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• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors C.V. JONES: Introduction: Buddhism and Its Religious Others
• 1: NATHAN MCGOVERN: Buddhism, S??khya and the Brahmanical Avant-Garde
• 2: CLAIRE MAES: 'The Buddha is a Raft.' On Metaphors, the Language of Liberation, and Religious Others in Early Buddhism
• 3: VINCENT ELTSCHINGER: The Buddha as a Warrior: On Some Metaphors in Early (M?la)Sarv?stiv?da Literature
• 4: C.V. JONES: Shepherds in Wolves' Clothing: bodhisattvas, t?rthikas and 'bodhisattva-t?rthikas'
• 5: MARIE-HELENE GORISSE: What do the Shameless Ones Nonsensically Profess? Genealogy of Buddhist-Jain Philosophical Dialogue
• 6: ALEKSANDRA WENTA: Demons, Wicked Ones and Those who Violate the Samayas: Dharma against the Enemy in Tantric Buddhism
• 7: PERRY SCHMIDT-LEUKEL: The Demonization of the Other through the Narrative of M?ra's Defeat (m?ravijaya)
• 8: STEPHEN R. BOKENKAMP: The Origins of the Origin Debates: Buddhist Responses to Daoist Accounts of the Origins of Buddhism (5th-6th Centuries)
• 9: BENEDETTA LOMI: Outside the Way? Framing Non-Buddhist Practices in Heian Japan
• 10: T.H. BARRETT: Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan Index.
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Throughout its history, Buddhism has developed alongside other traditions of religious belief and practice. Forms of Buddhism have in every era, region, and culture been confronted by rival systems that challenged its teachings about the world, how to behave in it, and liberation from it. This volume collects studies of Buddhist literature and art that represent the religious other to their audiences. Contributing authors examine how Buddhists in India, China, and elsewhere across Asia have understood their place in shared religious landscapes, and how they have responded to the presence and influence in the world of traditions other to their own. The studies in this volume consider a variety of 'others' that Buddhists of different times and situations have encountered, and the variety of mechanisms that Buddhists have employed to make sense of them. Chapters of this volume explore the range of attitudes that Buddhists have expressed with respect to other religions, how they have either accommodated the other within their worldview, or pronounced the redundancy of their ideas and activities. These chapters illuminate how over the centuries Buddhists have used and reused stories, symbols, and other strategies to explain religious others and their value, in which every representation of the other is always also a comment on the character and status of Buddhism itself.
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• List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMUDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA: Introduction
• 1: LEIGH A. PAYNE, LAURA BERNAL-BERMUDEZ AND GABRIEL PEREIRA: Conceptual Framework for Understanding Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations PART I: The Historical Roots of Corporate Accountability
• 2: LEIGH A. PAYNE, MARY BEALL AND AMI HUTCHINSON: The Roots of Corporate Accountability: From the Holocaust and Beyond
• 3: GABRIEL PEREIRA: Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Fighting Corporate Impunity in Provincial Transitional Justice Contexts
• 4: FELIPE COLLA DE AMORIM, RODOLFO MACHADO AND VITOR SION: Accountability for Volkswagen's Role in the Brazilian Dictatorship
• 5: LAURA BERNAL-BERMUDEZ AND NELSON CAMILO SANCHEZ: Innovation from the Bench: Judges, Prosecutors, and Analysts Advancing Truth and Accountability for Conflict-Related Corporate Complicity in Colombia
• 6: MIGUEL BARBOZA-LOPEZ: Corporate Complicity During the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Developing Archimedes Lever in the Case of Campesino Communities
• 7: HENNIE VAN VUUREN AND MICHAEL MARCHANT: Transitional Justice and Economic Crimes: Innovative Approaches from South Africa PART II: Ongoing Corporate Accountability Efforts
• 8: TRICIA D. OLSEN: Business as Usual? The Legacy of Transitions to Democracy on Corporate Accountability
• 9: KARINNA FERNANDEZ AND SEBASTIAN SMART: Complicity of Companies in Chile's Current Human Rights Crisis
• 10: NANCY R. TAPIAS TORRADO: !Berta vive, la lucha sigue!: Corporate Accountability for Attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
• 11: RUBEN CARRANZA: Transitional Justice, Corruption, and Mutually Reinforcing Accountability: What the Global South Can Learn from the Philippines RODRIGO UPRIMNY: Conclusion: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Accountability of Corporate Complicity in Gross Human Rights Violations Bibliography Index.
