After Husserl, the study of phenomenology took off in different directions. The ambiguity inherent in phenomenology - between conscious experience and structural conditions - lent itself to a range of
This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts tracing their development and influence from ancient to modern times and comparing their roles in multiple cultures and religiou
As part of an ecoglobalist engagement in current concerns about the future of the biosphere and the position of the humanities, scholars of English literature and other humanities explore ecology and
Transgression and Its Limits is a long overdue collection that reads the complex relationship between artistic transgressions and the limits of law and the subject. In mid-twentieth century theoretica
Maria Kronfeldner examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity i
This collection of ten papers is the outcome of the Third International Wurzburg Colloquium on Indian Studies on Changing Roles and Perceptions of Women Performers in Indian Culture, held at the U. of
Texture - the quality that makes a text `hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. This volume provides a systematic overview of recent research on textual reso
This series is concerned with the relationship between religon, society, culture, and identity in Europe from the early medieval period to the end of the ancien regime, with particular emphasis on con
Ibn Sina (called Avicenna in the West), the great 10th-11th century philosopher and mathematician, is the subject of this group of 17 articles, half of which were delivered in earlier form at the Nove
Here ends the output of a research project inaugurated by the Faculty of Theology at Aarhus University in 2005 in which scholars compared Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and antique religions in the lig
Desmet (industrial design, Delft U. of Technology, the Netherlands) and international contributors present a cross-section of current developments in design and affect research, i.e., research that ta
The 12 papers were selected from presentations at a September 2002 in Aarhus, Denmark and have been updated to reflect events as of late 2007. Scholars and historians of religion and social scientists
Contributors identified only by name meld anthropological theory and archaeological data to portray ritual as a force for promoting and consolidating social change. They base their study on seven seas
