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20 Jahre Landesverfassung.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 36.66Hauptbeschreibung Die Verfassung des Landes Brandenburg wurde in Fortsetzung des Runden Tisches erarbeitet und nach lebhaften Diskussionen als erste der neuen Bundesländer als Höhepunkt der parlamentarischen Arbeit des Landtages der ersten Wahlperiode am 14. Juni 1992 verabschiedet und am 20. Juni 1992 in einer Volksabstimmung angenommen. Sie gilt... more...
The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations follows major new developments in the arena of human rights since its publication, including the emergence of terrorism and international responses to it; the establishment of an international criminal court; the evolution of regional human rights bodies in Africa, Europe, and Latin America;... more...
Action and Appearance
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 27.95Action and Appearance is a collection of essays that look into the crucial and complex link between action and appearance in Hannah Arendt’s political thought. Contributed by respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following themes: the emergence of political action when questioning the nature of law, subjectivity and individuality;... more...
Affinität wider Willen?
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 22.64Hauptbeschreibung Hannah Arendt und Theodor W. Adorno verband eine gegenseitige Abneigung, die auch zu einer gegenseitigen Ablehnung ihrer Schriften führte. Arendts Animosität erstreckte sich bald auch auf andere Mitglieder der Frankfurter Schule. Der Band beleuchtet dieses schwierige Verhältnis, wobei die Autoren auch auf Affinitäten stoßen. Im... more...
Against Throne and Altar
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 25.00Examines the political thinking of four men - John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes. more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 23.99Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions the first series of its kind. Even the selection of thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including not only theorists but also thinkers in literary forms and... more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
Profile 2009; US$ 23.98As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, Alexis de Tocqueville had a front seat at the revolutionary drama of his time. In 1831 Tocqueville made the famous voyage to the United States which led to his masterpiece, Democracy in America,... more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
Campus Verlag 2005; US$ 11.86Hauptbeschreibung Wenn ein Aristokrat die Demokratie favorisiert, ein Franzose die Amerikaner lobt und ein Freigeist nach Religion verlangt, scheint dies paradox. Tocqueville (1805-1859) beweist, dass der erste Blick oft täuschen kann. Seine Werke werfen Probleme auf, die bis heute ungelöst sind: Wie viel Demokratie darf man wagen? Gibt es einen... more...
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 54.99The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a new interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing on his religious thought, it debunks the standard view of him as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. This reinterpretation culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's... more...
Arendt: A Guide for the Perplexed
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 95.00Hannah Arendt is considered to be one of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century. Although her writing is somewhat clear, the enormous breadth of her work places particular demands on the student coming to her thought for the first time. Arendt: A Guide for the Perplexed provides a clear, concise and accessible introduction... more...









