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Ernst Peter Fischer: Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte. München: Ullstein 2001. 464 S. [Rezension]
No full textRezension von: Fischer, Ernst Peter: Die andere Bildun
Wertvolle Wissenschaft : über ästhetische Aspekte eines modernen Abenteuers namens Wissenschaft
No full textVortrag des Konstanzer Hochschullehrers Ernst Peter Fischer anläßlich der Semestereröffnung im Herbst 1996 an der Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, worin er die Studierenden auf das Abenteuer Wissenschaft vorbereitete; Abenteuer jedoch im Sinne des Nicht-Alltäglichen, verbunden mit einem Risiko, das mit "ritterlichem Mut" zu bestehen ist. Der einladende Dekan des Fachbereichs Biologie, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kattmann nahm in seiner die Veranstaltung eröffnenden Begrüßung die von Erich Kästner im Jahre 1950 gehaltene "Ansprache zum Schulbeginn" zum Ausgang, um den Studienanfängern vier Empfehlungen für ihr Studium nahezubringen
The Bone Folder by Ernst Collin (2nd Ed.)
No full textDER PRESSBENGEL / THE BONE FOLDER: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AESTHETICALLY- INCLINED BIBLIOPHILE AND A WELL-VERSED-IN-ALL-ASPECTS-OF-THE- CRAFT BOOKBINDER By Ernst Collin, translated and introduced by Peter D. Verheyen Der Pressbengel, by Ernst Collin, was originally published in German in 1922. Conceived as a dialogue between a bibliophile and a master bookbinder on all aspects of the bookbinding craft as well as specific techniques, the text also addresses the conflicts between quality and cost and matters of good taste. The family and bindery of W. Collin were Court Bookbinders in Berlin from the mid 1800 until the liquidation of the firm under the Nazis. It is this legacy and the work that they produced that is basis of Ernst Collin\u27s work. This 2nd edition features a corrected and expanded biographical introduction by the translator, and discusses the historical context of the decline of formal training, a trend that continues today. This text is laid-out for printing double-sided on 8.5 x 11 paper and binding in workshops and demonstrations related to the history of the book, book arts, and related topics. Please discard the first two sheets after printing. More information on the Collins and German bookbinding during the 19th - 20th centuries can be found on the author\u27s Pressbengel Project Blog. For information and binding ideas contact the publisher and/or order Karen Hanmer\u27s Contemporary Paper Bindings: A guide to bookbinding techniques, tools, and materials that features many structures, including non-adhesive
Beauty and the beast : the aesthetic moment in science / Ernst Peter Fischer ; translated from German by Elizabeth Oehlkers.
No full textMusikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Searching for a New Role in East Asian Regionlization: Japanese Production Networks in the Electronics Industry
No full textThis paper will be published in Peter and J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds. Remaking East Asia: Beyond Americanization and Japanization, Cornell University Press. Part 1 introduces a few conceptual building-blocks that we need to capture the interactions between international business organization and regionalization. Part 2 describes the growing dependence of Japan's electronics industry on Asia, and explores how Japanese electronics firms are searching for ways to expand and upgrade their regional production networks, with China as the main prize. Part 3 examines constraints to change. I highlight peculiar features of the Japanese network management model in East Asia that once may have reflected strength. But now these very same features have turned into systemic weaknesses, as they constrain the capacity of Japanese firms to cope with and shape East Asia's increasingly complex processes of regionalization. The chapter concludes with an illustrative example of how some Japanese electronics firms are seeking to turn around gradually their EAPNs, by developing strategic alliances with emerging new industry leaders in Asia, primarily from Greater China. Forthcoming as: "Searching for a New Role in East Asian Regionalization - Japanese Production Networks in the Electronics Industry", chapter 7, in: Peter and J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Remaking East Asia: Beyond Americanization and Japanization, Cornell University Press.
Enchantment of the World? Religious symbol systems in history and present
No full textReligion verschwindet im Nebel des Pluralen, verdunstet in der Hitze des Säkularen. So lautet eine gängige These, die an die moderne ‚Meistererzählung‘ von der Entzauberung der Welt und vom Untergang des Religiösen anknüpft. Doch dem postulierten Megatrend vom Verschwinden der Religion steht ihre Rückkehr in vielen Bereichen gesellschaftlichen Lebens entgegen. Die vermeintliche Säkularisierung sieht sich einer Resakralisierung gegenüber. Religion besitzt offenkundig jenseits ihrer vermeintlichen Entzauberung einen produktiven ‚Glutkern‘. Zu denken ist dabei an die Dimension der Transzendenz, die Genese und Durchsetzung von religiös geprägten Werten, die Bedeutung religiöser Symbolsysteme in scheinbar säkularisierten Gesellschaften oder auch Vorstellungen der Heiligkeit von Menschen, Göttern, Lebewesen und Dingen.
