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Die Männerfiguren des Richterbuchs oszillieren in der Rezeption dramatisch zwischen Glorifizierung und Anklage. Sie werden als Helden Israels gefeiert und als männliche Gewalttäter stigmatisiert und gemieden. In diesem Buch werden die Richter Gideon, Simson, Jeftach und weitere zentrale Männerfiguren des Richterbuchs wie Barak, Micha und der namlose Levit aus Ephraim mittels psychoanalytisch inspirierter Schriftauslegung neu ins Licht gehoben. Die häufig mythisch angereicherten, teils fragmentarisch erzählten Episoden und Erzählzyklen werden, analog zur Traumdeutung, als symbolisch verdichtete psychische Konflikte erschlossen. So wird eine religiöse, spirituelle und teilweise seelsorgliche Relevanz der kontroversen biblischen Männerfiguren erkannt. Hierbei dienen Erkenntnisse der Psychotraumatologie, der feministischen Bibelexegese, der Seelsorgetheorie sowie der Rekurs auf moderne Literatur der Explizierung von strukturellen Transfers in der Rezeption.
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Die Männerfiguren des Richterbuchs oszillieren in der Rezeption dramatisch zwischen Glorifizierung und Anklage. Sie werden als Helden Israels gefeiert und als männliche Gewalttäter stigmatisiert und gemieden. In diesem Buch werden die Richter Gideon, Simson, Jeftach und weitere zentrale Männerfiguren des Richterbuchs wie Barak, Micha und der namlose Levit aus Ephraim mittels psychoanalytisch inspirierter Schriftauslegung neu ins Licht gehoben. Die häufig mythisch angereicherten, teils fragmentarisch erzählten Episoden und Erzählzyklen werden, analog zur Traumdeutung, als symbolisch verdichtete psychische Konflikte erschlossen. So wird eine religiöse, spirituelle und teilweise seelsorgliche Relevanz der kontroversen biblischen Männerfiguren erkannt. Hierbei dienen Erkenntnisse der Psychotraumatologie, der feministischen Bibelexegese, der Seelsorgetheorie sowie der Rekurs auf moderne Literatur der Explizierung von strukturellen Transfers in der Rezeption.
Poetiken der Indifferenz im 19. Jahrhundert für und gegen die Ökonomie
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Leistet die Gleichgültigkeit Widerstand gegen den kapitalistischen Markt oder arbeitet sie ihm zu? Im Zentrum der Studie steht die Kippfigur der Gleichgültigkeit in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Siegeszug des bürgerlichen Kapitalismus beruht auf monetären Äquivalenzen, die im „Zeitalter der Gleichheit“ (Tocqueville) von politischen und geschlechtlichen Semantiken gerahmt werden. Als abstrakter Gleichmacher scheint das Geld Tendenzen der Objektivierung zu verstärken und Gegenstrategien der Subjektivierung und Extravaganz herauszufordern. Gleichgültigkeit evoziert bei Zola, Keller, Maupassant, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Catherine Gore und Henry James mal ein aristokratisches Desinteresse des Subjekts, mal die Melancholie des Entzugs. So oszilliert das Erbe der Stoa in den Poetiken der Indifferenz des 19. Jahrhunderts und bleibt eine zweifelhafte Geste der Befreiung. Der „Preis der Gleichgültigkeit“ liegt in den Widersprüchen einer Haltung, die Wertschöpfung ablehnt und zugleich fördert.
