Papers by Christian Schwermann
Entscheiden und Regieren, 2020
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 2013
Machterhalt und Herrschaftssicherung, 2019
Currently, many companies face the problem of a lack of workers, including the most highly qualif... more Currently, many companies face the problem of a lack of workers, including the most highly qualified ones. Employers are very interested in whether today's young people are willing to commute or even move because of work. The purpose of this research was to answer these questions. The research group
Since 2009, ZEI is engaged in a research project titled "Shaping Globality". Following ... more Since 2009, ZEI is engaged in a research project titled "Shaping Globality". Following methodological and conceptual work, the scholars engaged in this project have begun to reflect the consequences of the "global turn" on key notions of social order. The new ZEI Discussion Paper brings together several scholarly papers on key notions of social order under the conditions of globality, written by academics of Bonn University: space (Ruth Knoblich/Robert Meyer), norm (Andreas Marchetti), world government (Christian Schwermann) and knowledge (Maximilian Mayer). The ZEI Discussion Paper is edited by Ludger Kuhnhardt and Tilman Mayer.
Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 2014
The present paper analyzes the rhetorical functions of verbal parallels in selected pre-imperial ... more The present paper analyzes the rhetorical functions of verbal parallels in selected pre-imperial Qín 秦 (prior to 221 B.C.E.) and early imperial Qín (221–206 B.C.E.) and Western Hàn 漢 (206/202 B.C.E.–9 C.E.) memorials. Following the lead of Richard L. Schultz (The Search for Quotation: Verbal Parallels in the Prophets, 1999), it furnishes evidence that the authors of these petitions and remonstrances, which normally had to be submitted to the throne in writing before they could be orally presented to kings or emperors, employed quotations not only to embellish their statements or to give authority to them but also utilized them as argumentative figures of thought. In the samples under review, citations serve as elementary links in the argumentative chain of the quoting texts and even add a second layer of meaning to them, thus providing access to their argumentative “deep structure”. Moreover, when employed as structural devices, verbal parallels organize the memorials by introducing...
American Historical Review, 2017
The International Journal of Chinese Character Studies, 2015
That Wonderful Composite Called Author, 2014
There are two accounts of authorship in early China, a 'traditional' one and a 'moder... more There are two accounts of authorship in early China, a 'traditional' one and a 'modern' one. The traditional view implies that from the very beginning Chinese writers have both a strong awareness that texts can be created by a single person and a clear commitment to the concept of individual authorship. The inscription on the "Tiānwang guǐ", i.e. the "guǐ-Tureen of Tiānwang", belongs to the earliest Western Zhōu bronze epigraphs. It can be dated to the reign of King Wǔ (Wǔ wang, r. 1049/45-1043 B.C.E.) and have been produced shortly after the Muyě in 1045 B.C.E., when the Zhōu conquered the preceding Shāng dynasty. The inscription commemorates the accomplishments of one of its authors after King Wǔ's conquest of the Shāng. The inscription poses a philological problem that is particularly relevant to our interpretation and understanding of the text. Keywords: authorship; earliest Western Zhōu bronze epigraphs; early China; guǐ-Tureen of Tiānwang; reign of King Wǔ; Shāng dynasty; Tiānwang guǐ
23 ".. . quadruplex est modus faciendi librum. Aliquis enim scribit alienam materiam nihil addend... more 23 ".. . quadruplex est modus faciendi librum. Aliquis enim scribit alienam materiam nihil addendo, vel mutando; et iste mere dicitur scriptor. Aliquis scribit aliena addendo, sed non de suo: et iste compilator dicitur. Aliquis scribit et aliena, et sua; sed aliena tanquam principalia, et sua tanquam annexa ad evidentiam; et iste dicitur commentator. Aliquis scribit et sua, et aliena; sed sua tanquam principalia, aliena tanquam annexa ad confirmationem: et talis debet dici auctor."
Transkulturelle Annäherungen an Phänomene von Macht und Herrschaft, 2019
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