Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Il libro raccoglie gli atti del convegno internazionale Sopra il gusto moderno: Civiltà musicale napoletana nell’età di Pergolesi, tenutosi a Napoli nel Gennaio del 2010 nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per i 300 anni della nascita di Pergolesi. Il volume esplora l’epoca e il contesto in cui...
Le Mur de Berlin
Histoire, mémoires, représentations
Language: French
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Le 9 novembre 1989 au soir s’ouvrait le Mur de Berlin. Vingt-huit ans durant, il avait divisé la ville, l’Allemagne, l’Europe et même le monde en deux blocs rivaux. Il devint l’un des emblèmes majeurs de la guerre froide. Erigé pour mettre fin à la fuite vers l’Ouest des Allemands de...
Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Schiller on Kants Aesthetics
The Public Character of the Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The framework that relates aesthetic, moral, and political aspects into such a triadic relationship is an implicit conception of freedom. In «The Critique of Judgment» Kant...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German literature and culture since...
Philosophy, Literature, and the Dissolution of the Subject
Nietzsche, Musil, Atay
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
If philosophy has limits, what lies beyond them? One answer is literature. In this study, rather than seeing literature as a source of illustrations of philosophical themes, the author considers both philosophy and literature as sometimes competing but often complementary ways of making sense of and...
Critical Theory and Critical Genres
Contemporary Perspectives from Poland
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation...
Higher Humanism
A Neotranscendental Philosophy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations, drawn from the higher...
Literariness
Models, gradations, experiments
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The deepest crises cannot destroy the universal model of literariness. It maintains its appeal for participants in literary communication as a «contradictory» model. This thought recurs in many epochs. Literariness involves suspending the formal or logical norms of contradiction (lex contraditionis)....
Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel
Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and...
On Mysticism, Ontology, and Modernity
A Theological Engagement with Secularity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative path toward their reconciliation. In...
Romanian Joyce
From Hostility to Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This study makes Romania’s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce’s critical reception and translations, as well as the writer’s influence on Romanian prose, it brings Derrida’s notion of «hostipitality» to comparative literary and translation...
Beyond Words
Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Human thinking depends not only on words but also on visual imagery. Visual argumentation directly exploits the logic of the pictorial, while verbal arguments, too, draw on figurative language, and thus ultimately on images. In the centuries of handwritten documents and the printed book, our educational...
The Identity of Metaphor The Metaphor of Identity
Discourse and Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana Mălăncioiu, Mariana Marin and Sylvia...
Between Romanticism and Modernism
Ignacy Jan Paderewskis Compositional Œuvre
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This is the first monograph on the Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941). It aspires to be part of the process of restoring his compositional legacy to European musical culture. Reinterpreting the legend surrounding the great Pole, the study is based on Paderewskis works that are listed...