Preface Prologue. Bertrand Russell\'s On Denoting and History ArticlesMathias Spohr: Identity and Vanitas. Two Contrasting Modes of Perception Mathias Spohr: From Skinner\'s Verbal Behavior to Miner\'s Nacirema: American Identity Between Causal Chains and Rituals Mathias Spohr: From Renaissance Nominalism to Modern Melodramatics: Jörg Wickram\'s Novel Der Goldtfaden (1557) Mathias Spohr: The Waltz in Film: Between Identity and Vanitas Mathias Spohr: Dietegen on Instagram: Social media as a stage for theater Autor / Author Anschrift des Autors / Address of the Author Hinweise zur Gestaltung von Manuskripten / Instructions to Authors