Politische Soziologie

George Orwell’s central argument is that the normalization of bad writing leads to political oppression. Orwell starts with the premise that the distortion of ‚language‘ reflects a ‚corruption‘ of ‚c …

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typ …

Pensées Blaise Pascal – From the notes for Pascal’s contemplated ‚Apology for the Christian Religion‘ the Port-Royalists compiled and edited the book known as his ‚Pensées‘ or ‚Thoughts.‘ The early t …

Collected Essays George Orwell – Essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1943 to 1945. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think a …

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “s …

This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former soviet countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organization …

Greenmantle John Buchan – Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Ha …

This earnest and eloquent Letter to the Pope is by far the most remarkable utterance which the Encyclical of 1890 has evoked. The Pope could not have found a fitter controversialist to oppose him, fo …

Ausgangsthese des Buches ist, dass die verbreitete Metapher einer Abwägung zwischen Sicherheit und Privatheit konzeptuell inadäquat ist und zentrale Aspekte von Überwachungs- und Kontrollmaßnahmen ve …

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht die Möglichkeit, Modernität und modernes Recht zu überdenken und zu kritisieren. Bei Hegel steht zunächst das Wort ‚modern‘ im Mittelpunkt, während das Werk von Jür …