Poetiken der Indifferenz im 19. Jahrhundert für und gegen die Ökonomie
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Leistet die Gleichgültigkeit Widerstand gegen den kapitalistischen Markt oder arbeitet sie ihm zu? Im Zentrum der Studie steht die Kippfigur der Gleichgültigkeit in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Siegeszug des bürgerlichen Kapitalismus beruht auf monetären Äquivalenzen, die im „Zeitalter der Gleichheit“ (Tocqueville) von politischen und geschlechtlichen Semantiken gerahmt werden. Als abstrakter Gleichmacher scheint das Geld Tendenzen der Objektivierung zu verstärken und Gegenstrategien der Subjektivierung und Extravaganz herauszufordern. Gleichgültigkeit evoziert bei Zola, Keller, Maupassant, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Catherine Gore und Henry James mal ein aristokratisches Desinteresse des Subjekts, mal die Melancholie des Entzugs. So oszilliert das Erbe der Stoa in den Poetiken der Indifferenz des 19. Jahrhunderts und bleibt eine zweifelhafte Geste der Befreiung. Der „Preis der Gleichgültigkeit“ liegt in den Widersprüchen einer Haltung, die Wertschöpfung ablehnt und zugleich fördert.
Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike G 24–26
Der Band „Spanische Geschichtsschreibung des 6. Jahrhunderts“ stellt weitere Quellen des Moduls G „Chroniken und Chronikfortsetzungen des fünften und sechsten Jahrhunderts“ der Reihe vor. Er bietet eine neue Ausgabe und deutsche Übersetzung der Chronik des Johannes von Biclaro, die eine Hauptquelle zur Geschichte des Westgotenreichs im 6. Jahrhunderts ist, darüber hinaus aber auch zahlreiche für die oströmische Geschichte relevante Informationen enthält. Beigegeben ist dem Band eine Ausgabe und Übersetzung der „Chronik von Saragossa“. Diskutiert wird dabei die mögliche Identifizierung dieses Geschichtswerks mit Maximus von Saragossa (G 25), der ebenfalls im Band Berücksichtigung gefunden hat, obwohl nicht klar ist, inwiefern das Werk eine Chronik war.
Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike G 24–26
Der Band „Spanische Geschichtsschreibung des 6. Jahrhunderts“ stellt weitere Quellen des Moduls G „Chroniken und Chronikfortsetzungen des fünften und sechsten Jahrhunderts“ der Reihe vor. Er bietet eine neue Ausgabe und deutsche Übersetzung der Chronik des Johannes von Biclaro, die eine Hauptquelle zur Geschichte des Westgotenreichs im 6. Jahrhunderts ist, darüber hinaus aber auch zahlreiche für die oströmische Geschichte relevante Informationen enthält. Beigegeben ist dem Band eine Ausgabe und Übersetzung der „Chronik von Saragossa“. Diskutiert wird dabei die mögliche Identifizierung dieses Geschichtswerks mit Maximus von Saragossa (G 25), der ebenfalls im Band Berücksichtigung gefunden hat, obwohl nicht klar ist, inwiefern das Werk eine Chronik war.
Bhagwan und die Deutschen 1970–2020
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Martin Papenheim legt mit seinem Buch über die Neo-Sannyasins die erste umfassende Geschichte der Bhagwan-Bewegung in Deutschland vor, die als wohl bedeutendste neureligiöse Strömung der Bonner Republik gelten kann. Der Ashram des indischen Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (später bekannt als Osho) in Poona und die Stadt Rajneeshpuram in Oregon (USA) entwickelten sich zu in der gesamten westlichen Welt beachteten Meditations- und Therapiezentren. In Deutschland erreichte die Bewegung um 1980 ihren spektakulären Höhepunkt mit etwa 30.000 Neo-Sannyasins, rund einem Drittel der weltweiten Anhängerschaft, von denen 400 in eigenen Kommunen lebten. Keine andere religiöse Bewegung provozierte ein derart großes Medienecho und so intensive öffentliche Auseinandersetzungen wie die Anhänger Bhagwans. Obwohl die Organisation mittlerweile weitgehend zerfallen ist, hat sie in der deutschen Kultur bleibende Spuren hinterlassen. Die Darstellung stützt sich auf umfassendes, bisher kaum beachtetes Quellenmaterial und Schilderungen von Zeitzeugen, so dass sich zahlreiche neue Perspektiven auf die Thematik eröffnen.
