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Ethos in der Pädagogik versteht sich als inklusiver Wertekompass, der einen Orientierungsrahmen für die Entwicklung einer professionellen pädagogischen Haltung bietet. Diese ist die Grundlage eines an anderen Menschen, ihren Situationen und Aufgaben ausgerichteten ethischen Handelns. Haltung spiegelt sich an körperlichen Ausdrucksweisen, Bewegungen, Gesten, Handlungen und sprachlichen Äußerungen. Phänomenologische Beschreibungen, Anekdoten, Wahrnehmungsvignetten und Erinnerungsbilder halten pädagogische und lebensweltliche Momente fest, die für die Ausbildung der pädagogischen Haltung sensibilisieren können.

Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume explore various fields of research on Hebrew manuscripts. They show paradigmatically the current developments concerning codicology and palaeography, book forms like the scroll and codex, scribes and their writing material, patrons, collectors and censors, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and, last but not least, new methods of material analysis applied to manuscripts. The principal focus of this volume is the material and intellectual history of Hebrew book cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, its intention being to heighten and sharpen the reader’s understanding of Jewish social and cultural history in general.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

This book offers a striking and pointed reflection on what histories of masculinity in modern Britain have been and where they might go next. Addressing the constant contemporary talk of crisis around men’s lives, Men and Masculinities argues powerfully that we need histories of masculinity which are present-centred and politically engaged. In so doing, it sets out a new agenda for the field. Ranging over the past 130 years, a series of engaging and original essays trace how men, like masculinity, were made. In exploring that process, contributors demonstrate the radically different ways in which men made sense of the world and their place in it. The book provides compelling evidence of how individual life stories can transform how we think about the time- and place-specific formation of men’s experiences and ideas of masculinity. Through vivid case studies that include trans men’s encounters with the welfare state, the experience of wounded Jamaican servicemen, and the social world of the public librarian, the volume interweaves histories of masculinity with wider histories of society, culture, economy, and politics. It is on that basis that the work shows how thinking critically about histories of masculinity also provides new ways of understanding the making and remaking of modern Britain. Men and Masculinities both provides a critical genealogy for contemporary gender politics and the persistence of patriarchy and male power and establishes new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have (and have not) changed in modern Britain.

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Le prix du travail ? Cet ouvrage ouvre une question majeure à l’heure où le travail est souvent tenu d’abord comme un coût à réduire et, qu’à cette fin, nombre de droits collectifs et de garanties acquises par les salariés sont remis en question. L’étude traite de l’évolution des formes concrètes, mesures, références, modalités de légitimation, normes et considérations qui ont présidé et déterminent encore aujourd’hui la rémunération du travail. Consacrée à la France et à ses colonies, elle couvre une longue période qui, allant du xixe siècle à nos jours, fut aussi à la foiscelle de la seconde industrialisation, de l’affirmation de la société salariale et de la construction d’un État social. La perspective historienne de la recherche collective dont elle est issue, s’est enrichie au croisement d’autres approches disciplinaires – droit, économie, gestion, sociologie – portées par certain.es de leurs meilleur.es spécialistes. À ce titre, elle éclaire sous des angles multiples les enjeux de maints débats et conflits actuels. Les dix chapitres de l’ouvrage, attentifs à saisir les acteurs, les dynamiques et les temps forts de cette histoire, cernent les conceptions et les politiques à l’œuvre avant d’en examiner les modalités d’application dans plusieurs cadres conjoncturels,territoriaux et professionnels. Le moindre des apports du livre n’est pas, enfin, son glossaire, dont les cinquante-cinq entrées donnent accès à la définition de plus de quatre-vingts termes et expressions.

« Je pense que la connaissance et la maîtrise, même virtuoses, comme c’était le cas classiquement, ne sont pas les seules conditions pertinentes pour avoir accès à l’art. Et je trouve que cette porte ouverte, cette démarche, est un chemin que chacun peut décider de prendre, où qu’il soit, quel qu’il soit. » Madeleine Louarn dénonce ici le mécanisme de domination qui assujettit les personnes handicapées. Son théâtre se caractérise par la mise en scène d’une vérité singulière, faite d’humilité et d’empathie. Dans une libre adaptation de l’univers kafkaïen, le handicap devient ainsi une passerelle pour mieux comprendre le monde, ses apparences et ses rapports de force. Face à la soumission au quotidien, il s’agit d’œuvrer à une morale partagée, susceptible d’ouvrir de nouveaux espaces, de beauté et de liberté.

