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This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Curiosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel in South Africa. Seeking more information, he often found himself a fly on the wall at the highest reaches of the establishment, observing how presidents, tycoons, bankers, and media moguls secretly greased the wheels of power. This memoir recounts his life as a pursuer of lost truths. 

Some accuse Epstein of being a conspiracist, but that is incorrect. He is a puzzle solver. Instead of accepting the received wisdom, he searches for the missing pieces of the picture, such as the autopsy photographs of President John F. Kennedy that were kept from the investigation conducted by the Warren Commission. Finding suppressed or overlooked evidence may result in overturning an established narrative, as happened with the publication of Inquest, Epstein’s book about the official probe into the JFK assassination. But that is very different from looking for a conspiracy. 

Sometimes, Epstein’s work has in fact uncovered a deep conspiracy, as with the world diamond cartel. Other times, it has discredited belief in a conspiracy, as when he delved into the murders of numerous Black Panthers. After his findings were published in the New Yorker, newspapers including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times issued editorial apologies for their own reporting on the murders, which had suggested that an FBI conspiracy was behind them.

Epstein’s primary interest has never been to advance an agenda, but rather to spot gaps in the conventional narrative and fill them in. Assume Nothing is the story of a lifelong quest for missing puzzle pieces, and also a story of self-actualization. 

We believe we know our bodies intimately—that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and Paul Ferdinand Schilder), and queer theory, Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking about embodiment.

Salamon suggests that the difference between transgendered and normatively gendered bodies is not, in the end, material. Rather, she argues that the production of gender itself relies on a disjunction between the "felt sense" of the body and an understanding of the body's corporeal contours, and that this process need not be viewed as pathological in nature. Examining the relationship between material and phantasmatic accounts of bodily being, Salamon emphasizes the productive tensions that make the body both present and absent in our consciousness and work to confirm and unsettle gendered certainties. She questions traditional theories that explain how the body comes to be—and comes to be made one's own—and she offers a new framework for thinking about what "counts" as a body. The result is a groundbreaking investigation into the phenomenological life of gender.

We believe we know our bodies intimately—that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and Paul Ferdinand Schilder), and queer theory, Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking about embodiment.

Salamon suggests that the difference between transgendered and normatively gendered bodies is not, in the end, material. Rather, she argues that the production of gender itself relies on a disjunction between the "felt sense" of the body and an understanding of the body's corporeal contours, and that this process need not be viewed as pathological in nature. Examining the relationship between material and phantasmatic accounts of bodily being, Salamon emphasizes the productive tensions that make the body both present and absent in our consciousness and work to confirm and unsettle gendered certainties. She questions traditional theories that explain how the body comes to be—and comes to be made one's own—and she offers a new framework for thinking about what "counts" as a body. The result is a groundbreaking investigation into the phenomenological life of gender.

Assumptions: Complexity, Practice and Values delves into the empirical and theoretical aspects of assumptions in evaluation, offering methodologies to identify and categorize them, and exploring how they influence evaluations and each other. It provides practical guidance for evaluators to help stakeholders identify priorities and plan effective programs, while also presenting conceptual insights into the nature of assumptions and their impact on both programs and evaluations. The chapters push the boundaries of our understanding of assumptions in the field and propose a research agenda to deepen our knowledge and improve evaluation practices. 

Addressing assumptions is a cornerstone of evaluative thinking, crucial for uncovering the beliefs that guide stakeholders' decisions and actions. This book emphasizes how these assumptions shape the evaluation process, determining the questions asked and the answers sought. By examining these underlying beliefs, evaluators can conduct more meaningful evaluations that truly reflect the needs and realities of the programs they assess. 

This book also equips methodologists with the tools to design evaluations that yield actionable insights for decision-makers. Practitioners will learn to monitor their own and their stakeholders' assumptions to avoid biases and leverage deeper understanding in their work. Program funders and designers will gain the knowledge to implement more effective programs and avoid unintended consequences. Evaluation educators will find valuable content to enhance their teaching, and researchers will discover new directions for their studies. Ultimately, Assumptions aims to enrich evaluators' ability to reveal and prioritize the most consequential assumptions in their work. 

Assumptions: Complexity, Practice and Values delves into the empirical and theoretical aspects of assumptions in evaluation, offering methodologies to identify and categorize them, and exploring how they influence evaluations and each other. It provides practical guidance for evaluators to help stakeholders identify priorities and plan effective programs, while also presenting conceptual insights into the nature of assumptions and their impact on both programs and evaluations. The chapters push the boundaries of our understanding of assumptions in the field and propose a research agenda to deepen our knowledge and improve evaluation practices. 

Addressing assumptions is a cornerstone of evaluative thinking, crucial for uncovering the beliefs that guide stakeholders' decisions and actions. This book emphasizes how these assumptions shape the evaluation process, determining the questions asked and the answers sought. By examining these underlying beliefs, evaluators can conduct more meaningful evaluations that truly reflect the needs and realities of the programs they assess. 

This book also equips methodologists with the tools to design evaluations that yield actionable insights for decision-makers. Practitioners will learn to monitor their own and their stakeholders' assumptions to avoid biases and leverage deeper understanding in their work. Program funders and designers will gain the knowledge to implement more effective programs and avoid unintended consequences. Evaluation educators will find valuable content to enhance their teaching, and researchers will discover new directions for their studies. Ultimately, Assumptions aims to enrich evaluators' ability to reveal and prioritize the most consequential assumptions in their work. 

