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The Character Sketch as Philosophy
"Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of moral and political education. Yet Enlightenment thinkers spurned this genre in favor of elaborating principles, thereby helping to drive a wedge between philosophy and literature"--
Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11
This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US-American political, social, and cultural order, the chapters reach from the early days after the attacks up to the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. An international team of contributors analyze how the perceived threats and their subsequent representations changed during this period and what part different forms of media - media institutions, media technologies, and media formats - played within these transformations. Media theoretical perspectives are thus combined with historical approaches to examine the "re-ordering" of the nation, the state, and society proposed in an increasingly converging, multimodal, and networked media environment. This book’s focus on the interrelation between Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and American Studies makes it an indispensable landmark for fields such as Historical Research, Media Theory, Narratology, and Popular Culture Studies.
Political Difference and Global Normative Orders
Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidated statehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, global order has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistance movements, and cultural diversity, among others. This book first critically analyzes the conditions for the struggles of theorizing global normative order in political and IR theory. Second, to make sense of the presence of difference and possibility for global normative order in view of the simultaneous absence of first foundations, the study draws on post-foundational thinking based on the seminal work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau. Finally, the author develops a theoretical framework for a hauntological approach to global normative order that provides an alternative and theoretically coherent explanation for the emergence of global order. This is of interest to scholars as well as practitioners (including activists) concerned with global social relations, global political discourse, and the construction of global identity and normative order(s).
Society in Flux
Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how modern tensions and modes of analyzing them have changed over the course of the last 200 years or so, through three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory.
Model Cases
In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular organisms, such as mice, fruit flies, or particular viruses when they study general questions about life, development, and disease. Krause shows that scholars in the social sciences and humanities also draw on some cases more than others, selecting research objects influenced by a range of ideological but also mundane factors, such as convenience, historicist ideas about development over time, schemas in the general population, and schemas particula...
Hermeneutics and the Humanities
Hans-Georg Gadamer's "Wahrheit und Methode" (1960) is one of the most influential books on interpretation to have appeared in the past half century. This volume aims to continue this conversation between hermeneutics and the humanities, but also tries to map Gadamer's influence on the humanities so far.
Performing America Abroad
What happens to 'America' when it does not coincide with the geographical and institutional boundaries of the U.S. nation-state? What does 'America' mean when it is performed abroad and circulates among populations and publics outside U.S. national contexts? 'Performing America Abroad' explores an unlikely American studies archive: contemporary cultural performances in Austria and Germany which refer to the American cultural imaginary, but enact it with a 'transnational difference.' The book discusses the ambivalent cultural politics of these enactments in the context of neoliberal capitalism; specifically, it looks at several cross-racial performances of 'Indianness' on various Austrian stages, it examines queer political demonstrators on Vienna's central Ringstrasse, who celebrate the legacy of the 1969 New York Stonewall riots, and it discusses the 'Americanness' of a series of theatrical adaptations of Arthur Miller's 1949 play 'Death of a Salesman' in Germany and Austria.
Wissenskulturen der Soziologie
Die Frage, was soziologisches Wissen ausmacht, hat die Entwicklung des Fachs seit seinen Anfängen teils im-, teils explizit begleitet. Sie lässt sich weniger denn je durch die normative Behauptung einer Einheit beantworten. Die Aussengrenzen sind unbeständig, die Vielzahl der Binnendifferenzierungen nimmt zu. Das Buch wendet sich den Besonderheiten soziologischer Wissensproduktion empirisch und analytisch zu. Es widmet sich der Untersuchung und Diskussion von Wissenskulturen unter vorrangiger Berücksichtigung der Soziologie. (Quelle: www.buch.ch).
Schöner, Wohnen, Damals
»Zuhause«: jeder kennt es, jeder hat eins, etwas so Selbstverständliches hat es immer schon gegeben. - Wirklich? Oder gehört der private Haushalt als Ort der Familie zu den Neuerfindungen des innovativen 19. Jahrhunderts? Was bedeuteten Ernährung, Hygiene, Gesundheit, Liebe, Erziehung, Frömmigkeit und Bildung für den Haushalt um 1800 - und was bedeuteten sie um 1900? Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts waren Möbel, Kleidung und Küchengeräte Einzelstücke. Gegen Ende des Jahrhunderts gab es bereits Massenprodukte, Maschinen und Wegwerfartikel in den wohlhabenderen Haushalten. Auch der familiäre Gefühlshaushalt revolutionierte sich grundlegend. Kindheit und Jugend bildeten sich als eige...