Bhagwan und die Deutschen 1970–2020
Author:
Martin Papenheim legt mit seinem Buch über die Neo-Sannyasins die erste umfassende Geschichte der Bhagwan-Bewegung in Deutschland vor, die als wohl bedeutendste neureligiöse Strömung der Bonner Republik gelten kann. Der Ashram des indischen Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (später bekannt als Osho) in Poona und die Stadt Rajneeshpuram in Oregon (USA) entwickelten sich zu in der gesamten westlichen Welt beachteten Meditations- und Therapiezentren. In Deutschland erreichte die Bewegung um 1980 ihren spektakulären Höhepunkt mit etwa 30.000 Neo-Sannyasins, rund einem Drittel der weltweiten Anhängerschaft, von denen 400 in eigenen Kommunen lebten. Keine andere religiöse Bewegung provozierte ein derart großes Medienecho und so intensive öffentliche Auseinandersetzungen wie die Anhänger Bhagwans. Obwohl die Organisation mittlerweile weitgehend zerfallen ist, hat sie in der deutschen Kultur bleibende Spuren hinterlassen. Die Darstellung stützt sich auf umfassendes, bisher kaum beachtetes Quellenmaterial und Schilderungen von Zeitzeugen, so dass sich zahlreiche neue Perspektiven auf die Thematik eröffnen.
Media Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
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Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks puts forward an understanding of media change that accounts for the birth of a medium in the misuse of older media, addressing structural problems in ”cusp” periods of transition from one medium to its more efficient replacement.
”Titivillus” is the name medieval scribes gave to a patron devil they claimed caused copying errors. He was their excuse for errors due to exhaustion, poor lighting, boredom, and other external factors. Through time and in ensuing media innovation, he has seemingly enlarged his domain in order to bedevil typographers, book binders, filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters, web designers – any who labor in any form of media. With this flexibility, not only scribal errors but any language error may be attributed to him. In Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks, Majkut argues that at the time of media historical change, technical vocabulary for a new medium does not yet exist so inherited vocabulary is all that is available. The vocabulary of the older medium, originally descriptive, becomes metaphorical, and therefore misleading when applied to the new medium – another addition to Titivillus’ bag of tricks.
"A profound endeavour that reveals that media shifts are not merely technological advancements but reconfigurations of humanity’s epistemological and ontological framework ... Majkut’s exploration into the embodiment of language is exactly what we need. An incisive critique of academia’s blind spots."
Professor Jun Inutsuka, PhD - Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
”Titivillus” is the name medieval scribes gave to a patron devil they claimed caused copying errors. He was their excuse for errors due to exhaustion, poor lighting, boredom, and other external factors. Through time and in ensuing media innovation, he has seemingly enlarged his domain in order to bedevil typographers, book binders, filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters, web designers – any who labor in any form of media. With this flexibility, not only scribal errors but any language error may be attributed to him. In Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks, Majkut argues that at the time of media historical change, technical vocabulary for a new medium does not yet exist so inherited vocabulary is all that is available. The vocabulary of the older medium, originally descriptive, becomes metaphorical, and therefore misleading when applied to the new medium – another addition to Titivillus’ bag of tricks.
"A profound endeavour that reveals that media shifts are not merely technological advancements but reconfigurations of humanity’s epistemological and ontological framework ... Majkut’s exploration into the embodiment of language is exactly what we need. An incisive critique of academia’s blind spots."
Professor Jun Inutsuka, PhD - Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
Media Ontology, Epistemology, and Aesthetics
Author:
Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks puts forward an understanding of media change that accounts for the birth of a medium in the misuse of older media, addressing structural problems in ”cusp” periods of transition from one medium to its more efficient replacement.
