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Book Sprache   Denken   Nation

Download or read book Sprache Denken Nation written by Volker A. Munz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thema des Bandes bildet das Verhältnis von Sprache zum Bereich des Mentalen und dem Begriff der Nation. Im Rahmen der Erörterung vielschichtiger, im weitesten Sinne "sprachlicher" Ausdrucksbeziehungen zum Komplex menschlichen Denkens werden ausgehend vom 18. Jahrhundert bis hin zum sogenannten "linguistic turn" unterschiedliche sprachkritische Tendenzen wissenschaftsimmanent rekonstruiert und im Kontext der österreichisch-ungarischen Doppelmonarchie um 1900 weiter nuanciert. Die traditionell ethnisch-kulturelle und linguale Heterogenität der urbanen Milieus Zentraleuropas erweist sich dabei als geradezu paradigmatisch zur Untersuchung sprachlicher Funktion und Bedeutung im Zusammenhang der Bildung kollektiver Identitäten und kultureller Differenzen. Volker Munz ist im Spezialforschungsbereich "Moderne - Wien und Zentraleuropa um 1900" der Universität Graz (Philosophie) tätig. Katalin Neumer ist am Institut für Philosophische Forschung an der Ungarischen Akademie, Budapest tätig und Präsidentin der Ungarischen Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft.

Book New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language  National Socialism  and the Shoah

Download or read book New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language National Socialism and the Shoah written by Peter Davies and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah.

Book Self determination

Download or read book Self determination written by Yonah Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a national and international revolutionary strategy, terrorism has introduced into the struggle for power within and among nations a new mode of violence in terms of technology, victimization, threat, and response. It has also affected our present concepts and perceptions of self-determination. One of the principal questions addressed in

Book Gadamer

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  • Author : Donatella Di Cesare
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2013-02-20
  • ISBN : 0253007631
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Gadamer written by Donatella Di Cesare and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights the central place of Greek philosophy, particularly Plato, in Gadamer's work, brings out differences between his thought and that of Heidegger, and connects him with discussions and debates in pragmatism. This is a sensitive and thoroughly readable philosophical portrait of one of the 20th century's most powerful thinkers.

Book The Languages of World Literature

Download or read book The Languages of World Literature written by Achim Hermann Hölter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the linguistic side of world literature, under different focal points. The volume further contains five roundtables, the papers of a workshop of the UNESCO memory of the worlds programme, a presentation of the avldigital.de platform, as well as several bibliographically enriched overviews of the special lexicography of comparative literature, up to date versions of the ICLA publications, and an example of multiple translations of a famous modern classic.

Book Black Vienna

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  • Author : Janek Wasserman
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-21
  • ISBN : 0801455219
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Black Vienna written by Janek Wasserman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black Vienna" existed as well; its members voiced critiques of the postwar democratic order, Jewish inclusion, and Enlightenment values, providing a theoretical foundation for Austrian and Central European fascist movements. Looking at the complex interplay between intellectuals, the public, and the state, he argues that seemingly apolitical Viennese intellectuals, especially conservative ones, dramatically affected the course of Austrian history. While Red Viennese intellectuals mounted an impressive challenge in cultural and intellectual forums throughout the city, radical conservatism carried the day. Black Viennese intellectuals hastened the destruction of the First Republic, facilitating the establishment of the Austrofascist state and paving the way for Anschluss with Nazi Germany.Closely observing the works and actions of Viennese reformers, journalists, philosophers, and scientists, Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism. Vienna was a microcosm of larger developments in Europe—the rise of the radical right and the struggle between competing ideological visions. By focusing on the evolution of Austrian conservatism, Wasserman complicates post–World War II narratives about Austrian anti-fascism and Austrian victimhood.

