is the co-author of The Public Relations Writer’s Handbook: The Digital Age (2007).
Jami A. Fullerton • Alice Kendrick (eds.)
Shaping International Public Opinion A Model for Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy
New York, 2017. X, 282 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3029-8 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3028-1 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95 Textbook, English
Bridging two «camps» in the field of international public opinion – nation branding and public diplomacy – this book presents a first-of-its-kind cohesive framework with which readers can better research, teach, practice, and understand the field. At its core is the introduction of the Model of Country Concept, which illustrates the array of factors, including hard- and soft-power initiatives, that shape how global citizens form their opinions about other countries. Each chapter applies the Model of Country Concept across a wide geographic, methodological, and disciplinary range of qualitative and quantitative research studies. They include traditional and social media content, international educational exchange programs, tourism, government-sponsored programs, and entertainment. By way of definitions, prior research findings, professional best practices, and published theories and models, the book offers a framework for future positioning of both practice around and research about nation branding and public diplomacy. Written for practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students of public diplomacy, international relations, media/journalism, and strategic communication, among others, the book offers a comprehensive yet approachable solution for framing a conversation about the heterodox nature of nation branding and public diplomacy, and advances the field through original research. Jami A. Fullerton (Ph.D., the University of North Texas) is a professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communications and holds the Peggy Layman Welch Chair in Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Alice Kendrick (Ph.D., the University of Tennessee) is the Marriott Professor of Advertising in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she teaches communication research and strategy courses.
Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Media & Communication
Susan B. Barnes
Branding as Communication
Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo appears. By combining a scholarly approach with case studies and examples, this text bridges the worlds of communication and business by providing a single vocabulary in which to discuss branding. It brings these ideas together into a coherent framework to enable discussions on the topic to occur in a variety of disciplines. A number of perspectives are also provided, including brands as signs and symbols, brand personality, history, communication, cognitive factors, loyalty, personal branding, community, and social issues. Providing a comprehensive overview of the branding process – from the creation of brands to analysis of their messages – readers will begin to understand the communicative impact of branding.
New York, 2016. XIV, 204 pp. Visual Communication. Vol. 5 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2803-5 CHF 67.– / €D 57.95 / €A 59.60 / € 54.20 / £ 44.– / US-$ 64.95
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Susan B. Barnes (Ph.D., NYU) is a communication professor. She has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Fordham University, and Jamestown Community College. She is the author of eight books including: An Introduction to Visual Communication: From Cave Art to Second Life (Peter Lang, 2011) and Social Networks: From Text to Video (Peter Lang, 2013). Prior to joining academia, Susan was a professional graphic designer. Currently, she runs an art gallery in Cassadaga, New York, where she teaches classes.
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Media & Communication
Dennis D. Cali
Mapping Media Ecology Introduction to the Field Until now, the academic foundations of media ecology have been passed down primarily in the form of edited volumes, often by students of Neil Postman, or are limited to a focus on Marshall McLuhan and/or Postman or some other individual important to the field. Those volumes are invaluable in pointing to key ideas in the field; they provide an important and informed account of the fundamentals of media ecology as set forth at the field’s inception. Yet there is more to the story. Offering an accessible introduction, and written from the perspective of a «second generation» scholar, this single-authored work provides a unified, systematic framework for the study of media ecology. It identifies the key themes, processes, and figures in media ecology that have coalesced over the last few decades and presents an elegant schema with which to engage future exploration of the role of media in shaping culture and consciousness. Dennis D. Cali offers a survey of a field as consequential as it is fascinating. Designed to be used primarily in media and communication courses, the book’s goal is to hone insight into the role of media in society and to extend the understanding of the themes, processes, and interactions of media ecology to an everbroader intellectual community. New York, 2016. XXIV, 258 pp. Understanding Media Ecology. Vol. 4 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2763-2 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95 Textbook, English
Dennis D. Cali (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he has been awarded the President’s Scholarly Achievement Award. He has authored or edited two other books, and his research appears in book chapters and in journals including China Media Research, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Explorations in Media Ecology, and the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, among others.
Paula M. Poindexter
News for a Mobile-First Consumer
New York, 2016. XXIV, 272 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2841-7 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2840-0 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95 Textbook, English
The rapid adoption of mobile devices has created a new type of consumer, one who chooses smartphones and tablets over laptops and desktops, TV and radio, print newspapers, magazines, books, and landline phones. This new mobile consumer has not just forced businesses, institutions, governments, and organizations to innovate with mobile solutions; this new mobile consumer has upended the news media landscape, challenging news organizations and journalists to produce news for consumers who have little resemblance to yesterday’s newspaper readers, TV news viewers, and online news consumers. Based on two national surveys, News for a Mobile-First Consumer introduces a mobile consumer taxonomy comprised of three types of mobile consumers: mobile-first, mobile specialists, and mobile laggards. The demographics of these mobile consumers as well as their relationship to news and social media are explored in depth. Social media as a competitor to and platform for mobile news are also examined, and special attention is devoted to news apps from the perspective of consumers. News for a Mobile-First Consumer also provides insight about millennials, racial and ethnic minorities, and women, who are at the forefront of the mobile revolution but less engaged with news. To improve mobile journalism and increase news engagement, «Essentials of Mobile Journalism» are proposed. As the first book to explore news and consumers in the mobile sphere, this book is required reading for scholars and professionals as well as undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in journalism, communication, strategic communications, advertising, media and society, marketing, and technology courses. Paula M. Poindexter (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past? (Peter Lang, 2012). She is a past president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and in that role was responsible for creating «News Engagement Day.» Poindexter’s news media experience includes the Los Angeles Times and Houston’s KPRC-TV.
Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Media & Communication
Erika Polson
Privileged Mobilities Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris, Singapore, and Bangalore, Erika Polson illustrates how, as a new generation of expatriates uses location technologies to create mobile «places,» a new global middle class is emerging. While there are many differences in the specifics between the expat groups, they share certain characteristics that indicate a larger logic to the way that the increasing mobility of professional career paths is connected to new subjectivities and changing forms of community among a diverse and growing demographic. This book opens up a new field of study, one which pays more attention to middle class mobility while questioning the privileging of mobility more generally.
New York, 2016. VII, 196 pp. Intersections in Communications and Culture. Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 34 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3027-4 CHF 139.– / €D 123.40 / €A 126.90 / € 115.35 / £ 92.– / US-$ 149.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3026-7 CHF 38.– / €D 33.70 / €A 34.70 / € 31.50 / £ 25.– / US-$ 40.95
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Erika Polson (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Her work has appeared in publications including Media, Culture & Society; Communication, Culture & Critique; New Media & Society, and the International Communication Gazette.
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Media & Communication
Susana Sampaio-Dias
Reporting Human Rights Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book discusses the potential of journalism in contributing to human rights protection, awareness and debate, in ignoring, silencing or misrepresenting human rights issues around the world or, in extreme situations, in inciting hatred, genocide and crimes against humanity. It provides insight into how journalists translate human rights issues, revealing different reporting patterns and levels of detail in reporting, and suggesting different levels of engagement with human rights problems. The book explains the most important factors that encourage or limit the coverage of human rights news. Grounded in a close examination of the news production processes and key moments where possible human rights stories are contemplated, decided or eventually ignored, the book opens up new insights into the complexities and constraints of human rights reporting today. Susana Sampaio-Dias (Ph.D., Cardiff University) is Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Portsmouth. She has also worked as a broadcast journalist and news producer for RTP, the Portuguese public service broadcaster. New York, 2016. XIV, 220 pp., 25 b/w tables Global Crises and the Media. Vol. 20 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2960-5 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95 Monograph, English
Brian McNair
Communication and Political Crisis Media, Politics and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that the digitized, globalized public sphere now confronted by all political actors has produced new opportunities for social progress and democratic reform, as well as new channels for state propaganda and terrorist spectaculars such as those performed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. In this major work, McNair argues that the role of digital communication will be crucial in determining the outcome of pressing global issues such as the future of feminism and gay rights, freedom of speech and media, and democracy itself. Brian McNair (PhD, University of Glasgow) is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of twelve previous books, including Journalism and Democracy (2000) and An Introduction to Political Communication (5th edition, 2011). His books have been translated into fourteen languages, including Russian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. New York, 2016. VIII, 187 pp. Global Crises and the Media. Vol. 16 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2421-1 CHF 139.– / €D 123.40 / €A 126.90 / € 115.35 / £ 92.– / US-$ 149.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2420-4 CHF 38.– / €D 33.70 / €A 34.70 / € 31.50 / £ 25.– / US-$ 40.95 Textbook, English
Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Media & Communication
Charles Pavitt
A Survey of Scientific Communication Theory
This detailed survey of present-day scientific communication theory rejects the outmoded «levels» organizational scheme in favor of a system based on the underlying model and fundamental explanatory principle each theory presupposes. In doing so it shows the fundamental similarities among all communication-relevant contexts. Most theories included in the book are causal in nature, derived from one of three underlying models: message production, message reception, or interactive. A few theories take on a functional form, sometimes in dialectic or systemic versions. An introductory chapter describes what is meant by scientific explanation, how that concept is instantiated in scientific communication theory, and delineates the three causal models prevalent in these theories. A useful resource for scholars, this book is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in communication theory.
New York, 2016. VII, 369 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3377-0 CHF 139.– / €D 123.40 / €A 126.90 / € 115.35 / £ 92.– / US-$ 149.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3376-3 CHF 44.– / €D 38.60 / €A 39.70 / € 36.12 / £ 29.– / US-$ 46.95 Textbook, English
Charles Pavitt (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison,) is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Philosophy of Science and Communication Theory and Small Group Discussion: A Theoretical Approach.
