Dieter Thom - Böcker

The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in p...

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The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in p...

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This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and an...

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This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the...

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This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the...

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Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Whereas economists pride themselves on reaching out to social theory at-large, sociologists criticize the economization of the social fabric. The concept...

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This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and an...

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Er ist umstritten wie kein Zweiter. Dabei gilt Martin Heidegger neben Ludwig Wittgenstein als der bedeutendste Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Handbuch zeigt die Grnde fr die anhaltende Faszination von Heideggers Schaffen: Es stellt die zentra...

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Ist Glck messbar? Kann man lernen, glcklich zu sein? Was passiert eigentlich im Gehirn eines glcklichen Menschen? Kann die Politik zum Glck beitragen? Macht Geld glcklich? Mit diesen und anderen Fragen nhert sich das Handbuch einem Thema, das imme...

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