@article{Lenz2020, author = {Lenz, Markus Alexander}, title = {A Prophet of Divine Wisdom?}, series = {Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico}, volume = {5}, journal = {Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico}, number = {1}, editor = {Islam, Dayeh}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {2451-9189}, issn = {2451-9197}, pages = {50 -- 75}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In the nineteenth century, the reception of Giambattista Vico's writings came along with nationalist interpretations of his Scienza Nuova as an 'Italian Science'. This tendency was based upon an increased examination of the role that the philosopher Pythagoras and his Italian school of Croton played in Vico's hierarchical conception of the ancient Greek and Italian civilizations. Writers, archaeologists and historians used the New Science as a metonymic reference work for their own nationalist concepts by updating the Pythagorean myth in accordance with relevant narratives of exclusive genealogies concerning an ancient Italian wisdom. These narratives follow tendencies in Vico's own writings that were quoted strategically and mixed with further interpretations of the Scienza Nuova as reliable testimonial for a glorious Italian history. A theological poet characterized by deeper insight into the secrets of nature and some parts of the divine providence, Pythagoras gains his special position in Vico's general conception of knowledge.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt}, series = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, journal = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, publisher = {Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim}, address = {Pforzheim}, isbn = {978-3-933924-25-4}, pages = {20 -- 21}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Seemann2020, author = {Seemann, J{\"o}rn}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt's Search for the Casiquiare Canal}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXI}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {41}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.18443/298}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-488363}, pages = {77 -- 106}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Though Humboldt's travels to the Americas have been analyzed from a wide range of viewpoints, there are specific aspects that still await further investigation. Little is written about Humboldt in the field, specifically how he moved between different locations and simultaneously measured and mapped places and phenomena. The aim of this article is to discuss the triad movement-measure-ment-map that led to the development of specific practices of knowledge building on the move. Humboldt's search for the connections between the watersheds of the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers and the resulting maps and drawings are used as an example to point out his cartographic impulse in his quest to understand and explain the physical world.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Exploring the World: On Vectopia}, series = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, journal = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, editor = {Pdoksik, Efraim}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-36117-1}, pages = {214 -- 242}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {From the Transarchip{\´e}lique Antilles}, series = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, journal = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, pages = {11}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3}, language = {en} } @misc{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Pr{\´e}sentation}, series = {Collocations et traditions discursives Actes du Colloque du Coll{\`e}ge Doctoral Franco-allemand (CDFA) tenu {\`a} l'Universit{\´e} de Potsdam le 4 juillet 2018 (Linx : revue des linguistes de l'Universit{\´e} Paris Ouest Nanterre La D{\´e}fense)}, volume = {2020}, journal = {Collocations et traditions discursives Actes du Colloque du Coll{\`e}ge Doctoral Franco-allemand (CDFA) tenu {\`a} l'Universit{\´e} de Potsdam le 4 juillet 2018 (Linx : revue des linguistes de l'Universit{\´e} Paris Ouest Nanterre La D{\´e}fense)}, number = {13}, editor = {Haßler, Gerda}, issn = {2118-9692}, doi = {10.4000/linx.3842}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-49371, title = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, series = {Postcolonial Studies ; 21}, journal = {Postcolonial Studies ; 21}, editor = {Eckstein, Lars and Barrett, Lindsay and Schwarz, Anja and Hurley, Andrew Wright}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {x, 151}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation. Contributors trace how these entanglements have been commemorated or forgotten over time - by Germans, settler-Australians and Indigenous people. Bringing to light a critical understanding of the German involvement in the Australian colonial project, Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements will be of great interest to scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, German Studies and Indigenous Studies. But for the editors' substantial new introductory chapter, these contributions originally appeared in a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2020, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Reporting on 'thinking' in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47445}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474455}, pages = {19}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of reporting on the speakers' thinking when both the reporting and the reported clauses originate in one and the same speaker, i.e. the performative uses of the verbs sp. creer and pt. achar ('think'). The data are retrieved from the CdE-NOW and CdP-NOW. Adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, I concentrate on reporting on thinking with and without the overt expression of the subject pronouns sp. yo and pt. eu. In doing so, the constructions (yo) creo (que) and (eu) acho (que) as well as parenthetic and right-peripheral creo yo and acho eu are studied. According to the corpus data and compared to other possible constructions with creo and acho, creo que and acho que represent the most frequent constructions if searching for the 'node' creo or acho, that is, if the non-use of the subject pronoun exceeds its explicit expression.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Saga-Like World-Fractals: Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World}, series = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, volume = {IV}, journal = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hunan Normal University}, address = {Changsha}, pages = {1 -- 21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This article presents and discusses Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title "Sagarana" already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic "saga-" and the Tupic-Word "rana" which means "similar" or "alike." The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances ("Herk{\"u}nfte") which emerge from Rosa's craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sert{\~a}o arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa's ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {The Functional-Communicative Approach to Language of the Potsdam School in the German Democratic Republic}, series = {History of Humanities}, volume = {5}, journal = {History of Humanities}, number = {1}, publisher = {The University of Chicago Press Journals}, address = {Chicago}, issn = {2379-3163}, pages = {31 -- 49}, year = {2020}, language = {en} }