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Education
Robert A. Bowie
Dignity and Human Rights Education Exploring Ultimate Worth in a Post-Secular World This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging religious diversity is a challenge for schools. This book starts with the basic premise that human rights are grounded in a belief in the dignity and ultimate worth of the human person. Drawing on key philosophical and theological sources for understanding dignity, it builds a vision of human rights and religious education that seeks to square the impossible circle of universal human rights education in a religiously diverse world. robert a. Bowie is Principal Lecturer in Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chair of the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education. He teaches education and ethics, religion and human rights, and carries out research in religious, Christian and human rights education. Oxford, 2017. X, 304 pp., 1 fig. Religion, Education and Values. Vol. 11 pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-1940-9 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95 Monograph, English
Nahal Jafroudi
Rethinking the Human Person Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems to be a significant discrepancy between how we ought to behave and how we actually behave, leading to a disregard for the dignity of human persons across the globe. This book suggests that the problem arises from various misunderstandings of the nature of the self and that the solution could lie in adopting a holistic concept of the human person within the context of a carefully cultivated ethical literacy. It argues that the ideas of the Iranian philosopher Ostad Elahi (1895–1974) provide a powerful and compelling alternative to the dominant post-Enlightenment understanding of selfhood, education and morality. Nahal Jafroudi holds an MA from UCL Institute of Education and a PhD from King’s College London. Her research interests focus on ethics and education, particularly the tension between ethical impulses and egoistic desires. Oxford, 2016. X, 382 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-1-906165-80-2 CHF 77.– / €D 66.95 / €A 67.90 / € 61.80 / £ 50.– / US-$ 75.95 Monograph, English
Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Education
Thomas Szende
The Foreign Language Appropriation Conundrum Micro Realities and Macro Dynamics
This monograph’s title reflects the need to articulate the classroom actions and strategies of an increasingly efficient technological environment with symbolic, cultural, and political issues, namely the multi-dimensionality of affiliations, which today condition the practices of learners, teachers, tool designers, and the dissemination (or not) of languages throughout the world. Reflective testimony of a teacher who is passionate about his work, this book is also the result of research conducted by a linguist wishing to raise the field of foreign language education to the level of a coherent and rigorous discipline capable of presenting teaching/learning options to all languages/cultures. Contents: foreign language teaching and learning • second language acquisition • global/digital environment • multilingualism/multiculturalism.
Bruxelles, 2016. 223 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-2-87574-371-8 CHF 55.– / €D 46.95 / €A 48.40 / € 44.– / £ 36.– / US-$ 53.95
Monograph, English
Thomas Szende is a Professor of Hungarian and Applied Linguistics at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris, France) and the Director of the PLIDAM (Pluralité des Langues et des Identités : Didactique, Acquisition, Médiations) Research Center. His academic interests focus on second language acquisition as well as Hungarian grammar, bilingual lexicography, and translation. He has published several books, including Second Culture Teaching and Learning (Peter Lang, 2014).
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Education
Mary M. Dalton
The Hollywood Curriculum Teachers in the Movies Third Revised Edition The third edition of this book analyzes over 165 films distributed throughout the United States over the last 80 years to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies that is grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy. The portrayal of teachers in popular motion pictures is based on individual efforts rather than collective action and relies on codes established by stock characters and predictable plots, which precludes meaningful struggle. These conventions ensure the ultimate outcome of the screen narratives and almost always leave the educational institutions – which represent the larger status quo – intact and dominant. To interrogate «the Hollywood curriculum» is to ask what it means as a culture to be responsive to films at both social and personal levels and to engage these films as both entertaining and potentially transforming.
New York, 2017. XVI, 244 pp. Counterpoints. Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education. Vol. 495
MARY M. DALTON is Professor of Communication and Film and Media Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the co-editor of Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned From Teachers on Television and in the Movies and of The Sitcom Reader: American Re-viewed, Still Skewed with Laura R. Linder. In addition to her scholarly work in the area of critical media studies, she is a documentary filmmaker and a media critic.
pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3085-4 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95 Monograph, English
April Larremore
Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom Young children’s access to knowledge about gender, relationships, and sexuality has critical implications for their health and well-being, not only in their early years but throughout their lives. This knowledge can build children’s competencies and resilience, contributing to new cultural norms of non-violence in gendered and sexual relationships. For many early childhood teachers, interacting with children about issues concerning gender and sexuality is fraught with feelings of uneasiness and anxiety. For others, familiarity with research on these topics has resulted in rethinking their approaches to sex, gender, and sexuality in their early childhood classrooms. The pedagogical project discussed in Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom examines the tensions associated with one teacher’s attempts to rethink gendered narratives and childhood sexuality in her own classroom. This project illustrates that it is possible for early childhood teachers to use feminist poststructuralism and queer theory to deepen their understandings and responses to children’s talk, actions, and play regarding sex, gender, and sexuality and to use these understandings to inform their professional practice.
New York, 2016. 141 pp. Childhood Studies. Vol. 2 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3302-2 CHF 148.– / €D 131.70 / €A 135.40 / € 123.05 / £ 98.– / US-$ 159.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3301-5 CHF 38.– / €D 33.70 / €A 34.70 / € 31.50 / £ 25.– / US-$ 40.95 Textbook, English
April Larremore works in the K-2 Curriculum and Instruction Department for Dallas ISD. She has worked in early childhood for twenty years as a practitioner, a learning coach, a curriculum writer, and a professional development presenter. She received her EdD in early childhood studies from the University of North Texas.
Rights Catalogue Autumn 2017
Education
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Vygotsky and the Promise of Public Education
Vygotsky and the Promise of Public Education recontextualizes the scholarship of educator and psychologist Lev Vygotsky, highlighting its relevance to contemporary issues in public education. Emphasizing the historical, social, and cultural formation of conscious awareness, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur advances Vygotsky’s project with current research in psychology, enabling the redefinition of central concepts such as learning, teaching, and developing. This attention to how we conceptualize learning and teaching is vital to the project of crafting schools to fulfill the promise of public education. Written for teacher candidates, educators, researchers, and policy-makers, this book both recognizes the complications of teaching and learning in public schools and contributes to the scholarship on the critical possibilities of schools as social institutions. The significance of public education for each and every child and teacher, and the future that is created in each student-teacher relationship, is re-centered as, perhaps, the most worthwhile project of our time.
New York, 2017. XXXII, 312 pp. Educational Psychology. Critical Pedagogical Perspectives. Vol. 16 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-1540-0 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-1539-4 CHF 55.– / €D 47.95 / €A 48.60 / € 44.20 / £ 36.– / US-$ 52.95
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Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur is Associate Professor of Human Development, Learning and Culture in Education at the University of British Columbia. She earned her PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Cultural Studies
Dieter Kimpel
Departure from Freedom and Desire for Peace A German Discussion of Practical Reason in 1800 This work investigates the development of the Western concept of freedom and considers how the traditional systems of order originating from Greek Antiquity (Entelechy) and the Christian Middle Ages (Providentia) were shaken by the Protestant Enlightenment. The author examines how this Protestant upheaval impacted both consciousness and the European Enlightenment. For German idealism in philosophy and poetry (Kant, Goethe, Schiller), these awakenings were an opportunity to reflect both discursively and aesthetically on realising the idea of freedom into an internationally transformative, domestic and foreign peace policy. Dieter Kimpel was chair of New German Literature Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. His main fields of research include transcendental hermeneutics, European Enlightenment and Weimar Classicism.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 116 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67705-6 CHF 23.– / €D 19.95 / €A 20.50 / € 18.60 / £ 16.– / US-$ 22.95 Monograph, German
Gérard Bouchard
Europe Seeks Europeans A New Relationship between Brussels and the Nations A defence in favour of the European Union, this book nevertheless takes a critical look at certain cultural choices made at foundation that are still hindering its integration today. The European Union must reconstruct its symbolic founding principles and redefine its relationship with the nations (not to be confused with the States). The cultural orientations favoured by the EU at its onset paved the way for its rapid rise, but the failure to revise them over time has rendered them dysfunctional. Yet, the EU’s retroactive attempts to give itself new myths and a continental identity have failed. Moreover, Union leaders have always been wary of nations and nationalism, which were accused of inciting the horrors of the Second World War. They have thus tried to avoid nationalism by instituting top-down governance, which has resulted in a democratic deficiency. Moving forward, the EU will need to reconcile with the nations, rehabilitate them and take advantage of their symbolic resources in order to equip itself with myths that resonate at both the national and European level.
Bruxelles, 2017. 224 pp. Diversitas. Vol. 22 pb. • ISBN 978-2-8076-0337-0 CHF 49.– / €D 41.95 / €A 42.90 / € 39.– / £ 32.– / US-$ 47.95 Monograph, French
Gérard Bouchard is a historian, sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. His primary areas of interest are collective imagination, social and national myths and the management of ethnocultural diversity.
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Cultural Studies
Andrea Lombardinilo
McLuhan and Symbolist Communication The Shock of Dislocation
With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove. Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic perspective. According to the Canadian sociologist, the footsteps that led to this electric era can be traced through the study of certain writers and poets, whose symbolism provides a number of sociological hints foreshadowing our media modernity. This book aims to investigate the role of symbolism in McLuhan’s sociological research, by outlining how the study of memory and the analysis of literary tradition are fundamental to understanding the complex development of communication and cultural studies. The research presented here focuses on the function of symbols as interpretative keys for the study of media carried out by McLuhan. It is exactly in this artistic movement that the sociologist finds the opportunity to analyse the representative practices (irrational and linear) of modern men, shaped by the reticular patterns of the mind. From this perspective, McLuhan identifies the creative process that lies at the root of symbolist poetry, identified as «a disposition, a parataxis, of components that draws a particular intuition through precise links, but without a point of view, that is a linear connection or sequential order». CONTENTS: Metamorphosis and transformation of awareness • Symbolism as parataxis: McLuhan and the social function of writing • Catholic humanism and modern letters: Symbolic interaction according to McLuhan • «The oral traditions of aphoristic learning»: McLuhan and Senecan symbolism • The dawn of symbolist communication: McLuhan, Dante, and the «dolce stil novo» • «The Machiavellian mind»: The symbolism of the establishment • Vico and the typographic university: The knowledge of symbols • Pope and Leopardi: The (symbolic) fall-out of the typographic world • «The reasoning Spectre»: William Blake and the symbolic vision • For a grammar of symbols: McLuhan, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Dante’s mark • Edgar Allan Poe: Symbolism as investigation • Baudelaire and symbolist poets: The mental facts of the electric age • The memory is the message: Cicero, T. S. Eliot, and the rhetorical spirals • Communication as a social probe • Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove: «Symbolism, like electricity, is acting at a distance».
Oxford, 2017. XVI, 382 pp. Interdisciplinary Communication Studies. Vol. 9 pb. • ISBN 978-1-78707-439-2 CHF 71.– / €D 60.95 / €A 62.50 / € 56.80 / £ 46.– / US-$ 69.95
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Andrea Lombardinilo is a tenured lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He carries out research on literary communication and sociology of literature, with particular reference to the narrative and symbolic representations of modern identity. His interests also include sociology of higher education, with a focus on innovation reform and institutional communication within the university system.
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Jamilla Rosdahl
Sculpting the Woman Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity What is femininity? Why does the idea of femininity not seem to «fit» with muscular women? Why are muscular women the object of such controversy and skepticism? Why do some women build muscle despite these strong cultural reactions? Muscular women have long been the focus of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. Sculpting the Woman interrogates the protected status of femininity as it has been rendered irrelevant to the history, theory and politics of the muscular woman. This highly original and provocative work draws on important social thinkers including Michel Foucault and Judith Butler as well as recent theoretical developments on gender, identity and the body in poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, various feminisms and social and moral philosophy. This book offers a personal insight into one of the most threatening of cultural identities: the «muscular female». Through its analysis of femininity’s complex relationship with muscularity, it explores the larger question: «What is a woman?»
