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Petra Schier
Petra Schier, Jahrgang 1978, lebt mit Mann und Hund in einer kleinen Gemeinde in der Eifel. Sie studierte Geschichte und Literatur an der Fernuniversität Hagen und arbeitet seit 2003 freie Autorin. Ihre sehr erfolgreichen historischen Romane erscheinen u.a. im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, ihre ebenfalls sehr beliebten Weihnachts- sowie Liebesromane bei Rütten Loening, MIRA Taschenbuch, HarperCollins und Weltbild.Unter dem Pseudonym Mila Roth veröffentlicht die Autorin verlagsunabhängig verschiedene erfolgreiche Buchserien.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2010Beyond hegemony
Towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy
by Darrow Schecter
Since the Enlightenment, liberal democrat governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal legitimacy comes in Marx's early writings on Rousseau and Hegel. Marx discovers the limits of formal legal equality that does not address substantive relations of inequality in the workplace and in many other spheres of social life. Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere which claim to put Marx's ideas on democracy and equality into practice. The book explains that although many aspects of Marx's critique are still valid today, his ideas need to be supplemented by the contributions to social theory made by Nietzsche, Foucault, the critical theory of the Frankfurt School as well as the libertarian socialism of G.D.H. Cole. What emerges is a new theory of political legitimacy which indicates how it is possible to move beyond liberal democracy whilst avoiding the authoritarian turn of state socialism. Schecter points out the weaknesses of the many extra-legal accounts of non-formal legitimacy now on offer, such as those based on friendship and identity. He then argues that the first step beyond hegemony depends on the discovery of forms of legitimate legality and demonstrates why the conditions of legitimate law can be identified. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2011Sovereign states or political communities?
Civil society and contemporary politics
by Darrow Schecter
Explores the ideas, meaning and history of civil society, its role in the 1989 revolutions, its role in new social movements and its relationship with the state and the economy.. Distinguishes between security and freedom and illustrates how the latter is a political issue.. Draws on the writings of a wide range of political thinkers including: Kant Hegel Feuerbach Marx Weber Schmitt Adorno Arendt. Offers sophisticated and illuminating analysis and seeks to redefine politics in new ways.. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2017Critical theory and feeling
by Simon Mussell, Darrow Schecter
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2019Critical theory and epistemology
by Anastasia Marinopoulou, Darrow Schecter
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Critical theory and legal autopoiesis
by Gunther Teubner, Darrow Schecter
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Critical theory and human rights
by David McGrogan, Darrow Schecter
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2022Critical theory and dystopia
by Patricia McManus, Darrow Schecter
Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book reconstructs the historical emergence, consolidation and transformation of the genre across the twentieth century and into our own, ranging from Yevgeny Zamayatin's We (1924) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) to Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1963) and Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series (2000s and 2010s). In doing so, it reveals the political logics opened up or neutered by the successive moments of this dystopian history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Critical theory and demagogic populism
by Paul K. Jones, Darrow Schecter
Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to everyone concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledgeJune 2017Critical theory and epistemology
The politics of modern thought and science
by Anastasia Marinopoulou. Series edited by Darrow Schecter
This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann's systems theory, the book examines how each approaches epistemology. It opens by looking at twentieth-century epistemology, particularly the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt). It then moves on to discuss structuralism, poststructuralism, critical realism, the epistemological problematics of Foucault's writings and the dialectics of systems theory. This unique work takes a comparative look at structuralism and post-structuralism's epistemological theory with special reference to scientific reason. It also investigates Luhmann's works in epistemology. The aim is to explore whether the focal point for epistemology and the sciences remain that social and political interests actually form a concrete point of concern for the sciences as well.
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1979Das Leben des Mannes
Werdenskrisen. Wendepunkte. Entwicklungschancen
by Levinson, Daniel J / Beiträge von Darrow, Charlotte N; Beiträge von Klein, Edward B; Beiträge von Levinson, Maria H; Beiträge von McKee, Braxton; Englisch Herrmann, Hans
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British & Irish historyJuly 2012Black Bartholomew’s Day
Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity
by David J. Appleby
Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662. It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centres centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political order This book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Massacres in Early Modern Drama
by Georgina Lucas
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of massacres, and attests to their brutally diverse stage representations. Anchored by the contention that the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris (1572) was instrumental to early modern understandings of massacre, the book uses this atrocity, and its most famous dramatic depiction - Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris - as a hook to explore larger concerns about massacre in plays by Robert Greene, George Chapman, John Fletcher, and William Shakespeare. Thus, Massacres in Early Modern Drama considers how early modern drama forms part of a continual cultural process of trying to piece together the contentious and traumatic phenomenon of massacre.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJune 2024Round our way
Sam Hanna's visual legacy
by Heather Nicholson
Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.
