This volume contains the first of five volumes of Constant s De la Religion. It comprises two books with a different thematic focus: book one presents an outline of the sentiment religieux, while book 2 deals with questions of fetishism. It also makes accessible all available documents relating to the publication of this first volume as well as the first ever edition of Constant s Carnet de notes depuis le 29 septembre 1824."

Studying Heine's approach to myth and mythology can help to further ongoing discussion of the problem 'myth and modernity'. Heine's concern is with the view of the world describable as 'mythic thinking'. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) himself was inspired to some extent by the 'new mythology' of early Romanticism and he also took an active part in the revaluation of popular lore identifiable in late-Romantic 'German mythology'. But Heine's brand of mythic thinking is bound up with resistance to any attempt to capitalise on it for political purposes and to this end to restore it as a (Teutonic) blueprint for society as a whole. It is this resistance that determines the form of Heine's treatment of myth and mythology and the changes it underwent. Heine presents no trace of a reconciliation between myth and modernity but both the otherness and the vitality of myth are very much alive in his work.

For the relationship between Goethea (TM)s Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenie on Tauris] and Grillparzera (TM)s trilogy Das goldene VlieA [The Golden Fleece] there are two structural features of fundamental importancea ' the evaluative opposition of the Greek and the barbaric and the reference to the genre of Greek mythological tragedy, in which that opposition has an ethnocentric function, which applies also to modern (e.g. ethnographic) transmissions of the concept of barbarism. Grillparzera (TM)s tragic exposure of humanism stands in contrast to Goethea (TM)s humanistic engagement with this tradition.

Within the scope of this book, an interactive user interface (GUI) to the process--metallurgic reactor model (PRM) is to be developed. The PRM was developed and implemented by the Institute of Metallurgy at Clausthal University of Technology and is available as a C-source code. The principal purpose of this user interface is to give an understanding of the different steps of the steel production process and the "driving" of a specific virtual plant by the user. The second task is to support interactive case studies for the optimization of the model parameters and finally the overall operation of the plant. The PRM treats a specific way of steelmaking, separating this process into two steps. First, the production of raw steel in an electric arc furnace (EAF) which is implemented in the PRM as EAF07 module. Second, the alloying and transportation of the raw steel which takes place in a ladle furnace (LF) and is implemented in the PRM as LF07 module likewise.