”Titivillus” is the name medieval scribes gave to a patron devil they claimed caused copying errors. He was their excuse for errors due to exhaustion, poor lighting, boredom, and other external factors. Through time and in ensuing media innovation, he has seemingly enlarged his domain in order to bedevil typographers, book binders, filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters, web designers – any who labor in any form of media. With this flexibility, not only scribal errors but any language error may be attributed to him. In Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks, Majkut argues that at the time of media historical change, technical vocabulary for a new medium does not yet exist so inherited vocabulary is all that is available. The vocabulary of the older medium, originally descriptive, becomes metaphorical, and therefore misleading when applied to the new medium – another addition to Titivillus’ bag of tricks.
"A profound endeavour that reveals that media shifts are not merely technological advancements but reconfigurations of humanity’s epistemological and ontological framework ... Majkut’s exploration into the embodiment of language is exactly what we need. An incisive critique of academia’s blind spots."
Professor Jun Inutsuka, PhD - Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
”Titivillus” is the name medieval scribes gave to a patron devil they claimed caused copying errors. He was their excuse for errors due to exhaustion, poor lighting, boredom, and other external factors. Through time and in ensuing media innovation, he has seemingly enlarged his domain in order to bedevil typographers, book binders, filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters, web designers – any who labor in any form of media. With this flexibility, not only scribal errors but any language error may be attributed to him. In Titivillus’ Bag of Tricks, Majkut argues that at the time of media historical change, technical vocabulary for a new medium does not yet exist so inherited vocabulary is all that is available. The vocabulary of the older medium, originally descriptive, becomes metaphorical, and therefore misleading when applied to the new medium – another addition to Titivillus’ bag of tricks.
"A profound endeavour that reveals that media shifts are not merely technological advancements but reconfigurations of humanity’s epistemological and ontological framework ... Majkut’s exploration into the embodiment of language is exactly what we need. An incisive critique of academia’s blind spots."
Professor Jun Inutsuka, PhD - Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
Teaching the World
The
Critical Deaf Studies: Teaching the World book series is a groundbreaking collection of scholarly works that illuminates the unique perspectives, knowledge systems, and values within Deaf communities worldwide. This series brings together influential, transdisciplinary research, examining Deaf ways of being, knowing, and valuing to offer fresh insights into how Deaf experiences shape and challenge social, cultural, political, and economic structures globally.
Responding to the growing demand in Deaf Studies, this series foregrounds research that engages with critical theoretical perspectives, including critical pedagogy, on identity, power, language, and education. Topics explore intersections of Deaf identity with race, gender, disability, and sexuality, while also analyzing the cultural – with emphasis on the arts (including music) –, historical, and linguistic richness of Deaf lives. Additionally, the series expands the field’s understanding of sign languages – including American Sign Language, international, and indigenous sign languages – highlighting their sociolinguistic significance and deep cultural value.
By fostering an inclusive space for both Deaf and hearing scholars, signers and non-signers, the series aims to create a dedicated international forum for collaborative and innovative research in Deaf Studies.
The volumes are curated from a global network of scholars, partnerships with universities, and emerging doctoral research, ensuring each work reflects cutting-edge thought and broad perspectives. Volumes, either authored or edited, in addition to conventional academic formats, might also be presented as auto-ethnographies, graphic novels, and poetry collections.
The Critical Deaf Studies: Teaching the World series is an essential resource for academic courses and seminars, serving as foundational reference material for undergraduate and graduate students alike. It also provides policymakers with valuable insights into Deaf culture and human diversity, equipping them to create informed policies that positively impact Deaf communities on a global scale. Through this series, we invite readers to explore and engage with the dynamic and diverse world of Deaf Studies.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals by e-mail to Acquisitions Editor Athina Dimitriou.
Responding to the growing demand in Deaf Studies, this series foregrounds research that engages with critical theoretical perspectives, including critical pedagogy, on identity, power, language, and education. Topics explore intersections of Deaf identity with race, gender, disability, and sexuality, while also analyzing the cultural – with emphasis on the arts (including music) –, historical, and linguistic richness of Deaf lives. Additionally, the series expands the field’s understanding of sign languages – including American Sign Language, international, and indigenous sign languages – highlighting their sociolinguistic significance and deep cultural value.
