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FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 1 C.H.BECK Foreign Rights News Autumn 2007 FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 2 HARDCOVER NONFICTION HARDCOVER LITERATURE PA 2 The Maritime Silk Route by Roderich Ptak 23 The Savior by Björn Kern 27 T 3 In Defense of Privacy by Wolfgang Sofsky 24 My Most Important Body Functions by Jochen Schmidt 27 T 4 A Cultural History of Climate by Wolfgang Behringer 25 The West by Ernst Augustin 28 T 5 Cultus and the Promise of Salvation 26 The Beginning of Life by Dirk von Petersdorff 28 O by Martin Riesebrodt 29 E 6 The Childhood of Myth by Gyburg Radke 30 S 7 How Civilized Is the Devil? by Harald Weinrich 30 T 8 Forever In Hitler’s Shadow? by Heinrich August Winkler 31 H 9 History in Memory by Aleida Assmann 31 A 10 Before the Judges of Rome by Detlef Liebs 32 H 11 Kleist by Gerhard Schulz 32 H 12 The Love Trap by Hans-Joachim Maaz 33 H Contents 13 A Critique of Hermeneutics by Hans Krämer 33 M 14 The Americans at War by Dietmar Herz 34 C 15 Political Religions by Hans Maier b 16 The Book of Divine Consolation by Meister Eckhart, 35 R ed. by Kurt Flasch b 17 What is a Good Religion? ed. by Uwe Justus Wenzel 18 Visiting the Middle Ages by Johannes Fried 19 The Destiny of the Universe by Günther Hasinger 20 The Nature of the Human Being by Eckart Voland 21 The Elbe by Hansjörg Küster 22 Degas and His Century by Werner Hofmann Cover: Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 1978; © Bridgeman / VG- Bildkunst Translation: Philip Schmitz FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 3 sche beckreihe PAPERBACKS PAPERBACKS Contents 27 The Ten Commandments by Matthias Köckert 36 A History of Cultural Criticism by Bollenbeck idt 27 The German Order by Jürgen Sarnowsky 37 Putin’s System by Margareta Mommsen and Angelika Nußberger 28 The Edda by Rudolf Simek 38 The 101 Most Important Questions:Ancient Art 28 Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Niklas Holzberg by Ulrich Sinn 29 Early Christian and Byzantine Art by Johannes Deckers 39 Great Moments in Music by Nikolaus de Palézieux 30 Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Dieter Mehl 40 House without Eyebrows by Ursula Muscheler 30 The Hittites by Jörg Klinger 41 Women in Antiquity by Elke Hartmann 31 History of Ancient Technology by Helmuth Schneider 42 Smart, Beautiful and Dangerous by Anna Eunike Röhrig 31 Ancient Delphi by Michael Maaß 43 History of the Social State in Europe 32 History of Racism by Christian Geulen by Eberhard Eichenhofer 32 History of the Modern State by Wolfgang Reinhard 44 Charles Darwin by Eve-Marie Engels 33 History of Scandinavia by Harm G. Schröter 44 Bertrand Russell by Thomas Mormann 33 Migraine by Matthias Keidel 45 Classical Texts of Art History edited by Ulrich Pfister 34 Climate Change 46 A Brief Psychology of Everyday Life by Rolf Reber by Stefan Rahmstorf and Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber 47 Cultural Philosophy by Albert Schweitzer 35 Renewable Energies 48 Japanese Society by Florian Coulmas by Peter Hennicke and Manfred Fischedick 49 Brief History of Catalonia by Carlos Collado Seidel FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 4 2 C.H.BECK Roderich Ptak Die maritime Seidenstraße V The Maritime Silk Route Roderich Ptak has written a fascinating historical overview of the oceans between East Africa and Priv Japan from the earliest periods to the Modern Age. He traces the trading patterns of this vast area pow and describes the cultural exchanges between distant coasts, the migrations of religions across the equ seas and the formation of political networks that were independent of the great land powers. reve und When the Portuguese and Spanish advanced into the Indian Ocean and the Far East, they were curr amazed to see that the Arabs, Indians and Chinese had already been plying the Asian seas for indi centuries and possessed ships that were hardly inferior to their own. In fact, the Chinese Admiral Zheng He was even reputed to have reached America a few decades before the Portuguese. China The was a maritime superpower for an extended period. It enjoyed a wide sphere of influence and rece contributed significantly to the coalescence of broad commercial relationships within the Asian that maritime zones, i.e., the maritime silk route. Roderich Ptak describes the winds and straits, harbors aga and islands, the ocean routes and the development of seafaring. Not least, he sets forth how, in beg addition to trade goods, ideas and knowledge also spread across the oceans. Thus, his research sheds and light on a chapter of world history that unfolded apart from Europe and still before the age of sph European expansion. bod Roderich Ptak was born in 1955 and is professor theo of Sinology at the University of Munich. His guest pro professorships in Paris, Lisbon and Macao