Books published by Peter Lang AG

In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, apprehension of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding an individual in relation to law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian approaches.

This book seeks to examine the current state of the digital/data-driven research in history and neighboring disciplines that deal with Southeast Europe as well as the Ottoman Empire.

While this book is a publication on Indian philosophy, addressing the problem of subjectivity in the Upanisads from the perspective of Advaita Vedanta's ontological assumptions, it makes an interesting reading for a wider group of readers, including philosophers of metaphysics, orientalists, and religious and cultural researchers.

Queen Marie Casimire Sobieska settled in Rome in 1699 where in Palazzo Zuccari she staged operas and occasional musical works, highly acclaimed by the Romans. This manifested her social status, political plans, and sublime aesthetic tastes. She commissioned such admired artists as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti.

It discusses new and alternative approaches to resolving the Cyprus issue. It brings a refreshing approach from different perspectives to how the problem should be resolved. It also makes a significant contribution to recent developments including energy security and hydrocarbon problems in the Eastern Mediterranean.

This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as the intelligence cycle. The Spain of the 18th century, despite its decline on the European scene, continued to be a geopolitical actor on a global scale.

The book presents an analisys of children a comparative look in some European realities thanks to the scientific contribution of researchers from various geographical and scientific areas such as Italy, Slovenia, Russia, Greece, Austria, Germany, Poland, Portugal, UK and USA.

The focus of this book is on multifaith or interreligious learning, i.e. learning beyond the boundaries of one religion. Questions are raised about the proper understanding of religion, of perspectivity, of dealing with experiences of transcendence and of how to identify and distinguish the aims and goals of religious education.

The book discusses the Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Lviv. Both nations desired to strengthen their standing in a war-ravaged Europe. Fighting broke out in what had previously been a shared city, ending with a Polish victory. The book also describes the ethnic cleansing of Jews and the memories that still haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.

The book is a journal that presents narrations and factual accounts of events covering 144 days the author spent during the Third Scientific Expedition of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Arctowski Station on King George Island (South Shetland Islands).

This is an edited collection of essays that focuses on exchanging literary and cultural perspectives between humanities traditions in East and West. The book explores ways in which academic fields within East and West may enter into new and productive collaborations.

The book investigates mediating practices used in translating key children's and young adults' texts. It focuses on transfer of contents considered unsuitable for younger audiences. It shows that domesticating and adaptive approaches sometimes infringing upon the integrity of source texts are still part of contemporary translation practices.

Central and Eastern European region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. We must abandon the paradigms of the Cold War period within geopolitical thought. The key question of the 21st century is whether a new gateway zone of the present forming World-Island can be developed along a north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis.

Die Beitrage des Bandes diskutieren die Moeglichkeiten und Bedingungen kultureller Diversitat in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Diskutiert werden Rezeptionsbarrieren, Ideologisierung und Purifikation, Graphic Novels und illustrierte Kinderbucher im kulturellen Transfer sowie der Status von Kinderliteratur zwischen National- und Weltliteratur.

This book focuses on the collaboration of Derrida, Lyotard, Hillis Miller, and others at the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine and on critical theory as a methodology for the analysis of contemporary American visual art of Nauman, Kosuth, Burden, Christo, Johns, Rauschenberg, and others. It also includes a Prologue by Georges van Den Abbeele.

The book discusses how "objectivity" is used in the judicial discourse. Through critical discourse analysis of Polish jurisprudence, the book presents a taxonomy of the objectivity's uses by judges, highlighting that objectivity has a special meaning in the legal discourse based on legal authority.

The Latin-Greek glosses are a product of translation and a source of the Romance languages. This study provides an overview of translation into European languages (French, English, German, Castilian, Portuguese, Catalan and Italian) during Middle Ages, by prestigious academic researchers.

The monograph describes the history of the Polish diaspora in the Habsburg monarchy in the historical, institutional, legal, political, and organizational context. The main object of study is the Poles' active involvement in the Austro-Hungarian parliamentary life and state administration.