Johannes: 1077 books

Book cover of The Revolution of the Practice of Payment
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction, London School of Economics (Sociology), course: Cultural Theory, language: English, abstract: The categories of real and symbolic, material and meaning have for a long time bothered not only cultural theorists...
Book cover of Structure vs Process - How to look at politics

Structure vs Process - How to look at politics

Compare, contrast, and assess attempts by at least two anthropologists to analyse politics in terms of temporal processes rather than (a-temporal) structure.

by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 65, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Compare, contrast, and assess attempts by at least two anthropologists to analyse politics in terms of temporal processes rather than (a-temporal) structure....
Book cover of What is achieved through sacrifice?
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 67%, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Sacrifice can be conceptualised in various forms. Traditionally, the four-step-scheme (presentation, consecration, invocation, immolation) of the ritual...
Book cover of Totaladler - Fragmentary remarks on Walter Benjamin's 'On the concept of history'
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Present, grade: 2:1, London School of Economics, course: Modern Social Thought, language: English, abstract: Today, Benjamin's 'angel of history', his 'angelus novus' has to fight an even greater danger than the storm of progress...
Book cover of Calculated Surprises

Calculated Surprises

A Philosophy of Computer Simulation

by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019

If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates on the ways in which computers and simulation are transforming the established conception of mathematical...
Book cover of Warhols Factory - A Laboratory
by Johannes Lenhard
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Installation / Action/Performance Art / Modern Art, grade: 1.3, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, language: English, abstract: The core of my term paper is based on two issues. The concept of an 'art laboratory' in general and its application...
Book cover of Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics
by Johannes Beetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016

In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen to have succumbed to the postmodern condition...
Book cover of Toward Predicate Approaches to Modality
by Johannes Stern
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal expressions in terms of predicates. But, as in the case of truth, the...
Book cover of Christian Perspectives On Abortion-Legislation In Past And Present
by Johannes M. Röskamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Theology - Systematic Theology, grade: 18/20, University of Glasgow, language: English, abstract: In concentrating on abortion legislation this essay focuses on one particular aspect of the vast discussion on the disputable issue of abortion. It is the...
Book cover of Immanuel Kant's Ideas on Knowledge

Immanuel Kant's Ideas on Knowledge

A Concept of Scientific Rationality

by Johannes Wiedemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 2,0, University of Flensburg (International Institute for Management), course: European Ideas, language: English, abstract: If one explores the concept of scientific rationality as...
Book cover of Symphony of the Earth
by Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

Book cover of The Book of Ezekiel and its Influence
by Johannes Tromp
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

The Book of the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel (6th century B.C.E.) is a book of forceful language and impressive images. Its message is often clear, sometimes mysterious. The book had great impact in Jewish and early Christian literature as well as in western art. This book deals with the intentions...
Book cover of Islamic law today

Islamic law today

A discussion initiated by al-Hibri's statement

by Johannes Müller
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 75%, Middlesex University in London (School of Oriental and African Studies), course: Islamic Law, 18 Literaturquellen entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'Each individual has direct access...
Book cover of The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger

The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger

A Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427

by Johannes (Johann) Schiltberger, Karl Friedrich Neumann, J. Buchan Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Replica of 1879 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London. This edition comes with a map available as a free download.  Johann (Hans) Schiltberger (1380 – c. 1440) was a German traveller and writer. The book not only is a very interesting sketch of various chapters of contemporary Eastern...
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