By fostering an inclusive space for both Deaf and hearing scholars, signers and non-signers, the series aims to create a dedicated international forum for collaborative and innovative research in Deaf Studies.
The volumes are curated from a global network of scholars, partnerships with universities, and emerging doctoral research, ensuring each work reflects cutting-edge thought and broad perspectives. Volumes, either authored or edited, in addition to conventional academic formats, might also be presented as auto-ethnographies, graphic novels, and poetry collections.
The Critical Deaf Studies: Teaching the World series is an essential resource for academic courses and seminars, serving as foundational reference material for undergraduate and graduate students alike. It also provides policymakers with valuable insights into Deaf culture and human diversity, equipping them to create informed policies that positively impact Deaf communities on a global scale. Through this series, we invite readers to explore and engage with the dynamic and diverse world of Deaf Studies.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals by e-mail to Acquisitions Editor Athina Dimitriou.
Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice
Series:
Critical Deaf Studies, Volume: 1
Volume Editor:
Culture, Deafness & Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is a timely and thought-provoking book and an important contribution to the expanding transdisciplinary field of Deaf Studies. Authors, most of whom are Deaf, critically examine aspects of Deaf culture, reflect on diversity within the Deaf community, and advocate for the recognition of Deaf people as a linguistic-cultural minority. Grounded in critical pedagogy as its theoretical framework, the book highlights the persistent oppressive forces faced by Deaf people and also the challenges to these oppressive forces to promote social justice through acts of resistance and affirmation, particularly expressed through the arts, including music.
“This collection of works is brilliantly conceived, pleasurably unpredictable, filled with granular descriptions of the lived experiences and real-life struggles of Deaf people who are contributing to the Deaf community and to those outside the Deaf community in a myriad of ways, through theater, poetry, fiction writing, acting, music and serving as activists and advocates for Deaf people worldwide. The thematic weight of this volume is kept comfortably afloat by chapters that are beautifully written and filled with the roar of dissidence. This is not a book for the tranquil mind.” — Peter McLaren (Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, USA) from the Foreword
“This book and its authors have thus made a significant contribution towards the important task of assisting Deaf Studies and other Deaf domains to understand power relationships throughout history — including Deaf histories — in order to embrace these ongoing challenges and advance towards a more positive future.” — Paddy Ladd (former Reader, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, UK) from the Afterword
“ Culture, Deafness and Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is the first book of its kind to engage with the lives and liberation stories of Deaf people in education through the lenses of critical pedagogy and the arts. It is personable, powerful, and thought provoking, including chapters about music, poetry, and even humor as emancipatory forms of art and critical pedagogy in the Deaf community. It is a must read for practitioners and scholars of education.” — Tricia Kress (Molloy University, USA)
“This collection of works is brilliantly conceived, pleasurably unpredictable, filled with granular descriptions of the lived experiences and real-life struggles of Deaf people who are contributing to the Deaf community and to those outside the Deaf community in a myriad of ways, through theater, poetry, fiction writing, acting, music and serving as activists and advocates for Deaf people worldwide. The thematic weight of this volume is kept comfortably afloat by chapters that are beautifully written and filled with the roar of dissidence. This is not a book for the tranquil mind.” — Peter McLaren (Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, USA) from the Foreword
“This book and its authors have thus made a significant contribution towards the important task of assisting Deaf Studies and other Deaf domains to understand power relationships throughout history — including Deaf histories — in order to embrace these ongoing challenges and advance towards a more positive future.” — Paddy Ladd (former Reader, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, UK) from the Afterword
“ Culture, Deafness and Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is the first book of its kind to engage with the lives and liberation stories of Deaf people in education through the lenses of critical pedagogy and the arts. It is personable, powerful, and thought provoking, including chapters about music, poetry, and even humor as emancipatory forms of art and critical pedagogy in the Deaf community. It is a must read for practitioners and scholars of education.” — Tricia Kress (Molloy University, USA)
Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice
Series:
Critical Deaf Studies, Volume: 1
Volume Editor:
Culture, Deafness & Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is a timely and thought-provoking book and an important contribution to the expanding transdisciplinary field of Deaf Studies. Authors, most of whom are Deaf, critically examine aspects of Deaf culture, reflect on diversity within the Deaf community, and advocate for the recognition of Deaf people as a linguistic-cultural minority. Grounded in critical pedagogy as its theoretical framework, the book highlights the persistent oppressive forces faced by Deaf people and also the challenges to these oppressive forces to promote social justice through acts of resistance and affirmation, particularly expressed through the arts, including music.
