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Essays on Montesquieu and the impression of his suggestion from the eighteenth century to at the present time. Montesquieu (1689–1755) is considered essentially the most vital thinkers of the Enlightenment. His Lettres persanes and L’Esprit des lois were learn by way of scholars and students through the final centuries.

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Utilizing archival study and recorded interviews, this ebook charts the improvement of yankee stories in Europe in the course of the early chilly warfare. It demonstrates how negotiations came about via a community of relationships and attracts classes for public international relations in an age whilst 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 bargains a colourful exploration of the bonds among sexual distinction and political constitution in Greek tragedy. In how the acts of violence and tortured kinship family are depicted within the paintings of all 3 significant Greek tragic playwrights—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—the participants make clear the workings and failings of the Greek polis, and discover the skill through which sexual distinction and town take form when it comes 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.