In today's schools the number of students who receive additional resources to access the
curriculum is growing rapidly, and the ongoing expansion of special education is among the …

What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and
construct our civilization without language? Such were the questions at the basis of …

Through a detailed study of Herder's Enlightenment thought, especially his philosophy of
literature, Kristin Gjesdal offers a new and sometimes provocative reading of the historical …

1. This book considers the image of the Israelite in 18th century Germany. This was
important at the time because new concepts of ethnicity, government, civil society, and …

In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state,
the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for …

This paper examines the diverse responses of the German states to the Code Napoleon at
the beginning of the nineteenth century. These states differed both in the extent to which …

Martina Bergman‐Osterberg came to London from Sweden versed in the theory and practice
of Swedish gymnastics as taught by Per Henrik Ling (1776–1881), and introduced his …

Green young men–fifteen to twenty years old–at a provincial university on the easternmost
frontiers of German civilization, aiming to take their place in a dauntingly demanding world …

This paper offers a contextual, textual and conceptual study of Kant's notion of humanity and
its current interpretations. Its argument is directed against the interpretation of humanity as …

Imagination is a complex and ambiguous culture-making power, which, while central to
politics, is a rather marginal concept in contemporary political theory. By drawing on works of …