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers endure in the American imagination. The charm and grace of their dancing in the ten films they made together, including Top Hat and Swing Time, elicit nostalgia today. Most books about the Astaire-Rogers films focus exclusively on the music and dance scenes, but this book shows that the films are much more than the sum of those scenes, which after all only account for approximately one-third of their films' running times. Gallafent argues that, contrary to received opinion, the musical numbers are not discrete, generic moments dropped in to enliven the films. Instead, the music and dance routines advance the movies' themes.

Gallafent shows how dialogue, plotting, and the audience's perception of this striking professional couple affect the context, and thus meaning, for the song and dance routines. The book examines how the Astaire-Rogers musicals, which were produced and originally viewed as a series, relate to one another and to other musicals of their day. Gallafent also provides an illuminating account of the films Astaire and Rogers made separately during the 1940s before their final reunion in The Barkleys of Broadway. Astaire and Rogers concludes by

tracing the development of their star personas both together and apart, and shows how the films were designed around those personas.

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).

Aster of Ceremonies asks what rites we need now and how poetry, astir in the asters, can help them along. What is the relationship between fleeing and feeling? How can the voices of those who came before—and the stutters that leaven those voices—carry into our present moment, mingling with our own? When Ellis writes, “Bring me the stolen will / Bring me the stolen well,” his voice is a conduit, his “me” is many. Through the grateful invocations of ancestors—Hannah, Mariah, Kit, Jan, and others—and their songs, he rewrites history, creating a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue to take, their freedom. 

By weaving a chorus of voices past and present, Ellis counters the attack of “all masters of all vessels” and replaces it with a family of flowers. He models how—as with his brilliant transduction of escaped slave advertisements—we might proclaim lost ownership over literature and history. “Bring me to the well,” he chants, implores, channels. “Bring me to me.” In this bringing, in this singing, he proclaims our collective belonging to shared worlds where we can gather and heal.

The Aster of Ceremonies audiobook read and performed by JJJJJerome Ellis is available everywhere you listen to audiobooks. 

Das Leben gewinnt Form durch Rituale, Prozeduren und Technologien. Statt zu fragen, wie das Leben durch Normen normiert wird und gleichzeitig Normen durch ständige Begegnung mit Leben produziert und verschoben werden, richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Bandes auf die Dramaturgie des Lebens: wie Leben dargestellt und ritualisiert wird, wie Leben existiert, wie Leben in die Existenz gebracht wird, wie Leben seine Form annimmt.

Nietzsche zeigt, dass die Sprache, wo immer sie Wirklichkeit abbildet, diese verfälscht. Diese Feststellung muss jedoch nicht mit einer Entwertung der Sprache einhergehen, sondern sie erlaubt vielmehr, deren schöpferisches Potenzial für das Erkennen freizulegen. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später findet man auch bei Adorno den Versuch, die Sprache während des Sturzes der Wahrheit und Erkenntnis verbürgenden Metaphysik dennoch als Darstellungsinstrument zu retten.

Doch wie lässt sich die spezifische Darstellungsform einer Philosophie begreifen, die die Form selbst als Verfälschung ihres Inhalts begreift? Was ist die ,Form‘ kritischen Denkens?

Das Buch untersucht ästhetische Konvergenzen zwischen zwei Denkern, die die philosophische Forschung üblicherweise auseinanderhält, da sie Nietzsches ,Perspektivismus‘ für unvereinbar mit Adornos ,Materialismus‘ hält. Die Autorin zeigt dagegen auf, wie entscheidend Nietzsche für die Prägung von Adornos Ästhetik ist („Ich habe ihm am meisten zu verdanken, in Wahrheit vielleicht mehr noch als Hegel“) und wie tief sich ihre Überlegungen entlang dreier Themenkreise verweben: Sprachkritik, Musik und Stil. Das Buch unternimmt es auf diese Weise, eine Tradition der ästhetischen Form zu rekonstruieren, die dem logischen Positivismus der Sprachphilosophien des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenübersteht.

2016 Neue Herausgeberschaft

Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Günther Fischer, Angelika Schnell

Die nicht zu Unrecht legendär genannte Schriftenreihe zu Geschichte und Theorie von Architektur und Städtebau wurde 1963 von Ulrich Conrads gegründet und seit den frühen 1980er Jahren zusammen mit Peter Neitzke herausgegeben. Sie ist mit inzwischen über 150 Bänden die umfangreichste deutschsprachige Buchreihe zu diesen Themen. Mit dem Tod der beiden langjährigen Herausgeber Ulrich Conrads (2013) und Peter Neitzke (2015) hat ein neues HerausgeberInnengremium seine Arbeit aufgenommen: Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Günther Fischer, Angelika Schnell. Als künftige HerausgeberInnen versuchen wir auf Kurs zu bleiben.

Die ursprüngliche Zielsetzung der Reihe, eine Bestandsaufnahme der baulichen und städtebaulichen Ideen und Realisierungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zu leisten, wurde bereits in herausragender Weise erfüllt. Die Bauwelt Fundamente repräsentieren geradezu die Ideengeschichte des Planens und Bauens jener Zeit bis in die Gegenwart hinein. Diese gilt es in die Zukunft hinein fortzuschreiben.

In gleicher Weise besteht der zweite, direkt im Namen verankerte Anspruch der Reihe unvermindert fort: nicht Tagesmeinungen, sondern Fundamente – Verbindliches und Grundlegendes – aber auch Thesen- und Streitschriften zu den brennenden architektonischen und städtebaulichen Themen der Zeit zu veröffentlichen. Komplexe Zusammenhänge zu durchdringen und probeweise einzuordnen bildet die Voraussetzung fruchtbarer Diskurse und zukunftsfähiger Auseinandersetzungen.

