Employing a range of interpretative methods practiced in Russian and Soviet film studies, this book highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the 'us versus them' binary, it demonstrates how impossib…
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In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Errichtung…
"The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they count…
In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we perceive ourselves is closely-associated with those who are different and strange. Th…
In our global, multicultural world, how we understand and relate to those who are different from us has become central to the politics of immigration in western societies. Who we are and how we perceive ourselves is closely associated with those who are different and strange. Th…
Migration und Mobilität können als prägende Merkmale der Epoche des Hellenismus bezeichnet werden. Die Forschung zur hellenistischen Polis hat sich in jüngerer Zeit besonders diesen Phänomenen gewidmet und den Blick auf die Formen der Vernetzungen verschiedener Poleis gerichtet.…
"This book explores the concept of the stranger as a "modern" social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means…
