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"Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words - new words, both descriptive and analytical - for his radical form of philosophy. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time, where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological enquiry; to Contributions to Philosophy, which saw him committed to a transformation of language; to later essays on poets such as Rilke and Trakl in On the Way to Language. The Writing of Aletheia is the first study to appear in either English or German that provides a full account of Heidegger's language and writing style. Focusing not only on his major philosophical works but also on his lectures, public talks and poetry, this book explores the complex textuality of Heidegger's writing: the elaborate chains of wordplay and neologistic formations; the often oblique, circuitous and regressive exposition of his ideas; the infamous tautologies; the startling modification of grammatical rules and syntax; the idiosyncratic typography of his texts; the rhetorical devices, imagery and symbolism; and the tone and voice of his writing. All of these aspects betray not only his will to structure and his assertiveness but also his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about the ultimate goal of his philosophical quest"--

Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, consumerism and technology. Drawing on case studies of Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories and more, this book explores how media products for children navigate understandings of childhood and child audiences

Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which principles? Which pasts do these places transmit, and how? This volume uses an innovative semiotic methodology to analyse selected key trauma sites. The author demonstrates that these places can become, once properly interrogated, privileged observatories capable of throwing light upon the many different conflicts, forms of social control, and power relationships that underlie any politics of memory. The selfsame notions of trauma and memory become, in this way, rewritten in quite a different light: far from any kind of naturalistic definition, they emerge as painful "knots" within which many of the most crucial questions in the contemporary world are intertwined. --

Introduction / Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University -- Rhetorical charges: mercurian figures and democratic hope after Obama / Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder -- A wrestling of brothers: (re)writing Obama separately and together (again) / David A. Frank, University of Oregon & Mark Lawrence McPhail, Indiana University Northwest -- Barack Obama's neo-racial responses to black death / Amy L. Heyse, California State University, Long Beach & Ebony A. Utley, California State University, Long Beach -- Obama's rhetoric of myth and reason / Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas -- Barack Obama at the threshold of a new America / Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University & Oscar Giner, Arizona State University -- The once and future teleological discourse of Barack Obama / Richard W. Leeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte -- Testing the narrative signature perspective: the case of Obama and health care reform / Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University -- Losing patience with an imperfect president and imperfect people / Derek R. Sweet, Luther College & Margret McCue-Enser, Saint Catherine University -- How selective amnesia brought us the first Black Socialist president of the United States / Kristen Hoerl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- A reflection on the Obama phenomenon, our heroic expectations, and the Obama presidency / Jennifer R. Mercieca, Texas A&M University