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The Philosophy of Brentano has as its goal to explore the significance and impact of Franz Brentano's thought, to promote a deepening of the ongoing renaissance of interest in Brentano, and to advance the project of understanding Brentano's actual philosophical positions and correcting entrenched misunderstandings.

In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the spectacular improvements in people's health since the early 18th century.

In Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949), Tomasz Ewertowski examines how Polish and Serbian travelers from the 18th to the mid-20th century described China, showing various factors which influenced their representations of the Middle Kingdom.

The volume proposes original semantic analyses on grammatical aspect, dealing with some less studied forms coding aspect, revisiting or challenging certain conventionalized views on aspectual categories and shedding light on interactions between aspect and modality, another multifaceted semantic category.

In Scots Folk Singers and their Sources, Caroline Macafee offers a detailed analysis of song transmission in two major Scottish folk song collections, the Greig-Duncan Collection, and the Scots folk song material of the School of Scottish Studies Archives.

The contributions in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine forms, representations, and consequences of ubiquitous nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature across the globe from the perspectives of linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies.

The journey towards morality in nature can be seen through the million-year-old relationship of the flowering plant and honeybee social group. Flowers and Honeybees brings what science has learned into a dialog with the philosophy of morality.

Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art which continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics.

Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book's contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophically underexplored potential of film to disclose what the editors propose to call "the real of reality.

The long European tradition of self/other stereotyping has fed into politically virulent Identity Politics as Europe itself is experiencing a crisis in its multilateralist project. This volume teases out the underlying forcelines and repertoires and addresses some salient manifestations.

Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition of the term that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity and belonging.

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Dans Racine et les trois publics de l'amour Delphine Calle propose de comprendre la séduction du théâtre racinien en des termes strictement amoureux, forgés dans les débats sur les passions du XVIIe siècle en France. In Racine et les trois publics de l'amour Delphine Calle unravels the seductive power of Racinian tragedy by turning to the 17th-century French debates on love.

Giving her back her voice, the long-lost letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce uniquely document her unwavering support even beyond her role as publisher of Ulysses, while also revealing her difficulties with his demanding personality and signs of their eventual breach.

El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre el origen y significado del discurso interior en su obra. El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente offers a fresh perspective on the origin and meaning of inner speech modes in his work.

In The Enigma of Art. On the provenance of Artistic Creation Gino Zaccaria offers a meditation on art in light of its ancient Greek sense and of its task inaugurated by "artist-thinkers" like Cézanne, Boccioni and van Gogh.

Empowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English with a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies and dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel and immigrant fiction.

Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V.

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What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory.