Aesthetics was founded as a separate philosophical discipline by scholars at the University of Halle in the second third of the 18th century. At the same time, the question of the 'whole man'…

Following nearly 100 years of abolitionist efforts for reform, Article 102 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany marked the constitutional end of legal capital punishment. What…

The subject of this book is the media coverage of avian flu (bird flu) in 2006. A large part of media coverage consists of reflection on the media contributions and their potential power, where…

The novel The Eternal Philistine (1930) established Horváth’s reputation as a sharp-witted critic of his time. This historical critical edition for the first time provides…

This book contains a wide array of cultural-historical contributions that center on distinctive figures of German literary history from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age and their struggles with…

Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch,…

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, tried for years to employ the most famous Condottiere in his day. But Colleoni never crossed the Alps. The Venice Republic wanted nothing but tranquillity and…

The volume launches the new series of the Medievalists' Society. It focuses on the relationship between Man and God. Issues include the interrelationship of God's image and the image of man, the…

Karsten Lichau explores the strains and breaks in Picard's early works (1914-1933). The focus is on a literary trope that was both controversial and illuminative: the human countenance. This…

Die Paragonefrage, erstmals ausgiebig von Leonardo diskutiert, besitzt im gesamten Quattrocento eine rege Vorgeschichte, die bei allen frühen Impulsen durch Petrarca als die entscheidende…

It is no longer possible to regard the heterogeneous disciplines of theology in terms of a unitary and dominant thematic dictum. Nevertheless, a common perspective is essential if theological…

Band 2 behandelt praxisnah Inhalt und Umfang des Schutzes von Medienprodukten mit Schwerpunkt auf Literatur, Kunst und Musik. Im Einzelnen:  Urheberrecht FilmrechtTheaterrecht…

Volume 5 considers the liability of Internet providers, the protection of personal data, and the criminal liability of users and firms. It offers practical explanations of laws pertaining to…

Hölderlin's Ode Empedocles has never before been the subject of a study comparing its intrinsic literary value to dramatic undertakings with the same name. For the first time, this study…

Kant uses the term ontology in a doubled way. Most of the time, he attaches a negative valence to it, but occasionally he equates ontology to transcendental philosophy. Rivera demonstrates how…

The social transformation of the Roman world is a highly topical and much-discussed subject among historians. The importance of kinship in this epochal process has been largely neglected until…

This study examines the statements about strangers, foreign peoples, and gods in Deuteronomy. It shows that representations of the stranger were closely tied to differently nuanced constructions…

This work is a compilation of recent essays by one of the most prominent scholars in the field of  “law and literature,” including essays on classical authors such as Schiller,…

Johann Nikolaus Tetens’s Philosophical inquiries into Human Nature and its Development (1777) is one of the most important philosophical works of the late Enlightenment. In 14 essays,…

?'The new standard work on the history of German language from the 14th to the 20th century with comprehensive coverage of the most recent research literature. The detailed and admirably clear…

This edition presents Rée's books Psychologische Beobachtungen (Psychological Observations) (1875), Der Ursprung der moralischen Empfindungen (The Origin of Moral Sensations) (1877), Die…

Approximately 700 neologisms are presented in this first, large dictionary of German neologisms. These neologisms include new words, new meanings of words and new compounds that became part of…

The author reads the Bacchae in the framework of a complete textual interpretation as a 'textbook example' of a tragedy evoking fear and pity in the Aristotelian sense. She sees the tragic…

Cultural assets such as paintings, sculptures and archaeological objects are commodities - merchandise if you will. The trade with cultural assets is not free; indeed, it is governed by numerous…

In the 10th edition, Wolfgang Fikentscher and Andreas Heinemann together provide for the first time the revision of the work. The new edition takes into consideration particularly the radical…

Ernst Troeltsch war für März 1923 eingeladen, als einer der ersten deutschen Gelehrten nach dem Weltkrieg in London, Oxford und Edinburgh Vorträge zu seinem Lebenswerk zu halten, starb jedoch…

['The principle of the religious-ideological neutrality of the State - content and limits']The call for governmental neutrality in religious-ideological issues, firmly enshrined in our…

These two volumes comprising 1526 pages contain a reproduction of the original text of Schottelius' most important work, a 'Baroque summa philologica' of the German language. It is supplemented…

A description of Heidegger's theory of literature has yet to be written. The present study undertakes to fill the gap. It identifies models and concepts from the history of interpretation theory…

The expansion of the concept of style has its roots in the diversity of theories on the subject and the different language elements to which style is ascribed. Alongside the print media, a whole…

The study provides a theoretical and methodological grounding for historical dialogue research by engaging in a critical discussion and systematic dovetailing of approaches deriving from…

The prose legendry 'Lives of the Saints' produced by the Dominican monastery in Nuremberg around 1400 was the most widely disseminated vernacular legendry of the European Middle Ages. It has…

The »Nürnberger Marienbuch« dates from around 1410 and contains the earliest German prose account of the life of the Virgin Mary, a collection of miracles associated with her, and two…

Academies, societies and other learned fraternities were not only the decisive agencies in the accumulation of knowledge in the early Modern Age, they also committed themselves to a broad range…