The papers in this volume focus on subject and theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilem Mathesius, while subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently, two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguist…
Combining literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis, Melehy examines a series of events at the outset of modernity involving both literature and philosophy. Through the work of Michel de Montaigne and Rene Descartes, Melehy considers the question of the foundati…
"The author examines a range of autobiographical and first-person fictional texts from holocaust literature, women's writing and popular fiction. Each text foregrounds issues of memory, history and trauma in the construction of identity. Reading these texts of memory shows that …
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduc…
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, …
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, …
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, …
In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends and explicates the importance of 'thought-tokens' and…
Der Band präsentiert eine erweiterte zweite Auflage des seit Langem vergriffenen Buchs "Lebensführung als Arbeit". Das Thema Lebensführung erfreut sich nach breiten empirischen Untersuchungen zu unterschiedlichen Einzelfragen und komplexen theoretischen Bemühungen in mehreren Pr…
Der Band präsentiert eine erweiterte zweite Auflage des seit Langem vergriffenen Buchs "Lebensführung als Arbeit". Das Thema Lebensführung erfreut sich nach breiten empirischen Untersuchungen zu unterschiedlichen Einzelfragen und komplexen theoretischen Bemühungen in mehreren Pr…
Quantifizierung, Singularisierung, digitaler Kapitalismus - mit diesen Schlagwörtern wird in der soziologischen Zeitdiagnose über die Veränderung der Gesellschaft sowie der Subjekte der Gegenwart gesprochen. Aber wie verhalten sich die beobachteten Veränderungen zur Grundstruktu…