Die Bauwelt Fundamente-Reihe legt als Forum solcher Diskurse und Beiträge ihren Fokus unvermindert auf die Bereiche Architektur und Urbanismus, ergänzt durch die immer notwendige historische Aufarbeitung wichtiger Fragen und Texte und den Blick darüber hinaus in andere kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Gefilde. Eine stärker internationale Ausrichtung und der Wunsch nach mehr Autorinnen sind hierbei selbstverständlich.

Die grafische Gestaltung der Reihe von Helmut Lortz wird in Bezug auf seine ursprünglichen Anliegen beibehalten: Wie sich das für eine Arbeitsbücherei gehört, bleiben die Bauwelt Fundamente einfach ausgestattet: Schwarz/weiß das Signet sowie die Bildmotive von Vorder- und Rückseite und der 11-Zeiler mit konzentrierter Information zum Inhalt. Damit wenden sich die Bauwelt Fundamente auch weiterhin an alle, die Anteil nehmen an der kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung, in deren Kontext Städte, Häuser und Dinge entstehen und die wiederum Kontexte schaffen für die Welt. „Architekten hätten sich, heißt es – oder hofft man – immer schon, über die Grenzen ihres Berufs hinaus, für die Welt interessiert." (1)

(1) Peter Neitzke, Manuskript seiner Rede „Nicht mit dem Rücken zur Gesellschaft" anlässlich der 50-Jahrfeier der Bauwelt Fundamente in Berlin, 2013

Mediale Revolutionen wecken Sehnsüchte nach Authentischem. Literatur und Kunst reagieren darauf, indem sie sich dem Faktischen, der Aktion und dem Augenblick zuwenden und sich für das Leben selbst ausgeben. Davon zeugen die historischen Avantgarden, die für viele Ästhetiken um 1970 beispielgebend sind. Die vorliegende Studie entfaltet die Geschichte und Theorie des Authentischen von Nietzsche bis Adorno und zeigt Authentizität in verschiedenen künstlerischen Formen (Dokumentarliteratur, Performance Art, Autobiographie, Erzählung, Collage) als einen ästhetischen Effekt.

Die Depression wird derzeitig als dominante psychische Krankheit moderner Gesellschaften gehandelt und lässt sich ausgehend von einer Vielzahl an sozialwissenschaftlichen Beiträgen als Gegenwartsdiagnose diskutieren.

Von hier ausgehend wird das Thema Depression literaturwissenschaftlich in den Blick genommen. Untersucht werden Motive und literarische Verfahren des Depressiven, depressive Figuren und einschlägige Inszenierungen der Autor:innen.

Die literarischen Manifestationen des Depressiven und der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entstehende Depressionsdiskurs werden als historisch wandelbare Phänomene begriffen. So erstreckt sich der Beobachtungszeitraum des Bandes von der Jahrhundertwende bis in die Gegenwart. Dabei wird nach einer spezifisch modernen ‚Verfasstheit‘ im Zeichen der Depression und ihren ästhetischen Repräsentationen gefragt. In den einzelnen Beiträgen werden neben Texten der Gegenwartsliteratur (von Autor/innen wie Wolfgang Herrndorf, Michael Köhlmeier, Benjamin Maack, Thomas Melle, Terézia Mora, Leif Randt, Kathrin Röggla und David Foster Wallace) vor allem Werke des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts behandelt, z.　B. von Albert Ehrenstein, Hans Fallada, Hermann Hesse, Franziska zu Reventlow, Regina Ullmann und Robert Walser.

Animation und Comic weisen in ihren Ästhetiken offenkundige Parallelen auf, denen jedoch bislang in der jeweils einschlägigen Forschung kaum angemessene Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet wurde. Beide basieren auf künstlerischen Praktiken, die unter Einsatz spezifischer Techniken Bilder generieren, welche wiederum diese Techniken ihrer Entstehung in einer besonderen Art und Weise mit-ausstellen. So verweisen die gezeichneten Linien des Comics oder des Cartoons auf den Akt des Zeichnens selbst, die Knetfiguren im Stop-Motion-Animationsfilm auf den Akt ihrer händischen (Ver-)Formung oder die hyperrealistischen, überhöhten Figuren des Superheld_innen-Comics und VFX-Kinos auf ihren Status als Artefakte. Diese für ganz unterschiedliche Formen von Animation und Comics konstitutive Thematisierung der eigenen Gemachtheit bildet den Hauptgegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes, in dessen Rahmen aus einer dezidiert interdisziplinären Perspektive die Parallelen, Schnittstellen und Unterschiede herausgearbeitet werden, die sich im Kontext von Animations- und Comicforschung mit Blick auf die methodisch-analytische Erfassung der Materialität und Ästhetik ihrer jeweiligen Gegenstände ergeben.