Book Paradisal Love

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  • Author : John D. Baildam
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 1999-10-01
  • ISBN : 0567436624
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Paradisal Love written by John D. Baildam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of Herder's preoccupation with the Song of Songs, Baildam considers the importance of this poetry in his thinking, and examines his commentaries and translations of 1776 and 1778. Despite Herder's claims to the contrary, his own cultural position is revealed in his translations, and in his unique interpretation of the work as the voice of pure, paradisal love. Starting with Herder's interest in the Song of Songs between 1765 and 1778, this book sets his reflections in the wider context of his relativistic views on the nature of poetry, contemporary German culture, and the importance of primitive poetry in general and the poetry of the Bible in particular. Then Baildam looks at current literary critical theories with implications for Herder's translations of these 'Lieder der Liebe', and discusses Herder's theories of language and translation in comparison with German translation theories. Herder's reading of the Song as the most primitive, natural and sublime example of Hebrew poetry is placed in the context of earlier and contemporary interpretations, his opinion of which is examined. In the last part of the book, there is an appraisal first of Herder's commentaries themselves, analysing how the details reflect his overall concept of the work, and then of his translations, comparing them with each other, with the Lutheran text to which Herder ultimately directed his readership, and with the Hebrew text. A concluding chapter reviews the reception of Herder's work, and three appendices offer a parallel presentation of Herder's translations of 1776 and 1778, Luther's translation of 1545, and Goethe's translation of 1775.

Book Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy

Download or read book Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy is presented for the 60th birthday of professor Christoph Nyíri. The essays presented here for the first time are focused on Austrian intellectual history, and on Wittgenstein’s philosophy – the two main areas of Professor Nyíri’s interests. Typically, the contributors are outstanding scholars of the field, including among others David Bloor, Lee Congdon, Newton Garver, Wilhelm Lütterfields, Joachim Schulte, Barry Smith. The volume is of primary interest for Wittgenstein scholars and those studying the 19th and 20th century Austrian intellectual history. As the volume is presented for Professor Nyíri, the papers collected here reflect his interests in Wittgenstein and Austrian philosophy. Beginning with an introductory chapter on Nyiri’s achievements in this field of scholarship, the volume is in four parts. The first part contains essays on Austrian philosophy broadly understood, more precisely on its socio-historical context (Barry Smith and Wolfgang Grassl), on the relation between Marxism and Arnold Hauser’s philosophy and sociology of art (Lee Congdon), and Neurath’s connection to naturalistic epistemologies (Thomas Uebel). The second part presents Wittgenstein's philosophy in context. Jaakko Hintikka’s paper argues that Wittgenstein’s probable dyslexia can be seen as an external influence on and a source of his philosophy. David Bloor discusses Wittgenstein’s philosophy in the context of Edmund Burke’s conservatism, which can be read as a background of Nyiri’s influential interpretation of Wittgenstein as a conservative philosopher. Newton Garver also touches on the problem of conservatism while discussing passages of On Certainty in the context of Kant, Moore, and T.S. Eliot. Klaus Puhl’s essay connects Wittgenstein’s remarks on rule-following to Freud’s concept of retroactivity, and argues that rules emerging from empirical regularities can be seen as retroactive constructions. The papers in the third part of the volume offer close readings of Wittgenstein’s works. Rudolf Lüthe offers two readings of Wittgenstein’s criticism of philosophy in the Tractatus can be read in two ways with different consequences, among them is the appearance of philosophy inspired by art rather than the sciences. Joachim Schulte offers an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s use of ’natural history’ that can accommodate all of his remarks containing this concept. Herbert Hrachovec discusses the relation of pictorial and linguistic representations in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, arguing that there is no pronounced opposition between the two. The forth part of the book, containing three papers in German, continues the close inspection of Wittgenstein’s later works. Wilhelm Lütterfelds reconstructs Wittgenstein’s philosophy of time as pointing out memory being the very source of time. Katalin Neumer inspects Wittgenstein’s frequent references to photographs in the context of aspect-seeing and compares them with other remarks on theatre, painting, and music. She concludes that there are no philosophically important structural differences between them. Peter Keicher’s paper offers a comprehensive view on Wittgenstein’s prefaces in the context of his various book-projects. The volume ends with a select bibliography of Professor Nyiri’s works.

Book Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information

Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information written by Alois Pichler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. In addition to several new contributions to Wittgenstein research (by N. Garver, M. Kross, St. Majetschak, K. Neumer, V. Rodych, L. M. Valdés-Villanueva), this volume contains articles with a special focus on digital Wittgenstein research and Wittgenstein's role for the understanding of the digital turn (by L. Bazzocchi, A. Biletzki, J. de Mul, P. Keicher, D. Köhler, K. Mayr, D. G. Stern), as well as discussions - not necessarily from a Wittgensteinian perspective - about issues in the philosophy of information, including computational ontologies (by D. Apollon, G. Chaitin, F. Dretske, L. Floridi, Y. Okamoto, M. Pasin and E. Motta).