Oxford, 2017. X, 220 pp., 5 b/w ill. Queering Paradigms. Vol. 8 pb. • ISBN 978-1-906165-83-3 CHF 62.– / €D 52.95 / €A 54.40 / € 49.40 / £ 40.– / US-$ 60.95
Jamilla Rosdahl is a researcher in gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where she specialises in social theory, gender, sexuality, disability, the body, nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, social and political thought and postcolonial theory. She is also active in gender, sexual and identity politics and human rights, anti-war politics and moral philosophy.
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Allison Craven
Fairy Tale Interrupted Feminism, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema Feminism, masculinity and fairy tale figure within an extended analysis of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991), in light of the live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast (2017). The history of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is compared with Disney’s adaptation which centralises the figure of the Beast rather than the heroine, Belle. A flagship during a key period of Disney’s corporate expansion in the early 1990s, in the first section of the book, the production is situated with respect to gender histories in the corresponding period: the rise of post-feminism, and its implicit disavowal of feminism, the mythopoetic men’s movement and the crisis of masculinity. The following section canvasses views of masculinity in second wave feminism and the role of myth and fairy in key works of feminism. A critical discussion ensues of twenty-first century wonder cinema in which the influence of feminist ideas is seen to circulate within the pastiche treatments of fairy tales and enchantment.
Bern, 2017. 254 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2087-0 CHF 73.– / €D 62.95 / €A 64.90 / € 59.– / £ 48.– / US-$ 71.95 Monograph, English
Allison Craven is a Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia. She has published on Disney media, Australian cinema and children’s literature in education. She is also the author of Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema, forthcoming.
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Cultural Studies
Miri Rozmarin
Vulnerable Futures, Transformative Pasts On Vulnerability, Temporality, and Ethics
Vulnerability reins our time. People know that their world is changing in ways that they cannot foresee. Communities disintegrate and boundaries lose their relevance. Drawing on the concept of vulnerability as an affective relation individuals hold with their world and with their lives, this book analyzes vulnerability as it is immanently connected to temporality. It provides an account of political temporality – connections between past, present, and future that engage with the contemporary social reality – and enables and sustains transformative dynamics through which individuals can mobilize their vulnerability. This technique allows them to gradually transform their reality and its influence on their own subjectivity and agency. This book portrays the kinds of relations through time and social space that people can create by working with their vulnerability as an affect that has the power to yield new sensibilities, skills, and values. These connections with the past are called transformative lineages. CONTENTS: Vulnerable Temporalities • Broken Lineages • Vulnerability, Ethics and Transformation • Vulnerability and Becoming • Corporeality and the Ethics of the Maternal Body • Vulnerable Narratives • Transformative Lineages • Lineages of Transformation.
Oxford, 2017. VIII, 194 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2224-9 CHF 62.– / €D 52.95 / €A 54.40 / € 49.40 / £ 40.– / US-$ 60.95
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Miri Rozmarin is Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her publications concern a range of topics in feminist philosophy, critical theory, and contemporary post-liberal ethics.
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The Arts
Karsten Mackensen
Music and the Order of Things in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period In the Middle Ages and modern period, «musica» is often seen not only as a form of knowledge but also as a superior principle of order. This book investigates music’s exact position in the universal order of things as presented in encyclopaedic texts and beyond disciplinary discourse. Based on central themes such as productivity, combinatorics and cosmology, this study proceeds from the medieval logic of Ramon Llull and traces numerous steps to Athanasius Kircher. Even as late as the 17th century, the role of music can only be understood in the context of the continuous efficacy of mystical, magical and cosmological modes of thought. Karsten Mackensen teaches musicology as an independent lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He has also researched and taught at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Universities of Halle, Marburg and Dresden, as well as at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. He has written numerous publications on music sociology, music aesthetics and music in the early modern era.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 353 pp., 35 b/w ill., 1 b/w table Musica poetica. Musik der Frühen Neuzeit. Vol. 1 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-71980-0 CHF 75.– / €D 64.95 / €A 66.80 / € 60.70 / £ 50.– / US-$ 73.95 Postdoctoral Thesis, German
Rima Povilionienė
Musica Mathematica Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music The concept of «musica mathematica» seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and number. In the three parts of the monograph, versatile cases of the intersection of music and mathematics are displayed, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about mathesis to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other kinds of art (architecture, painting, poetry and literature), and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions. Rima Povilionienė holds a PhD in Musicology. She is a researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Kaunas University of Technology and an associate professor in the Department of Musicology of the Lithuanian Academy of Music.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 288 pp., 123 b/w graphs Methodology of Music Research. Vol. 9 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-71381-5 CHF 72.– / €D 61.95 / €A 63.70 / € 57.90 / £ 48.– / US-$ 69.95
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The Arts
Emma Hamilton
Masculinities in American Western Films A Hyper-Linear History The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their emergence on screen? This book explores the relationship between the Western, film and historical representation and the ways in which masculine gender performance is itself historical. It posits a new interpretation of how history functions on film, termed hyper-linear history. Hyper-linear history creates the possibility of seeing film as a vehicle that makes the past immediately explicit and relevant, rendering historical understandings complex. The study offers a fresh exploration of American Western films made in the 1950s and 1960s, arguing that many Westerns of this period rely on the postCivil War on-screen past to make sense of the tumultuous experiences of the period, to various effect. The films especially tap into the ways in which national economic, political, technological and social changes impact the performance of hegemonic masculinities. These films provide insight into the ways in which masculinities are performed and gender crises are expressed, explored and resolved. Oxford, 2016. XII, 280 pp., 4 coloured ill., 4 b/w ill. pb. • ISBN 978-1-906165-60-4 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95
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Emma Hamilton is a lecturer in the humanities and history in the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include representation studies, especially in relation to issues of historical methodology; gender, sexuality, age and race across time and place; modern American and Australian histories; and gender studies. She is also a passionate open access educator dedicated to widening participation programs, facilitating greater equity in tertiary education and working to find better ways to communicate historical ideas in the classroom.
Simon Bacon
Becoming Vampire Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of the genre itself, it utilises a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to show how the many facets of the vampire can destabilise traditional categories of who we are and what we might become. This volume then provides a timely examination of the multifaceted and multivalent character of the vampire and the possibilities inherent within our interactions with them, making this study a consideration of what we might term ‘vampiric becomings’ and an exploration of why the undead ‘creatures of the night’ remain so fascinating to Western culture.
Oxford, 2016. X, 282 pp., 3 coloured ill., 17 b/w ill. hb.. • ISBN 978-3-0343-1990-4 CHF 85.– / €D 72.95 / €A 74.70 / € 67.90 / £ 55.– / US-$ 82.95
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Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has contributed articles to many publications on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies and has recently co-edited several books: Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Seductive Concepts: Perspectives on Sins, Vices and Virtues (2014), Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016) and Growing Up with the Undead: Vampires in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Films and Television for Young Children (forthcoming).
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Christina Margrit Siever
Multimodal Communication on the Social Web Research Approaches to Text-Image Relationships Multimodality is a typical feature of communication on the social web. This volume focuses on communication in photo communities, particularly the two communicative practices of social tagging and commenting on images. Tags are paramount to text-image relationships: they serve as a representation of knowledge; thus, an adequate verbalisation of the images is indispensable. Comment-image relationships are also of interest from a pragmatic perspective. The message’s information is distributed to both the text and image in a complementary manner and reflected in various linguistic phenomena. In addition, this book also contains a diachronic comparison to postcard communication as well as thoughts on Emoji communication. Christina Margrit Siever was a research fellow in the «Public and Private Communication in New Media» module in the Pro*Doc Language as a Social and Cultural Practice programme by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on media linguistics, multimodality, language dialectics and dialectology.
