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La rencontre avec lautre
Phénoménologie interculturelle dans lEurope contemporaine
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
La rencontre avec l’autre est le thème fédérateur de cet ouvrage atypique, issu d’une expérience didactique originale mise en place par des professeurs issus de différentes disciplines. Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, en tant que territoire où tant d’immigrés se sont rencontrés et cohabitent...
The Point of Philosophy
An Introduction for the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The core questions of philosophy about the origin of the world and people, the distinction between good and evil, and the meaning of life – these questions keep us all busy. In this introduction to philosophy, these three questions lead our journey. You want to understand the world and man. Then...
Arthur Hugh Clough
The Poetry of a Questioning Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus. Attention is...
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe
Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Since its inception, one of the distinguishing features of the project of European integration has been the overcoming of internal borders. This aim has had one of the most remarkable outcomes in the history of cross-border cooperation, resulting in the creation of territorial structures known as...
by Mariaconcetta Costantini
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline of the sensation novel, a scandalous...
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established...
Embracing Democracy
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political,...
by Crispin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element...
A Liberation Ecclesiology?
The Quest for Authentic Freedom in Joseph Ratzingers Theology of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Freedom, one of the most potent ideals of the post-Enlightenment era, came to remarkable prominence in ecclesiology through the emergence of liberation theologies in the twentieth century. At the same time, Joseph Ratzinger – a German university professor – was appointed a bishop of the Roman...
Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland
Studies in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Since the end of the nineteenth century, Ireland has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of its cultural, political, constitutional and religious identities, resulting in an unparalleled questioning of the dominant discourses and narratives that have seemingly defined the nation. The essays in this...
by Ludovic Highman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important...
Pilgrim to Unholy Places
Christians and Jews re-visit the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
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...
Heimat, Loss and Identity
Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering,...
Dancing As If Language No Longer Existed
Dance in Contemporary Irish Drama
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays and argues that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expression by the local culture. The author approaches this issue from a cultural materialist perspective, demonstrating...