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Abstract Both theory of mind (ToM) and executive functioning have been related to children's academic abilities. In a longitudinal study with 112 children, we investigated the influence of these two abilities on children's math and reading performance at 7 years of age.
Daniela Kloo +3 more
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DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES
ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche to notions of genius in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the one hand, it considers the influence of idealised representations of Nietzsche (for example, in Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn) as a genius marked by loneliness, illness, and finally madness.
Sebastian Kaufmann
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Between Promise and Ecstasy: Hope as a Subject of an Engaged Theology
Abstract This article outlines a socially‐engaged theology that retrieves hope as an essential theological concept. The argument focuses not so much on the specific orientation that a socially engaged theology might take, but more on its motives. Here two notions of hope need to be distinguished: the hope that is future‐oriented (hoping that . . .) and
Hartmut von Sass
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ABSTRACT In the wake of contemporary anxieties about climate change and environmental degradation, biographers of Alexander von Humboldt have sought inspiration from his life as an explorer, a plant geographer and a scientific writer. A ‘green Humboldt’ has emerged, to many a key thinker on the environment, to some the founding father of modern ...
Nicolaas Rupke
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ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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ABSTRACT This article contends that the image is a central trope in Paul Celan's poetry. It suggests that Celan's rejection of metaphor and his opposition to readings of his poetry as mere imagery constitute only one side of his understanding of the image.
Julian Johannes Immanuel Koch
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Lykaon, der Wolfsmann, und Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Viele der rezenten Studien zur Ästhetik des Monströsen nehmen auf Michel Foucaults Vorlesungsreihe Les anormaux Bezug, in der er u. a. der diskursiven Transformation des Monsters von einem somatischen hin zu einem moralischen Abweichungsphänomen nachgeht.
Thomas Emmrich
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Videovorlesung "Metapher", RVL 01: Einleitung (edited version)
Videovorlesung "Metapher", Sommersemester 2021 ...
De Rentiis, Dina
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Bibliothek als Labor der Wissenschaft – Metamorphose einer Metapher
Die Bedeutung des Begriffs Labor hat sich in den letzten Jahren über den engen naturwissenschaftlichen Kontext hinaus erweitert. Als Metapher findet er auch in Bezug auf Bibliotheken Anwendung. Der Artikel diskutiert die Idee, Bibliotheken als Labore der
Stäcker Thomas
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[Recensão a] PAUL-HORN, INA (2015). Aktualität der Metapher: das Meer, die Metapher und die Sprache
http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3 ...
Diogo Ferrer
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