Humanities & Social Sciences

This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic. The volume posits insights from a plethora of experts on party politics and coalition studies from their respective countries, with chapters on Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Embellished with illustrative tables and extensive datasets throughout, each chapter maps the developments of party system change, covering the coalition life cycle from the early 1990s until the end of 2021, and explores whether there has been transformation of the coalition, governance and dissolutions patterns due to heightened pressures. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of coalition politics, representative democracy, governance, political parties, European Union politics, East and Central European politics, and comparative politics. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

This chapter focuses on the role of corpora, in particular the LBC corpus (Lessico dei Beni Culturali), in the training of (future) translators. First, a variety of teaching methodologies, such as «task», «Learners’ Bilingual Lexicography/Terminography», «Corpus-Based/ Data-Driven Learning», and «strategic competence» will be re-examined, taking into account the use of corpora at all stages of translators’ training. The article will then illustrate a case study involving two translation classes focusing on architecture and art history (including Gothic and Renaissance art). These have led to the writing of a bilingual glossary (Portuguese-French and French-Portuguese), a collaborative and ongoing project for students in translation.

This 1914 novel is a masterpiece of financial fiction that dramatically and meticulously captures the business practices of the Gilded Age. Here it is presented in a scholarly edition which draws deeply on archival sources. Following the text are informative commentaries, notes, emendations, and color images, all fully indexed. For this volume in the Dreiser Edition, editor Roark Mulligan has gone back to a 1914 proof as copy-text, a version of the novel that, until now, was in a private collection, unknown to the public. The Titan is the second volume in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire (The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic). Written during an extremely productive period when Dreiser felt financial pressure to produce novels regularly, when he was experimenting with new techniques, and when he was publishing major works yearly, The Titan is a work of the Dreiser’s golden period. Based closely on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), The Titan follows Dreiser’s financier (Frank Algernon Cowperwood) from Philadelphia to Chicago, where he builds a transportation empire while battling competitors and romancing women. Dreiser explores the vast cultural and economic forces that transformed American financial practices. The novel’s narration of interacting economic, financial, and social forces, its focus on a powerful and psychologically driven individual, and in particular its examination of the interaction between capitalist enterprise and public good, speak to issues of perennial importance.

In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, such as Vivian Sobchack’s phenomenology of film experience, with historiographic theories, such as Frank R. Ankersmit’s concept of historical experience. Building on this analysis, Greiner examines the spatial and temporal organization of historical films and presents discussions of mood and atmosphere, body and memory, and genre and historical consciousness. The analysis is based around three historical films, spanning six decades, that depict 1950s Germany: Helmut Käutner’s Sky Without Stars (1955), Jutta Brückner’s Years of Hunger (1980), and Sven Bohse’s three-part TV series Ku’damm 56 (2016).

"In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less ""fable-esque"" text than any translation and interpretation to date. On Bowker’s reading, dark and primitive unconscious forces — including neglect and abuse at home, the hatred of maturation and development, the projection of feelings of worthlessness onto others, the creation of an absurd and futile world, and more — infest the story, not unlike the Baobab trees dreaded by the little prince. Those already familiar with The Little Prince will find in The Anguished and the Enchanted a new way of regarding what has perhaps become a favorite or even a beloved book. Those unfamiliar with the original work will discover a sometimes tragic, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes harrowing account of the lengths to which persons will go in their struggle to find — or to escape from — meaningful places for themselves in the world of adults."

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

This book is focused on the anthropologically and historically complex subject of the body in ancient Egypt, with particular emphasis on the so-called ‘funerary literature’ and, more specifically, on the corpus of the Pyramid Texts and its ‘mutilated’ anthropomorphic determinatives. In this perspective, it was necessary to establish a framework for the perception and formal elaboration of the social, political, living, and dead body in iconographic and textual sources, in order to provide an emic basis to start from. Particular attention was paid to the ‘broken body’, understood not only as the physical body but also as its iconographical or material representation, sometimes mutilated, decapitated, treated and manipulated in different ways and contexts. Thus, a deductive process has been carried out, starting from the general and arriving at the particular, to propose some suggestions for a long-debated but still unsolved phenomenon. We thus arrive at the practice of mutilation, or partialisation of the body, which is still scarce in archaeological contexts, but more abundant in iconography and hieroglyphics, as a deliberate, reasoned and motivated work of construction and deconstruction of the human body and its representation. The work will have served its purpose if it succeeds in stimulating new reflections and more in-depth studies of the subject, or at least in throwing a glimmer of light on the shadows that Egyptian thought still ‘casts on the walls of the cave’.

The two-volume open access book set LNCS 14576 + 14577 constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2024, which was held during April 6-11, 2024, in Luxemburg, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2024. The 25 full papers and 1 fresh perspective paper presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Effects and modal types; bidirectional typing and session types; dependent types; Part II: Quantum programming and domain-specific languages; verification; program analysis; abstract interpretation.

