The Politics of Transindividuality proposes a new understanding of not just the relation of the individual to the collective, but of politics and economics, one that can not only keep pace with existi
The linguistic character of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary Hebrew texts remains disputed. This volume presents linguistic and philological studies dealing with the Dead Sea
Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation examines the concept of utopia in Latin American thought and practice, and asks where there is a resonance with the dialectic as Hegel developed i
Continuing the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 30, which is devoted to the conflicts between Rome and Persia over Armenia and the campaign of Valentinian aga
The culture of Japanese poetry, waka, is richly visual. In Poetry as Image Tomoko Sakomura examines the ways the visual culture ofwaka in sixteenth-century Japan engages with practice and protocol dev
The first book devoted entirely to Robinson familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought from a diversity of perspectives—Romanticism, ecocriticism, medicine and literature, religion an
Archaeologists explore Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia during the second and first millennia BC, including long-distance trade in the Middle Kingdom, the itinerary of Thutmose III's great Sy
Brill's Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean World provides readers with current research on these forms of conflict and response in the Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece
Editor Lisa Kemmerer presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on the pressures threatening the remain
Author Riika-Leena Juntunen presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the early communist
In early 13th century, linguistic problems typically arose from the encounter of the Aristotelian Organon with other linguistic traditions, notable with Boethius' logical corpus and Priscian's grammar
Author Giorgio Caravale presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the legacy of the Italian Reformation and the contributions of Italian humanism to European religious toler
Fratantuono and Smith provide the first detailed consideration of Book 5 of Virgil’sAeneid, with introduction, critical text, translation and commentary.
Author Yohai Hakak presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with an examination of the internal tensions and dynamics of religious education through the lens of the expe
In Loe Bar and the Sandhill Rustic Moth, Adrian Spalding examines the survival of plants and animals on Loe Bar in the context of its history and geomorphology with special reference to the Sandhill R
Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kuhnel analyses how Jerusalem is translated into the visual and material culture of Europe, and in what ways European encounters with the city
Classicists and scholars of religion engage with social, cultural, personal, religious, and other categories of identity in Christian Rome and Byzantium. The 23 papers examine such topics as inference
In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – A Propaedeutic, Thomas Soren Hoffmann invites the philosophically interested reader to converse with, to work with, and to think with the “master philosopher of Germ
Vertical Judicial Dialogues in Asylum Cases attempts to answer the question what international and EU law require from the national asylum judge with regard to the intensity of judicial scrutiny and i
In Alain Chartier: Pere de l’eloquence francaise contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and ren
The Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World provides important evidence of textual culture's intimate, extensive, and ongoing interaction with the realm of orality, mapping out new areas and foci
Editors Aymes, Gourisse, and Massicard present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles examining the historicity of government practices in Tur
The imaginary is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. These essays explore the transposition of the imaginary comic books, film and digital media, with spec
The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, dating to c. 100 B.C., presents a unique and enigmatic picture of Egypt. This study demonstrates that the mosaic depicts rituals connected with the yearly inundation of
In this volume, Thomas Olander offers a historical analysis of the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic, comparing them with the corresponding endings in related languages and reconstructing the Proto
Critical edition of the works of the Dutch philosopher Francois Hemsterhuis (1721-1790), written in French and with a contemporary German translation.L’edition critique des ?uvres du philosophe neerla
'Entangled Balkans III' deals with historical legacies in the Balkans and the way they were appropriated by the modern Balkan national historiographies; also with disputes that arose in the course of
"Describing rabbinic reasoning as a rational response to experience. Hashkes combines insights from the analytic philosophy of Wittgenstein, Quine, and Davidson with the semiotics of Peirce to constru
Yu presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the impact of Hong Kong’s legislature on the law making process, as well as its financial control and supervision of the executi
Szumigalska presents students, academics, and researchers with a compiled, annotated reference to the myriad legal documents produced in The Netherlands that affect the legal status of either Islam or
In this volume, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through languag
Federalism as decision-making deals with the fundamental question of what answers federalism, as a pragmatic governance tool, can provide to current challenges. Federal theories and the management of
Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's economics. Key debates in classical, neoclassical and Marxist theories of art are subjected to an exacting critique. The book concludes with
Drucker presents this exploration of the emerging “gay normality,” parallel to and entwined with traditional heteronormativity, and its relationship to capitalism as well as the continued invention of
Melgar presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a variety of contexts with an examination of the transit of goods as impacted by contemporary international law, the ongo
With Variants' traditionally strong focus on textual editing in the electronic era, this issue has no less than four articles on the frameworks, principles and aspects of state of the art digital edit
Editors Couchman and Bagnall present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic articles and essays that explore the Chinese Australian experience on the regional and individua
This edition of David the Invincible’s Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge prepared by Gohar Muradyan contains the Greek original and the Armenian version (with an English translation) of this logical tr
In Mapping the ‘I’ the contributors, working with egodocuments, offer various historical approaches on early modern concepts of personhood and autobiographical writing practices. The contributions add