“This collection of works is brilliantly conceived, pleasurably unpredictable, filled with granular descriptions of the lived experiences and real-life struggles of Deaf people who are contributing to the Deaf community and to those outside the Deaf community in a myriad of ways, through theater, poetry, fiction writing, acting, music and serving as activists and advocates for Deaf people worldwide. The thematic weight of this volume is kept comfortably afloat by chapters that are beautifully written and filled with the roar of dissidence. This is not a book for the tranquil mind.” — Peter McLaren (Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, USA) from the Foreword
“This book and its authors have thus made a significant contribution towards the important task of assisting Deaf Studies and other Deaf domains to understand power relationships throughout history — including Deaf histories — in order to embrace these ongoing challenges and advance towards a more positive future.” — Paddy Ladd (former Reader, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, UK) from the Afterword
“ Culture, Deafness and Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is the first book of its kind to engage with the lives and liberation stories of Deaf people in education through the lenses of critical pedagogy and the arts. It is personable, powerful, and thought provoking, including chapters about music, poetry, and even humor as emancipatory forms of art and critical pedagogy in the Deaf community. It is a must read for practitioners and scholars of education.” — Tricia Kress (Molloy University, USA)
“This collection of works is brilliantly conceived, pleasurably unpredictable, filled with granular descriptions of the lived experiences and real-life struggles of Deaf people who are contributing to the Deaf community and to those outside the Deaf community in a myriad of ways, through theater, poetry, fiction writing, acting, music and serving as activists and advocates for Deaf people worldwide. The thematic weight of this volume is kept comfortably afloat by chapters that are beautifully written and filled with the roar of dissidence. This is not a book for the tranquil mind.” — Peter McLaren (Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, USA) from the Foreword
“This book and its authors have thus made a significant contribution towards the important task of assisting Deaf Studies and other Deaf domains to understand power relationships throughout history — including Deaf histories — in order to embrace these ongoing challenges and advance towards a more positive future.” — Paddy Ladd (former Reader, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, UK) from the Afterword
“ Culture, Deafness and Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice is the first book of its kind to engage with the lives and liberation stories of Deaf people in education through the lenses of critical pedagogy and the arts. It is personable, powerful, and thought provoking, including chapters about music, poetry, and even humor as emancipatory forms of art and critical pedagogy in the Deaf community. It is a must read for practitioners and scholars of education.” — Tricia Kress (Molloy University, USA)
Now available electronically,
European Yearbook promotes the scientific study of nineteen European supranational organisations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Each volume contains a detailed survey of the history, structure and yearly activities of each organisation and an up-to-date chart providing a clear overview of the member states of each organisation. Each volume contains a comprehensive bibliography covering the year’s relevant publications. The Yearbook is published in an English-French bilingual edition. It is also available in
print.
Author:
The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production, and the silk industry.
Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry.
The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopédie.
Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.
Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry.
The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopédie.
Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.
Author:
The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production, and the silk industry.
Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry.
The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopédie.
Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.
Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry.
The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopédie.
Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.