Frankfurt am Main,2015. 495 pp., 127 b/w ill., 29 tables Sprache – Medien – Innovationen. Vol. 8 hb. • 978-3-631-65161-2 CHF 99.– / €D 87.95 / €A 90.40 / € 82.20 / £ 66.– / US-$ 106.95 Dissertation, German
Peter Schildhauer
The Personal Weblog A Linguistic History This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997–2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of the genre. In addition to media linguistics, the author draws on methods from textual and corpus linguistics as well as the social sciences. He traces the personal weblog’s various relations to different on- and offline genres and describes the blog communication form as well as the communicative situation, structural features and several posting genres characteristic of personal weblogs. The findings are embedded into theoretical considerations on genre change in general as well as stability and change of webbased genres in particular. Peter Schildhauer studied gymnasiales Lehramt (German/English) at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Newcastle (UK). His research interests lie in the fields of text- and media-linguistics, computer-mediated communication and digital education. He works as a lecturer at the German department of the University of Halle-Wittenberg and is cofounder of the ejournal 10plus1: Living Linguistics. Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 307 pp., 45 tables, 15 graphs, 4 diagrams Language and Text Studies. Vol. 14 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-66274-8 CHF 76.– / €D 66.95 / €A 68.90 / € 62.60 / £ 50.– / US-$ 81.95
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Linguistics
Nathalie Mederake
Wikipedia: Palimpsest of the Present Age Text and Knowledge Processes in a Collaborative Hypertext Wikipedia, the central online encyclopaedia of our time, has a technical and lexicographical structure that offers a complex space for interaction. But what processes and routines are used in this space? The author analyses and describes Wikipedia’s media-linguistic, lexicographical and knowledge-systematic phenomena. The digital override function presents itself as a new phenomenon of knowledge processing and communication. For the first time, systematic studies provide a comprehensive tool for textual linguistics. This study also offers important theoretical and methodological recommendations for further research on topics related to digital media communication. Nathalie Mederake studied German Studies, legal history and sociology in Gottingen and Turku, Finland. Since she completed her studies, she has been involved in language counselling as well a dictionary project. In addition to her lexicographical activities, she is responsible for various dictionary digitization project groups.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 343 pp., 52 tables., 16 graph. Germanistische Arbeiten zu Sprache und Kulturgeschichte. Vol. 54 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67179-5 CHF 68.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.– / £ 45.– / US-$ 72.95 Dissertation, German
Netaya Lotze
Chatbots A Linguistic Analysis This study, rooted in corpus linguistics and conversation analysis, focuses on human-machine interaction with Chatbots. These dialogue systems are still susceptible to interference, and communication is only possible under extremely limited conditions. The author examines the implications this has for the user’s interaction behaviour in light of recent discussions on artificial intelligence. Chatbots are widely used online and their dialogue design provides a model for modern assistance systems. Since artificial intelligence is likely to play an increasingly important role in the future, this debate lays the foundation for the linguistic exploration of dialogue systems, particularly in terms of interactive alignment and computer-talk. Netaya Lotze is a linguist interested in «new media» and an academic counsellor at the University of Münster. She studied German Studies and philosophy and earned her Ph.D. as recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Scholarship and funding from the North German Excellence Network. She worked as a research associate at the Leibniz University of Hannover. Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 443 pp., 62 b/w ill., 32 b/w ill. Sprache – Medien – Innovationen. Vol. 9 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67085-9 CHF 93.– / €D 79.95 / €A 82.30 / € 74.80 / £ 61.– / US-$ 90.95
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Languages & Literatures
Klaus Weißinger
Goethe’s Faust: Economist – Federal Planner – Entrepreneur In this study, the author portrays Faust’s career from scholar to economist, federal planner and entrepreneur. Through an innovative «geographic interpretation» of the five acts, this study shows how Faust’s acquisition of new land created a flourishing cultural landscape. Until now, there has been a general consensus in Faust research that by the end of the drama, Faust had become an egomaniac and illusionist and that his new country project would ultimately fail. In contrast, the author demonstrates here that Faust’s economic activities, and consequently his entire life (despite its many dark sides), were successful. This book offers a new point of view and points to a positive image of Faust. Klaus Weissinger studied German Studies and geography at the University of Heidelberg, where he earned his doctorate in the German Studies Department.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 132 pp., 5 coloured ill., 2 b/w ill. Heidelberger Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur. Vol. 21 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67486-4 CHF 29.– / €D 24.95 / €A 25.60 / € 23.30 / £ 19.– / US-$ 28.95 Monograph, German
Ralph Köhnen
The Magic Flute and the «Popular» A Short Mediology of the Entertainment Arts The libretto The Magic Flute forms a complex network of Enlightenment discourses. In this mediological analysis, the author investigates topics such as humanity, freemasonry, Egyptian mythology, the French Revolution, artistic refinement, love and forms of rule. The opera represents the beginning of commercial entertainment and presents strategies used by theatre entrepreneur Schikaneder to capture the audience’s taste and pursue a refined aesthetic for the creation of illusion. This book demonstrates that the opera’s success lies in its hybrid of «popular» elements, as Mozart called them, and its creation of high culture. Ralph Köhnen teaches New German Studies and German didactics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He researches recent German literary history as well as the history of art, media and culture.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 110 pp., 2 ill. pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67606-6 CHF 23.– / €D 19.95 / €A 20.50 / € 18.60 / £ 16.– / US-$ 22.95 Monograph, German
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Languages & Literatures
Jessica Macauley
Forces of Ambiguity Life, Death, Disease and Eros in Thomas Mann’s «Der Zauberberg»
Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three pedagogic figures who each represent a different attitude towards these themes. The humanist Settembrini, for example, affirms life but is repulsed by Eros, disease and death; the Jesuit ascetic Naphta glorifies erotic suffering and death while denying life; and the coffee magnate Peeperkorn celebrates life and Eros – yet to a pathological extent. This book relies on intertextual theory to examine the relation of these conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros within the novel to the thought of Novalis, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Exploring the dialogic clash of their conceptions together with the sociological implications of their work, this author investigates how the relationships between Der Zauberberg and the intertexts influence the reader’s interpretation of the nature of life, death, disease and Eros as well as the effect they have on the culture depicted in the novel. CONTENTS: Design and intention • Sympathie mit dem Tode: The dominion of death over life • Ambiguous affiliations: The stimulus of life and disease • The seeds of war: Disease, decadence and destruction • Erotic stimulus, gender and homosexuality • Decadence and the erotic: The powers of immorality.
Oxford, 2017. XXII, 308 pp. German Life and Civilization. Vol. 65 pb. • ISBN 978-1-78707-237-4 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95
Monograph, English
Jessica Macauley began studying German at Canterbury University, New Zealand, while completing a Bachelor of Music in Performance Piano. She continued her German studies at Victoria University, New Zealand, where she was awarded her doctorate in German Literature in 2015. Jessica Macauley has published papers in The European Connection and in Ad Maiora, and she currently lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Michael Weber
The Chronology of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights For a long time, researchers have considered the time structure in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights opaque, even flawed. Although the text contains a wealth of relative time indications, there are only three years numerically stated which actually relate to events that occurred in these years. If one assumes that the year indicated refers to the time the action occurred, the other time indications do not align. This study takes a critical new approach, proposing an alternative hypothesis: the years indicated denote the time the action was reported. Not only does this hypothesis demonstrate a consistent timeline, it also allows for an innovative interpretation of the novel’s fictitious narrative strategy, opening doors for new perspectives – particularly toward the protagonist, Mr. Heathcliff. Michael Weber was a professor of orthopaedics at the University of Freiburg. As a scientist, he is fascinated by the temporal structure in Wuthering Heights, which compelled him to extensively research literary paradoxes bordering medicine and literature.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 219 pp., 8 b/w ill. Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media. Vol. 2 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-71422-5 CHF 62.– / €D 52.95 / €A 54.40 / € 49.50 / £ 41.– / US-$ 59.95 Monograph, German
Alda Correia
Narrative and Space Across Short Story Landscapes and Regional Places These eight texts deal with different perspectives on the relation between the regional short story, modernism and space. Seven of them concentrate on short prose (the short story and chronicle) and one deals with the novel. Four of them consider canonical premodernist and modernist Anglo-American authors and the other four Portuguese rustic and modernist short story writers. Their common point of departure is the notion that the representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context, and the effort to understand how space and landscape influenced the structure of narratives and were represented in some of them, mainly in short fiction. They draw attention to the importance of the underestimated regionalist short prose narratives, essentially from a comparative literary perspective, but also considering certain aspects of their social and cultural connections and dissonances. Alda Corrreia completed her Masters degree in Comparative Literary Studies in 1988, at Universidade Nova and her PhD in Comparative Literature, in 1999, at the same University; she is assistant professor at Universidade Nova since 1999; her main research interests are comparative literature, short fiction history and theory and narrative medicine. Bern, 2017. 215 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2798-5 CHF 66.– / €D 56.95 / €A 58.30 / € 53.– / £ 44.– / US-$ 63.95 Monograph, English
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Languages & Literatures
Dominic Davies
Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930
Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cited these imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various colonial landscapes in which they were set. Physical embodiments of empire proliferate in this writing. Railways and trains, telegraph wires and telegrams, roads and bridges, steamships and shipping lines, canals and other forms of irrigation, cantonments, the colonial bungalow, and other kinds of colonial urban infrastructure – all of these infrastructural lines broke up the landscape and gave shape to the literary depiction and production of colonial space. By developing a methodology called «infrastructural reading», the author shows how a focus on the infrastructural networks that circulate through colonial fiction are almost always related to some form of anti-imperial resistance that manifests spatially within their literary, narrative and formal elements. This subversive reading strategy – which is applied in turn to writers as varied as H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and John Buchan in South Africa, and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. Forster and Edward Thompson in India – demonstrates that these mostly pro-imperial writings can reveal an array of ideological anxieties, limitations and silences as well as more direct objections to and acts of violent defiance against imperial control and capitalist accumulation. CONTENTS: Infrastructure, Resistance, Literature • Mapping Humanitarianism: Flora Annie Steel and the Contradictions of Colonial Capitalism • Mapping Segregation: Literary Geographies of South Africa • Mapping Frontiers: John Buchan and the Topographies of Imperial Ideology • Mapping Nationalism: Allegories of Uneven Development • Towards an Infrastructural Reading of the Present.
Oxford, 2017. XII, 298 pp., 5 coloured ill., 15 b/w ill. Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century. Vol. 2 hb. • ISBN 978-1-906165-88-8 CHF 93.– / €D 79.95 / €A 81.50 / € 74.10 / £ 60.– / US-$ 90.95
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Dominic Davies is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his DPhil in Post/Colonial Literature. He is the author of a range of publications on colonial and postcolonial literature and history and the coeditor of two forthcoming volumes related to infrastructure and resistance in literature. His current research focuses on the way in which comics and graphic novels resist violent urban infrastructures in twenty-first-century cities.
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Bahman Solati
The Wine Goblet of H . āfez. A Comparative Study of the Influence of H . āfez. on the Fifteenth-Century Classical Persian Poet Jāmī In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of H . āfez., an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian poet Jāmī. Having played a key role on the stage of world literature and poetry, present available studies in the West suffer from a dearth of good research works on H . āfez. . This text aims to fill this gap, including coverage of commentaries, critical studies, and compilations of H . āfez. ’s Divān, juxtaposing them with works and poetry of Jāmī to evaluate the influence of H.āfez. on this fifteenth-century mystic and poet. Comprehensive notes and an extensive bibliography are added bonuses of the book. Devotees of Persian literature and those of Persian-speaking countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan) will find this text of particular interest, as will academics interested in Persian poetry and literature. The usefulness of this research alone for students and scholars alike is of itself enough to make this book worth adding to any library. New York, 2017. XX, 136 pp. Crosscurrents: New Studies on the Middle East. Vol. 1 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3370-1 CHF 93.– / €D 80.95 / €A 82.50 / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95
Bahman Solati is a visiting scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Persian literature and comparative studies from the University of Exeter. His current research focuses on the impact of Sufism on post-Islamic Persian literature. He is the author of The Reception of H . āfez. (2013), Rubā‘īyāt of H . akim ‘Umar Khayyam: Selected Quatrains of Khayyam Translated into Simple English with Spiritual Interpretation (2015), and Persian Words of Wisdom: Sayings and Proverbs by Masters of Persian Poetry (2015).
Monograph, English
Emanuela Cervato
A System That Excludes All Systems Giacomo Leopardi’s «Zibaldone di pensieri» For many decades Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti) and satirical dialogues (the Operette morali). The conceptual consistency of the work was thereby denied, privileging Leopardi the poet over Leopardi the thinker. This book shows that such a perceived lack of coherence is merely illusory. The Zibaldone is drawn together by an intricate web of references centring around topics such as the ambivalent concept of nature; the Heraclitean «union of opposites» (ancients and moderns, poetry and philosophy, reason and imagination); and the tension between the desire for happiness and the impossibility of its realization. Largely unknown to the English-speaking world until its translation in 2013, the Zibaldone is Leopardi’s intellectual diary, the place where dialogue with the ancient classical traditions evolves into modern encyclopaedism and what has been described as «thought in movement». It establishes Leopardi as one of the most original and radical thinkers of the nineteenth century. Emanuela Cervato is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests focus on Leopardi, Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Pirandello. Oxford, 2017. XXIV, 256 pp., 1 fig. hb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-1994-2 CHF 85.– / €D 72.95 / €A 74.70 / € 67.90 / £ 55.– / US-$ 82.95 Monograph, English
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Languages & Literatures
Aneta Stępień
Shame, Masculinity and Desire of Belonging Reading Contemporary Male Writers This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author’s comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki demonstrates the extent to which shame conditions male behaviour, protecting the powerful hierarchies existing between different kinds of masculinities. Using different conceptual analyses, the author exposes the damaging nature of the culturally sanctioned demand that men be «real men», which is often simply a call for violence. The book also examines shame more broadly as a means of social control, whether of women in patriarchal cultures or of people of different ethnic, sexual and class identities. Treating shame as both an individual and a social emotion, the author draws on perspectives from scholarship on shame in postcolonial, gender and feminist studies.
