Cultural Critique

ISSN: 1530-9568

Cultural Critique is a research monograph series drawing from those scholarly traditions in the social sciences and the humanities that are premised on critical, performance-based cultural studies agenda. Preference is given to experimental, risk-taking manuscripts that are at the intersection of interpretative theory, critical methodology, culture, media, history, biography, and social structure.

7 publications

Contemporary Critical Concepts and Pre-Enlightenment Literature

ISSN: 1074-6781

"Writers who worked before the beginning of rationalist universalism's triumphal period which may be ending now-explored issues of consciousness, ideology, and culture that recent criticism and critical theory, using various specialized vocabularies of concepts, have returned to the center of literäry and social criticism. These early modern figures often anticipated some of our clilemmas; How to manipulate an apparently quite mutable world and, at the same time, preserve belief in an immutable "centered" self? How to reconcile rationalist universalism with personal and cultural stability? Rene Descartes's postulate of man as the master and proprietor of an increasingly built world is fundamentally incompatible with his effort to underwrite man as a stable philosophical subject. Man's technical and linguistic mastery devours his "transcendent subjectivity." Students of literature are now using the ideas of what Larry Riggs calls "post-enlightenment thinkers"-Max Horkheimer, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Rene Girard, and others-to elucidate the implicit and explicit debates about rationalism that are embedded in literary works. This trend is most usefully seen as a renewal of contact with preoccupations that were quite current in medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century European literature. To date, however, innovative criticism has focused an more recent literature. Some post-structuralists-most notably Jacques Lacan-have tried their hand at interpreting early works. Their ideas are interesting, but their knowledge of the periods in question is often weak. Manuscripts on Elizabethan and Restoration theater, French, Italian, and German writers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, and die seventeenth-century French dramatists and moralists are welcome. "

3 publications

Recht und Rhetorik

Die Publikationsreihe Recht und Rhetorik veröffentlicht Monographien und Sammelbände zur Rechtswissenschaft. Sie erörtert unter anderem rechtstheoretische Fragestellungen und befasst sich mit Analysen zum Einfluss von Rhetorik auf öffentliche Verwaltungsentscheidungen. Die Publikationsreihe Recht und Rhetorik veröffentlicht Monographien und Sammelbände zur Rechtswissenschaft. Sie erörtert unter anderem rechtstheoretische Fragestellungen und befasst sich mit Analysen zum Einfluss von Rhetorik auf öffentliche Verwaltungsentscheidungen. Die Publikationsreihe Recht und Rhetorik veröffentlicht Monographien und Sammelbände zur Rechtswissenschaft. Sie erörtert unter anderem rechtstheoretische Fragestellungen und befasst sich mit Analysen zum Einfluss von Rhetorik auf öffentliche Verwaltungsentscheidungen.

8 publications

Sport und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven

ISSN: 1865-777X

Die Reihe Sport und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven vereint empirische und theoretische Arbeiten mit Blick auf den Leistungs-, Nachwuchs-, Breiten-, Schul- und Gesundheitssport im gesellschaftlichen Kontext, wobei eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive angestrebt ist. Neben Beiträgen der Pädagogischen Psychologie und der Sportpsychologie sowie angrenzender Teilbereiche der Psychologie ist die Reihe auch offen für benachbarte Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Anfragen an den Herausgeber sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Martin K. W. Schweer Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Prof. Dr. Sandra Günther (Hannover), Prof. Dr. Heidi Möller, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schierl (Köln)

6 publications

Forum für Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft

ISSN: 2198-3704

Die Schriftenreihe ist als ein Forum konzipiert, in dem Publikationen im breiteren Rahmen der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft veröffentlicht werden. Besonderer Fokus gilt der Frage, wie die heutige Welt und ihre zahlreichen mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Gesellschaften mit konkreten Sprachen verbundene «Weltbilder» zu einem neuen Ganzen zusammenfließen können.