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The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are seldom guaranteed. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally in which economic actors have incurred few legal or financial (indemnity) costs for violating behaviour. Examining cases in Nazi Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Peru, the Philippines and South Africa, this edited volume traces business accountability efforts. It identifies the tools applicable to different country contexts that have facilitated corporate accountability for human rights violations, while also flagging the barriers that persist. This volume presents the past and the present of accountability for corporations complicit in gross human rights violations, and also considers what the future may hold.
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• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements STEFAN SPERL AND YORGOS DEDES: Introduction: 'A Thing All Living Faces' PART 1. From Paganism and Eastern Christianity to the Islamic World (fourth to seventeenth centuries CE) 1: DAVID HERNANDEZ DE LA FUENTE: Neoplatonism and Poetics in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature 2: STEFAN SPERL: Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry 3: ALEXANDER KEY: What are Neoplatonic Poetics? Allegory
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• genre 4: KAZUYO MURATA: Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Ruzbihan Baqli on Beauty 5: WALTER G. ANDREWS: Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life 6: DIDEM HAVLIOGLU: Mihri Hatun and Neoplatonic Discourse: Legitimation of Women>'s Writing in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry 7: CARL W. ERNST: Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India PART II. Jewish Neoplatonism and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim and Christian Realms (eleventh to seventeenth centuries CE) 8: ADENA TANENBAUM: Andalusian Hebrew Poems on the Soul and their Afterlife 9: JOACHIM YESHAYA: Karaite Poems about the Nature of the Soul from the Muslim East, Byzantium and Eastern Europe PART III. Christian and Jewish Neoplatonism in Italy and Spain (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries CE) 10: CRISTINA D>'ANCONA: 'Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto': The Philosophical Background of Dante's Paradiso I, 1-12 and IV, 22-60 11: SUZANNE STERN-GILLET: Agathon Redivivus: Love and Incorporeal Beauty in Ficino>'s De Amore, Speech V 12: ABIGAIL BRUNDIN: 'REILLY: The Christian Neoplatonism of Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano 15: JULIAN WEISS: A Poetics of Difference: Neoplatonism and the Discourse of Desire in the Early Modern Spanish Love Lyric 339 PART IV. Neoplatonism in Modern Poetry: Splintered but Vibrant 16: PETER ROBINSON: An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale 17: CLAUDIO RODRIGUEZ FER: Eroticism of the Infinite: Neoplatonism, Kabbalism, and Sufism in the work of Jose Angel Valente 18: ROBIN OSTLE: Body and Soul in the Arabic Literature of the Americas 19: FERIAL J. GHAZOUL: Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Mu?ammad ?Afifi Ma?ar 20: AHMAD KARIMI-HAKKAK: Shards of Infinitude: Neoplatonist Relics in Modern Persian Poetry 21: NESLIHAN DEMIRKOL and MEHMET KALPAKLI: The New Image of the Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition in Modern Turkish Poetry 22: DAVID RICKS: Neoplatonists in Modern Greek poetry Index.
