New PDF release: Montesquieu and His Legacy

Essays on Montesquieu and the impact of his idea from the eighteenth century to this day. Montesquieu (1689–1755) is considered the most very important thinkers of the Enlightenment. His Lettres persanes and L’Esprit des lois were learn by means of scholars and students through the final centuries.

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Utilizing archival learn and recorded interviews, this booklet charts the advance of yankee reviews in Europe in the course of the early chilly struggle. It demonstrates how negotiations came about via a community of relationships and attracts classes for public international relations in an age while groups are attached via multi-hub, multi-directional networks.

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Explores the connections among sexual distinction and political constitution in historical Greek tragedy. This assortment deals a colourful exploration of the bonds among sexual distinction and political constitution in Greek tragedy. In taking a look at how the acts of violence and tortured kinship kinfolk are depicted within the paintings of all 3 significant Greek tragic playwrights—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—the members make clear the workings and failings of the Greek polis, and discover the skill through which sexual distinction and town take form with regards to one another.

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Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit einem zunehmend wichtigeren Bereich der politischen Auseinandersetzung in Deutschland: der Religionspolitik. Nicht nur Demonstrationen mit religions- bzw. islamkritischem Inhalt, sondern auch vielfältige Themen politischer Entscheidung von der Religionsfreiheit und staatlichen Regulierung von faith bis hin zu Biopolitik, Sterbehilfe und Lebensschutz zeigen die Bedeutung religiöser wie auch säkular geprägter Positionen in öffentlichen Diskussionen und politischen Streitthemen.