englischIt was clear to Schleiermacher that, long before each modern democratic state, whose self-understanding is based on their citizens being able to participate in them politically, is able to develop, the provision of democratic institutions alone is not enough. Historically, the development of [...]
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englischThis book attends to three outlaw heroes from England, Germany, and North America. Robin Hood, Klaus Stoertebeker, and Jesse James still fascinate people today. The myth of the outlaw expresses social discourses about law and justice, government and resistance, and sovereignty and [...]
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englischFor the first time the study analyses comprehensively early modern cattle trade and points out the connection between economy and rule. The transfers provoked by environmental differences and seasonal cycles of usage were transacted particularly by jewish traders. Periodically lean oxes from [...]
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englischDrawing from Edmund Husserl´s ethical reflections the study thematizes a phenomenologically deepened understanding of moral autonomy and allows a critique of arbitrary autonomy. The best possible life of reason and the categorical imperative not only requires a cultivated heart but it is [...]
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englischMore than 70 years after the end of the National Socialist dictatorship, research into this darkest chapter in German history in the field of law has so far hardly been carried out. This is surprising in view of the historical awareness that can otherwise be observed especially with regard [...]
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englischThis collection of articles and lectures discusses the contributions of some of the most outstanding figures in the field of research on religion, like Durkheim, Weber, Geertz and Bourdieu. A second focus is on the heated debates on religion as a concept, modernization, secularization and [...]
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englischDrawing from Edmund Husserl´s ethical reflections the study thematizes a phenomenologically deepened understanding of moral autonomy and allows a critique of arbitrary autonomy. The best possible life of reason and the categorical imperative not only requires a cultivated heart but it is [...]
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englischHow to become an artist and remain it a lifetime? Matthias Koeppel dedicated his life to be a painter and a writer of lyrics. He developed himself to a narrative artist, who picked up the alienation effect to point out to social drawbacks in a humorously way. Coming from
abstract painting, [...]
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This volume examines the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage from past to present, in an interdisciplinary framework and using a wide range of approaches. The chapters analyse traditional, contemporary and transnational developments of Alevi cultural expression including [...]
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englischThis collection of articles and lectures discusses the contributions of some of the most outstanding figures in the field of research on religion, like Durkheim, Weber, Geertz and Bourdieu. A second focus is on the heated debates on religion as a concept, modernization, secularization and [...]
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