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Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity, inspired not only the intellectual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam but also their arts. Neoplatonic notions of the ascent of the soul, the nature of love and beauty, divine immanence and transcendence, and the interplay between the many and the One, have for centuries left comparable marks on the poetry of Western Asia, North Africa and Europe. This volume focuses on the Greater Mediterranean and discusses authors who wrote in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, Spanish and Turkish, from medieval times to the present day. Among them are many celebrated exponents of their respective classical traditions, including Dante, Ibn Arabi and Ibn Gabirol. Major contemporary poets writing in these languages have continued to engage with the Neoplatonic heritage assimilated by their forbears. Particular attention is therefore given also to the modern period. The findings gathered here demonstrate that Neoplatonism is a cross-cultural phenomenon of outstanding importance which has given rise to a distinct 'Neoplatonic poetics' and remains relevant by pointing the way towards an inclusive sense of identity commensurate with a pluralist world.
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung
• Forschungsstand und Forschungsfragen
• Gegenstand der Untersuchung
• Vorarbeiten und Quellenlage
• Die Entstehung der Ausschüsse und Kommissionen
• Die Ausschüsse und Kommissionen des Alten Reiches als Vorläufer
• Der Plan zur Einrichtung ständiger Bundestagsausschüsse
• Die Durchsetzung der Bundestagsausschüsse
• Organisation der Ausschüsse und Kommissionen
• Bundestagsausschüsse
• Die Geschäftsordnung für die Bundestagsausschüsse
• Die Arbeitspraxis der Bundestagsausschüsse
• Sachverständigen- und Lokalkommissionen
• Militärkommissionen
• Sicherheitspolitische Kommissionen
• Weitere Kommissionen
• Quantitative Untersuchung der Ausschüsse und Kommissionen
• Anzahl und Dauer
• Geschäftsbereiche
• Mitgliederstruktur
• Die Tätigkeit der Ausschüsse und Kommissionen
• Das Finanzwesen des Deutschen Bundes
• Allgemeine Grundlagen und Einsetzung eines Bundestagsausschusses
• Die Bundeskanzleikasse
• Die Bundesmatrikularkasse
• Die Bundesfonds
• Die Finanzierung der "Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde"
• Der Deutsche Bund und die Finanzierung der Revolution von 1848-49
• Eingaben und Reklamationen
• Von der Supplikation zur Petition
• Die Einrichtung der Reklamationsausschüsse
• Die Bestellung von Agenten bei der Bundesversammlung
• Quantitative Untersuchung der Eingaben an die Bundesversammlung
• Eingaben als Medien politischer Aushandlungsprozesse
• Die Eingaben der westphälischen Domänenkäufer
• Zoll- und handelspolitische Eingaben
• Verfassungs- und nationalpolitische Eingaben
• Die Publikation der Bundestagsprotokolle
• Die Festlegung der Publikation der Protokolle
• Die Unterbindung der Publikation der Protokolle
• Das Ringen um die Öffentlichkeit der Bundestagsverhandlungen
• Die Kommission für das Archiv des ehemaligen Reichskammergerichtes
• Einsetzung der Kommission durch die Bundesversammlung
• Das Ringen um die Erhaltung des Reichskammergerichtsarchives
• Die Durchsetzung der Auflösung des Archives
• Der Deutsche Bund und die Zolleinheit
• Ausgangslage und erste Initiativen 1815-1819
• Die handelspolitischen Beratungen 1819-1824
• Der handelspolitische Ausschuss 1832-1848
• Rechtsvereinheitlichung
• Das Heimatrecht
• Der Nachdruckschutz
• Der Erfindungsschutz
• Der Eisenbahnbau und die militärische Sicherheitspolitik des Deutschen Bundes
• Die Militärorganisation des Bundes als Faktor politischer Integration
• Die Eisenbahn als Element der militärischen Sicherheit
• Der Plan eines Eisenbahnsystems für den Deutschen Bund
• Bundeswappen und Bundesfarben