Was passiert mit einer Universalsemantik wie der Ästhetik um 1900, als die deutsche Gesellschaft den Umbruch von einer stratifiktorischen hin zu einer funktionalen Differenzierungsform vollzieht? »Ästhetik im Umbruch« fragt nach den zentralen Begriffen von Ästhetiken der Jahrhundertwende und ihrer Funktion in der Selbstbeschreibung der Gesellschaft. Gesellschaft besteht - systemtheoretisch formuliert - aus nichts als dem Prozeß der sie konstituierenden Kommunikation; und die Ästhetik eignet sich für eine stratifikatorisch orientierte, das Subjekt und sein Milieu ins Zentrum rückende Selbstbeschreibung einer funktional ausdifferenzierten Gesellschaft in hohem Maße. Beispiele aus Monismus, Neukantianismus und Lebensphilosophie, aus katholischen sowie historisch-materialialistischen Kontexten zeigen, daß die Denkfigur von Form und Inhalt in der Ästhetik mit der Dialektik von Individuum und Gesellschaft in der Ethik korreliert: Das Schöne läßt sich so als ethisch relevant erklären. Die Studie bleibt hier jedoch nicht stehen. Was diese Beispielästhetiken auf hohem Niveau herleiten, findet sich in den Debatten um Schmutz und Schund im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich wieder. Vertreter der Kirchen, der Sozialdemokratie und andere Gruppierungen nutzen den Universalanspruch ästhetisch-moralischer Kommunikation zur Homogenisierung, Abgrenzung und Priorisierung ihrer Milieukonstrukte. Eine ganz andere Funktion der Ästhetik (und Ethik) verfolgen hingegen die Kolportagebuchhändler: sie setzen Moral und Kunst in ihren Beiträgen gezielt als Medien der Hierarchiebildung im Wirtschaftssystem ein und tragen so mit ihrer Auffassung der Gesellschaft als Massenkommunikation der funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung Rechnung.

Wie auch immer ein "Neuanfang" einzelner Autoren nach 1945 ausgesehen hat, er war wohl in keinem Fall geprägt von einem definitiven gedanklichen Schnitt mit der Zeit vor 1945, was die poetologische und ästhetische Ausrichtung sowie die gehaltliche Füllung ihrer Werke betrifft. Insgesamt reicht das Spektrum der Schreibstile, die vor und nach 1945 Verwendung fanden, von Neuromantik, Neuer Sachlichkeit bis hin zu Symbolismus, Neuhumanismus oder einem radikalen Verismus.

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbands spüren dieser Umbruchsituation anhand einzelner Beispiele nach. Es werden 27 monographische Analysen von Autoren mit Wurzeln und Wirkungsorten im westlichen und östlichen Europa geboten, so dass ein vielfacettiges "Bild" der literarischen Situation um 1945 entsteht. Durch die stringente Fokussierung der Analysen auf die Auswirkung der Schwellensituation 1945 auf Ästhetik und Poetologie entsteht ein dichtes Bild der hochkomplexen literarischen Situation, die sich nicht durch Überblicksdarstellungen beschreiben lässt.

Ruinen sind per definitionem nichts Neues: Als materielle Überreste sesshafter Kulturen zählen sie seit Unzeiten zum Bestand historischer Gegebenheiten. Erst in der Frühen Neuzeit erfahren sie jedoch eine Aufwertung auf ästhetischer, poetologischer und geschichtsphilosophischer Ebene. In deren Mittelpunkt stehen zunächst die Ruinen des antiken Roms – anfangs im Zeichen eines Renovatio-Diskurses, später als Teil eines Paradigmas der Dekadenz. Neue Vitalität sollte der Ruine in der Malerei des 18. Jahrhunderts und in der Moderne beschieden sein, wo sie zur Anregung für die Imagination dient, sei es im Sinne einer historischen wie nationalen Selbstbefragung, sei es im Sinne einer umfassenden Kulturkritik.

Im Motiv der Ruine verdichten sich so Fragen nach der Modellierung und Lesbarkeit von Zeit, nach Präsenz und Absenz, Imagination und Gedächtnis, Artefakt und Körperlichkeit, Medium und Metapher, Verfall und Rekonstruktion. Dieser diachron changierenden Faszinationskraft der Ruinen, die sich kaum überzeitlich präzisieren lässt und nur in einer Vielfalt von Bestimmungsversuchen, Übertragungen und poetologischen Inanspruchnahmen skizziert werden kann, geht der vorliegende Band in den Kulturen der Romania systematisch nach.

This study examines the reciprocal relationship between allegorical printmaking cycles and the Netherlands’ Early Modern festive culture by looking at Maarten van Heemskerck’s "Cycle of Human Existence." These kinds of series creatively appropriated the reality-generating function of performative acts, serving as socio-culturally effective worldviews whose structure was aesthetically reconstituted in the handling of the prints.

Ästhetische Erfahrung und Edition scheinen wenig miteinander zu tun zu haben. Doch selbst auf einem vermeintlich so sicheren Boden wie der Editionsphilologie trügt dieser Anschein. Ein Editor, der die vielfältige Ästhetik seines Materials ignoriert, kann dem Rezipienten seiner Edition den Blick auf wesentliche Teile des Kunstwerks verstellen. Der Tagungsband versammelt Beiträge von Editoren und Editionswissenschaftlern aus verschiedenen Disziplinen, die die editionstheoretischen und -praktischen Folgen dieses Zusammenhangs sowie seine wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Aspekte erörtern.