Oxford, 2017. XII, 294 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2253-9 CHF 100.– / €D 85.95 / €A 88.30 / € 80.30 / £ 65.– / US-$ 97.95
Aneta Stępień holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Surrey. She coordinates Polish Studies in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches Polish culture and literature, East Central European Studes and gender. She is also working on a research project about the Yiddish modernist writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Oliver Ready
Persisting in Folly Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013 The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool – and the voice of the fool – has carried additional appeal as an enduring source of comic and stylistic innovation. Never has this appeal been stronger than in the past half-century, whether as a reaction to the «scientific atheism» and official culture of the late-socialist era, or as a response to the intellectual and moral disorientation that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union. Persisting in Folly traces three contrasting phases within this period: the «praise of folly» that underpins acknowledged samizdat masterpieces by Venedikt Erofeev, Yuz Aleshkovsky, and Sasha Sokolov; the sceptical appraisals of the Russian cult of the fool offered in the 1980s by Viktor Erofeev and Dmitry Galkovsky; and the legacy of this conflicted tradition in post-Soviet prose. By combining close readings with a rich comparative and contextual framework, this book charts a new path through recent Russian literature and offers a wide-ranging consideration of the causes and consequences of Russian writers’ enduring quest for wisdom through folly. Oxford, 2017. X, 408 pp. Russian Transformations: Literature, Thought, Culture. Vol. 6 pb. • ISBN 978-3-03911-967-7 CHF 74.– / €D 63.95 / €A 65.20 / € 59.30 / £ 48.– / US-$ 72.95
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Oliver Ready teaches Russian language and literature at the University of Oxford and is a research fellow at St Antony’s College. While living in Saransk and Moscow in the 1990s, he developed a strong interest in new Russian writing. He has translated books by the contemporary Russian authors Yuri Buida and Vladimir Sharov, and is general editor of the anthology The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from the 21st Century (2008). His translation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment was published in Penguin Classics in 2014. Since 2008, he has been consultant editor for Russia and East-Central Europe at the Times Literary Supplement.
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Philosophy
Nick Mehrdad Loghmani • Ramin Jahanbegloo
Harmony and Exchange Toward a Legoic Society
New York, 2017. XXVIII, 116 pp. American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 227 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3527-9 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95
Monograph, English
This book examines two main concepts – harmony and exchange – in relation to the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of human life. As such, what differentiates humans from other living species are the possibility of understanding a context and the willingness to collaborate and create complex models of exchange. Specifically, emotion and intellect are established as fundamental dimensions of our being which play key roles in exchange with others and dealing with our environment. This text provides a new perspective that examines «being and becoming» in a multidimensional exchange framework, concentrating on the analysis of a utilitarian society which reduces human beings to operators and servants of techno-scientific machinery. This approach to validity demands conformity to social and political norms which have lost touch with the intellectual and emotional expressions of the citizens of the world, resulting in an environment of alienation, violence, and subordination of humans to meaningless institutions and positivistic ideologies. The quest for true harmony and collaborative exchange in contemporary societies requires the recognition of multiple sites of subjectivity, self-certainty, and global domination of techno-scientific rationality. This book’s primary application towards a Legoic society is built on a critical pedagogy committed to dialogue and exchange, and is an environment that is accompanied by the process of development of a critical consciousness based on new systems of agency, moving toward a fundamentally non-reductionist praxis of the socio-political dimension of living together. Nick Mehrdad Loghmani is a senior information technology adviser with over a dozen years’ experience in some of the world’s leading companies such as the Royal Bank of Canada, the Toronto Dominion Bank, CGI, and Salesforce. He is also a researcher in the fields of mathematics, computer science, and cognitive science. Ramin Jahanbegloo is Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and Vice Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, Delhi, India. He received his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, history, and political science and later his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne University.
Alfred Betschart (ed.)
Democracy in Crisis: The Political Philosophy of Existentialism Today Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir in dialogue with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault and Butler Our democracies are facing great political challenges, not in the least due to populist movements and the return of nationalistic illusions. The authors of this volume question the critical, philosophical, emancipatory thinking of existentialists Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir – not only in their dialogue with each other, but also in relation to their predecessors, pioneers and successors, such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault and Butler, as well as with their opponents like Schmitt. Alfred Betschart earned his Ph.D. at the University of St. Gallen. His research concerns the life and work of Sartre and his contemporaries.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 224 pp. Jahrbücher der Sartre-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 5 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-72414-9 CHF 56.– / €D 47.95 / €A 49.30 / € 44.90 / £ 37.– / US-$ 54.95
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Philosophy
Rajani Kanth
Farewell to Modernism On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century
Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse. It offers a new episteme based on our true ontic nature – our anthropic species-being – as an offset and correction to all brands of EuroModernist idylls, be they of Left or Right, that have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of annihilation. In sum, this book argues that neither philosophy nor social science are tenable without a true, realist anthropology of the human species that sets limits to both political idealism and social engineering. Contents: Acknowledgments • Preface: Change • Foreword by Dr. Amit Goswami • Introduction: Challenging Eurocentrism: 45 Theses • Today • The Root Cause • Crisis, Disaster, Catastrophe: Up the Down Escalator • Anatomy of a Crisis • Where We Are • More Endgames • Free Markets • Les Folies Tragiques: The Droll Schoolgirl’s Guide to the World as It Is Today • The Bail-In • On Economics • On Capitalism (and Latter-day Debacles) • On Singaporeanisation: Or, Some Bitter Fruits of Globalization • Anthropic Dualism: A Tale of Two (Sub)-Species – A Comment on ‘La Condition Humaine’ • Querying the Cosmos • The (Sub)Human Condition • Nostalgia, for the Future • A God That Failed? • The Knowledge Game • Toward Non-Centrism • The Bell of Atri • Rites of Passage • The Last Train • A World on the Wane: The Wherefore and the Why • Endgame? • The Eclipse • On Civilization • On Philosophy • Beyond Late Modernism • A Farewell • Rethinking ‘Democracy’ • East and West • And There Was Blight: Summary Notes on the European Saga • By Ideals Alone? • A Summing Up • The Future? • The Final Hour • Everything, Reconsidered • The Cosmos • The Day After • Eurocentrism 101: A Primer • Toward Dissolution • Eurocentrism and EuroModernism • Racism: A Personal Discursus • Explaining a Critique: (Euro)Modernism: Delusions, Debacles, and Defaults • Ancient Vedic Wisdom: Key Concepts • Postface: Beyond Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier • Bibliography • Index.
New York, 2017. XXXII, 308 pp. American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 225 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3455-5 CHF 103.– / €D 89.95 / €A 91.70 / € 83.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 99.95
Monograph, English
Professor Rajani Kanth is an economist, a philosopher, and a social thinker. His major research interests lie in the fields of political economy, social theory and policy, and women’s issues. Over the course of three-plus decades, he has taught in the areas of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, economics, and philosophy. Currently based at Harvard University, he has served as an advisor to the United Nations in New York and on the faculties of prestigious universities around the world. His most recent book is The Post-Human Society (2015).
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Julie N. Books
The Supersensible in Kant’s Critique of Judgment In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Drawing upon her extensive background in the visual arts, art history, and philosophy, Dr. Books provides a unique discussion of Kant’s supersensible, illuminating how it cannot justify his a priori nature of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. She uses examples from the history of art, including paintings by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rubens, and Constable, to support her views. This book will make a significant addition to courses on the philosophy of Kant, aesthetics, philosophy of art, metaphysics, the history of Western philosophy, ethics, psychology, and art history. Julie N. Books, Esq., received her A.B. with honors from Princeton University, her J.D. from The College of William and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law, her M.A. in philosophy from New York University, and her PhD in philosophy from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
New York, 2016. 112 pp. American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 222 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3191-2 CHF 68.– / €D 60.– / €A 61.70 / € 56.12 / £ 45.– / US-$ 72.95
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Fred Ablondi
Reading Nature’s Book Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
New York, 2016. X, 96 pp. American University Studies. Series 5: Philosophy. Vol. 221 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3135-6 CHF 68.– / €D 60.– / €A 61.70 / € 56.12 / £ 45.– / US-$ 72.95
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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philosopher and Chief Mathematician.» Reading Nature’s Book: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy is the first book-length study written with undergraduates in mind that examines the philosophical implications (both theoretical and historical) of Galileo’s scientific discoveries, including many matters that were later taken up by seventeenthand eighteenth-century philosophers. This close analysis of Galileo’s philosophical insights demonstrates the prominent place his thought should have in the history of early modern philosophy. Reading Nature’s Book provides contextual material for college and university students enrolled in modern philosophy courses, introducing them to ideas and concepts that dominated philosophical discussion during the era. Furthermore, students and scholars interested in the history of philosophy of science will also benefit from a decidedly philosophical approach to such a leading scientific figure. Many of the topics explored by Galileo continue to be of philosophical interest today, including scientific methodology and the relation between science and religion. Fred Ablondi received his PhD. in philosophy from Marquette University. He is currently Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where he is also the Director of The Steel Center of the Study of Religion and Philosophy. He is the author of Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian (2005) as well as more than twenty articles on various topics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.
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Philosophy
Niclas Johansson
The Narcissus Theme from «Fin de Siècle» to Psychoanalysis Crisis of the Modern Self
The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of the century around 1900. It argues that a sense of crisis in the modern foundation of selfhood explains the heightened interest in Narcissus during this period. The book investigates three different aspects of the theme: as a symbol of a poetic apotheosis of the self in French Symbolism; as a narrative of a dissolving self in English, Austrian and French decadent literature; and as the concept of narcissism in sexology and psychoanalysis, where self-love provides an instinctual foundation of the self. Contents: Crystalline Reflection: Gide, Valéry, de Bouhélier and others • Narcissus Comes of Age: Wilde, Andrian, Lorrain and others • The Birth of the Concept out of the Narcissus-like Tendency: Freud, Ellis, Rank and others
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 478 pp. Northern European Studies in Literature, Language and Culture. Vol. 5 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-66592-3 CHF 99.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.30 / € 79.40 / £ 65.– / US-$ 95.95 Dissertation, English
Niclas Johansson studied Literature at the Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala and has previously published articles on Birgitta Trotzig, Willy Kyrklund, and Vilhelm Ekelund.