• Staat und Nation als symbolische Ordnungen
• Die Inszenierung des Deutschen Bundes als föderativer Ordnung
• Der Plan zur Einführung von Bundeswappen und Bundesfarben
• Zensur und Pressefreiheit
• Der Versuch zur Regelung des Presserechts nach Artikel 18 der Bundesakte
• Das provisorische Bundespressegesetz und der Pressgesetz-ausschuss
• Die Reform des Bundespresserechtes seit 1840
• Zusammenfassung
• Verzeichnis der Abbildungen, Diagramme und Tabellen
• Abkürzungen
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Ungedruckte Quellen
• Gedruckte Quellen
• Literatur
• Übersicht der Ausschüsse und Kommissionen
• Verfassung, organische Einrichtung und Gesetzgebung des Deutschen Bundes
• Angelegenheiten aus der Zeit vor der Gründung des Bundes
• Ansprüche aufgrund der Bundesakte oder der Wiener Kongressakte
• Streitigkeiten zwischen Bundesgliedern
• Ansprüche von Privatpersonen gegen mehrere Regierungen
• Reklamationen
• Innere Sicherheit und politische Überwachung
• Personenregister

"Der 1815 gegründete Deutsche Bund gilt noch immer weithin bloß als Instrument der Restauration überholter politischer, gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Zustände und der Unterdrückung der politischen Opposition. Die Studie analysiert erstmals systematisch die Tätigkeit der Deutschen Bundesversammlung als dem zentralen politischen Organ des Deutschen Bundes und der durch sie eingesetzten Ausschüsse und Kommissionen in der Zeit vom Zusammentritt der Bundesversammlung 1816 bis zum Ausbruch der Revolution von 1848/49. Dabei zeigt sich, dass der Deutsche Bund keineswegs nur ein Werkzeug der Bundesstaaten zur politischen Repression und zur militärischen Verteidigung war. Vielmehr entwickelte er sich zu einer eigenen politischen Handlungsebene, die auf vielen Feldern der zivilen Rechtsvereinheitlichung, der ökonomischen Modernisierung, der kulturellen Entwicklung und der nationalen Integration und politischen Partizipation eigene Initiativen entfaltete. Obwohl der Deutsche Bund den in ihn gesetzten hohen gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen letztlich nicht gerecht werden konnte, blieben seine Aktivitäten auf vielen Feldern langfristig nicht wirkungs- und folgenlos"--Publisher's website

• WILLIAM D. GODSEY AND PETR MA%TA: Introduction: The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State
• 1: HAMISH SCOTT: The Austrian Fiscal-Military State in International Perspective
• 2: GUY ROWLANDS: The Fiscal-Military Constitution of Bourbon France in Comparative Perspective
• 3: PETER H. WILSON: The European Fiscal-Military System and the Habsburg Monarchy
• 4: ISTVAN KENYERES AND GEZA PALFFY: Hungarian Border Defence and the Habsburg Financial and Military Transformation in the 16th Century
• 5: THOMAS WINKELBAUER: The General War Commissariat: A Neglected Pivot of the Habsburg Fiscal-Military State
• 6: ANDRAS OROSS: Magnates and Military Contracting in Hungary after 1648
• 7: JI`RI DAVID: Fiscal-Military Exigency and Authority in 17th-Century Moravia
• 8: PETR MA%TA: Negotiating Fiscal-Military Coordination: Provincial Tax Quotas for the Habsburg Army 1648-1748
• 9: PETER RAUSCHER: The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Fiscal-Military System c. 1606-1806
• 10: HORST CARL: Noble Enterprisers: Regimental Proprietorship in the Habsburg Army
• 11: VERONIKA HYDEN-HANSCHO: Habsburg War Finance and Noble Credit-Brokerage in the Southern Netherlands under Charles VI
• 12: WILLIAM D. GODSEY: The Rise of a Sustainable Public Debt in the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy
• 13: ILYA BERKOVICH: Conscription in the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-92
• 14: PATRICK SWOBODA: Free Money for War? Wartime Subsidies and the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy
• 15: ORSOLYA SZAKALY: The 'Business of War' in Hungary: Saltpetre Contracting during the Napoleonic Period.
