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  1. La civilisation surréaliste
    Published: 1976
    Publisher:  Payot, Paris

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2228540501
    RVK Categories: IH 1663
    Series: Traces.
    Subjects: Communication; Literatura Francesa; Surréalisme; Gesellschaft; Civilization, Modern; Communication; Surrealism; Literatur; Französisch; Surrealismus
    Scope: 346 S.
  2. <<The>> Aeneid and the modern world
    interdisciplinary perspectives on Vergil's epic in the 20th and 21st centuries
    Contributor: O'Neill, J. R. (Publisher); Rigoni, Adam (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;

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    Contributor: O'Neill, J. R. (Publisher); Rigoni, Adam (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032008684; 9781032008707
    RVK Categories: FX 178105 ; FX 178405 ; NH 4543
    Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Subjects: Civilization, Modern
    Other subjects: Virgil: Aeneis
    Scope: 270 Seiten
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    Enthält Literaturangaben

  3. The conversation of the sexes. Seduction and equality in selected seventeenth- and eighteenth-century texts
    Author: Roussel, Roy
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Oxford U. P., New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 019503659X
    Subjects: Women in literature; English literature; English literature; Civilization, Modern; Sex role in literature; Seduction in literature
    Other subjects: Laclos, Choderlos de
    Scope: 178 S
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    Bibliography: p. 161-173

  4. Discussing modernity
    a dialogue with Martin Jay
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- MYSTERIOUS POWER OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY /Dorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz -- PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EVENT /Martin Jay -- REGAINING EXPERIENCE? /Dorota Wolska -- DECONSTRUCTION AND HERMENEUTICS. ON THE CONTROVERSY... more

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    Preliminary Material -- MYSTERIOUS POWER OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY /Dorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz -- PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EVENT /Martin Jay -- REGAINING EXPERIENCE? /Dorota Wolska -- DECONSTRUCTION AND HERMENEUTICS. ON THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JACQUES DERRIDA AND HANS-GEORG GADAMER /Piotr Dehnel -- THE BEAUTIFUL ART OF COOKING /Dorota Koczanowicz -- EXPOSING EXPERIENCE AND FACING PHOTOGRAPHY /Teresa Bruś -- PHOTOGRAPHY AS A MEANS OF RE-PRESENTING THE PAST. CARING FOR MEMORIES /Piotr Jakub Fereński -- ABJECT SPACES, PRE-MODERN TIME AND A BAROQUE SCOPIC REGIME IN ANDRZEJ STASIUK’S TRAVEL ESSAYS /Ewa Ignaczak -- SCOPIC REGIMES AND MODERNITY: HYPOTYPOSIS /Roma Sendyka -- MODERNITY VERSUS POSTMODERNITY. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF PERIODIZATION /Paweł Dybel -- DIALOGUE, ACTIVITY, AND MENDACITY /Leszek Koczanowicz -- CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE /Martin Jay -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES. Martin Jay is one of America's leading intellectual historians. His work spans almost all important questions concerning the subject of modernity. Outstanding Polish scholars engage in a dialogue with Jay’s work, discussing significant problems of modernity and postmodernity. The book offers a broad panorama of contemporary thought approached from various angles. It is also a unique exercise of intercultural intellectual dialogue covering many areas from literature to politics. The book also includes an essay on photography by Martin Jay and his detailed response to the other contributors, which has the character of an extended conversation with them. The book can serve as an assessment of the uptake of Jay’s ideas, and equally well as a general introduction to the genealogy of modernity and postmodernity

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789401209304
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    Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 262
    Central European value studies
    Subjects: Philosophy, Modern; Civilization, Modern; Intellectual life; Civilization, Modern; Intellectual life; Philosophy, Modern
    Other subjects: Jay, Martin (1944-); Jay, Martin
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  5. <<The>> dawn of the color photograph
    Albert Kahn's archives of the planet
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0691139075; 9780691139074
    RVK Categories: AP 95540
    Subjects: Documentary photography; Documentary photography; Color photography; Civilization, Modern
    Other subjects: Kahn 1869-1942
    Scope: 335 S., zahlr. Ill., 25cm
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    "First published in 2008 by BBC Books, in association with the Musée Albert-Kahn, France, to accompany the BBC television series Edwardians in colour : the wonderful world of Albert Kahn, first broadcast in 2007"--Colophon

