"Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a man whi…
"Were eunuchs castrated guardians of the harem, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a "man" while contemporaries referred to eunuchs as "unmanned" being…
How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book …
This volume explores issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther. First the study suggests the two most common approaches to perceived moral problems in the story of Esther: avoidance and transformation. Then it investigates selected port…
by Schmidt, Thomas, Lang, Johannes, Krieger, Verena, Saalfeld, Robin K., Groß, Bernhard, Lüthy, Michael, Meyer-Fraatz, Andrea, Dyk, Silke van, Klinger, Cornelia, Strauß, Bernhard, Linck, Dirck, Lüscher, Kurt, Mader, Rachel, Quent, Matthias, Sabisch, Andrea, Scholz, Sylka
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by Schmidt, Thomas, Lang, Johannes, Krieger, Verena, Saalfeld, Robin K., Groß, Bernhard, Lüthy, Michael, Meyer-Fraatz, Andrea, Dyk, Silke van, Klinger, Cornelia, Strauß, Bernhard, Linck, Dirck, Lüscher, Kurt, Mader, Rachel, Quent, Matthias, Sabisch, Andrea, Scholz, Sylka
fromEdition Kulturwissenschaft
Ambivalenzen, Mehrdeutigkeit und Vagheit begegnen uns in allen Bereichen des Lebens. Ambiguität wird dabei unterschiedlich bewertet: Rechtspopulisten beuten die Angst davor aus, während Künstler Ambiguität gezielt einsetzen, um gesellschaftliche Konflikte zu dynamisieren. Die "A…