Faszination ist eine zentrale Form ästhetischen Erlebens in der Gegenwart, deren Merkmale und historisches Profil bislang nur ansatzweise beschrieben sind. Ausgehend vom modernen Verständnis von Faszination entwickelt die begriffsgeschichtlich breit fundierte Untersuchung einen formalen Begriff dieser ästhetischen Emotion, der für zwei bedeutende Epochen der ästhetischen, poetologischen und semiotischen Theoriebildung – die griechische Antike und das 18. Jahrhundert – diskutiert wird. In der Auseinandersetzung mit antiken Konzepten der Metapher und des Erhabenen sowie mit ästhetischen Positionen bei Addison, Mendelssohn, Klopstock, Hamann, Kant, Stewart und Goethe werden grundlegende Erklärungskomponenten für die Entstehung und Wirkung sprachlich induzierter Faszination aufgezeigt. Ästhetische Faszination ist kein Pathos-, sondern ein Tiefenkonzept. Sie resultiert aus einer Divergenzerfahrung in der Prozessierbarkeit von Sinnlichkeit und Bedeutung. Faszination bewirkt keine Verabschiedung, sondern eine Stimulierung des Intelligiblen.

Die vor-autonome und noch nicht auf das Feld der Künste beschränkte Ästhetik des ›langen 18. Jahrhunderts‹ strebte eine interdisziplinäre und internationale Kommunikationspraxis an, die eine universelle Verständigung unter den Menschen ermöglichen sollte.

Der Band versammelt Beiträge zu der europäischen Geschichte dieser anthropologisch ausgerichteten ästhetischen Kommunikation. Die Aufsätze der ersten Sektion beschäftigen sich mit der zeitgenössichen Theorie der ästhetischen Wissensvermittlung: Es wird die fachübergreifende (Proto-) Ästhetik Shaftesburys und Addisons, die Sprachtheorie von Coleridge bzw. die schwierige Einbürgerüng der Disziplin ›Ästhetik‹ in Frankreich thematisiert. Im zweiten Teil beschäftigen sich zwei Aufsätze mit der Kommunikation durch Bilder, anhand der Analyse von Gemälden Jean-Siméon Chardins und Caspar David Friedrichs. Die Bedeutung des Bild- und Erzählstoffes ›Herkules am Scheideweg‹ für Wielands ästhetische Kommunikation wird hier ebenfalls behandelt. Die dritte Sektion enthält Untersuchungen zu zwei wichtigen Gattungen der ästhetischen Kommunikation. Es werden zunächst unterschiedliche Varianten des Genres Traumerzählung bei Johann Gottlob Krüger und Mihály Vörösmarty beleuchtet. Der Band schließt mit der Analyse von József Eötvös’ Künstlerroman Der Karthäuser.

Die Fallstudien tragen zu dem besseren Verständnis einer Ästhetik bei, die die Bildung der Menschen durch intersubjektive Kommunikation vorantreiben wollte.

Neuere Ästhetiken wenden sich verstärkt der Aufklärungsepoche zu. Mit ihren Ästhetiken soll statt der Kunst aisthesis (Wahrnehmung), statt des Schönen das Erhabene, statt der Vernunft das je ne sais quoi rehabilitiert werden. Dabei wird ein zentrales Moment im historischen Selbstverständnis sowohl der Aufklärung wie ihrer Gegner zum blinden Fleck: ihr Verhältnis zu Theologie und Religion. Der Autor schreibt eine Geschichte der Ästhetik von der Entstehung der Ästhetik bis zum Ende der Kunstperiode, die den Gegensatz zwischen theologisch motivierten ästhetischen Denken und der Lösung der Ästhetik von der Religion als zentrales, dialektisches Motiv des umstrittenen Ästhetikbegriffs in seiner gesellschaftlichen Dimension herausarbeitet. Begriffs- und problemgeschichtlich rekonstruiert er die Ästhetikgeschichte entlang einer das 18. Jahrhundert durchziehenden Bruchlinie, die mit dem Gegensatz zwischen Nachahmungsästhetik und Aisthetisierung von Offenbarungswahrheiten beginnt.

Rituale haben eine soziale und eine ästhetische Dimension. Rituale können sozial wirksam sein, weil sie auch ästhetisch in den Bann ziehen. Beides gehört unauflösbar zusammen. Das Werk Stefan Georges (1868–1933) stellt in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte der Moderne den bedeutendsten und konsequentesten Fall einer Ästhetik des Rituals dar. Unter der Kategorie des Rituals läßt sich die für George selbst wichtige innere Einheit von Leben und Werk rekonstruieren. Georges Werk ist gleichsam ein einziges Übergangsritual, das die deutschsprachige Lyrik dem europäischen Ästhetizismus und Symbolismus geöffnet hat. Seine Rituale der Literatur entfalteten früh ihre soziale Bindekraft im Kreis der Jünger. Sie waren entscheidend für die große, aber erst ansatzweise erforschte Wirkung Georges auf die deutsche Literatur, auf die Politik und auf die Universitäten. Im Unterschied zu früheren Interpretationen wird in dieser Arbeit, nach einer Übersicht über Tendenzen und Dispositionen zum Rituellen um 1900 und besonders in der französischen Moderne, das Katholische im Werk Georges stärker betont. Georges Rituale der Literatur nutzen intensiv das ästhetische Potential des katholischen Kultus.

„Ästhetisches Wissen“ besteht in einem komplexen Wechselspiel von Sinnlichem und Begrifflichem, das bis heute ein Schlüsselproblem philosophischer Forschung bildet. Theoriestücke wie das freie Spiel der Erkenntniskräfte (Kant), das sinnliche Scheinen der Idee (Hegel) oder die Rolle der Einbildungskraft entwerfen ein Spannungsfeld zwischen Ästhetik, Epistemologie und Kunst, an das sich grundlegende Fragen anknüpfen: Welchen Status hat die Unterscheidung zwischen Sinnlichkeit und Begriff? Wie ist das Verhältnis von sinnlicher Erkenntnis zur Logik und zu anderen Wissensformen zu denken? Welche systematischen Konsequenzen können aus der Untersuchung z.B. des Chaos, des Berührungssinns, der Musik oder des Films gezogen werden? Die Beiträge des Bandes setzen sich mit diesen und anderen Fragen in historisch-systematischer Einstellung auseinander. Sie erörtern und erweitern transzendentalphilosophische, idealistische und phänomenologische Perspektiven auf zeitgemäße Konzeptionen ästhetischer Wissensformen.