11 publications

The Modernist Revolution in World Literature

ISSN: 1528-9672

In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series

3 publications

Psychologie und Gesellschaft

Die Reihe Psychologie und Gesellschaft vereint empirische und theoretische Arbeiten vornehmlich mit Blick auf die Anwendungsfelder Schule und Organisation, wobei eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive angestrebt ist. Neben Beiträgen der Pädagogischen Psychologie und angrenzender Teilbereiche der Psychologie ist die Reihe auch offen für benachbarte Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Anfragen an den Herausgeber sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Martin K. W. Schweer Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Preiser (Berlin), Dr. Nina Oelkers (Vechta), Dr. Nora Szech (Karlsruhe) Die Reihe Psychologie und Gesellschaft vereint empirische und theoretische Arbeiten vornehmlich mit Blick auf die Anwendungsfelder Schule und Organisation, wobei eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive angestrebt ist. Neben Beiträgen der Pädagogischen Psychologie und angrenzender Teilbereiche der Psychologie ist die Reihe auch offen für benachbarte Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Anfragen an den Herausgeber sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Martin K. W. Schweer Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Preiser (Berlin), Dr. Nina Oelkers (Vechta), Dr. Nora Szech (Karlsruhe) Die Reihe Psychologie und Gesellschaft vereint empirische und theoretische Arbeiten vornehmlich mit Blick auf die Anwendungsfelder Schule und Organisation, wobei eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive angestrebt ist. Neben Beiträgen der Pädagogischen Psychologie und angrenzender Teilbereiche der Psychologie ist die Reihe auch offen für benachbarte Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Anfragen an den Herausgeber sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Homepage des Herausgebers: Prof. Dr. Martin K. W. Schweer Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Preiser (Berlin), Dr. Nina Oelkers (Vechta), Dr. Nora Szech (Karlsruhe)

15 publications

Higher Ed

What are the purposes of higher education? When undergraduates 'declare their majors,' they agree to enter into a world defined by the parameters of a particular academic discourse, a discipline. But who decides those parameters? How do they come about? What are the discussions and proposed outcomes of disciplined inquiry? What should an undergraduate know to be considered educated in a discipline? How does the disciplinary knowledge base inform its pedagogy? Why are there different disciplines? When has a discipline 'run its course'? Where do new disciplines come from? Where do old ones go? How does a discipline produce its knowledge? What are the meanings and purposes of disciplinary research and teaching? What are the key questions of disciplined inquiry? What questions are taboo within a discipline? What can the disciplines learn from one another? What might they not want to learn and why? Once we begin asking these kinds of questions, positionality becomes a key issue. One reason why there aren't many books on the meaning and purpose of higher education is that once such questions are opened for discussion, one's subjectivity becomes an issue with respect to the presumed objective stances of Western higher education. Academics don't have positions because positions are 'biased,' 'subjective,' 'slanted,' and therefore somehow invalid. So the first thing to do is to provide a sense, however broad and general, of what dinds of positionalities will inform the books and chapters on the above questions. Certainly the questions themselves, and any others we might ask, are already suggesting a particular 'bent,' but as the series takes shape, the authors we engage will no doubt have positions on these questions. From the stance of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or transdisciplinary practitioners, will the chapters and books we solicit solidify disciplinary discourses, or liquefy them? Depending on who is asked, interdisciplinary inquiry is either a polite collaboration among scholars firmly situated in their own particular discourses, or it is a blurring of the restrictive parameters that define the very notion of disciplinary discourse. So will the series have a stance on the meaning and purpose of interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching? This can possibly be finessed by attracted thinkers from disciplines that are already multicisciplinary, e.g., the various knids of 'studies' programs (Women's, Islamic, American, Cultural, etc.), or the hybrid disciplines like Ethnomusicology (Musicology, Folklore, Anthropology). But by including people from these fields (areas? disciplines?) in our series, we are already taking a stand on disciplined inquiry. A question on the comprehensive exam for the Columbia University Ethnomusicology Program was to defend Ethnomusicology as a 'field' or a 'discipline.' One's answer determined one's future, at least to the extent that the gatekeepers had a say in such matters. So, in the end, what we are proposing will no doubt involve political struggles.