    Literaturverz. S. 334

  6. Jahrhundert der Obszönität
    eine Bilanz
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Fest, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3828600573
    RVK Categories: GN 5775 ; NQ 1020
    Subjects: Twentieth century; Array
    Scope: 607 S.
  7. Entgrenzte Welten
    die Verdrängung des Menschen durch Globalisierung von Fortschritt und Freiheit
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Rotpunktverl., Zürich

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3858692956
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    RVK Categories: MS 1290 ; RB 10798 ; RB 10559 ; AR 14000
    DDC Categories: 300
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Philosophical anthropology; Social change; Globalization; Progress; Freedom
    Scope: 488 S., 21 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [441] - 451

  8. <<The>> future of nostalgia
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Basic Books, New York, NY

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780465007080; 0465007074; 0465007082
    RVK Categories: KH 1040 ; KH 1530 ; NB 5100
    Subjects: Nostalgia; Civilization, Modern; Memory; Authors, Exiled
    Scope: XIX, 404 S., Ill., 24 cm
  9. Aktualisierung von Antike und Epochenbewusstsein
    erstes Bruno Snell-Symposion der Universität Hamburg am Europa-Kolleg
    Contributor: Lohse, Gerhard (Publisher)
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; K.G. Saur, München ; Leipzig

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    Contributor: Lohse, Gerhard (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Conference proceedings
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110952698
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    RVK Categories: FB 1775 ; FB 4010 ; FB 5701 ; NG 1525
    Corporations / Congresses: Bruno-Snell-Symposion
    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 195
    Subjects: Klassieke oudheid; Receptie; Antike; Rezeption; Civilization, Classical; Civilization, Modern; Civilization, Western; Rezeption; Antike; Literatur; Deutsch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (428 Seiten)
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    Review text: "Der Band bietet nicht nur instruktive Einzelstudien, sondern auch einen anschaulichen Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand der Forschungen zur Rezeption der Antike." sehepunkte, München, Nr. 5, 15. Mai 2004

  10. Geselligkeiten
    Literatur, Gruppenbildung und kultureller Wandel im 18. Jahrhundert
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783484181533; 9783110913163; 9783111837024
    RVK Categories: GI 1132 ; GK 1052
    Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 153
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Civilization, Modern; German literature; German literature; Literature and society; Aufklärung; Schriftsteller; Deutsch; Literatur; Geselligkeit; Diskurs
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 359 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-359)

    Main description: Die vielfältigen Geselligkeitskonzepte im 18. Jahrhundert leisten einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Transformation von der mittelalterlich-ständischen zur neuzeitlichen Gesellschaft. Nach den Religionskriegen im 17. Jahrhundert bildet sich im steten Wechselspiel von literarischen Modellen, experimentellen Gruppenformen und kulturellen Wertvorstellungen das Konzept eines friedlichen, toleranten und selbstbestimmten Zusammenlebens heraus. Die darin thematisierte Spannung zwischen allseitig entwickelter Persönlichkeit und gesellschaftlichen Verhaltensmaximen prägt bis heute unsere Moderne

    Main description: The various sociability concepts of the 18th century made a decisive contribution to the transition from medieval social structure to early modern society. After the religious wars of the 17th century, there emerged a concept of peaceable, tolerant, and self-determined coexistence born of unremitting interplay between literary models, experimental group-formation, and cultural values. The tension immanent in that concept between untrammeled development of the personality and socially required norms of behaviour has remained a characteristic feature of the modern age to the present day

  11. Raum- und Zeitreisen
    Studien zur Literatur und Kultur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
    Contributor: Seeber, Hans Ulrich (Publisher); Griem, Julika (Publisher)
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Niemeyer, Tübingen

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  12. Planetary Modernisms
    Provocations on Modernity Across Time
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing... more

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    Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study.Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the dominant modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come

     

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    ISBN: 9780231539470
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    Subjects: Literary Studies; Semiotics, other; African; Literary Criticism; European; General; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Civilization, Modern; Cosmopolitanism; Modernism (Aesthetics); Modernism (Literature); Postcolonialism; Zivilisation; Modernität; Ästhetik; Kultur
    Scope: 1 online resource (496 pages), 45 illustrations
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  13. A new vocabulary for global modernism
    Contributor: Hayot, Eric (Publisher); Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (Publisher)
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as... more