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George Rick Welch
Physiology: The Language of Life and Nature This book paints a flowing picture of the relationship beween life and nature, through the evolution of a word – physiology. Today, it denotes a scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and medicine, signifying the «study of life». Yet, physiology manifests a split personality in the course of history. It came down to us from the ancient Greeks, where it represented the «study of nature», or «natural philosophy» – the precursor of modern-day «science». Physiology originates from an older Greek root, physis – meaning «nature» itself – that stretches far back to the birth of Greek thought. How did this word generate two such disparate meanings? What does this word tell us, historically, about humankind’s grasp of the essence of nature and the essence of life – and the interrelationship between the two? The author follows an etymological path into the distant past, in writing the biography of the word «physiology». The book delves into linguistic pre-history, in search of the primordially interwoven views of life and nature – and the words that symbolized those views. It tracks the evolving meaning of those words in Western civilization across time, space, language, and culture.
Bern, 2016. 202 pp. Nature, Science and the Arts. Vol. 13
Rick Welch is emeritus dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and an affiliated research scholar in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests lie at the interface between the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history of science.
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Tony Kim
God and Human Freedom A Kierkegaardian Perspective In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction. Kim’s central analysis between the relation of God and human freedom in Kierkegaard presents God’s absoluteness as superseding human freedom, intervening at every point of His relation with the world and informing humanity of their existentially passive being. Kim argues Kierkegaard is not a strict voluntarist but deeply acknowledges God’s absoluteness and initiative over and against human life. Moreover, the author’s exploration of unity in Kierkegaard points to the very ethics of who God is, one who loves the world. Ultimately, God manifests that love in Jesus Christ, representing God’s ultimate reconciliation with the world in his humility.
New York, 2015. VI, 95 pp. American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 354 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3064-9 CHF 63.– / €D 56.– / €A 57.50 / € 52.30 / £ 42.– / US-$ 67.95
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Tony Kim is the founder and president of the Graduate Institute of Christian Philosophy in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is also a professor of theology and philosophy. He received his PhD in theology from The Free University of Amsterdam in Netherlands. Dr. Kim holds an MA in philosophy from University of Leuven in Belgium and an MA in religion from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. His first book Reasonableness of Faith: A Study of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments (2012) is also by Peter Lang.
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Philosophy
Harald Haarmann
Plato’s ideal of the Common Good Anatomy of a concept of timeless significance
This study documents various historical instances in the development of the concept «Common Good». The author reflects about Plato’s theory of Forms, which is infused with the idea of good, as the first principle of being. Plato was not the first philosopher to address the theme of the Common Good although he was the first to construct a political theory around it. This theme has remained a central agenda for philosophers throughout the ages. Contents: Introduction: The dream of social harmony • Plato and the homo politicus • The relation of the Common Good with society and state • The Common Good as an agent of social cohesion • The Common Good as valuable knowledge • The Common Good for all: Blindfolded justice and gender equality.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 166 pp., 8 b/w ill. hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-72412-5 CHF 47.– / €D 39.95 / €A 41.10 / € 37.40 / £ 31.– / US-$ 45.95
Monograph, English
Harald Haarmann is a German linguist and cultural scientist. He is Vice-President of the «Institute of Archaeomythology» in Sebastopol (California/USA) and director of its «European Branch» in Finland. His research fields are linguistics, cultural studies, and history of religion.
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Theology & Religious Studies
Rachel Werczberger
Jews in the Age of Authenticity Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel In this book, Rachel Werczberger takes stock of the Jewish New Age spirituality scene in Israel at the turn of the millennium. Led by highly charismatic rabbis, the Hamakom and Bayit Chadash communities attempted to bring about a Jewish spiritual renewal by integrating Jewish tradition – especially Kabbalah and Hasidism – with New Age spirituality. Having spent over two years in field research, Werczberger presents a comprehensive ethnographic account of these two groups, examining their rise and fall after only six years of activity. At the core of their aspiration for Jewish spiritual renewal, claims Werczberger, was the quest for authenticity. She investigates the ways in which the language of authenticity was embraced by the members of the communities in their construction of a new spiritual Jewish identity, their re-invention of Jewish rituals, and their failed attempt at constructing community. She concludes that all these elements point to the dual form of politics of authenticity and identity with which the Israeli Jewish New Age is involved. Rachel Werczberger received her PhD in sociology and anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She currently teaches at the program for religious studies at Tel-Aviv University and at the Holon Institute of Technology. New York, 2017. XII, 180 pp. After Spirituality. Vol. 2 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-1756-5 CHF 103.– / €D 89.95 / €A 91.70 / € 83.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 99.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-1755-8 CHF 61.– / €D 52.95 / €A 54.10 / € 49.20 / £ 40.– / US-$ 58.95 Textbook, English
Katharina Völker
Quran and Reform Rahman, Arkoun, Abu Zayd The author examines three 20th/21st century Muslims’ accounts of reading the Quran. To master contemporary social challenges, Fazlur Rahman (d. 1988), Muhammad Arkoun (d. 2010), and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (d. 2010) call for revisiting the Islamic heritage, plus a fresh look onto the Quranic ‘spirit’. The investigation leads through following concepts: the nature of the Quran, revelation and prophecy, the role of Muhammad and Prophethood. Discoursing the philosophers’ reform ideas leads to an analysis of their exegetical methods. Do the proposed Quran hermeneutics support their reform projects? This book uncovers pros and cons of these socio-intellectual innovations. It finally concludes: the thinkers’ scholarly and philosophical attitude exposes itself as a humanistic endeavour. Katharina Völker studied the history and philosophy of religion at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt, as well as Sufism and philosophy of mind at the University of Leeds. She received her PhD from the University of Otago, where she lectured on Women and Islam.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 195 pp. Theion. Studies in Religious Culture. Vol. 31 pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67531-1 CHF 52.– / €D 44.95 / €A 46.20 / € 42.– / £ 35.– / US-$ 50.95
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Theology & Religious Studies
Warren A. Kappeler III
Catholics and Millennialism A Theo-Linguistic Guide
Philosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity’s most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In Catholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide, Warren A. Kappeler III explores the insights of critical discourse theory to examine the impact of millenarian groups upon Catholics. He examines theolinguistic practices among present-day Catholics through allegorical interpretation, fundamentalism, and neo-literalism. Utilizing surveys of pre-millennial movements as revealed in academic research by Michael Cuneo, William Dinges, and Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, as well as post-millennial collaboration by progressive Catholics such as Hans Küng, Matthew Fox, and Karen Armstrong; Kappeler argues that apocalyptic stories and media images in today’s popular culture promote a self-dramatization that encourages sympathetic Catholics to interpret their life experience within the grammar of the millennium myth. While some commentators argue that the new age audience is driven by populist reasoning inside church history and culture, a critical discourse analysis perspective reveals that millenarian movements have provided a language resource for a great number of social, cultural, and political conflicts in the history of Western civilization. Consequently, the mainstream history of the Catholic Church has been dedicated to the a-millennial viewpoint of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Considering these platforms, Kappeler sketches a mediating position between the church’s millennial factions called Proleptic Adventism based upon a dialectical approach to both eschatology and incarnational spirituality. Ultimately Kappeler’s findings offer hope to a postmodern world by looking to the future instead of the past, by analyzing popular culture in its dynamism and its contradictions, stressing the spiritual elements of liberation and participation, and by expressing itself in sacramental action and analogical reasoning. Contents: Acknowledgments • Introduction: Post-Modern Semiotic Perspectives on Catholic Humanism & Liturgical Calendrics • Catholic Realism & Augustinian ‘Anti-Millennialism’ • Rhetorical Controversies in Catholic Eschata: The Millennium Myth & Inter-textual Historiography • Pre-Millennialism, Tradition, & Conservative Catholics • Post-Millennialism, Liberal Catholics, & Social Progress • Proleptic Ethics: From Moral Panics to Apologetics • Conclusion: Theo-Poetics & Post-Catholic Worldviews • Bibliography.
New York, 2017. X, 258 pp. American University Studies. Series 7: Theology and Religion. Vol. 350 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2964-3 CHF 103.– / €D 89.95 / €A 91.70 / € 83.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 99.95 Monograph, English
Warren A. Kappeler III received his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from McGill University; his M.A. in theological studies from the University of Dayton; and his B.A. in communication from Bowling Green State University. His previous accomplishments include serving as the editor-in-chief of the academic periodical ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University for several years, and serving as a research assistant for the International Marian Research Institute and the Marian Library in Dayton, Ohio. Kappeler has taught courses in humanities, philosophy, and religion at several colleges and universities.
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Alan O’Sullivan OP
Self-Giving, Self-Mastery St John Paul II on Men, Women and Conjugal Chastity The dignity of the person has always been a key theme of Pope John Paul II. Perhaps less well known is his emphasis on self-mastery as intrinsic to such dignity. In the love of man and woman, such mastery paves the way to self-giving and provides a richer, deeper experience of the union of persons. It also gives a new sensitivity to the beauty of masculinity and femininity as sexuality is seen in its original holiness: that is, by sharing in the Creator’s vision of the body. In this book, the author traces this daring portrait of human love back to the early writings of Karol Wojtyła. Alan O’Sullivan is an Irish Dominican. He has studied at Blackfriars in Oxford, the Angelicum in Rome and Fribourg University in Switzerland, where he received his doctorate in 2012. He teaches moral theology at the Dominican Studium in Dublin. He is also Spiritual Director of the Community of Pure in Heart, Ireland, and Chaplain to Trinity College Dublin.
Oxford, 2017. X, 308 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2259-1 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.20 / € 55.60 / £ 45.– / US-$ 67.95 Monograph, English
Anna Boroffka
The «Long Christi» in Painting The Codification of Authenticity in Intermediary Discourse From the Early Middle Ages, large format paintings spread across Europe depicting what was known as the «Long Christi». These paintings, which until now, have received little attention from art historians, were idolised as cult images, depicting Christ in his allegedly true form. This work presents for the first time a comparative analysis and catalogue of all currently known paintings of the «Long Christi» from the 14th to 18th centuries. Rather than treating the motif as a singular theme of the painting, it is incorporated into the larger context of worshipping Christ’s body length as a metrical relic. It demonstrates how the reliquary, which travelled from Jerusalem to the West over more than a thousand years, was picked up and interpreted in various media such as miniatures, print graphics, architecture, painting and sculpture. In addition, this study also prompts further research into images such as The Body of Christ in the Tomb (1521–1522) by Hans Holbein the Younger and the triumphal crosses, which spread from the 10th century onwards, as possibly connected to the «long cult».
Bern, 2017. 466 pp., 46 b/w ill., 14 coloured ill. Vestigia Bibliae. Jahrbuch des Deutschen Bibel-Archivs Hamburg. Vol. 35/36 hb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2130-3 CHF 109.– / €D 93.95 / €A 96.80 / € 88.– / £ 72.– / US-$ 106.95
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Anna Boroffka studied Spanish philology and art history in Berlin and Granada and earned her Ph.D. in 2014 on the «Long Christi» in painting. Following an academic volunteer service in cultural education, she took a position as an academic researcher at the University of Hamburg in 2013 and has been working there ever since. She is currently researching manuscripts from New Spain at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures.