Die Studie greift die philosophische Frage nach den Grenzen und der möglichen Überwindung des Formalismus auf. Sie bietet eine kritische Rekonstruktion des Frühwerks von Georg Lukács, in dem eine eigenartig ästhetizistische Kulturkritik mit einer ethischen Utopie dostojewskischer Prägung ergänzt werden sollte. Das Aufzeigen der Einheit wie der Aporien dieses zweigleisigen Ansatzes wirft neues Licht auf Lukács’ marxistische Wende Ende 1918.

The natural approach presented in this handbook seeks to help sufferers of asthma to breathe more easily. While drugs have proved lifesaving for many people, the long-term answer for asthma sufferers is in learning how to embrace a healthy lifestyle. Jonathan Berkowitz shows how dietary changes, exercise, environmental controls, supplements and herbs can alleviate your symptoms safely and effectively, without the side effects of conventional drugs. Berkowitz is an asthmatic as well as a physician.

This book charts the origins, design and development of the most iconic British supercar of the 1970s and 1980s - the Aston Martin V8. It traces the car's origins from the introductory model of 1967, the DBS, through the various iterations of the V8 versions, and ends with the final models of the range and the spectacular Vantage Zagato. While the car started life with Aston Martin's ageing six-cylinder engine, it quickly received the engine the car was originally designed for; Aston Martin's mighty quad cam V8. The V8 would power the car through the '70s and '80s, and with various tweaks and tunes would keep Aston Martin's reputation as a vendor of fast, high-performance coupés alive through some very troubling times.

The book covers the whole family of standard production cars produced by Aston Martin, along with various special versions, including the Ogle-designed 'Sotheby Special', the Siva S350 and the 'Bulldog' which recently broke the 200mph barrier. Alongside the specials the book also looks at the racing variants, including the Le Mans Lola of 1967, the spectacular V8 production racer run by Robin Hamilton (nicknamed 'the muncher' thanks to its spectacular performance meaning it would eat its brakes for breakfast) and the Nimrod, which saw Aston Martin return to Le Mans in the 1980s. It also looks at the car in film and on the small screen, with James Bond looming large ('On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'The Living Daylights') and with Roger Moore cavorting about Europe with Tony Curtis in the popular TV series 'The Persuaders!' polishing the car's celebrity credentials.

With some 70,000 words and 250+ pictures, many never seen before, this book pays homage to the Aston Martin V8. The V8 was the poster car for the patriotic British teenager of the 1970s and 1980s, providing a glimmer of hope that Britain could produce a world-beating performance car that was the match of Italian exotica and American muscle. The Aston Martin V8 was that world beater, a car with superlative looks, amazing performance, unparalleled luxury and tough, reliable underpinnings. This book is a heartfelt tribute to the car that kept Aston Martin's hopes and British automotive dreams alive, a car that is now starting to be recognised for the true British supercar it always has been.

The jobs we've lost are windows into the past

Gladiators fought for glory. Ice harvesters chopped up lakes. In the USA, human computers, called rocket women, calculated the paths of the spaceships with pen and paper.

All these jobs really existed. Now they are gone. This is a book of extraordinary periods in history on six continents. It spans the centuries of the professional fartists and the walking toilets, of the brave riders of the Pony Express, and the lazy ornamental hermits. Marvel at Germany’s feared coffee detectives and London’s dreaded executioners.

The stories behind: Mandarins, Wailing women, Body snatchers, Executioners, Whipping boys, Explorers, Walking toilets, Object swallowers, Fartists, Powder monkeys, Armpit-hair pluckers and many more...

Silver Medal winner of the California Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award 2023

Nominated for the Children's Literature Association of Utah Beehive Awards 2025

All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience.

Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns.

Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience.

Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns.

Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.

With 100 pages, 10 exclusive pull-out prints, luxury finishes, mixed paper types, artist insights, and incredible artwork, Astre is a magazine like no other. This is a celebration of the art we love, made by real artists. 

To celebrate 25 years of 3dtotal and show our support to a community we love, we wanted to make something that pushed back against AI, showcasing real art by real people in the best way possible, while also creating a true collector’s item. This magazine is a culmination of everything we've learned over 25 years of making quality art content, books, and magazines. Our ambition is to make every issue feel like a collector's item, designed to increase in value over time. Each copy will be numbered and feature multiple paper types and special finishes - embossing, debossing, cut-outs, removable add-ons – if you can imagine it, then you should expect to find it in Astre magazine. 

The first issue features incredible cover art by Andrew Hem, a Cambodia-born artist who lives in Los Angeles. We also have exclusive new prints by Canadian artists Audra Auclair and Janice Sung, Swedish artists Chantal Horeis and Feefal (who has 1.1m followers on Instagram), and award-winning Bulgarian artist now living in San Francisco, Eliza Ivanova - with more artists to be announced. Each artist will be the focus of an article featuring additional art and insights into their creative minds.