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    Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has often been tied to older conceptual frameworks that make it difficult to think of modernism globally. Providing alternative approaches, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism introduces pathways through global archives and new frameworks that offer a richer, more representative set of concepts for the analysis of literary and cultural works.In separate essays each inspired by a critical term, this collection explores what happens to the foundational concepts of modernism and the methods we bring to modernist studies when we approach the field as a global phenomenon. Their work transforms the intellectual paradigms we have long associated with modernism, such as tradition, antiquity, style, and translation. New paradigms, such as context, slum, copy, pantomime, and puppets emerge as the archive extends beyond its European center. In bringing together and reexamining the familiar as well as the emergent, the contributors to this volume offer an invaluable and original approach to studying the intersection of world literature and modernist studies

     

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    Contributor: Hayot, Eric (Publisher); Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9780231543064
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    RVK Categories: EC 5180 ; EC 5184
    Series: Modernist latitudes
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Globalisierung; Civilization, Modern; Globalization; Modernism (Aesthetics); Moderne; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 305 Seiten), Illustrationen
  14. Paranoia and Modernity
    Cervantes to Rousseau
    Published: [2018]; © 2007
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    "Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's... more

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    "Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Father), Kafka's K., and Joyce's autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others."—from Paranoia and ModernityParanoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of symptoms—grandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions of persecution and conspiracy—are nearly obligatory psychological components of the modern hero.How did paranoia come to the center of modern moral and intellectual consciousness? In Paranoia and Modernity, John Farrell brings literary criticism, psychology, and intellectual history to the attempt at an answer. He demonstrates the connection between paranoia and the long history of struggles over the question of agency—the extent to which we are free to act and responsible for our actions. He addresses a wide range of major authors from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, among them Luther, Bacon, Cervantes, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Swift, and Rousseau. Farrell shows how differently paranoid psychology looks at different historical junctures with different models of agency, and in the epilogue, "Paranoia and Postmodernism," he draws the implications for recent critical debates in the humanities

     

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    ISBN: 9781501732423
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    Subjects: Europe; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century; Agent (Philosophy); Agent (Philosophy); Civilization, Modern; Paranoia in literature; Paranoia; Personality and culture; Paranoia <Motiv>; Paranoia; Kulturpsychologie; Literatur
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  15. Contradictory Subjects
    Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture
    Published: [2018]; © 1991
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal... more

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    This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote

     

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    ISBN: 9781501728495
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; Civilization, Modern; Individualism in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Individuum; Gesellschaft; Kultur
    Other subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616): Don Quijote; Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez de (1580-1645); Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
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  16. Think Again
    Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish’s provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a... more

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    From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish’s provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis of why they provoked so much reaction.Some readers reported being frustrated when they couldn’t figure out where Fish, one of America’s most influential thinkers, stood on the controversies he addressed in the essays—from atheism and affirmative action to plagiarism and postmodernism. But, as Fish says, that is the point. Opinions are cheap; you can get them anywhere. Instead of offering just another set of them, Fish analyzes and dissects the arguments put forth by different sides—in debates over free speech, identity politics, the NRA, and other hot-button topics—in order to explain how their arguments work or don’t work. In short, these are essays that teach you not what to think but how to think more clearly.Brief and accessible yet challenging, these essays provide all the hard-edged intellectual, cultural, and political analysis one expects from Fish. At the same time, the collection includes a number of revealing and even poignant autobiographical essays in which, as Fish says, "readers will learn about my anxieties, my aspirations, my eccentricities, my foibles, my father, and my obsessions—Frank Sinatra, Ted Williams, basketball, and Jews." Reflecting the wide-ranging interests of one of America’s leading critics, this is Fish’s broadest and most engaging book to date

     

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    ISBN: 9781400873401
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    Subjects: Academic freedom; Civilization, Modern; Criticism; Education, Humanistic; Englische Literatur Amerikas; Political Science, other; Political Science; Religion; Social Sciences; Civilization, Modern; Constitutional history; Criticism; Intellectuals; Political culture
    Scope: 448 pages), illustrations
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  17. On decoloniality
    concepts, analytics, praxis
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with... more

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    In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and civilizational despair

     

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    ISBN: 9780822371779
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    RVK Categories: MK 2100
    Series: On decoloniality
    Subjects: HISTORY / Latin America / General; Civilization, Modern; Decolonization; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Power (Social sciences); Postkolonialismus; Philosophie
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  18. Causality and containment in seventeenth-century Chinese fiction
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  E.J. Brill, Leiden

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    ISBN: 9004085459
    Series: Tʿoung pao. Monographie ; 15
    Subjects: Chinese fiction; Chinese fiction; Civilization, Modern; Sex in literature
    Scope: x, 157 p, ill, 24 cm
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    Bibliography: p. [146]-152

