This volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, all of them revised but retaining the original argument. They form the core of those seminal writings which have contributed to establishing 'intermediality' as an internationally recogn…
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"In Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia , the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focu…
"In Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia , the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focu…
In 'Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci', Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci's thought. Capitalising on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, she investigates his usage of the concepts of Bonapartism and Caesarism, both in his pre-prison …
Georges Sorel?s Study on Vico' is a revelatory document of the depths and stakes of French social thought at the end of the 19th century. What brought Sorel to the 18th century Neapolitan theorist of history? Acute awareness of the limitations of Marxist thought in his day, a pr…
In 'Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration', Alex Kerner examines London's Spanish & Portuguese Jews, congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as a community that delineated its identity not only along ethnic and religious lines, but also along the variou…
In 'Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration', Alex Kerner examines London's Spanish & Portuguese Jews, congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as a community that delineated its identity not only along ethnic and religious lines, but also along the variou…
In debates about philosophical anthropology human beings have been defined in different ways. In 'Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures', the contributors view the human being primarily as animal symbolicum. They examine how the human being creates, interprets and …
"In recent decades, Kant's philosophy of law has increasingly moved into the focus of moral-philosophical discussions. In this context, the "Naturrecht Feyerabend" is of particular importance. On the one hand, it is the only surviving transcription of the lectures on natural law…
In an era of environmental crisis, narratives of ?hidden lands? are resonant. Understood as sanctuaries in times of calamity, Himalayan hidden lands or 'sbas yul' have shaped the lives of many peoples of the region. 'Sbas yul' are described by visionary lamas called ?treasure fi…
World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices' is the second collection of essays to emerge from the Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from multiple lo…
This edited volume focuses on gender and love as emerging through complex "entanglements and weavings". At a time when constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are ne…
"National Security of India and International Law is a pioneering inter-disciplinary scholarly exercise in the context of India. It offers first-of-its kind perspective on interplay between the needs, concerns and interests of the national security actors, means and institutions…
In 'A Comparative History of Catholic and As'ari Theologies of Truth and Salvation' Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour analytically and critically compares the historical development of the Catholic theologies of truth and salvation with those of its Islamic counterpart, As'arism. The mon…
Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition' offers recent findings on the reception, translation and use of the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims from the early Islamic era to the present day. In this volume, edited by Miriam L. Hjälm, scholars from…
