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Eucharistie und Kannibalismus: So konträr ihre kulturelle Verortung auch scheinen mag, umso verstörender wirkten schon im 16. Jahrhundert die Analogien zwischen beiden Konzepten. Ist der ‚wilde Kannibale‘ Amerikas nicht nur fleischgewordene Metapher für den ‚kulturellen Kannibalismus‘ des Kolonialismus selbst, sondern auch eine Materialisierung anderer im frühneuzeitlichen Europa zirkulierender Diskurse des Verschlingens und Einverleibens? Anhand verschiedener Textbeispiele aus den romanischen Literaturen (französisch, spanisch, portugiesisch) des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts diskutieren zwölf Aufsätze dieses kompetitive Feld der Bedeutungszuschreibung von Einverleiben, Verkörpern und Verdauen zwischen den kulturellen Praktiken des Kannibalismus und der katholischen Eucharistie. So werden Analogien und Verschiebungen zwischen verschiedenen Diskursen und Textgenres sichtbar, wie Reiseberichten, Historiographie, Medizin, Theater, Burleske und Pikareske oder der Mystik. Ein abschließender Teil widmet sich dem Rewriting dieses frühneuzeitlichen Korpus in Gegenwartskulturen und -literaturen Lateinamerikas und Frankreichs, was das kulturhistorische und poetische Potential dieser emblematischen Kippfigur bestätigt und weiterführt. The Eucharist and cannibalism: the cultural situatedness of these two concepts seems contrary, which made the analogies between these two concepts all the more disturbing in the sixteenth century. This volume asks whether the "wild cannibal" of America was not just a metaphor-become-meat for the "cultural cannibalism" of colonialism itself but also a manifestation of other discourses of ingestion and devouring circulating in early modern Europe.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Body metaphors. --- Renaissance. --- coloniality. --- rewriting.

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Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions - forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines.The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Cultural and Science Studies. --- Interdisciplinary Transfer. --- Metaphors and Concept Formation. --- Narrating Science.

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The metaphor of dosage offers a rich organizing principle for managers. It focuses our efforts on such fundamental, pragmatic communication issues as amount, frequency, delivery system, sequencing, interaction with other agents, and contraindications. It suggests compelling new answers to fundamental problems that all managers must face, with an appreciation of basic issues beyond our conscious awareness. The book is targeted toward graduate, executive, and professional audiences. In our day-to-day lives--whether we are discussing things with our housing contractor, our cable repair man, our doctor--we must constantly decide how much communication we should engage in to pursue our projects. This work focuses on the dosage metaphor as a way of confronting this question--what level of communication, both in terms of amount and of depth, is really necessary to accomplish particular purposes? Most communication theories implicitly paint a picture of the prevalence and paramount importance of communication, with a "communication metamyth" that more is necessarily better. This book provides the first truly comprehensive treatment of dosage. It also focuses on perhaps the most contemporaneously interesting issues of change and of productivity. The final chapter presents the dosage metaphor in broad sweep, suggesting a countervailing minimalist approach to communication.

Communication in management. --- dosage --- innovation --- managers --- managerial communication --- managing relationships --- match --- metaphors --- organizational change --- productivity

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Seneca’s developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional description of Seneca’s dialectical relation between metaphorical language and philosophy. It shows how Stoic philosophy finds a new means of expression in Seneca’s highly elaborated rhetorical discourse, and how this relates to the social and cultural demands of Neronian culture. Metaphors are purposely utilized to work "collectively" rather than by category or type and that, therefore, the analysis of what metaphors do when Seneca chooses to combine them in clusters, demonstrates the existence of a "metanarrative of rhetoric". This approach is fundamentally innovative and has the advantage of gauging the functioning of Senecan style as a whole, rather than focusing on single features of its rhetorical functioning. The main target is to show how philosophical preaching materially contributes to the healing of human soul because it shapes the individual’s cognitive faculty in a way that is physical and not simply figurative. The stylus and the scalpel blend in their functions. This kind of therapy is not just the simulacrum of a more "real" one, it is in itself medical in nature.

Metaphern --- Metaphors --- Seneca --- Stoicims --- Stoizismus --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical --- E-books --- Metaphor. --- Stoics. --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Berkeleys Immaterialismus wird in der Geschichte der Philosophie gerne als Beispiel für ein besonders abstruses, kontraintuitives metaphysisches System angesehen. Das Buch zeigt, dass das Gegenteil zutreffend ist: Gerade Berkeley entwickelt protophänomenologische Ideen, die weit in das zwanzigste Jahrhundert vorausweisen.In Abweichung zu den dominanten Auslegungen von Berkeleys Schriften schlägt Hartmann einen Perspektivwechsel vor, um das Werk Berkeleys dezidiert metapherntheoretisch zu lesen und zu interpretieren. Auf diese Weise bringt Hartmann evident zur Darstellung, dass man dem Werk von Berkeley eine - bisher übersehene - epochale Bedeutung für die Philosophie und die Aufklärung zusprechen kann: Unter Zuhilfenahme der metaphorologischen Studien Hans Blumenbergs wird im Buch detailliert aufgezeigt, dass sich in Berkeleys Gesamtwerk ein ausgesprochen modernes, regelrecht ökologisches Mensch-Welt-Verhältnis auffinden lässt, welches weder bisher mit Berkeley noch mit der Epoche der Aufklärung in Verbindung gebracht wird.

Metaphern --- Metaphorik --- Blumenberg --- Modelle --- Aufklärung --- philosophy of mind --- absolute Metaphern --- Licht --- Idee --- Stil --- Weltverhalten --- metaphors --- metaphorics --- models --- light