Platons 'Politeia' gehört zu den bedeutendsten und wirkungsreichsten Texten der Philosophiegeschichte. Unter der Leitfrage nach der Gerechtigkeit weist Platon traditionelle Auffassungen zur…

This study examines prose works from four different epochs of Clemens Brentano's career (1778-1842) with a view to tracing the procedures of allegorisation, allegoresis and hermeneutics employed…

The perception of a foreign country is largely influenced by the existence and reception of literary stereotypes in a given culture. This was certainly true of the image of Spain entertained by…

The young Lukács' plans for a book on Dostoyevsky were ambitious in scope. On the one hand they essay a sharply defined formal distinction between the semantic worlds and the functional modes of…

The book examines seven speeches by Hitler from the period 1933 to 1944 (including a first edition in the Appendix). Political speech-making is understood as an instance of communicative…

This text-linguistic study looks at death notices in the Births, Marriages and Deaths columns of daily newspapers in German-speaking Switzerland using an action theory-based descriptive model…

Despite the progress it made in the 80s and early 90s, research on aphorism still suffers from a lack of clarification in terms of literary history. The present studies thus set out to…

Despite all the effort that has gone into bringing about a spelling reform for German, astonishingly little research has been done into the use of spelling dictionaries. The present study sets…

How old are the manuscript titles of Latin poems from Antiquity and Late Antiquity? Why were they written, and who created them? With these questions, the author enters virgin philological…

Against the background of current differences of opinion in the research on scripta, the present study aims to integrate the language-variety perspective into their empirical study. The '…

'Staub gave a hundred year old debate within German civil law a memorable name and illustrated the issue with an abundance of example cases. And so in turn, he was credited with the…

'The formative commentary on the new Civil Code vested with the authority of the code's authors.'PD Dr. Jan Thiessen

'The formative commentary on the new Civil Code vested with the authority of the code's authors.'PD Dr. Jan Thiessen

Vor 200 Jahren erschien Kants Schrift 'Zum ewigen Frieden'. Zu einer der vordringlichsten, von der Philosophie aber häufig vernachlässigten Aufgaben der Politik stellt sie bis heute…

'The formative commentary on the new Civil Code vested with the authority of the code's authors.'PD Dr. Jan Thiessen

Negotiating and drafting business contracts is an important task for senior corporate managers and attorneys. Yet serious errors are frequently made that cannot be remedied at a later time point…

The essays in this volume explore the full scope of Maximilian’s Ruhmeswerk, which adaptively incorporated different literary and aesthetic genres. They examine the Emperor’s quest…

Concept and interpretation are key philosophical terms that have played a major part in shaping modern thinking from the beginning of the modern age through post-modernity. The papers in this…

Why do so many children from language minorities who began their primary schooling in the host country still have serious deficits in the second language, especially in writing, even at the secondary…

This volume supplements existing histories of German by concentrating on contemporary evaluations of the language through the various stages of its evolution. Initially, in the 8th century, it…