Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known and, in the case of Kracauer, less known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on ...

Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a “film spectator” emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown—vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds—a particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of film style, as a means of predicting the reception of films on a mass scale. In Babel and Babylon, Miriam Hansen offers an original perspec...

Die beiden in diesem Buch fokussierten Beratungssituationen an Hochschulen - die Beratung von Lehrenden durch Hochschuldidaktiker sowie die Beratung von Studierenden durch Lehrende - haben gemein, dass die Beratenden in der Regel keine Ausbildung als Berater absolviert haben. Dieses Buch will daher eine bestehende Lücke schließen und stellt unter Bezug auf aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Lehren und Lernen an Hochschulen praktisches Wissen, Gesprächsleitfäden und zahlreiche Handr...

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology; human genetics; gene therapy; human cloning; and stem cell research.A gener...

Miriam is having bad dreams. As everybody knows, bad dreams are caused by dragons. So she goes to the Land of the Furry Dragons on a quest to find the Dragon King to ask him to make her bad dreams stop.

The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture....

Mentorship of faculty, students and policy makers is at the core of academic development. This book explores several approaches to mentoring and the benefits of mentorship in higher education and in teaching and research.Mentoring is based on trust and care and building relationships and skills through affinity and empathy. However, mentoring practices in higher education are constantly imperilled by crises, political polarization, technological developments, and economic dispariti...

Diese Sammlung von fantasievollen, lustigen und träumerischen Geschichten eignet sich wunderbar zum Schlafengehen. Ob abenteuerliche Reisen oder aufregende Abenteuer, hier kommen kleine Geschichtenfans auf ihre Kosten – bis ihnen die Augen zufallen. U.a. mit den Geschichten: Dimiter Inkiow: Wie man sich vor Räubern schützt, Theodor Storm: Der kleine Häwelmann, Isabel Abedi: Natalies Traumreise, Brüder Grimm: Die Sterntaler, Paul Maar: Die Prinzessin kann nicht schlafen.