Im Jahr 1968 richteten die Universitäten Basel und Zürich ein gemeinsames Ordinariat für Nordische Philologie ein. Themen der nordischen Sprachen und Literaturen hatten zwar bereits früher an Schweizer Universitäten im Rahmen der Germanistik und Anglistik zum Lehrplan gehört. Aber erst mit der Schaffung eines Lehrstuhls und zweier nordistischer Abteilungen wurde es möglich, Nordistik bzw. Skandinavistik als Fach zu studieren. Die vorliegende Publikation stellt die für kleine Fächer paradigmatische Geschichte der Schweizer Nordistik der letzten fünfzig Jahre in den Grundzügen dar. Beschrieben werden in knapper Form die Vorgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert und die Hintergründe, die zur Errichtung der beiden Abteilungen führten, sowie schwerpunktmäßig der Verlauf nordischer Studien von räumlich beengten und personell bescheidenen Anfängen bis zu den neuesten, dynamischen Aktivitäten in Forschung und Lehre. Kürzere Texte von ehemaligen Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden und zahlreiche Abbildungen ergänzen die Darstellung.

For risks and side effects ask your doctor, pharmacist - or the Clinical Ethics Committee in your environment." The establishment of clinical ethics committees is a direct response to the professionalization of the medical establishment and the achievements in medical technology. Always progress in medicine was more than just technological advance. Especially its undeniable successes face doctors, nurses, chaplains and the management at the same time with new questions and problems. With the institutionalization of clinical ethics consultation connects the expectation of understanding the complex processes on a common basis. What taks are set for ethics committees in hospitals? How becomes ethic an issue there? And how do theologians and nurses communicate in these bodies? These papers summarize from a theological and philosophical point of view central research findings discussed in the framework of the DFG-funded research project "Ethics and Organisation.

A preventive archeology study was recently conducted in the Caorle area (Province of Venice). Several new datasets have been now managed by computerized analysis with the aim of protect archaeological heritage and, possibly, to realize new predictive models for archaeological research and for landscape management.

A fundamental issue in society today, migration has been undergoing a new dynamic transformation, calling for new policy approaches. This new dynamic is not yet understood clearly, let alone that adequate policy answers for 'the managing' of these new migration processes and the consequences for receiving and sending societies are within. This comprehensive overview of migration research conducted throughout the IMISCoe network of European research analyses the influx of various types of immigrants in Western Europe post World War II, mostly to large cities, as well as the reactions of the native populations and governments to the changes and pressures brought about by immigration.

Given the incredible and exponential progress in digital revolution, affecting all dimensions of human life, it is proper to reflect on who the human person is from philosophical and theological perspectives, in order to understand ourselves better. The cooperation between Jnana Deepa and the University of Innsbruck offers us the opportunity to bring not only Christian tradition, but also Western and Indian thinking into conversation with current technological developments. Scholars from Pune/India and Innsbruck/Austria seek to shed more light on the self-understanding of the human person within contemporary times to respond meaningfully and adequately to the fundamental questions of ourselves, our nature and our destiny. Such an understanding of the human person will hopefully enable us to encounter God deeper and experience one another better. Angesichts des unglaublichen und exponentiellen Fortschritts der digitalen Revolution, der alle Dimensionen des menschlichen Lebens betrifft, ist es angebracht, aus philosophischer und theologischer Sicht darüber nachzudenken, wer der Mensch ist, um uns selbst besser zu verstehen. Die Kooperation zwischen Jnana Deepa und der Universität Innsbruck bietet uns die Möglichkeit, nicht nur christliche Tradition, sondern auch westliches und indisches Denken mit aktuellen technologischen Entwicklungen ins Gespräch zu bringen. Wissenschaftler aus Pune/Indien und Innsbruck/Österreich wollen mehr Licht auf das Selbstverständnis des Menschen in der heutigen Zeit werfen, um sinnvoll und angemessen auf die grundlegenden Fragen nach uns selbst, unserer Natur und unserem Schicksal zu antworten. Ein solches Verständnis der menschlichen Person wird es uns hoffentlich ermöglichen, Gott tiefer zu begegnen und einander besser zu erleben.

Ehre endet nicht mit dem Tod: Sie prägt Gedenkpraktiken, Bestattungsrituale und erinnerungspolitische Debatten bis in die Gegenwart. Von »Ehrengräbern« über den sprichwörtlichen »Erweis der letzten Ehre« bis hin zu Ritualen der Kranzniederlegung und der Verbeugung oder dem Streit um Straßennamen – der soziale Umgang mit den Verstorbenen und ihrem Gedenken ist durch den Bezug auf Vorstellungen der Ehre tief geprägt. Was aber hat es mit dieser Form der Ehre auf sich? Die Beiträge nähern sich dieser Frage aus verschiedenen disziplinären Perspektiven an und beleuchten aktuelle und historische Phänomene, die interessante konzeptionelle Zugänge eröffnen.

The Eichmann trial had a dramatic effect on legal history and the discussion of the Shoa and Nazi perpetration. In the history, reception, and memory of the 1961 trial in Jerusalem, German, Israeli, and South American discourses as well as factual and fictional representations in different media intertwine. This volume brings together for the first time transnational and transmedial perspectives on the Eichmann case.