Each issue of Astre will only be available for a limited time and in limited quantities. So the choice is yours - keep it in mint condition as a piece of modern art history, or read it every day and hang all the incredible art on your wall.

Die österreichische Künstlerin Astrid Esslinger ist seit 1987 als freischaffende Künstlerin tätig. Sie legt hiermit eine Bestandsaufnahme ihrer Werke von 2003 bis heute vor. Ihr Werk kann in drei, teilweise gleichzeitigen, Phasen und Gruppen gesehen werden: die frühen textilen Arbeiten, die späteren Malereien mit Acryl auf Leinwand sowie die von der Künstlerin auf Reisen originär entwickelte Form der „Handgepäckproduktion“, den „Cut Outs“.
Den Malereien widmet sich der Textbeitrag von Birgit Rinagl, die Esslingers Bilder auf ihre Themen hin untersucht: Frau und Mann, Privat und Öffentlich, Arbeit und Freizeit, Natur und Stadt sowie Leben und Tod. Tom Waibel geht auf den subversiven Charakter der „Handgepäckproduktion“ ein und beleuchtet sowohl ihre dunkle als auch ihre ironisierende Seite.

Die Einleitung von Fina Esslinger, Kunsthistorikerin und Tochter der Künstlerin, stattet den Leser mit dem nötigen Hintergrundwissen zu Motiven und theoretischen Grundlagen aus und eröffnet dem Leser so einen weiteren Zugang zu Esslingers Werk.

¡El robot de Osamu Tezuka que revolucionó el manga en Occidente!

Una historia llena de acción, emoción y tecnología futurista. Astro Boy es un androide con habilidades increíbles, diseñado para proteger a la humanidad. Pero más allá de su fuerza y velocidad, Astro Boy busca su lugar en el mundo.

En este segundo volumen, Astro Boy se enfrenta a nuevos desafíos y enemigos aún más poderosos, poniendo a prueba su valentía y habilidades. A medida que profundiza en su misión, descubre secretos ocultos sobre su propia existencia y el impacto de la tecnología en la sociedad. Con una mezcla de ciencia ficción y aventura, este manga es perfecto para fans de superhéroes, robots y acción sin límites.

Si te gustan las batallas épicas y una visión emocionante del futuro, Astro Boy nº 02 es una lectura que no te puedes perder.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Robot That Revolutionized Manga in the West!

A story packed with action, emotion, and futuristic technology. Astro Boy is an android with incredible abilities, built to protect humanity. But beyond his strength and speed, he seeks his place in the world.

In this second volume, Astro Boy faces new challenges and even more powerful enemies, putting his courage and skills to the test. As he delves deeper into his mission, he uncovers hidden secrets about his own existence and the impact of technology on society. With a mix of science fiction and adventure, this manga is perfect for fans of superheroes, robots, and nonstop action.

If you love epic battles and a thrilling vision of the future, Astro Boy Vol. 02 is a must-read!

¡Más acción, más desafíos, más emoción!

Astro Boy regresa con nuevas aventuras en este tercer volumen, donde enfrenta enemigos más poderosos. Con su valentía y habilidades al límite, cada batalla lo acercará más a entender su propósito en un mundo donde la tecnología y la humanidad chocan.

Este tomo recopila algunas de las historias más impactantes y emocionantes de Astro Boy. Si te apasionan los superhéroes, los robots y las tramas llenas de adrenalina, este manga es una lectura imprescindible.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Astro Boy returns with new adventures in this third volume, where he faces even more powerful enemies. With his courage and skills pushed to the limit, each battle brings him closer to understanding his purpose in a world where technology and humanity collide.

This volume features some of Astro Boy’s most thrilling and impactful stories. If you love superheroes, robots, and adrenaline-fueled plots, this manga is a must-read.

El volumen 4 de Astro Boy reúne algunas de sus historias más importantes, mostrando cómo ayudó a moldear el mundo del manga en su época.

Este tomo presenta historias donde Astro Boy enfrenta desafíos tecnológicos y morales, explorando el impacto de la inteligencia artificial en la sociedad y el conflicto de los robots con emociones humanas.

También debe superar a enemigos más sofisticados, que ponen a prueba su capacidad de adaptación y su sentido de la justicia.

Un imprescindible para los fans de Astro Boy.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Astro Boy Vol. 4 brings together some of his most important stories, showcasing how he helped shape the world of manga in his time.

This volume features tales where Astro Boy faces technological and moral challenges, exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on society and the struggles of robots with human emotions.

He must also overcome more sophisticated enemies who test his adaptability and sense of justice.

A must-read for Astro Boy fans.

Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of scientists, engineers, and popular writers, De Witt Douglas Kilgore investigates how the American tradition of technological utopianism responded to the political upheavals of the twentieth century.

Founded in the imperial politics and utopian schemes of the nineteenth century, astrofuturism envisions outer space as an endless frontier that offers solutions to the economic and political problems that dominate the modern world. Its advocates use the conventions of technological and scientific conquest to consolidate or challenge the racial and gender hierarchies codified in narratives of exploration. Because the icon of space carries both the imperatives of an imperial past and the democratic hopes of its erstwhile subjects, its study exposes the ideals and contradictions endemic to American culture.

Kilgore argues that in the decades following the Second World War the subject of race became the most potent signifier of political crisis for the predominantly white and male ranks of astrofuturism. In response to criticism inspired by the civil rights movement and the new left, astrofuturists imagined space frontiers that could extend the reach of the human species and heal its historical wounds. Their work both replicated dominant social presuppositions and supplied the resources necessary for the critical utopian projects that emerged from the antiracist, socialist, and feminist movements of the twentieth century.

