Suchergebnisse

- Wo liegt Europa? Was ist Zeitgeschichte? Räume und Zeitrhythmen - Die Folgen des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Neuordnung und Kalter Krieg, politische und wirtschaftliche Integrationsprozesse - Die wirtschaftliche, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung Europas: Wirtschaftsboom, Migration und Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Konsum, ""Wertewandel"" und soziale Ordnungen - Die Vorgeschichte der Gegenwart: Zivilgesellschaft, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Terrorismus, Energie und Umwelt, Technik und Kommunikation

This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China. The authors-whose diverse backgrounds in countries such as New Zealand, Denmark, Sri Lanka, England, Indonesia, and the United States mirror the complex global scope of the Chinese diaspora-describe in particular how their journey to the country of their ancestors transformed their sense of what it means to be Chinese. The collection as a whole provides important insights into what ethnic identity has come to mean in our transnational era.Among the pieces is Brad Wong's discussion of his visit to his grandfather's poverty-stricken village in China's southern Guangdong province. He describes working with a few of the peasants tilling vegetables and compares life in the village with his middle-class upbringing in a San Francisco suburb. In another essay, Milan Lin-Rodrigo tells of her life in Sri Lanka and of the trip she made to China as an adult. She describes the difficult and sometimes humorous cultural differences she experienced when she met her Chinese half-sister and her father's first wife.Josephine Khu's lively afterword provides background information on the Chinese diaspora and gives a theoretical framework for understanding the issues raised in the essays. This intimate and rich anthology will be compelling reading for all who are seeking answers to the increasingly complex issue of ethnic and personal identity

1.Introduction --2.Financial development in Brazil in the nineteenth century --3.The stock exchange and the early industrialization of Brazil, 1882-1930 --4.The foundations of financial democracy : disclosure laws and shareholder protections in corporate bylaws --5.Voting rights, government guarantees, and ownership concentration, 1890-1950 --6.Directors, corporate governance, and executive compensation in Brazil, c. 1909 --7.Bond markets and creditor rights in Brazil, 1850-1945 --8.Were bankers acting as market makers? --9.What went wrong after World War I? --10.The rise of concentrated ownership in the twentieth century --11.Conclusion.

Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of "scepticisms" in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.

Nietzsches Vorstellung vom Unhistorischen und Überhistorischen geben die Folie, vor der sich moderne Diskurse über die Bandbreite geschichtlicher Gewissheiten profilieren und/oder tiefgehende Irritationen analysiert werden, die als Folgen gestörter Schnittmengen zwischen Historie und Medien längst Platz gegriffen haben. Dementsprechend konzentriert sich der Band auf Themen, denen es um diese Schnittmengen geht.

The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary-how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact.Rosen's approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice, and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact

Senecas philosophische Schriften führen bald lehrhaft, bald im Plauderton, bald pathetisch, bald ironisch an Probleme heran, die auch die Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts bewegen: Einsamkeit, Krankheit, Tod ... Und seine Ratschläge sind alltagstauglich, weil sie nicht dem Forderungskatalog eines der Welt entrückten Heiligen entstammen. Das Buch enthält die Schriften: Die Vorsehung, Die Unerschütterlichkeit des Weisen, Der Zorn, Trostschrift für Marcia, Das glückliche Leben, Die Zurückgezogenheit, Die Ruhe der Seele, Die Kürze des Lebens, Trostschrift für Polybius, Trostschrift für Mutter Helvia.

How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century, cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic opponents and foreign challengers in the Middle East and North Africa-Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt-as inhabitants attempted to overthrow the European colonial order? What strategies did the British and French adopt in the face of these threats? Empires of Intelligence, the first study of colonial intelligence services to use recently declassified reports, argues that colonial control in the British and French empires depended on an elaborate security apparatus. Martin Thomas shows for the first time the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization

die "Nikomachische Ethik" ist die bedeutendste ethische Schrift des Aristoteles (384-322 v. Chr.). Sie gibt einen Leitfaden an die Hand, wie man ein guter Mensch wird und ein glückliches Leben führt. Im Mittelpunkt der ebenso nüchternen wie umsichtigen Analyse stehen die Begriffe Glück, Tugend, Entscheidung, Klugheit, Unbeherrschtheit, Lust und Freundschaft. Es gilt, die Extreme des Zuviel oder Zuwenig zu vermeiden und jene "Mitte" zu finden, die allein Tugend und individuelles Glück ermöglicht. Die aristotelischen Ausführungen sind keineswegs nur von historischem Interesse, sondern üben auch auf die ethische Debatte der Gegenwart entscheidenden Einfluss aus. Wer auch immer sich für eine Theorie moralischer bzw. humaner Praxis interessiert, findet in der "Nikomachischen Ethik" eines der wenigen bis heute einschlägigen Grundmodelle. Übersetzt von Olof Gigon.