Book Mother Tongues and Nations

Download or read book Mother Tongues and Nations written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Linguistics is a series of books that publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighboring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. Bonfiglio examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors "mother tongue" and "native speaker" by historicizing their linguistic development. The early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of language, identity, geography, and ethnicity that configured the national language as originating in the mother-infant relationship, as well as in local organic nature. These insular protectionist strategies generated the philologies of (early) modernity and their genetic and arboreal "families" of languages, and continue today to evoke folkloric notions that configure language ethnically. Scholarly recognition of the biological metaphors that racialize language will help to illuminate persisting gestures of ethnolinguistic discrimination.

Book The Drama of Language

Download or read book The Drama of Language written by Sigurd Burckhardt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970. For Sigurd Burckhardt, literary interpretation began with the discovery of an "inconsistency" in a text. Minimizing the possibility that the writer has "unconsciously" fallen into an inconsistency in the use of material, the true interpreter, Burckhardt believes, abandons a tendency to "correct" the writer and seeks instead a new formulation by which the inconsistency can be seen as a part of a work's essential unity. "Whether I search for the meaning of a word or for the meaning of my life," he wrote, "I am looking for something under which I can subsume the otherwise unrelated and meaningless particular so as to place it in a larger order." That method, so characteristic of Burckhardt's criticism, underlies his studies of Goethe and Kleist and unifies the essays of this volume. Prior to his death in December 1966, Professor Burckhardt had considered the possibility of collecting his writings on Goethe and Kleist. One essay had never been published; others had appeared only in German or were available in scattered sources. The preparation of the essays for publication, a service of professors Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce, makes possible this impressive demonstration of their late colleague's interest in German literature. The seven critical studies are introduced by an essay that makes explicit the concern for language implicit throughout the volume. Burckhardt proceeds by close adherence to the text and by analysis of its writer's use of language and structure. He interprets Goethe's Prometheus, Pandora, Iphigenie, Tasso, Die natürliche Tochter, and Egmont and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and Die Hermannsschlacht. He provides original and challenging interpretations, shaping each into a self-contained entity.

Book Sino Theology and the Philosophy of History

Download or read book Sino Theology and the Philosophy of History written by Liu Xiaofeng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his controversial Delivering and Dallying (published in 1988), Liu Xiaofeng has been considered the most influential among contemporary Chinese intellectuals interested in Christianity. Now for the first time this collection of Liu's essays, translated and commented by Prof. Leopold Leeb, enables the non-Chinese reader to get a comprehensive understanding of the ideas of this inspiring and erudite scholar. Liu Xiaofeng's Sino-Theology and the Philosophy of History, together with the other essays in this collection, provide a panoramic view of the situation of Christian studies in the Chinese context today. In his introduction, Leopold Leeb also presents several other scholars who have been of crucial importance in the dialogue between Chinese culture and Christianity in the last three decades.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The System of the International Organizations of the Communist Countries   Richard Szawlowski

Download or read book The System of the International Organizations of the Communist Countries Richard Szawlowski written by Richard Szawlowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1976 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the structure of and regional cooperation within the international organizations of the socialist countries - focuses on legal aspects and activities of the warsaw treaty organiztion and of CMEA, considers organizations involved in economic integration (economic relations), banking, scientific cooperation, telecommunications, etc., and includes texts of international agreements, treatys, etc. Bibliography pp. 165 to 170 and references.

Book Wittgenstein After His Nachlass

Download or read book Wittgenstein After His Nachlass written by Nuno Venturinha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the field offer new ways of looking at Wittgenstein's papers as well as clear, comprehensive and original philosophical interpretations of them. The volume includes two texts by Wittgenstein previously unpublished in English.

Book Schleiermacher   s Icoses

Download or read book Schleiermacher s Icoses written by Douglas Robinson and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Language and Creativity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard D. den Ouden
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 3110883473
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Language and Creativity written by Bernard D. den Ouden and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Language and Creativity".