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Theology & Religious Studies
Raymond Pelly
Pilgrim to Unholy Places Christians and Jews re-visit the Holocaust Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995– 2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and Christians. The book thus places the Holocaust at the centre of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In face of the silence of God and the choiceless choices of the victims, the central question is how we – Jews and Christians – can talk agency either of God or the inmates. With a view to opening a conversation between Auschwitz and Golgotha, the author invites the Jewish interlocutor into a consideration of the Jewish victim Christ in the ‘no-way-out’ of the cross. Can there then be mutual recognition between the many Jews of heroic faith and self-sacrificing love in the death camps and the victim caring Christ? Three examples are cited: a Mrs Levy at Auschwitz; the Paris Rabbi, Berek Kofman; and Janusz Korczak at Treblinka. These and others like them embody an ethic of caring that allow us to be hopeful about the modern world.
Bern, 2017. 367 pp., 42 coloured ill. Judaica et Christiana. Vol. 26 pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2194-5 CHF 99.– / €D 85.95 / €A 88.– / € 80.– / £ 66.– / US-$ 96.95 Monograph, English
Raymond Pelly is an Anglican Priest living and working in New Zealand. He has an MA in Theology from Oxford University and a Doctorate in Ecumenical Theology from the University of Geneva. Besides serving in numerous parishes, he has taught at Westcott House, Cambridge (UK); St John’s College, Auckland (NZ); and the University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus (USA). He was also Visiting Scholar at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1982/3 and 1995/6. His most recent work, 2005–2014, has been as Honorary Priest Associate at the Cathedral of St Paul, Wellington, New Zealand, where he had a ministry of counselling, spiritual direction and education.
Bernd Urban
Entrances. Edith Stein and Literature Readings in Tradition and Spirituality This book contains a collection of fundamental studies on Edith Stein and her readings on Homer, medieval literature, Lessing, Schleiermacher, Hauptmann and Expressionism. It examines how her readings were influenced by tradition, spirituality and personal encounters and explores current questions about faith, knowledge and a new phenomenology. Her intensive literary education, which came from the reconstructed library, had a profound impact on the late Carmelite’s development of piety and significantly fertilized her world of thought and her own mystical position. Bernd Urban earned his Ph.D. with source studies on Hofmannsthal, Freud and psychoanalysis. He is editor and author of numerous essays on Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Werfel, Döblin, Benn and Thomas Mann, among others. His research interests include the reception of Thomas Aquinas in contemporary literature as well as Edith Stein and literature.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 314 pp., 8 ill. hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67490-1 CHF 81.– / €D 69.95 / €A 71.90 / € 65.40 / £ 54.– / US-$ 78.95 Monograph, German
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History
Walther L. Bernecker
The Franco Regime in Spain The Controversy over a Chameleon-like System For decades, social scientists and politically interested contemporaries have argued about the typology of the Franco regime in Spain (1936/1939–1975). The topic’s explosiveness lies in the fact that not only it is a scientific debate, but also one of political ideology. If those on both sides of the debate were to equate Francoism with Fascism, new characteristics would emerge (particularly in the Cold War phase), such as military dictatorship, national Catholicism, authoritarianism or conservative development dictatorship. This volume discusses the various typological approaches, reveals their scope and limitations and opens up perspectives for further debate. Walther L. Bernecker is a modern age historian with a particular interest in Spain and Latin America. He has been a professor at the University of Bern and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Frankfurt am Main, 2016. 126 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67938-8 CHF 23.– / €D 19.95 / €A 20.50 / € 18.60 / £ 16.– / US-$ 22.95 Monograph, German
Franco Ruault
Business Model for Antisemitism Martin Hilti – «Volksdeutscher» Entrepreneur in Liechtenstein, 1939–1945 This book examines the life of Liechtensteiner entrepreneur Martin Hilti (1915–1997) and his association with Nazism in Lichtenstein. Founder of Maschinenbau Hilti, today known as the Hilti Corporation in Schaan, Martin Hilti was one of the most aggressive advocates for National Socialism in Liechtenstein. In the infamous Hertzblatt Der Umbruch, Hilti denounced, lampooned and mocked Jews in Liechtenstein for years and demanded the destruction of the «Jewish race». The author analyses the influence that Hilti’s radical economic outlook had on his life, work and not least of all, his corporation. This book offers a portrait of Martin Hilti, from radical Nazi to exemplary entrepreneur. Franco Ruault studied political science, contemporary history and media research at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests include sexualised forms of violence under the Nazi regime and the history of the Nazi press.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 210 pp., 18 coloured ill., 14 b/w ill. hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-67450-5 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95
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History
Klaus Schroeder • Jochen Staadt (eds.)
The Death Victims of the GDR Border Regimes at the Inner-German Border from 1949–1989 A Biographical Handbook
This handbook contains biographies of 327 people from East and West Germany who died at the hands of the GDR Border Regime. Most of the refugees shot dead, killed by border mines or automatic weapons, or drowned in border waters were young people, and the majority of them deliberately chose a life-threatening road to freedom against the Socialist Unity Party dictatorship. This handbook contributes to their remembrance. It also contains the stories of civilians from both German states who, without any intention to flee, became victims of the GDR Border Regime as well as the fates of German and Soviet deserters who were killed at the GDR border. In addition, the book contains biographical information of soldiers who, bound to Border Troop service, committed suicide out of desperation, as well as stories of GDR border guards who were mistaken for refugees and shot by either the West or their own comrades. Contents: Death victims from East and West Germany on the GDR’s western border • Border crosser, refugee • GDR and Soviet soldiers shot for desertion • Suicide in the GDR Border Troops; Suicide of GDR citizens desiring to leave • GDR Border Police killed by Western gunfire and mine accidents.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 684 pp., 167 b/w ill. Studien des Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat an der Freien Universität Berlin. Vol. 24 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-72594-8 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 Edited Collection, German
Klaus Schroeder is a professor at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. He has directed the Forschungsverbund SED-Staat since 1992 Jochen Staadt is project leader in the Forschungsverbund SED-Staat at the Freie Universität Berlin and has been on staff since 1992.
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History
Florens Deuchler
Quintilian Post-Antiquity Traces of Institutio Oratoria. Speculations about Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte. Notes on Sulzer’s Theory Established in the first century, Quintilian’s fame as a teacher, thinker, and scholar has never faded. His Institutio Oratoria has endured as a milestone and witness to the memoria of rhetoric. As an expert on the matter, Quintilian even found favour in the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. In the 18th century, Frederick the Great called for the urgent study of the Institutio in higher education. Quintilian’s contribution to educational history is remarkable, yet as the Institutio is rarely consulted outside of professional rhetoric circles, its writer is hardly known. Astonishingly, newer histories of art have overlooked Quintilian, thus evading potential sources of further insight. Quintilian’s influence is primarily pursued in Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte (c.1400). This Tuscan painter considered the late-antiquity text to be a source of instruction for a healthy, orderly and morally impeccable lifestyle.
Bern, 2017. 226 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-2675-9 CHF 69.– / €D 58.95 / €A 61.10 / € 55.50 / £ 46.– / US-$ 66.95
Florens Deuchler, born in Zurich in 1931, studied classical archaeology, ancient history, musicology and art history in Bern, Zurich, London and Bonn. He completed his assistantship in Bonn and Rome (Bibliotheca Hertziana) and a post-doctorate in Zurich. He is chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is also chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Geneva, president of the Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown Foundation in Baden and director of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
Monograph, German
Lynda Payne
The Best Surgeon in England Percivall Pott, 1713–88
New York, 2017. XIV, 236 pp. American University Studies. Series 9: History. Vol. 205 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2319-1 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95
Monograph, English
Percivall Pott (1713–88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the rich biographical and bibliographical record Pott and his students left behind to add to the historical and intellectual understanding of pre-modern surgery. This was a time when surgery was becoming professionalized. Pott maintained a significant role in crafting the image of a professional surgeon as someone who is capable of treating a multitude of poor hospital patients while at the same time effectively teaching operative skills and manners to the next generation of young men and running a successful and wealthproducing private practice. Pott had more medical conditions named after him during his lifetime than any other surgeon of his era or since; analyzing what conditions surgeons claimed were theirs to manage and what ailments patients sought surgical solutions for reveals the importance and power of rhetoric in crafting the increasingly rigid definition of medicine as a sophisticated scientific activity rather than a mundane lay experience of treating sickness. The practice of naming conditions after surgeons also helps lay bare the power to classify and own certain sites in the body. An account of Pott’s life and work challenges the prevailing view in historiographical works of surgery before the era of general anesthesia as a realm of screaming patients and larger than life eccentric medical men whose primary aims were to operate as fast as possible. Through an examination of the life and work of the man rated the best surgeon in England by his contemporaries, the whole field of surgery in history becomes humanized. Lynda Payne is the inaugural Sirridge Missouri Endowed Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine, and also is Professor of History at UMKC. She received a M.A. in Mediaeval history from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of California at Davis. Payne has practiced as a registered nurse, a respiratory therapist, and a psychiatric social worker.
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History
Ben Dorfman
13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics
Constituted of a range of essays, the present volume addresses a variety of contemporary and historical events from human rights perspectives. Taking on issues from the American presidential election to North Korean missile tests to terrorism and «civilizational» conflict to Cold War history, the current collection seeks to speak plainly by combining academic convention with a «feuilleton» style. Aimed at students and the public as much as other academics, the essays in this book seek to make rights concepts concrete by speaking to the issues through which they become salient: international conflict, social justice problems and the historical scenes that ask us to realize all human beings’ equality and dignity – an equality and dignity this book seeks to promote. Contents: Human Rights • International conflict • Peace • Cultural conflict • Rights and the arts • Social justice • Academic journalism • Historical commentary.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 222 pp., 1 b/w ill., 13 coloured ill. Political and Social Change. Vol. 6 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-72233-6 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95
Monograph, English
Ben Dorfman is Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History and Head of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University (Denmark).
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Politics
Georg Cavallar
Theories of Dynamic Cosmopolitanism in Modern European History It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms of cosmopolitan thinking. One key feature is its dynamism, or the idea of change built into modern theories of cosmopolitanism. Covering the period from the 1530s to the 1920s, this book investigates various manifestations of cosmopolitanism, including normative individualism, the dawn of historical thinking, and the dynamic conceptions of law and rights and of the international community. It analyses the international legal theories of selected authors from Francisco de Vitoria to Austrian lawyers Heinrich Lammasch and Alfred Verdross. The author focuses in particular on the development of hospitality rights and the right to immigration, republicanism and cosmopolitanism, and cosmopolitan education.