attest to sub his international reputation. goa 368 pages, 47 illustrations and 16 maps, clothbound, EUR 24.90 dem aut English translation rights sold to inco Princeton UP Cultural HistoryCultural FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 5 C.H.BECK 3 Wolfgang Sofsky Verteidigung des Privaten In Defense of Privacy d Privacy lies at the heart of personal freedom. It must be protected equally from seizure through the a powers of government and encroachment from society. Increasingly, principles such as security, equality and social justice are arrayed against the right to privacy. Burgeoning bureaucracies and a reverence for authority, but also the convenience of thoughtlessness and a craving for publicity undermine our sense of the value of privacy. Wolfgang Sofsky’s polemic reaches far beyond the current debate about surveillance, security and data protection. It resolutely pleads the value of all individual freedoms. The endangerment of civil liberties through patriotic security legislation did not begin only with the recent terrorist attacks. The demarcation of an individual’s private sphere is an essential human task that confronts every society, for privacy is the core of personal freedom. It marks a strict boundary rs against every kind of social and political power. The ability of the individual to stand his ground begins with protection from unwelcome contact and harassment and from surveillance of his faith eds and emotions. From there it extends to intimate secrets all the way to the defense of personal spheres of activity. Wolfgang Sofsky examines the most important aspects of private life: the physical body and space, information and property, religion and freedom of thought. Today, according to his theory, the right to privacy is being sacrificed recklessly to the need for attention, security and prosperity. The modern state seeks to shape thinking, level differences and adapt “transparent subjects” to a set of public “rules and procedures.” In the interest of duties and allegedly higher goals individuals are supposed to renounce their privacy – even voluntarily. In the meantime, the Sociology 90 demands of society and the state have progressed to the point where insisting upon individual autonomy is now cast as social treason. Privacy, however, affords everyone the right to remain incognito in public, to pursue one’s own well-being and to do so in one’s own fashion. Wolfgang Sofsky was professor of sociology at the universities of Göttingen and Erfurt until 2000. Today he is a private scholar, independent author and political commentator. In the year 1993 he received the Geschwister Scholl Prize for his book „Die Ordnung des Terrors. Das Konzentrationslager“ („The Systemization of Terror.The Concentration Camp“). 160 pages, hardcover, EUR 16.90 FRN 2-07.qxp 20.08.2007 15:00 Uhr Seite 6 4 C.H.BECK Wolfgang Behringer C Kulturgeschichte des Klimas Ei Von der Eiszeit bis zur globalen Erwärmung A Cultural History of Climate From the Ice Age to Global Warming Hurling lightning and thunder was a privilege of the gods, and St. Peter sent rain and sun however Thi he pleased. For many centuries – probably even much longer than that – things functioned fairly Dra well without human involvement. That was long ago. Today we are creating the weather ourselves. desc The experts agree: to a large extent the blame for climate change is ours. It’s time to take a look attr back. How has climate influenced humans as a species? How did climatic fluctuations change the reco lives of our ancestors and determine their civilizations? This book takes readers on an illuminating new journey through the history of climatic variation from the Holocene to the present. All Everybody talks about the weather; so do we. Currently, there are more predictions than usual about salv how it’s going to be. But what do we know about climatic fluctuations 500 years ago – or 5,000 exp years ago? What enables us to know anything at all about the history of the weather? And finally, and what effect did climatic variations have on human beings, their well-being and their spirit of inven- myt tion? sun anc Wolfgang Behringer provides an introduction to historical research on climatic change. He shows us uni what we can view as definite knowledge from today’s perspective, which fluctuations occurred and how they impeded or advanced the progress of the Homo sapiens. The book begins by presenting the scientific foundations and then shifts to more detailed research into the relationship between climatic and cultural developments for the historical period that begins with the Middles Ages. This worthwhile read vividly shows us what difficult climatic conditions our ancestors faced and how they dealt with them – as well as the occasional period with exceptionally pleasant weather, such as the age of the Staufers.

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