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In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace. Horos challenges many significant interpretations of ancient thought. With nuance and insight, Potter combines the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer and archaic Greek inscriptions with the twentieth-century continental philosophy of Heidegger, Derrida and Walter Benjamin. The result is a powerful study of the theme of boundaries in classical Athenian society as evidenced by boundary stones, law and exchange, ontology, insurgency and occupation. The innovative book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of ancient Greek social history, philosophy, and literature, as well as to the general reader who is curious to know more about classical life and philosophy.

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Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write [...] but there's so little time [...]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough. This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that - thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci - presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

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Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write [...] but there's so little time [...]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough. This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that - thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci - presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

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Die Studie erforscht mit kultursoziologischen Methoden (narrativ-problemorientierte Interviews, Deutungsmusteranalysen) den Stellenwert der literarischen Bildung bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen des Hochkulturschemas, deren literarische Sozialisation durch die Präsenz von AV-Medien und Computer geprägt ist. Damit soll Wissen über den kulturellen und medialen Wandel bereitgestellt werden. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen liegt auf dem Begriff der literarischen Bildung, daher sind die Ergebnisse insbesondere relevant für die Bildungsforschung, die Literaturdidaktik, die Pädagogik und die Lese- und Biographieforschung.

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Die Studie erforscht mit kultursoziologischen Methoden (narrativ-problemorientierte Interviews, Deutungsmusteranalysen) den Stellenwert der literarischen Bildung bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen des Hochkulturschemas, deren literarische Sozialisation durch die Präsenz von AV-Medien und Computer geprägt ist. Damit soll Wissen über den kulturellen und medialen Wandel bereitgestellt werden. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen liegt auf dem Begriff der literarischen Bildung, daher sind die Ergebnisse insbesondere relevant für die Bildungsforschung, die Literaturdidaktik, die Pädagogik und die Lese- und Biographieforschung.

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