Oxford, 2017. XXX, 236 pp. New Visions of the Cosmopolitan. Vol. 6
Georg Cavallar teaches modern history at the University of Vienna and has published on Kant’s political philosophy, the history of international law, and the philosophy of cosmopolitanism. His publications include The Rights of Strangers: Theories of International Hospitality, the Global Community and Political Justice since Vitoria (2002), Imperfect Cosmopolis: Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and Cosmopolitan Ideas (2011), and Kant’s Embedded Cosmopolitanism: History, Philosophy and Education for World Citizens (2015).
hb. • ISBN 978-1-78707-487-3 CHF 85.– / €D 72.95 / €A 74.70 / € 67.90 / £ 55.– / US-$ 82.95
Monograph, English
Shaun May
Capital-in-Crisis, Trade Unionism and the Question of Revolutionary Agency The entry of the capital relation into its epoch of structural crisis forms the basis for the development of the author’s conception of revolutionary agency. Drawing on the work and achievements of both Marx and Hungarian socialist thinker István Mészáros, May relates the emergence and deepening of the structural crisis to the decline of trade unionism as the traditional and universal form of organization deployed economistically by workers against capital. In the relationship between the «defensively-structured», universal, trade union form and the growing contradictions of the global capitalist system, May seeks to unearth the possibility of a higher form of agency which is more adequately adapted to address the immediate and long-term objectives facing millions of people today worldwide in the age of capital’s «destructive self-reproduction». Looking back in order to look forward, he also subjects the form of agency within the Russian Revolution to a critique which relates it directly to the conditions prevailing in Russia at the time. In so doing, he questions its supposed validity as a form of revolutionary agency for the struggle to put an end to the global capitalist system today.
Oxford, 2017. XVI, 442 pp. Trade Unions. Past, Present and Future. Vol. 26 pb. • ISBN 978-1-78707-230-5 CHF 87.– / €D 74.95 / €A 76.10 / € 69.20 / £ 56.– / US-$ 84.95
Monograph, English
Shaun May was born in Hull, England in 1960 into a working-class family. He read Biochemistry and Chemistry at undergraduate level, followed by postgraduate studies in Education at the University of Hull. After graduating, he worked as an organic chemist, a biology lecturer in further education and later as a teacher in state schools in East Yorkshire. Now living in East Yorkshire, England, he is an independent socialist writer whose present work focuses on the urgent question of revolutionary agency. Capital-in-Crisis, Trade Unionism and the Question of Revolutionary Agency is his first book.
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Politics
Julie A. Webber
Beyond Columbine School Violence and the Virtual
School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a series of readings of school shooting episodes (Red Lake, MN, 2005; Virginia Tech, 2007, and Northern Illinois, 2008), as well as similar cases in Finland, Germany, and Norway, among others and their relatedness. The book expands the author’s central premise from her earlier book Failure to Hold, which explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in perceived inequality and the shame, rage, and violence that it provokes. In doing so, it goes further to explore the United States’ outdated perceptual apparatus based on a reflective liberal ideology and presents a new argument about proprioception: the combined effect of a sustained lack of thought (non-cognitive) in action that is engendered by digital media and virtual culture. The present interpretation of the virtual is not limited to video games but encompasses the entire perceptual field of information sharing and media stylization (e.g., social networking, television, and branding). More specifically, American culture has immersed itself so thoroughly in a digital world that its violence and responses to violence lack reflection to the point where it confuses data with certainty. School-related violence is presented as a dramatic series of events with Columbine as its pilot episode. Contents: Acknowledgments • List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis • Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» • The Many Tropes of Columbine • Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility • The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract • Of Rogues and Fans • Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration • Conclusion • Epilogue • Notes • Bibliography • Index.
New York, 2017. X, 250 pp. Violence Studies. Vol. 1 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-2041-1 CHF 98.– / €D 84.95 / €A 87.10 / € 79.20 / £ 64.– / US-$ 94.95
Monograph, English
Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She has published several books and essays. Among them are Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the U.S. Post 9/11.
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Law & Economics
Murat A. Yülek • Hongyul Han
Industrial, Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in South Korea and Japan Designing effective industrial and science, technology and innovation (STI) policies is still an ongoing quest for both developed and developing countries. This book examines industrial as well as STI policies in East Asian countries South Korea and Japan comparatively. Japan is one of the largest industrial economies in the world. However, it is experiencing competitiveness problems with a relative fall in its manufacturing industry indicators such as exports. Korea is, on the other hand, a rapidly rising industrial power challenging larger peers including Japan. The two economies are competing in similar markets and are on different cycles of development. This book looks at the competitive positions of the two countries in the field of industrial and STI policies in general and in the sectors of railway equipment, medical equipment, aviation equipment and electronics. Murat Yülek is a professor of economics at Istanbul Commerce University where he is the Director of the Center for Industrial Policy and Development. He has published widely in the field of economic and financial development.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 208 pp., 35 fig., 59 tables
Hongyul Han is a professor of economics at Hanyang University, Korea. He has authored a number of books and articles in international economics, trade and industry policy and development.
pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-68124-4 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95
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Jochen Glöckner • Reinhard Singer • Astrid Stadler • Xujun Gao (eds.)
Legal Operating Conditions of Markets and Forms of Conflict Resolution in China and Europe The contributions to this anthology consider the legal frameworks for competition and markets in both China and Europe. This includes antitrust conditions pertaining to corporations, work, and competition respectively, as well as economic criminal law and the definition of intellectual property rights and consumer protection. Domestic and foreign market players need to be able to rely on stable legal conditions, and they also have a major interest in a functioning, dependable court system or extrajudicial mechanisms for the resolution of conflicts and disputes. The work in this edition analyses differences and development trends from a comparative perspective. Jochen Glöckner is chair of German and European Private and Economic Law at the University of Konstanz. Reinhard Singer is chair of the Department of Civil Law, Labour Law, Law of the Legal Profession, Family Law and Law Sociology at Humboldt University in Berlin. Astrid Stadler is chair of Civil Law, Civil Action Law, Comparative Law and International Private Law at the University of Konstanz. Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 244 pp., 3 coloured ill., 2 b/w tables Schriften zum internationalen Privatund Verfahrensrecht. Bd. 20 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-71570-3 CHF 64.– / €D 54.95 / €A 56.50 / € 51.40 / £ 42.– / US-$ 61.95 Dissertation, German
Xunjun Gao is director of the Sino-German Institute for International Economic Law at the Law School/CDHK, Tongji University, China.
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Law & Economics
Erik D. Fritsvold • Jonathan M. Bowman (eds.)
Incarcerated Interactions A Theory-Driven Analysis of Applied Prison Communication Incarcerated Interactions: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Applied Prison Communication is an innovative, applied edited book that uses core interdisciplinary social science theories to analyze and describe the social psychology and sociology of communicative interactions amongst incarcerated individuals. Beginning with the fundamentals of human interactions, this edited volume allows scholars across a variety of disciplines (such as criminology, sociology, communication studies, social psychology, anthropology, and economics) to become familiar with and apply the core principles and the requisite terminology of human communication within a criminological context. Each of the four sections of the text not only build upon the knowledge structures of previous chapters, but also function as stand-alone analyses and/or applications of extant scholarship within essential contexts. From a general discussion of core social science theory to the specific application of that theory in a range of scholarly contexts, this book addresses relevant issues such as mental illness and wellness, the gendered experience of inmates, recidivism rates, violence, the criminogenic effect of incarceration and the large-scale implications of prison gangs and their associated cultural influence, to name a few. New York, 2016. IX, 222 pp., 4 graphs Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics. Vol. 3 hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-3460-9 CHF 93.– / €D 80.95 / €A 82.50 / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95
Monograph, English
Erik D. Fritsvold (Ph.D., University of California at Irvine) is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology: Law, Crime and Justice at the University of San Diego. He also serves as the Academic Coordinator for MS Law Enforcement and Public Safety Leadership Program. He has been recognized as one of America’s “Best 300 Professors” by the Princeton Review. Jonathan M. Bowman (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of San Diego. He has been the recipient of the National Communication Association Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education, the discipline’s highest teaching honor. He also received the WSCA Distinguished Teaching Award, a Keck Faculty Fellowship for his focus on undergraduate research, and the Innovations in Experiential Education Award for his commitment to high-impact practices.
Elisabeth Parteli
Freedom of the Press and Protection of Personality A Guide for Journalistic Practice What carries more weight: the journalist’s right to freedom of opinion and expression or the protection of personality rights? Based on an analysis of precedents set by the European Court of Human Rights, this book is an essential guide for journalistic editorial work. One of its primary focal points is the demarcation between factual claims and value judgements. Elisabeth Parteli studied law at the University of Innsbruck and the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and completed a Master’s degree in journalism and new media at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna.
Frankfurt am Main, 2017. 231 pp., 1 coloured ill. Völkerrecht, Europarecht und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht. Vol. 23 pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-71669-4 CHF 64.– / €D 54.95 / €A 56.50 / € 51.40 / £ 42.– / US-$ 61.95
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Index
A Ablondi, Fred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Rick Welch, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ames, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Rosdahl, Jamilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Rozmarin, Miri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
B Bacon, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Ruault, Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Barnes, Susan B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bernecker, Walther L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
S Sampaio-Dias, Susana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Betschart, Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Schildhauer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Books, Julie N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Schroeder, Klaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Boroffka, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Siever, Christina Margrit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Bouchard, Gérard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Singer, Reinhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Bowie, Robert A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Solati, Bahman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Bowman, Jonathan M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Staadt, Jochen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Stadler, Astrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
C Cali, Dennis D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Stępień, Aneta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Cavallar, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Szende, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Cervato, Emanuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Correia, Alda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
U Urban, Bernd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Craven, Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
V Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D Dalton, Mary M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Völker, Katharina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Davies, Dominic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Deuchler, Florens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
W Webber, Julie A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dorfman, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Weber, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Weißinger, Klaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
F Fritsvold, Erik D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Werczberger, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Fullerton, Jami A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Y Yülek, Murat A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 G Gao, Xujun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Glöckner, Jochen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
H Haarmann, Harald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Hamilton, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Han, Hongyul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
J Jafroudi, Nahal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Jahanbegloo, Ramin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Johansson, Niclas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
K Kanth, Rajani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Kappeler III, Warren A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Kendrick, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Kimpel, Dieter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Kim, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Köhnen, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
L Larremore, April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Loghmani, Nick Mehrdad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Lombardinilo, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Lotze, Netaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
M Macauley, Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Mackensen, Karsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 May, Shaun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 McNair, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Mederake, Nathalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
O O'Sullivan OP, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 P Parteli, Elisabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Pavitt, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Payne, Lynda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Pelly, Raymond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Poindexter, Paula M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Polson, Erika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Povilionienė, Rima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
R Ready, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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