This survey of diverse bodies of literature conveys the dramatic and creative syntheses that astrofuturism envisions between people and machines, social imperatives and political hope, physical knowledge and technological power. Bringing American studies, utopian literature, popular conceptions of race and gender, and the cultural study of science and technology into dialogue, Astrofuturism will provide scholars of American culture, fans of science fiction, and readers of science writing with fresh perspectives on both canonical and cutting-edge astrofuturist visions.

Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of scientists, engineers, and popular writers, De Witt Douglas Kilgore investigates how the American tradition of technological utopianism responded to the political upheavals of the twentieth century.

Founded in the imperial politics and utopian schemes of the nineteenth century, astrofuturism envisions outer space as an endless frontier that offers solutions to the economic and political problems that dominate the modern world. Its advocates use the conventions of technological and scientific conquest to consolidate or challenge the racial and gender hierarchies codified in narratives of exploration. Because the icon of space carries both the imperatives of an imperial past and the democratic hopes of its erstwhile subjects, its study exposes the ideals and contradictions endemic to American culture.

Kilgore argues that in the decades following the Second World War the subject of race became the most potent signifier of political crisis for the predominantly white and male ranks of astrofuturism. In response to criticism inspired by the civil rights movement and the new left, astrofuturists imagined space frontiers that could extend the reach of the human species and heal its historical wounds. Their work both replicated dominant social presuppositions and supplied the resources necessary for the critical utopian projects that emerged from the antiracist, socialist, and feminist movements of the twentieth century.

This survey of diverse bodies of literature conveys the dramatic and creative syntheses that astrofuturism envisions between people and machines, social imperatives and political hope, physical knowledge and technological power. Bringing American studies, utopian literature, popular conceptions of race and gender, and the cultural study of science and technology into dialogue, Astrofuturism will provide scholars of American culture, fans of science fiction, and readers of science writing with fresh perspectives on both canonical and cutting-edge astrofuturist visions.

From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and worship, and deepened our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to ancient Mesopotamia. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series, astronomy and astrology were once sister sciences: the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza was built to align with constellations, Persian scholars oversaw some of the first observatories, and even Galileo cast horoscopes for the Medicis. But with the Enlightenment and the birth of exact science, the practice moved to places where mystery was still permitted, inspiring literature, art, and psychology, and influenced artists and thinkers such as Goethe, Byron, and Blake. Later movements like the Theosophists and the New Agers, would thrust the practice into the mainstream.

Edited by Jessica Hundley, this vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 400 images, from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe. Works by artists from Alphonese Mucha and Hilma af Klint to Arpita Singh and Manzel Bowman are sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac. With wisdom from new interviews with astrologers like Robert Hand, Jessica Lanyadoo, and Mecca Woods, Astrology celebrates the stars and their mysterious influence on our everyday lives.

From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and worship, and deepened our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to ancient Mesopotamia. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series, astronomy and astrology were once sister sciences: the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza was built to align with constellations, Persian scholars oversaw some of the first observatories, and even Galileo cast horoscopes for the Medicis. But with the Enlightenment and the birth of exact science, the practice moved to places where mystery was still permitted, inspiring literature, art, and psychology, and influenced artists and thinkers such as Goethe, Byron, and Blake. Later movements like the Theosophists and the New Agers, would thrust the practice into the mainstream.

Edited by Jessica Hundley, this vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 400 images, from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe. Works by artists from Alphonese Mucha and Hilma af Klint to Arpita Singh and Manzel Bowman are sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac. With wisdom from new interviews with astrologers like Robert Hand, Jessica Lanyadoo, and Mecca Woods, Astrology celebrates the stars and their mysterious influence on our everyday lives.

When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth.









Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world.
Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics.

When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth.









Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world.
Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics.

When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth.









Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world.
Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics.

From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and worship, and deepened our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to ancient Mesopotamia. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series, astronomy and astrology were once sister sciences: the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza was built to align with constellations, Persian scholars oversaw some of the first observatories, and even Galileo cast horoscopes for the Medicis. But with the Enlightenment and the birth of exact science, the practice moved to places where mystery was still permitted, inspiring literature, art, and psychology, and influenced artists and thinkers such as Goethe, Byron, and Blake. Later movements like the Theosophists and the New Agers, would thrust the practice into the mainstream.

Edited by Jessica Hundley, this vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 400 images, from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe. Works by artists from Alphonese Mucha and Hilma af Klint to Arpita Singh and Manzel Bowman are sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac. With wisdom from new interviews with astrologers like Robert Hand, Jessica Lanyadoo, and Mecca Woods, Astrology celebrates the stars and their mysterious influence on our everyday lives.

• BACKMATTER: Details that explains where and how fantasy and science intertwine in the book
• HI-LO APPEAL: Language is basic but plot is exciting and twisty with a big reveal!
• UNIQUE STORY: Broad appeal of a nonsensical world where wooden mast ships sail through space Terry Gilliam–style and where whales are spaghettified after encountering a black hole
• DEBUT: This is Brooklin Stormie’s first book.
• THRILLING ADVENTURE: Brother adventure in space with an emotional heart
• AMAZING ART: Brooklin’s quirky characters and lush colorful art will attract fans of Rebecca Sugar, Kay O’Neil, and ND Stevenson
• FOR FANS OF: The Amulet series and the Sanity & Tallulah series
• LEVELING INFO: Coming soon