31 publications

Oppelner BeitrOppelner Beiträge zur Germanistik

ISSN: 1438-2873

7 publications

From Antiquity to Modernity

ISSN: 2328-9236

"From Antiquity to Modernity: Studies on Middle Eastern and Asian Societies is a series focusing on aspects central to Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian societies in the past and the present. It is designed to contribute toward better understandings of those important regions’ peoples. Original research within the disciplines of anthropology, archeology, art history, cultural studies, economics, history, history of science, international relations, languages, literatures, politics, religions, and sociology will be published. Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and multidisciplinary studies are welcome as well. So are ones that advance methodologies relating to complexities of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. Manuscripts can be single- authored or co-authored; edited volumes that form a cohesive body of knowledge will be considered, too. Each book-length manuscript will undergo editorial and peer review prior to acceptance for publication. Individual volumes in From Antiquity to Modernity are of particular value to individuals studying and investigating the Middle East and Asia at universities, think tanks, and governmental and nongovernmental agencies while also being of interest to the general educated reader. " "From Antiquity to Modernity: Studies on Middle Eastern and Asian Societies is a series focusing on aspects central to Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian societies in the past and the present. It is designed to contribute toward better understandings of those important regions’ peoples. Original research within the disciplines of anthropology, archeology, art history, cultural studies, economics, history, history of science, international relations, languages, literatures, politics, religions, and sociology will be published. Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and multidisciplinary studies are welcome as well. So are ones that advance methodologies relating to complexities of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. Manuscripts can be single- authored or co-authored; edited volumes that form a cohesive body of knowledge will be considered, too. Each book-length manuscript will undergo editorial and peer review prior to acceptance for publication. Individual volumes in From Antiquity to Modernity are of particular value to individuals studying and investigating the Middle East and Asia at universities, think tanks, and governmental and nongovernmental agencies while also being of interest to the general educated reader. " "From Antiquity to Modernity: Studies on Middle Eastern and Asian Societies is a series focusing on aspects central to Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and South Asian societies in the past and the present. It is designed to contribute toward better understandings of those important regions’ peoples. Original research within the disciplines of anthropology, archeology, art history, cultural studies, economics, history, history of science, international relations, languages, literatures, politics, religions, and sociology will be published. Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and multidisciplinary studies are welcome as well. So are ones that advance methodologies relating to complexities of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. Manuscripts can be single- authored or co-authored; edited volumes that form a cohesive body of knowledge will be considered, too. Each book-length manuscript will undergo editorial and peer review prior to acceptance for publication. Individual volumes in From Antiquity to Modernity are of particular value to individuals studying and investigating the Middle East and Asia at universities, think tanks, and governmental and nongovernmental agencies while also being of interest to the general educated reader. "

4 publications

International Bonhoeffer Interpretations

ISSN: 1864-757X

This series on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) seeks to offer what its title promises by presenting interpretations of his thought from international perspectives. The term interpretation is meant to indicate both careful analysis of Bonhoeffer’'s texts and the creative exploration of his theological ideas in order to gauge their relevance for contemporary issues of interpretation, religion, politics, and culture. The editors hope that this series will promote greater awareness of Bonhoeffer’'s international significance and facilitate research from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives. The series IBI will include the conference proceedings of the annual International Bonhoeffer Colloquia (IBC) which are organized by the editors of the series. These colloquia concentrate on different aspects of Bonhoeffer’'s theology and try to coordinate the international network of Bonhoeffer projects. Their focus is the exchange and cooperation among younger research fellows dealing with the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The new series will also include monographs and essay collections which reflect on the new perspectives Bonhoeffer’'s theology opens up for current challenges experienced by an increasingly international global community.

7 publications

Apocalypticism

ISSN: 2377-2328

2 publications

German Studies in America

ISSN: 0721-3727

German Studies in America publishes research across the field of German studies in the broadest sense, from literary criticism to cultural studies. The editors welcome scholarly work that takes an innovative approach to German, Swiss, or Austrian history, literature, politics, philosophy, national identity, religion, popular culture, film, music, and/or visual art. We are also eager to consider projects that adopt interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches as well as studies with theoretical approaches including psychoanalysis, gender studies, feminism, Marxism, critical race studies, etc. We publish scholarly monographs, translations and edited volumes of essays in both German and English. This series adheres to the highest academic standards and is peer reviewed.

71 publications

Controlling und Management / Controlling and Management

Die Buchreihe “Controlling und Management / Controlling and Management“ widmet sich Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Reihe enthält Monographien und Sammelbände mit empirischen Studien und internationalen Datenerhebungen aus den Bereichen innovationsorientierte und marktorientierte Unternehmensführung sowie interkulturelles Management. Die Buchreihe “Controlling und Management / Controlling and Management“ widmet sich Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Reihe enthält Monographien und Sammelbände mit empirischen Studien und internationalen Datenerhebungen aus den Bereichen innovationsorientierte und marktorientierte Unternehmensführung sowie interkulturelles Management. Die Buchreihe “Controlling und Management / Controlling and Management“ widmet sich Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Betriebswirtschaft. Die Reihe enthält Monographien und Sammelbände mit empirischen Studien und internationalen Datenerhebungen aus den Bereichen innovationsorientierte und marktorientierte Unternehmensführung sowie interkulturelles Management.

43 publications

Forschungen zu Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder

ISSN: 2197-2885

9 publications