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      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2022

        The City

        An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies

        by Uwe Prell

        This book presents the current state of urban research across various disciplines. The author offers insights into the views of those key disciplines that deal with urbanism, such as sociology, geography, spatial and urban planning, history, philosophy, and political science. He also takes language philosophy into account and shows the different meanings of concepts related to cities in a dozen word languages. An overview of central approaches and theories as well as of their practical application enables readers to see a familiar topic in a new light.

      • Society & culture: general
        March 2022

        Philosophy and Gender Difference

        On the path of a genealogical gender discourse

        by Andrea Günter

        Gender concepts have been hotly contested for more than 2500 years. For orientation in these disputes, it is important to know their traditions as well as conquered alternatives. Simone de Beauvoir's concepts of "existence" and "sexual differentiation" and Hannah Arendt's concept of plurality are crucial touchstones for reconstructing philosophical category theory and its entanglements with gender theorems. The book seeks out gender discourses in the history of philosophy from antiquity to modernity, makes the underlying concepts visible and reveals continuities and breaks within them.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2022

        Discourse and Power

        Introduction to critical narrative theory

        by Peter V. Zima

        The book is an introduction into discourse analysis and an application of the concept of discourse to the exercise of power. In part one, the concept is demarcated vis à vis related notions such as “text” and “narrative”. At the same time, discourse is considered as an instrument of domination. In part two, sociology of the text as a reformulation of structural semiotics (Greimas) is applied to psychiatric, legal, political and scientific discourses as instruments of power.

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