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Unlocking Luhmann – A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory
Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high …
Germany 1916-23
During the last four decades the German Revolution 1918/19 has only attracted little scholarly attention. This volume offers new cultural historical perspectives, puts this …
Operatic Pasticcios in Eighteenth–Century Europe – Contexts, Materials, and Aesthetics
In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of …
Translocations – Histories of Dislocated Cultural Assets
Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution? Discussions …
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself
From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and …
Germany's Conscience – Friedrich Meinecke: Champion of German Historicism
Questions of truth, ethics, state power, and propaganda, of how to render account of catastrophes and reconcile oneself with one's past are not only crucial to our time, they were …
Thinking the Problematic – Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences
The notion of "the problematic" has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic …
Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the …
Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck – Historical Semantics and Beyond
Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human world has never been an object of …
Wissenschaft meets Pop
Researching popular culture with academic methods leads to a situation in which the traditional division of serious and popular culture can no longer be maintained. The …
Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and …