Die Beiträge von Klaus Bieberstein, Ernst Peter Fischer, Hans Joas, Thomas Laubach, Angelika Neuwirth, Peter B. Steiner und Reinhard Zintl reflektieren diese spannungsvolle Lage und bieten Ansatzpunkte für einen neuen Dialog zwischen Säkularisierung und Sakralisierung.Religion disappears in the fog of plurality, vanishes in the heat of profanity. This is a common thesis that ties in with the modern "master narrative" of the disenchantment of the world and the decline of religion. But the postulated megatrend of the disappearance of religion is countered by its return in many areas of social life. The supposed secularization is confronted with a resacralization. Beyond its supposed disenchantment, religion obviously possesses a productive 'glowing core'. The dimension of transcendence, the genesis and enforcement of religiously shaped values, the significance of religious symbol systems in seemingly secularized societies, or even concepts of the sacredness of people, gods, living beings, and things are all worthy of consideration.
The contributions by Klaus Bieberstein, Ernst Peter Fischer, Hans Joas, Thomas Laubach, Angelika Neuwirth, Peter B. Steiner and Reinhard Zintl reflect on this tense situation and offer starting points for a new dialogue between secularization and sacralization
Direct and indirect effects of management intensity and environmental factors on the functional diversity of lichens in central European forests
No full textUsing 642 forest plots from three regions in Germany, we analyzed the direct and indirect effects of forest management intensity and of environmental variables on lichen functional diversity (FDis). Environmental stand variables were affected by management intensity and acted as an environmental filter: summing direct and indirect effects resulted in a negative total effect of conifer cover on FDis, and a positive total effect of deadwood cover and standing tree biomass. Management intensity had a direct positive effect on FDis, which was compensated by an indirect negative effect via reduced standing tree biomass and lichen species richness, resulting in a negative total effect on FDis and the FDis of adaptation-related traits (FDisAd). This indicates environmental filtering of management and stronger niche partitioning at a lower intensity. In contrast, management intensity had a positive total effect on the FDis of reproduction-, dispersal-and establishment-related traits (FDisRe), mainly because of the direct negative effect of species richness, indicating functional over-redundancy, i.e., most species cluster into a few over-represented functional entities. Our findings have important implications for forest management: high lichen functional diversity can be conserved by promoting old, site-typical deciduous forests with a high richness of woody species and large deadwood quantity. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Effects of forest management on bryophyte species richness in Central European forests
No full textWe studied the effect of three major forest management types (unmanaged beech, selection beech, and age class forests) and stand variables (SMId, soil pH, proportion of conifers, litter cover, deadwood cover, rock cover and cumulative cover of woody trees and shrubs) on bryophyte species richness in 1050 forest plots in three regions in Germany. In addition, we analysed the species richness of four ecological guilds of bryophytes according to their colonized substrates (deadwood, rock, soil, bark) and the number of woodland indicator bryophyte species. Beech selection forests turned out to be the most species rich management type, whereas unmanaged beech forests revealed even lower species numbers than age-class forests. Increasing conifer proportion increased bryophyte species richness but not the number of woodland indicator bryophyte species. The richness of the four ecological guilds mainly responded to the abundance of their respective substrate. We conclude that the permanent availability of suitable substrates is most important for bryophyte species richness in forests, which is not stringently linked to management type. Therefore, managed age-class forests and selection forests may even exceed unmanaged forests in bryophyte species richness due to higher substrate supply and therefore represent important habitats for bryophytes. Typical woodland indicator bryophytes and their species richness were negatively affected by SMId (management intensity) and therefore better indicate forest integrity than the species richness of all bryophytes. Nature conservation efforts should focus on the reduction of management intensity. Moreover, maintaining and increasing a variability of substrates and habitats, such as coarse woody debris, increasing structural heterogeneity by retaining patches with groups of old, mature to over-mature trees in managed forests, maintaining forest climate conditions by silvicultural methods that assure stand continuity, e.g. by selection cutting rather than clear cutting and shelterwood logging might promote bryophyte diversity and in particular the one of woodland indicator bryophytes
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