Making sense as a cultural practice : historical perspectives / Jörg Rogge (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogge, Jörg, editor.

Series:

Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 18.

Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sense (Philosophy).

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]

Summary:

In the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a constructive character, even if this is not always the intention of the actors themselves. As the production of sense is one of the central fields of action of cultural and political practice, the articles examine with an interdisciplinary perspective how, in different contexts, the construction of sense was organized and implemented as a cultural practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

The parables of Jesus as media of collective memory / Ruben Zimmerman

Social groups, personal relations, and the making of communities in Medieval vita monastica / Christina Lutter

Writing a life : the 'family book' by Bartolomeo Dal Bovo / Paolo Perantoni

Knowledge making and authorization strategies / Ane Ohrvik

Making sense of Europe / Anne Eriksen

How to create political meaning in public spaces? / Jörg Rogge

Making sense of autocracy / Jan Kusber

The dissemination of news in early modern Venice / Simone Lonardi

Political information and religious skepticism in early modern Italy / Federico Barbierato

How to read a Renaissance fool / Anu Korhonen

Sixteenth-century classifications of passions and their historical contexts / Alessandro Arcangeli

Making sense of illness / Marjo Kaartinen

Making sense of the confinement of the poor / Eivind Engebretsen

Making sense of diabetes / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll.

Notes:

"The collections of papers presented in this volume are the reworked contributions to the conference "Making Sense as a Cultural Practice - Historical Perspectives" which took place in Mainz, 18-20th September 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3837625311

9783837625318

OCLC:

871295481

Publisher Number:

99959795633