Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practice…
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Die koloniale Populärkultur boomte im »Dritten Reich«. Dennoch gab es bisher kaum Forschung zu diesem Material. Mit dem Verlust der Kolonien im Ersten Weltkrieg begann in Deutschland eine postkoloniale Phase, die mit der späteren Dekolonisierung anderer Kolonialreiche kaum vergl…
Zum Planetarium: Wissensgeschichtliche Studien
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Als begehbares, immersives Modell des Kosmos gewährte das Projektionsplanetarium zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals die Erfahrung einer vollkommen technisch durchdrungenen Natur.In den Jahren 1919 bis 1925 wurde in den Jenaer Zeiss-Werken ein kuppelförmiges Gebäude erfunden…
Carolingian monasteries were the most important agents for the transfer of knowledge and scientific methods during the early middle ages. This publication examines contemporary vehicles and recipients that were involved in the Carolingian knowledge system and guided the transmis…
Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis einer Region, die in der jüngeren Geschichte durch besonders viele Grenzverschiebungen geprägt wurde. Trotz der grenzüberschreitenden Vernetzung von Menschen und Orten prägen nach wie vor ehemalige, z.B. habsburgische, preußische oder osmanische terri…
Biographical note: Birgit Krawietz, Freie Universität Berlin; Georges Tamer, Ohio State University, Columbus/OH, USA. Considering their widespread and highly controversial legacy, Ibn Taymiyya and his foremost disciple, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, arguably belong to the most influe…
Norms, rules, and laws have determined the interaction of people throughout time, and yet transgressions have always occurred. Crime and subsequent punishments are fundamental issues identifying every society. The articles in this volume study medieval laws and documents reflect…
'Panic' and 'mourning' are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, r…
Movement and touch are fundamental elements of dance - both for the dancers on stage and the spectators who are touched and moved by the performance. The papers collected in this volume (by scholars from a range of disciplines including dance, literature, and film studies, as we…
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for explor…
Main description: Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations o…
The book seeks to understand how societies and cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it. Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this …
Biographical note: Martina King, Universität Bern, Schweiz; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK. Biographical note: Martina King, Universität Bern, Switzerland; Thomas Rütten, Newcastle University, UK. Understanding how 'contagion' and 'infection' have become powerful meta…
Hartmut Böhme's study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption,…