Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik.


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InhaltFrederik Kortlandt: The Origin of the Vestjysk St(c)dHarry Perridon: How old is the Vestjysk St(c)dWolfgang Beck: Neues zur Runeninschrift auf dem Goldbrakteaten Schonen II CDietrich Schrr: Zu Z. 50 des HiltibrantliedesValentine A. Pakis: The Literary Status of Muspilli in the History of Scholarship: Two Peculiar TrendsKenny Louwen: Zur Lesart und Hybriditnt der altniederlnndischen FederprobeJeremy Bergerson: Observations on a, o in unstressed Syllables in Middle DutchLudo Jongen: The Emperor, the Saint and the Poet. For whom did Heinrich von Veldeke write the Sint-Servaaslegende?Martin Baisch: Gahmuret und Belakane. Textkritik und InterpretationAndreas Wutz: Der doppelte Loys - ein Vergleich der KAnigsgestalt in Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm mit der altfranzAsischen Vorlage AliscansAlbrecht Classen: Objects of Memory as Hermeneutic Media in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aues Gregorius, Wolfram von Eschenbachs Parzival, Thring von Ringoltingens Melusine, and FortunatusRasma Lazda-Cazers: Landscape as Other in the Livlnndische ReimchronikEdward G. Fichtner: The Trojanerkrieg and the Composition of Ulrich Fetrers Buch der AbenteuerRianne Mus: 'Ik han mynen heren sen, des mach ik wol der warheyt gen. Die 'Thomasszene im Wienhnuser OsterspielfragmentEllen Baler und Ernst Hellgardt: Die Freckenhorster Heberolle - eine Fnlschung? (Verbesserte Fassung)"




The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe


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This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.




The Circum-Baltic Languages


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The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.







Koexistenz und Konfrontation


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Unverwechselbarkeit


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In der historischen Forschungsdiskussion um das Individuum ist ein Aspekt bislang wenig beachtet worden: Wie wird menschliche Singularitat erkannt und wiedererkannt? In diesem Band gehen Historiker, Literaturwissenschaftler und Soziologen der Frage nach Identifikation und Identitat an Beispielen aus Theorie und Praxis vormoderner Gesellschaften nach. Betrachtet werden kulturell variable Mittel und Zeichen, mit denen Personen identifiziert werden (Korpermerkmale, Kleider, Eigennamen, Siegel, Ausweise usw.) sowie deren Verlust und Falschung. Andererseits hinterfragen die Beitrage auch die Symbolisierung von Identitat, mit der die Umwelt von einer bestimmten Rolle (u. a. Autor, Fuhrer, Held, Charismatiker) uberzeugt werden soll, sowie deren Umkehrung in Tarnung, Inkognito, Verstellung des Selbst. Die Beitrage sind von Aleida Assmann, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, Giles Constable, Valentin Groebner, Alois Hahn, Christian Kiening, Renate Lachmann, Thomas Luckmann, Christel Meier, Peter von Moos, Jan-Dirk Muller, Morgan Powell, Adriano Prosperi, Werner Rocke, Jean-Claude Schmitt und Horst Wenzel.




Northern Voices


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This book contains a wealth of new essays on many aspects of Germanic Philology, and the range reflects the scholarly activity of the dedicatee of this festschrift. Section I contains articles on historical philology as this relates to the Old Germanic languages and literatures; Section II contains essays on various aspects of Frisian and Frisian studies; Section III is devoted to the relationship between the Germanic and the Balto-Finnic languages; the articles in Section IV consist of applications of the methods and insights of modern linguistics to the study of the Germanic languages.




Nietzsche Versus Paul


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Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azzam situates the philosopher's thought within the history of Christianity, specifically the Pauline dialectics of law and faith, and reveals how atheism is constructed in relation to Christianity. Countering Heidegger's characterization of Nietzsche as an anti-Platonist, Azzam brings the philosopher closer to Paul through a radical rereading of his entire corpus against Christianity. This approach builds a compelling new history of the West resting on a logic of sublimation, from ancient Greece and early Judaism to the death of God. Azzam discovers in Nietzsche's philosophy a solid, tangible Pauline structure and virtual, fragile Greek content, positioning the thinker as a forerunner of the recent "return to Paul" led by Badiou, Agamben, i ek, and Breton. By changing the focus of modern philosophical inquiry from "Nietzsche and philosophy" to "Nietzsche and Christianity," Azzam initiates a major challenge to the primacy of Plato in the history of Western philosophy and narrow certainties regarding Nietzsche's relationship to Christian thought.







Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood


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How does Nietzsche, as psychologist, envision the future of religion and atheism? While there has been no lack of “psychological” studies that have sought to illuminate Nietzsche's philosophy of religion by interpreting his biography, this monograph is the first comprehensive study to approach the topic through the philosopher's own psychological thinking. The author shows how Nietzsche's critical writings on religion, and especially on religious decline and future possibilities, are informed by his psychological thinking about moods. The author furthermore argues that the clarification of this aspect of the philosopher’s work is essential to interpreting some of the most ambiguous words found in his writings; the words that God is dead. Instead of merely denying the existence of God in a way that leaves a melancholic need for religion or a futile search for replacements intact, Nietzsche arguably envisions the possibility of a radical atheism, which is characterized by a mood of joyful doubt. The examination of this vision should be of great interest to scholars of Nietzsche and of the history of philosophy, but also of relevance to all those who take an interest in the interdisciplinary discourse on secularization.