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October 2002Porträt einer ungewöhnlichen Ehe
Virginia & Leonard Woolf
by Spater, George; Parsons, Ian / Vorwort von Bell, Quentin
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May 1986Gesellschaften
Evolutionäre und komparative Perspektiven. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Nils Thomas Lindquist
by Talcott Parsons, Nils Thomas Lindquist
Parsons᾿ Analyse verschiedener historischer Gesellschaften zeigt, daß die fundamentalen Gesellschaftstypen multiple und variable Ursprünge in den frühen Phasen der Evolution haben. Daher ist es nicht notwendig, einen einzigen primitiven Ursprung aller intermediären Gesellschaften zu postulieren, auch wenn man Faktoren wie etwa die unabhängige Legitimation und Stratifikation von Kultur als notwendige Bedingungen aller intermediären Gesellschaften voraussetzt. Die Bedeutung solcher Variationen auf allen Entwicklungsstufen kann, meint Parsons, nur durch eine analytische Theorie der variablen Faktoren und Komponenten adäquat erfaßt werden. Die eindrucksvolle Entwicklung dieser Theorie seit Spencers Zeiten erlaubt Parsons, ein viel anspruchsvolleres Evolutionsschema zu entwerfen als es damals möglich war.
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November 1986Aktor, Situation und normative Muster
Ein Essay zur Theorie sozialen Handelns
by Talcott Parsons, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel
Bei diesem Essay handelt es sich um ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Manuskript aus dem Nachlaß des 1979 verstorbenen amerikanischen Soziologen, das gegen Ende 1939 fertiggestellt wurde, kaum zwei Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung seines ersten großen Werks, The Structure of Social Action. Als ein Kompendium der dort begründeten »Theorie des Handelns« sucht es deren systematischen Gehalt zu explizieren und weiterzuentwickeln. In seiner Treue gegenüber dem in The Structure of Social Action entworfenen Programm einer Theorie des Handelns, jedoch auch in den Neuerungen und Erweiterungen in dessen materialer Ausgestaltung kann dieser Essay überraschen, stellt er doch die Überzeugung der Parsons-Folklore in Frage, daß zwischen der voluntaristischen Handlungstheorie und der strukturfunktionalistischen Systemtheorie des Autors ein klarer Trennungsstrich zu ziehen sei. Er ist nicht nur ein wichtiges Brückenglied zwischen diesen beiden Werkphasen, er zeigt darüber hinaus ein wichtiges Wegstück auf, das Parsons in der Ausformulierung jenes Programms als einer Theorie des allgemeinen Handlungssystems beschreitet.
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January 1994Aktor, Situation und normative Muster
Ein Essay zur Theorie sozialen Handelns
by Talcott Parsons, Harald Wenzel, Harald Wenzel
Dieser Essay wurde gegen Ende 1939 fertiggestellt, kaum zwei Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des ersten großen Werkes von Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action. Als ein Kompendium der dort begründeten »Theorie des Handelns« sucht es deren systematischen Gehalt zu explizieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Es knüpft unmittelbar an das dort gestellte Problem der sozialen Ordnung und dessen Lösungsversuch an. Soziale Integration sollte demnach durch gemeinsame, interindividuell geteilte Wertorientierungen garantiert sein. In diesem Essay nun wird der dieser Konzeption von Ordnung zugrundeliegende Handlungsbegriff präzisiert: Handeln ist die durch normative Muster vermittelte »Orientierung« eines Aktors an seiner Situation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2022The pastor in print
Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England
by Amy G. Tan
The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2025Ghosts and the Gothic
by Ruth Heholt, Joanne Ella Parsons
Ghosts have long been connected with the Gothic, but until now there has not been a book dedicated to the subject. This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the beginning of the genre to the present in a global context. Arguing that the undead, in the form of ghosts, are intrinsic to the Gothic mode, essays in the collection question the place of manifested spirits. The Gothic has always been 'political', and essays in this collection examine some of the most relevant issues facing us today: from the destruction of the natural environment, to questions of 'freedom', to gender politics.
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British & Irish historyNovember 2015William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
by Edited by R. Charles Mollan
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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November 1985Das Problem der Intersubjektivität
Neuere Beiträge zum Werk George Herbert Meads
by Hans Joas, Hans Joas
Joas, Hans: Einleitung: Neuere Beiträge zum Werk George Herbert Meads. Wenzel, Harald: Mead and Parsons. Die emergente Ordnung des sozialen Handelns. Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert: Die Theorie der Intersubjektivität als eine Lehre vom Menschen. George Herbert Mead und die deutsche Tradition der »Philosophischen Anthropologie«. Bergmann, Werner: _. Hoffmann, Gisbert: Mead und die Tradition der Phänomenologie. Cook, Gary Allan: Moralität und Sozialität bei Mead. Übersetzt von Hans Joas. Krappmann, Lothar: Mead und die Sozialisationsforschung. Tenbruck, Friedrich H.: George Herbert Mead und die Ursprünge der Soziologie in Deutschland und Amerika. Ein Kapitel über die Gültigkeit und Vergleichbarkeit soziologischer Theorien.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2026Punk rock ruined my life
And other stories
by John Robb
The irresistible story of a one-man cultural phenomenon. Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon. Robb's quest began in his hometown of Blackpool - where punk was a battle against the odds - and went international when he toured the world with his band. The first person to interview Nirvana, he also discovered The Stone Roses for weekly newspaper Sounds and did early interviews with The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Manics, before moving on to legends such as Mark E. Smith, Nick Cave and Patti Smith. Along the way, he became an on-screen commentator and author of bestselling books. Robb's memoir tells of deep friendships with figures from Poly Styrene to Chris Packham. Packed with riotous stories, it provides an alternative account of British musical and cultural history and a triumphant blueprint for a punk rock life.
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July 2006Shaw für Boshafte
by George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Kluge, Thomas Kluge
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: George Bernard Shaw. »Die Beziehung des Vorgesetzten zum Untergebenen schließt gute Manieren aus.«
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The ArtsOctober 20174 saints in 3 acts
A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
by Patricia Allmer, John Sears
Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera that nonetheless achieved remarkable popular success. Photography was a key element of that success, but its complex roles in the construction, representation and dissemination of the opera have hitherto received little critical attention. The photographic recording of the all-African American cast in particular affords a unique insight into the complexities of Four Saints in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and the New York avant-gardes of the time. This book, published in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, London, presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by an international range of scholars exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, as well as photography.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Massacres in Early Modern Drama
by Georgina Lucas
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.
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