englischIn 1898, the academic discipline Byzantine Studies was founded by Karl Krumbacher at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Since then, Byzantine Studies have been thriving there for more than one hundred years. PD Dr. Sergei Mariev (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, [...]

englischThe present volume examines how the individual becomes and embodies that which he or she is through sport. The interdisciplinary contributions address the benefits of competitive sports for the modern subject. In doing so the lessons learned in sports can be understood as cultural capacities [...]

englischThe question of the human being is central to pedagogy, as all pedagogical thoughts and actions are based on anthropological ideas. At present, anthropocentric understandings of the self and the world of the human being are generally influential. This work scrutinises these both within [...]

englischThe book presents six very different source texts on time and progress (four in Ottoman Turkish and two in Arabic). The accompanying commentaries examine in different ways the transformation of concepts and semantics, ideology and rhetoric, which changed significantly in these regions during [...]

englischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]

englischFor anyone interested in cultural and intercultural linguistics paired with research into multilingualism, this volume offers multifaceted insights into current research topics, questions and methods. The various contributions include not only traditions and theoretical considerations but [...]

englischThe complex Gnostic teachings of antiquity and their revival and remythification in neo-Gnostic and occultist groups at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century form the core of this two-volume publication. The "Gnostic Mystery School" of the pastor E. C. H. Peithmann is [...]

englischDiscover the groundbreaking insights of a visionary thought leader in the age of data-driven civilization. In this experimental essay, the author presents a radical innovation ethic of combining human creativity and artificial intelligence, whose complex interplay he explores herein. [...]

englischThe poet Rainer Maria Gerhardt (1927–1954), who died young, was a solitaire. At a time when West German literature was only hesitantly discovering the new, he revealed unknown horizons. His translations and publishing projects presented post-war Germans with poetry from all parts of the [...]

englischThe study bridges the gap bewtween Paul Ricœur’s and Jacques Lacan’s interpretations of Freudian psychoanalysis by relating both to dialectical models of reflexive self-consciousness. Both authors conceive of subjectivity as mediated through the Other. While Ricœur, inspired by Fichte’s [...]

englischThis book takes on the forcefulness of post-modernist appeals and their rational fantasies of omnipotence. Since the Enlightenment, theology has sought to bring faith and reason together. In doing so, it usually presupposes an image of the human being that understands the subject as a [...]

englischThis volume sheds light on the status of the humanities in the Soviet Union, using the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as an example. The work presented here for the first time in translation is the literary thesis of the well-known Azerbaijani writer Mir Cəlal (1908–1978), written from the [...]

englischThe concept of "life" has always been part of the basic philosophical topoi. In Greek antiquity, the question of what constitutes a "good" or "successful" life was regarded as a fundamental question of philosophy. As a result, early philosophers engaged in practice-oriented philosophizing [...]