Allgemeines, Lexika (65 Artikel)

Polemical stupidity - a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin - denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does...

Queneau's novels are extremely popular for their wit and linguistic ingenuity but they also pose a serious challenge to the reader's reconstruction of the fictional world, which can often go unreco...

¿Cuál es la actualidad del pensamiento humboldtiano? Destacados investigadores de Europa y América han contestado a esta pregunta en el Simposio «Alexander von Humboldt y la actualidad de su pensam...

This book reconstructs the legacy of Korean minjung theology by reformulating its essential ideas in a dialogue with process thought. In a minimal sense, this study is a theological reinterpretatio...

Die Medizin ist geprägt von Kontrasten und dialektischen Beziehungen: Spiritualität in der Spitzenmedizin, Heilen im Spannungsfeld von Kultur und Technologie, Medizin zwischen Liberalismus und Mens...

This book analyses T. F. Torrance's theology of incarnation. His theology is built upon several crucial presuppositions. This book examines these presuppositions and their role within the framework...

Am 24. Oktober 1945 trat die Charta der Vereinten Nationen in Kraft. Die damals auf dem Hintergrund der Leiderfahrungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges festgeschriebenen Ziele haben auch heute in einer Zei...

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin's thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States ...

Gianluigi Segalerba, 1967 in Genua geboren, schloss 1991 nach einem einjährigen Aufenthalt an der Universität Tübingen sein Studium an der Universität Pisa ab. 1998 promovierte er an der Universitä...

This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain a...

This book focuses on the novel Paradiso of Cuban author José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), and in particular on the protagonist José Cemí. It examines the development of Cemí according to the three dist...

In welchem Sinne bestimmt und bedingt es die Lektüre, wenn man Robert Musil als Philosoph, als Natur- oder Kulturwissenschaftler, vielleicht sogar als Linguist, oder doch vorrangig als Schriftstell...

What can one say about eschatology in the Old Testament? For a number of scholars there is no eschatology in the Old Testament and for many others eschatology only occurs at the fringes of that sec...

En su «Carta a un amigo japonés», Derrida afirma que «la cuestión de la deconstrucción es también, de cabo a cabo, la cuestión de la traducción». El presente libro examina la compleja relación entr...

Auf der neonatalen Intensivstation am Universitätsspital Zürich müssen tagtäglich für Kinder Lebensentscheide getroffen werden. Einerseits können heute dank der modernen Intensivmedizin viele Kinde...

Most of the papers included in this volume were first presented at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2003. Mount Athos is the principal surviving ...

Au croisement de l'épistémologie et de l'esthétique, cette enquête révèle la pluralité du monstre. Parler du monstre, en effet, cela signifie toujours parler d'autre chose : de la nature et de ses ...

If it is true that a painting can 'think visually', then it is also true that Diderot was the first to say so - and he has spelled out this concept better than anyone else. Diderot's Salons show th...

The essays presented here are the outcome of research carried out by members of IFILNOVA (Institute for Philosophy of New University of Lisbon) in 2016. The IFILNOVA Permanent Seminar seeks to show...

Doctor Who is one of television's most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its ...