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  • The Novel Experience

    Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James

    Series series Signale|minima
    The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is influenced by the musings of third-century Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna on the fictionality of truth and the emptiness of reality. Combining this insight with Nietzsche's method of intellectual ... Read more

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  • St. Matthew Passion

    Series series signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
    St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg ... Read more

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  • The Cylinder

    Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century

    Series Book 9 - FlashPoints
    The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, and many more. Examining this phenomenon through the lens of kinematics, the science of forcing motion, Helmut Müller-Sievers provides a new view of the history of mechanics and of the culture of the ... Read more

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  • East German Foreign Intelligence

    Myth, Reality and Controversy

    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence.The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German foreign intelligence as driven by the inter-German conflict to include its targeting of the United States, northern ... Read more

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  • The Special Theory of Relativity

    Einstein’s World in New Axiomatics

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book discusses in detail the special theory of relativity without including all the instruments of theoretical physics, enabling readers who are not budding theoretical physicists to develop competence in the field. An arbitrary but fixed inertial system is chosen, where the known velocity of light is measured. With respect to this system a moving clock loses time and a moving length ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Disenchantment

    Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

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