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August 2018Bull Mountain Burning
by Brian Panowich
Sie wollte sich nie in die Geschäfte der Familie einmischen. Doch als die Familie zu zerfallen droht, bleibt ihr keine ander Wahl. Kate Burroughs hat schon einmal ihre dunkle Seite zeigen müssen. Um ihren Mann und ihren Sohn zu schützen, muss sie es wieder tun. Jahrzehntelang herrschte der Burroughs-Clan über Bull Mountain – ein Drogenimperium im Norden Georgias. Die Macht wurde von Vater zu Sohn und von Bruder zu Bruder weitergegeben. Jetzt sind fast alle Burroughs-Brüder tot. Der letzte Überlebende, Clayton, ist ein gebrochener Mann im Kampf mit seinen Dämonen.Als konkurrierende Clans zur feindlichen Übernahme von Bull Mountain ansetzen, ist es Claytons Frau Kate, die als erste erkennt, dass es nur einen Weg gibt, sich und ihren neugeborenen Sohn zu schützen: Sie muss den Burroughs-Clan einen und in seine vielleicht letzte große Schlacht führen.
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February 2016Bull Mountain
Roman
by Brian Panowich, Johann Christoph Maass
Der Burroughs-Clan ist der größte Anbieter von Schwarzgebranntem, Hasch und Crystal Meth in Georgia und Umgebung. Seit Generationen hat er Bull Mountain fest im Griff. Und er verteidigt seine Stellung mit allen Mitteln. Um sich aus diesem Familiensumpf zu ziehen, wurde Clayton Burroughs Sheriff. Doch er weiß, dass er und Bull Mountain erst dann Frieden gefunden haben werden, wenn es ihm gelingt, seinen Brüdern endgültig das Handwerk zu legen. Schon einige Male haben das FBI und die Drogenbehörde versucht, die Burroughs-Brüder hinter Schloss und Riegel zu bringen. Nie ist es ihnen gelungen. Jetzt scheint ein junger, ehrgeiziger Agent den perfekten Plan zu haben. Doch er braucht Clayton Burroughs' Hilfe. Damit bricht ein Kampf los, an dessen Ende es nur einen Sieger geben kann – und viele Tote. »Ich kann dieses Buch nicht oft genug empfehlen. Es wird die Fans von Daniel Woodrell ebenso begeistern wie die von Dennis Lehane und William Gay. Erstklassig!« Tom Franklin »Bruder gegen Bruder im drogenverdammten Süden.« James Ellroy
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February 2016Bull Mountain
by Brian Panowich
Der Burroughs-Clan ist der größte Anbieter von Schwarzgebranntem, Hasch und Crystal Meth in Georgia und Umgebung. Seit Generationen hat er Bull Mountain fest im Griff. Und er verteidigt seine Stellung mit allen Mitteln. Um sich aus diesem Familiensumpf zu ziehen, wurde Clayton Burroughs Sheriff. Doch er weiß, dass er und Bull Mountain erst dann Frieden gefunden haben werden, wenn es ihm gelingt, seinen Brüdern endgültig das Handwerk zu legen. Schon einige Male haben das FBI und die Drogenbehörde versucht, die Burroughs-Brüder hinter Schloss und Riegel zu bringen. Nie ist es ihnen gelungen. Jetzt scheint ein junger, ehrgeiziger Agent den perfekten Plan zu haben. Doch er braucht Clayton Burroughs' Hilfe. Damit bricht ein Kampf los, an dessen Ende es nur einen Sieger geben kann – und viele Tote. »Ich kann dieses Buch nicht oft genug empfehlen. Es wird die Fans von Daniel Woodrell ebenso begeistern wie die von Dennis Lehane und William Gay. Erstklassig!« Tom Franklin »Bruder gegen Bruder im drogenverdammten Süden.« James Ellroy
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 1998Angela Carter
by Aidan Day
This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault. ;
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October 2007Winterquartier
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by Cathy Day, Dirk Gunsteren
Lima, Indiana 1884. Der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Wallace Porter ist am Ende. Seine junge Ehefrau liegt im Sterben, ihr Traum von Abenteuern in Amerikas Westen wird für immer ungelebt bleiben. Da schlägt der ärmliche Zirkus Hollenbach in der Kleinstadt sein Quartier auf. Aus einer Laune heraus kauft Porter den bankrotten Wanderzirkus. So wird die Provinzstadt Lima Jahr für Jahr zum Winterquartier des »Great Porter Circus« und zur Heimat für Hochseilartistinnen, Clowns, Dompteure und Akrobaten. Über Jahrzehnte und Generationen hinweg verschmelzen so die Sippen des Zirkus mit den Bewohnern der Kleinstadt Lima, prägt der Zirkus ihre Lebensläufe.
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