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Bringing together a team of leading international experts to examine the impact of the rise and expansion of a large standing army on government and society over nearly two centuries, this themed volume provides the first major analysis of the Habsburg Monarchy as a fiscal-military state. This volumes offers a broadly comparative perspective on the Habsburg Monarchy, with particular attention to the United Kingdom and France, but also the wider international system. The contributors spotlight a range of structures, practices, and historical actors that sustained the Habsburg Monarchy as a leading fiscal-military power, including the recruitment of the common soldier, the enrolment of officers, military economy, borrowing and public credit, taxation, the provincial Estates and diets, noble brokers and contractors, and landowners. This volume not only provides a new perspective on vast areas of early modern Europe - the Monarchy encompassed in whole or part no fewer than 14 current states - but also offers an internationally accessible framework for future research.
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• Part I: Ficino and beyond : philosophy and religion. Styles and methods of philosophical interpretation in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus / Stephen Gersh
• Reading the De Anima with Aristotle's Student : Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the intellect / Anna Corrias
• Theory and theurgy, or how Ficino wished to dispatch the Averroist intellect through Platonic good works / Guido Giglioni
• The Paduan philosopher at prayer : the continuity of being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's Sadoleto / Allegra Baggio Corradi
• Part II: Enemies of Plato and Aristotle. Pletho and Scholarios on using and abusing Plato and Aristotle / George Karamanolis
• Samuel Parker's Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie / Douglas Hedley
• Part III: Academies and Universities. Interpreting Plato's geometrical elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries / Craig Martin
• Between past and present : Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) and the Comparatio Tradition / Eva del Soldato
• Platonic love and Aristotelian ethics in Alessandro Piccolomini's Institutione (1542) / Eleanor Webb
• Platonic science in the vernacular : Sebastiano Erizzo's Italian translation of Plato's Timaeus (1557) / Tommaso de Robertis

Plato and Aristotle were very much alive between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The essays in this volume investigate the interaction, both in terms of harmony and contrast, between the two philosophers in early modernity, that is in a time when long-forgotten texts became available and a new philological awareness was on the rise. Dealing with famous and less famous early modern interpreters and philosophers, in a transnational and translinguistic perspective, this volume reveals the agendas behind the discussions on Plato's and Aristotle's philosophies. In studying these texts, it is hard to imagine a more significant collision of big names with big ideas. This project takes us to the centre of the intellectual life of the period and its most exciting debates.
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• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements
• 1: NEIL KENNY: Introduction Language, Social Literacy, and Social Status
• 2: WARREN BOUTCHER: 'Noble ambition': New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History
• 3: HELENA SANSON: Women's Social Status and their Access to Learning in Multilingual Early Modern Italy
• 4: CHRISTINE STEVENSON: English Builders in Translation Roles of Cultural Production in Social Status
• 5: IAN MACLEAN: The Social Status of Publishers of Learned Texts in Europe 1560-1630
• 6: SARAH GWYNETH ROSS: Literary Collaboration and Social Legitimacy in an Actor's Oeuvre: The Peculiar Case of Francesco Andreini (d.1624)
• 7: JANE STEVENSON: Marta Marchina, Poetry and Social Mobility in Baroque Rome Representing Social Status: Genres and Discourses
• 8: RICHARD OOSTERHOFF: The Idiota's Authority: Fifteenth-Century Hierarchies in Dialogue
• 9: SUSAN WISEMAN: Making 'Gypsies' in the English Reformation? Laws, Words and Texts (1530-1621)
• 10: JONATHAN PATTERSON: 'Greatness going off' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies
• 11: RICHARD MCCABE: Tragedy, or the Fall of Middle-Class Men A Two-Way Relation
• 12: SIMON PARK: The Scribes of the Old Pillory: Hired Hands and their Customers in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon
• 13: COLIN BURROW: Authorship and Social Status in Early Modern England Index.
