"The Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's dialectical thinking, Auschwitz is the name of an incommensurable historical event that …
This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism
Explores how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events through examining Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon.
This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some masterpieces …
An Event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of reality, a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love. This book examines the new and highly-contested concept of Event.
"Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance provides new alternative methodologies to increase accuracy when performing statistical tests for event studies within corporate finance. In contrast to conventional surveys or literature reviews, Jeng focuses on various methodolo…
"Public officials, journalists and ordinary citizens frequently use words like "tragedy" and "tragic" when trying to make sense of burdensome events and painful setbacks. Political theorists and philosophers have long used the example of Greek tragedy and notions of the tragic t…
Event Studies are overwhelmingly widespread in financial research, providing tools for shedding light on market efficiency, as well as measuring the impact of various occurrences on public firms' security prices. Mastering the Event Study approach is essential for researchers an…
Biographical note: Johannes Dölling, Universität Leipzig; Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, Universität Leipzig; Martin Schäfer, Universität Leipzig. Dieser Band befasst sich mit dem Problem, wie konzeptuelle Information über Ereignisstrukturen in der Sprache ausgedrückt und im Interpreta…