When food is ingested, it remains in the mouth for a short period of time. Although this period is brief compared to the total food nutrient digestion and absorption time, it is crucially important, as it is the first step in digestion. It is also very important that, while the food is in the mouth, it is perceived by the senses and then a decision is made on swallowing. Oral sensory perception is an integrative response, which is generated in very short time (normally a few seconds) from complex information gathered from multiple sources during mastication and swallowing. Consequently, food oral processing studies include many orientations. This Special Issue brings together a small range of studies with a diversity of approaches that provide good examples of the complexity and multidisciplinarity of the subject.

Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessner’s philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context with such familiar figures as Bergson, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty, but also showing Plessner’s relevance to contemporary discussions in a wide variety of fields in the humanities and sciences.

What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were serious and important questions - and completely new. Between 1430 and 1500, a number of learned 'witch-theorists' attempted to provide the answers to such questions, and of these perhaps the most famous are the Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches. The Malleus is widely recognised as an important medieval text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet as a source the Malleus presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and cannot be said to be representative of late medieval learned thinking in general. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual world of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. Ultimately, this book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, with a view of witches very different from that of competing authors, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies.

Ce volume, sixième et dernier de la série “Archéologie de sauvetage dans la vallée du rio Chixoy”, conclut également, en 1988, la collection des Cahiers de la RCP 500. Il s’agit d’une synthèse des résultats de six campagnes de fouilles archéologiques effectuées de 1977 à 1982 dans la zone de retenue du barrage de Pueblo Viejo Quixal. Cette synthèse est précédée d’un texte de P. Usselmann et D. Douzant-Rosenfeld présentant la géographie physique de cette région et de la population qui l’occupait juste avant la mise en eau du barrage. Cette opération de sauvetage, exceptionnelle, aura permis de mettre en lieu sûr, au Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología de Guatemala, la totalité des objets provenant de la fouille des structures cérémonielles et, surtout, de reconstituer 2 000 ans d’histoire d’une région qui était encore en 1977terra incognita pour l’archéologie des Hautes Terres maya.

The concept of resilience has arisen as a “new way of thinking”, becoming a response to both the causes and effects of ongoing global challenges. As it strongly stresses cities’ transformative potential, resilience’s final purpose is to prevent and manage unforeseen events and improve communities’ environmental and social quality. Although the resilience theory has been investigated in depth, several methodological challenges remain, mainly related to the concept’s practical sphere. As a matter of fact, resilience is commonly criticised for being too ambiguous and empty of meaning. At the same time, turning resilience into practice is not easy to do. This will arguably be one of the most impactful global issues for future research on resilience. The Special Issue “Bridging the Gap: The Measure of Urban Resilience” falls under this heading, and it seeks to synthesise state-of-the-art knowledge of theories and practices on measuring resilience. The Special Issue collected 11 papers that address the following questions: “What are the theoretical perspectives of measuring urban resilience? What are the existing methods for measuring urban resilience? What are the main features that a technique for measuring urban resilience needs to have? What is the role of measuring urban resilience in operationalising cities’ ability to adapt, recover and benefit from shocks?”

Today the city is experiencing new forms of urban culture, between cityscape and mindscape. The cityscape moulded through tangible forms and values, spatialized in architectural and urban layouts, is increasingly linked to a mindscape project which originates from intangible forms and values linked to interests, events, invention and enhancement of resources in continuous movement. The cityscape advanced in this sense can but be planned together with a mindscape that is heterogeneous and complex and increasingly based on the experience that the place can offer. In it event and permanency blend to construct a personalized urban tale that puts the principle of utility alongside that of the desire to become a geographical-spatial, but also existential, landscape. This book reflects on the dynamics of the transformations caused by new forms of production and exchange in order to note down topics to apply to town planning.

Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by André Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to spaces and places other than those they literally inhabit. In the digital era, this spatial illusion and paradox has been greatly expanded – by the predominance of domestic film viewing, along with new extra-terrestrial perspectives, and the promise of novel kinesthetic experiences with Virtual Reality and “immersion”. The international authors in this collection address the history and aesthetics of screen media as spatial transposition, in a range of exemplary analyses that run from the landscapes of John Ford’s westerns to Chantal Akerman’s claustrophobic domestic spaces, from the conventions of the English country house film to Patrick Keiller’s Robinson roaming a changed country, and from the experiences of Covid pandemic confinement to those of un-homed van-dwellers in Chloe Zhao’s award-winning NOMADLAND.