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The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that were rigidly hierarchical. What difference did that fact make to the literature and literate knowledge? How did social hierarchy shape the production of literature and literate knowledge (by writers, patrons, printers) and their reception (by readers and audiences)? Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe is the first book to ask these question of Western Europe, in relation to a wide range of genres, disciplines, practices, and writers. The picture that emerges is of literature and literate knowledge largely bolstering social hierarchies while also questioning at times the very basis on which societies measured the status and worth of their members.
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• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: A Renaissance Reclaimed: Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance Reconsidered, STEFAN BAUER AND SIMON DITCHFIELD Prologue: The Making of a Text 1: A Renaissance from Scraps: The Material Evidence for a New Critical Edition of Burckhardt's Book, MIKKEL MANGOLD 2: 'A Centaur at the Edge of the Forest': Jacob Burckhardt as Cultural Historian, MARTIN A. RUEHL
• Part 1: The State as a Work of Art 3: 'The State as a Work of Art': State and Politics in Burckhardt and in Italian Renaissance Political Thought, ROBERT BLACK
• Part 2: The Development of the Individual 4: The Performance of Identity in Renaissance Italy, VIRGINIA COX 5: Expressions of the Self in Burckhardt's Renaissance, WIETSE DE BOER
• Part 3: The Revival of Antiquity 6: The Colours of Antiquity in Burckhardt's Portrait of the Renaissance in Italy, BARBARA VON REIBNITZ 7: Burckhardt, Humanists, and the Remains of Antiquity, WILLIAM STENHOUSE
• Part 4: The Discovery of the World and of Man 8: What is Left of the Renaissance? The Discovery of the World and of Man from a Cosmopolitan Perspective, JOAN-PAU RUBIES 9: Burckhardt's (New) World and Ours: Rethinking the Renaissance in the Age of Global History, GIUSEPPE MARCOCCI
• Part 5: Society and Festivals 10: 'A heightened moment in the life of the people'? Festivals in their Social Context and Burckhardt's Legacy to Modern Festival Research, HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY FBA
• Part 6: Morality and Religion 11: Burckhardt's Beliefs and Renaissance Religions, NICHOLAS TERPSTRA 12: Burckhardt, Religion, and the 'Principle of Correction': From Renaissance to Reformation, STEFAN BAUER Afterword, PETER BURKE FBA.
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A Renaissance Reclaimed brings together an international team of historians of scholarship, politics, religion, literature, and ideas, whose expertise straddles the Renaissance and nineteenth century, to evaluate the achievement and legacy of the most famous work by the Swiss 'father of cultural history' Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97): The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). The capaciousness of Burckhardt's vision, which embraced fashion, false teeth, and hair extensions as well as the 'State as a work of art', development of the individual, revival of antiquity, discovery of the world and of man, society and festivals, and morality and religion, has never been equalled. Insights in this volume are made possible by the new critical edition that only serves to emphasise how artful Burckhardt's reading of primary (pre-eminently literary rather than art-historical) sources was. It also shows how Burckhardt's ambivalence towards the Renaissance reflected his deep anxieties about the social and political corollaries of modernisation.
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• 1. On the Self-assertion of Chinese Academia
• 2. On the Autonomous Construction of the Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse System
• 3. On the Spiritual Reconstruction of the Contemporary China and Its Intellectual Resources
• 4. On China's Pacifist Path of Development and Its World-historical Significance
• 5. The "Chinese School" and Its Academic Discourse Power
• 6. How Can the "Chinese School" Become Possible
• 7. Marx's Conception of Reality and the Chinese Path
• 8. On the Hegelian Origin of Marx's Doctrine
• 9. Marx's Theory of the Historical Path and Its Concretisation Programme
• 10. The "Chinese Solution" and the Opening Up of a New Type of Civilisation of Global Governance.