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  19. Die Faszination des Bösen
    zur Wandlung des Menschenbildes in der modernen Literatur
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Sachse & Pohl, Göttingen

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  20. Handbuch Moderneforschung
    Contributor: Jaeger, Friedrich (HerausgeberIn); Knöbl, Wolfgang (HerausgeberIn); Schneider, Ute (HerausgeberIn)
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    Contributor: Jaeger, Friedrich (HerausgeberIn); Knöbl, Wolfgang (HerausgeberIn); Schneider, Ute (HerausgeberIn)
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    Literaturangaben

    Andreas Eckert: Einleitung ; Afrika

    Gudrun Krämer: Arabische Welt

    Carsten Ruhl: Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie

    Winfried Fluck: Ästhetische Theorie und American Studies

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  21. Kollaboration
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    Literaturangaben

  22. The fin-de-siècle world
    Contributor: Saler, Michael T. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    "This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes... more

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    "This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe.Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the 'New Liberalism', and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism.This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period"--

     

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    Contributor: Saler, Michael T. (HerausgeberIn)
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    Series: The Routledge worlds
    Subjects: Nineteenth century; Civilization, Modern; History, Modern
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    Literaturangaben

    Michael SalerPART I. OVERVIEWS: Introduction

    Regenia Gagnier: Global literatures of decadence

    Peter Fritzsche: The city and urban life

    Andreas Killen: The second Industrial Revolution

    John Jervis: The modernity of the fin de siècle

    Stephen Kern: Changing concepts and experiences of time and space

    Mark S. Micale: PART II. PLACES ; EUROPE ; France

    Nicholas Daly: Britain

    Suzanne Marchand: Central Europe

    Olga Matich: Russia

    Walter Adamson: Italy

    Lara Anderson: Spain

    Richard Cándida Smith: United States

    D.M.R. Bentley: Canada

    Adela Pineda Franco: Latin America

    Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Did China have a fin de siècle?

    Selcuk Esenbel: Japan

    Jens Hanssen: The Middle East

    Ruth Vanita: India

    Rebecca J. Saunders: Africa

    T.P. Baycroft: PART III. POLITICS IN A NEW KEY ; The new nationalism

    Sascha Auerbach: The new imperialism

    Chris Nottingham: The new politics of "higher individualism"

    Chris Hilliard: PART IV. MASS CULTURE ; Publishing

    Andrew Denning: Transports of speed

    H. Hazel Hahn: Consumer culture and advertising

    Peter Mandler: PART V. KNOWLEDGES ; The universities and the human sciences

    Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen: Philosophy

    Helge Kragh: The "new physics"

    Marius Turda: Biology and eugenics

    Eric Shiraev: Psychology and psychiatry

    Andrew Smith: Medicine

    Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: PART VI. SELFHOOD ; Gender and sexuality

    Laura Tabili: Race and ethnicity

    Vincent P. Pecora: PART VII. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY ; Secularism, atheism, agnosticism

    Olga Litvak: The Jewish fin de siècle

    Vincent Lloyd: Christianity

    Mawra Elshakry: Islam

    Donald S. Lopez, Jr.: 2444 A.N. : Buddhism

    Gary Lachman: New Age fin de siècle

    Mark Berry: PART VIII. AESTHETICS ; Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk

    Michelle Facos: The visual arts

    Tom Gunning: The cinema

    Roger Luckhurst: Scientific romance, fantasy, and the supernatural

    Seth Lerer: Children's literature

    Petra Dierkes-Thrun.: Realism

  23. Change-conflict and convergence
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    Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Change
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  24. The rumour of globalization
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    Subjects: Culture and globalization; Globalization; Culture and globalization; Civilization, Modern
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  25. The swerve
    how the world became modern
    Published: c 2011
    Publisher:  Norton, New York, NY [u.a.]

    In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a... more

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    In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book, the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age, fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0393064476; 9780393064476
    RVK Categories: CD 5773 ; CE 5300 ; CE 5100 ; NN 1585 ; NN 1595
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Renaissance; Philosophy, Renaissance; Science, Renaissance; Civilization, Modern
    Other subjects: Lucretius Carus, Titus; Lucretius Carus, Titus: De rerum natura
    Scope: 356 S., [4] Bl., Ill., 25 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [309] - 335

    Mit Reg

    The book hunter -- The moment of discovery -- In search of Lucretius -- The teeth of time -- Birth and rebirth -- In the lie factory -- A pit to catch foxes -- The way things are -- The return -- Swerves -- Afterlives.