Introduction: Vincenzo Consolo and His Mediterranean Paradigm / Norma Bouchard & Massimo Lollini -- PART ONE. Odysseus's Journey: War and Exile -- Conversation between Vincenzo Console and Mario Nicolao --Olive and Wild Olive -- The Ruin of Syracuse -- Algiers: Tradition and New Cultures -- But Is This Sarajevo or Assisi? -- The International Parliament of Writers: Journey to Israel/Palestine -- Report of Basilio Archita -- Men in the Sun -- Diary of Two Journeys to America -- PART TWO. Sicilian Travels: Land, Cities, and Sea -- People and Land of Sulphur -- For a Bit of Grass on the Edge of the Feudal Estate -- Tuna Fishing -- Views of the Strait of Messina -- The Eruption of Mount Etna -- The Rebirth of the Val di Noto -- PART THREE. Mediterranean Crossroads --Sicily and Arab Culture -- Ibn Jubayr -- Palermo, Most Beautiful and Defeated -- The Bridge over the Channel of Sicily -- Porta Venezia -- PART FOUR. Writing as Poetic Memory -- A Day Like Any Other -- For a Metric of Memory -- The Languages of the Forest -- The Disappearance of the Fireflies -- The Smile, Twenty Years Later -- Notes on Sources of the Texts -- Selected Bibliography of Vincenzo Consolo's Works -- Selected Critical Bibliography -- Contributors

"The impact of religion on family and reproduction is one of the most fascinating and complex topics open to scholarly research. The linkage between family and religion has received no systematic treatment on a comparative basis, either in the social sciences or in historical studies. This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Apart from providing a wealth of descriptive information on family life and fertility in different national and religious settings, the major strength of the book lies in its conceptual insights. The book will attract and stimulate readers at the advanced undergraduate or at the graduate level in history, religious studies, women's studies, family studies, social demography, sociology, and anthropology due to its subject matter (moral issues related to fertility decline and family change played an important role in processes like secularisation, and religious secessions in the19th and 20th century), its analytical approach (all chapters make use of micro-level data on family and family size and use comparable statistical methods specifically suited for these kinds of data), and its theoretical orientation (the chapters explicitly focus on the variety of mechanisms via which religions had an effect on family life and fertility). The book is truly cross-cultural, showing the similarities as well as the differences in the positions of the various churches on matters important for reproduction in Western Europe, the US and Canada in the period 1850-1950. The consideration of the causes of variations in family size in the past provides a refreshing perspective on contemporary effects of religion on reproductive behaviour and the family. ""This volume successfully promotes an agenda for research on the complex and diverse historical relationships between fertility, identity, community and religion."" Simon Szreter, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge ""These well-researched and lucidly argued papers will provide important reading for all those interested in the religious history of the nineteenth century."" Hugh McLeod is Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham ""This is a very valuable new resource for scholars, both established and new, to understand the role of religious institutions in family and demographic behavior and the ways in which those behaviors change across long periods of time."" Arland Thornton, Director, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan ""This book shows also that modern demographic and social history is able to revive the past in ways unthinkable only a generation ago."" Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography, University of Florence, and honorary president of the ""International Union for the Scientific Study of Population""."

gedanken von zeitloser Aktualität werden in den Dialogen über das Alter ("Cato") und die Freundschaft ("Laelius") berühmten Persönlichkeiten aus Roms großer Vergangenheit in den Mund gelegt. Die kleinen Schriften sind mit ihrer vollendeten Sprache wahre Perlen im philosophischen Werk Ciceros. Herausgegeben von M. Faltner, mit einer Einführung von G. Fink.