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From a Marxist philosophical perspective, this collection of essays investigates the maturing self-consciousness and self-assertion of Chinese academia, especially within the humanities and social sciences, permitting more penetrating insights and critical engagement with the social reality of China. The author elaborates on the relationship between Hegel and Marx's philosophy and their concepts of reality, thereby accounting for the historic and philosophical conditions for the autonomy of Chinese academia. Drawing on intellectual resources from both Eastern and Western archives, including phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, Western Marxism, and China's pacifist tradition, the book refutes Huntington's speculation about Chinese imperialism and delineates how China's development can contribute to a fundamental critique of capitalist civilisation and a new paradigm of global governance. In addition, the book challenges the thinking of Chinese neo-liberals and nationalist-conservatives and their understandings of the history and social reality of China. Hence, the author advocates a reconstruction of the spiritual and intellectual realm within society based on Marxism, in order to counter Sinophobia, neo-liberalism, and nationalism at the same time. The book will appeal to readers interested in social and political philosophy, philosophy of history, Marxism, and China studies.
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• Introduction: sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945) / Andreas Kramer and Przemysław Strożek
• 1. Vitalist Cubisms: the biocultures of virility, militarism and La Vie Sportive / Fae Brauer
• 2. The aesthetics and ideology of sport in Italian Futurism / Günter Berghaus
• 3. Outside the vortex? Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde's indifference to sport / John Hughson
• 4. 'Vive le sport!' German Expressionism and Dada / Andreas Kramer
• 5. Sports and the Bauhaus: bringing school to life / Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer
• 6. A new pitch: art, sport and the impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s / Mike O'Mahony
• 7. Workers' sport, mountaineering and the Avant-Garde left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: on sporting content in ReD, Munka and Dźwignia / Przemysław Strożek
• 8. After Purism: the young man's home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition / Bernard Vere

What has been the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century? From an international and interdisciplinary perspective we show the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports. Our focus lies on avant-garde artists, groups, movements and institutions across Europe (including Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism, Purism, Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe), thereby unfolding the diversity of avant-garde responses to modern sports. The book in front of you includes fascinating readings in the fields of aesthetics, visual cultures, cultural history and politics and highlights why specific kinds of sport such as cycling, boxing and football became important for avant-garde movements and artists.
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• 1: Introduction
• 2: The place of native populations in the chartered towns of conquered regions: Wales and Prussia as a comparative case study
• 3: 'Irishtowns' and 'Welsh Streets': ethnic enclaves within the towns of colonial Ireland and Wales in a northern-European colonial context
• 4: Women in the small-town economy of medieval Wales and Prussia
• 5: Urban legislation as an instrument for the formation and regulation of socio-economic life in 14th-century Prussian and Irish towns
• 6: The participation of craftsmen in municipal governance in late medieval Malbork and Stockholm
• 7: Shaping the public space of Gda?sk and Dublin, 14th-16th centuries.: tensions between the common good and private use
• 8: Military affairs and community in Prussian, Livonian and Irish towns, 13th-16th centuries
• 9: Quarters and quartermasters in Franconian and Prussian towns, 13th-16th centuries
• 10: Maintaining a 'special relationship'? Petitions to the crown from Irish and Welsh towns, 13th -16th centuries
• 11: Conclusion.
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In the later Middle Ages a European 'core' of culturally and administratively sophisticated societies with rapidly growing populations, on an axis from England to Italy, colonised the European 'periphery'. In northern Europe this periphery included Wales and Ireland, as colonised by the English, and Prussia and Livonia, as colonised (mainly) by Germanic and Nordic peoples. A key tool of colonisation was the chartered town, giving citizens distinguishing legal privileges and a degree of self-regulation. Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe contends that while the chartered town, as a legal and social-political concept, was transferred to peripheral areas by colonisers, its implementation and adaptation in peripheral areas resulted in unique societies, not simply the replication of core urban forms and communities. In so doing, it compares the development of social and political institutions in the chartered towns of medieval Ireland, Wales, Prussia, and Livonia. Research themes include community formation, normalisation/social disciplining, and peace making/keeping.
