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February 2007Der 'ideale Kunstkörper'
Johann Wolfgang Goethe als Sammler von Druckgraphiken und Zeichnungen
by Grave, Johannes
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023Negotiating relief and freedom
Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907
by Oscar Webber
Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster 'relief' prioritised colonial control and 'fiscal prudence' ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2009Men in political theory
by Terrell Carver
Men in political theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in Political Philosophy by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies texts. It explains the distinction between 'man' as an apparently de-gendered 'individual' or 'citizen', and 'man' as an overtly gendered being in human society. Both these representations of 'man' are crucial to a clearer understanding of the operation of gender. Newly available in paperback, the book is the first to use the 'men's studies' and 'masculinities' literatures in re-thinking the political problems that students and specialists in the social sciences and humanities must encounter: consent, obligation, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, life-cycle, and discriminatory disadvantage related to sex, age, class, race/ethnicity and disability. It does this by re-examining the historical materials from which present-day concepts of citizenship, individuality, identity, subjectivity, normativity and legitimacy arise. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the 'gender lens' in different ways, depending on how the philosopher deploys concepts of men and masculinity to pose and solve classic problems. They can all be read independently and are as suitable for those just making the acquaintance of these classic writers as for those with specialist knowledge and interests. ;
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August 1974Leichenreden und Leichenpredigten Tübinger Professoren (1550-1750)
Untersuchungen zur biographischen Geschichtsschreibung in der frühen Neuzeit
by Schmidt-Grave, Horst
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April 2013Ein neuer Pfad zum Wasserfall
Gedichte
by Carver, Raymond / Englisch Frielinghaus, Helmut
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May 2012Wovon wir reden, wenn wir von Liebe reden
Erzählungen
by Carver, Raymond / Englisch Frielinghaus, Helmut
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May 2012Würdest du bitte endlich still sein, bitte
Erzählungen
by Carver, Raymond / Englisch Frielinghaus, Helmut
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2024Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure
by Larry D Carver
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester's work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester's Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester's work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.
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August 2005Räume der Kunst
Blicke auf Goethes Sammlungen
by Herausgegeben von Bertsch, Markus; Herausgegeben von Grave, Johannes
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July 2014Von wo ich anrufe
Seine besten Stories Ausgewählt von ihm selbst
by Carver, Raymond / Nachwort von Hermann, Judith; Englisch Frielinghaus, Helmut