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• Einleitung / Matthias Berg, Helmut Neuhaus
• Briefkultur(en) im bürgerlichen Zeitalter / Gangolf Hübinger
• Selbstzeugnisse in kulturhistiorischer Perspektive: Briefe, Tagebücher, Autobiographien / Michael Maurer
• Wissenschaftspolitik in Briefen: Althoff, Mommsen und Harnack / Stefan Rebenich
• Disziplinbildung und Briefkultur(en): Gelehrtenbriefe und Korrespondenzformen in der Germanistik des 19. Jahrhunderts / Hans-Harald Müller
• Eine Organisationsgeschichte in Briefen: Historikertage und Historikerverband um 1900 / Matthias Beg
• Werner Sombart und Robert Michels als Briefschreiber: Briefkultur, Sozialwissenschaft und Politik / Thomas Kroll, Friedrich Lenger
• Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik: Hans Delbrücks Korrespondenz als Herausgeber der "Preussischen Jahrbücher" / Jonas Klein
• Zorn, Spott, Verzweiflung: Die Briefe Johannes Hallers, emotionsgeschichtlich gelesen / Benjamin Hasselhorn
• Briefe zwischen Freund und Feind? Belgische Historiker und ihre Korrespondenz-Netzwerke mit Deutschland / Geneviève Warland
• Vom Mittelpunkt des FAches in die Ausgrenzung: Hermann Onckens Korrespondenz zwischen Weimarer Republik und Nationalsozialismus / Philip Rosin
• Konturen eines Netzwerks: Albert Brackmanns Korrespondenz zwischen Mediävistik und "Ostforschung" / Martin Koschny
• Briefe als Rettungsanker: Zur Korrespondenz deutschsprachiger Historikerinnen und Historiker in der britischen Emigration ab 1933 / Birte Meinschien
• Deutsch-jüdische Historikerbriefwechsel nach 1945: Zum Erkenntnispotential enier antagonistischen Konstellation / Nicolas Berg
• Briefkultur im historischen Herrschaftsdiskurs der DDR / Martin Sabrow
• Historikerbriefe in den "Deutschen Geschichtsquellen des 19. Jahrhunderts" / Hans-Christoph Kraus
• Karl Hegels editorische Praxis im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz seit den 1850er Jahren / Marion Kreis
• Weshalb es sich lohnt, die Briefe eines Unbekannten zu edieren / Folker Reichert
• Edieren im digitalen Zetialter: Die Ernst Haeckel Online-Briefedition / Roman Göbel

• Vorbemerkungen
• Ein Buch als Sammelbehälter für Verlorenes : Judith Schalanskys Verzeichnis einiger Verluste (2018)
• Ästhetische Kontexte und Vergleichsrelate : Künstlerbuch : Literarischer Phototext : Buchliteratur
• Anne Carson : Nox (2010)
• Motive literarisch-künstlerischer Reflexion über das Buch : einige abschliessende Bemerkungen
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Anmerkungen

Vorgestellt werden zwei unkonventionelle Beispiele neuerer Literatur, bei denen die Gestalt des Buchs, seine Materialität und seine Architektur, als konstitutive Dimensionen des literarischen Werks selbst zu gelten haben: Anne Carsons Leporello-Buch 'Nox' (2000, in engl. Sprache publiziert 2010) und Judith Schalanskys Band 'Verzeichnis einiger Verluste' (2018). Carsons wie auch Schalanskys Buch entstanden als Dokumente des Erinnerns und nehmen Bezug auf Abwesendes bzw. Abwesende: Carson gestaltete 'Nox' als Memorialbuch für ihren verstorbenen Bruder; es enthält Fetzen und Reste persönlicher Erinnerungsstücke sowie fragmentarische Notizen. Schalanskys 'Verzeichnis einiger Verluste' bietet eine Zusammenstellung von Essays, Sachinformationen und Photos, die sich auf zwölf verschwundene Objekte, Orte, Kunstwerke oder natürliche Wesen beziehen