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        November 1990

        Die politische Theorie des Besitzindividualismus

        Von Hobbes bis Locke. Aus dem Englischen von Arno Wittekind

        by C.B. Macpherson, Arno Wittekind

        Macphersons Untersuchung gilt dem Problem einer gesicherten theoretischen Grundlage für den liberal-demokratischen Staat. Als gemeinsame Voraussetzung der englischen politischen Theorie von Hobbes bis Locke erkennt er einen auf Besitz gegründeten und am Besitz orientierten Individualismus. Nach Macpherson geht der Besitzindividualismus davon aus, daß das Individuum nur als Eigentümer seiner eigenen Person Mensch sei; daß das Wesen des Menschen die Freiheit von allen vertraglichen Bindungen gegenüber anderen sei, soweit sie nicht dem eigenen Interesse dienen; und daß die Gesellschaft nichts anderes sei als eine Reihe von Marktbeziehungen zwischen diesen freien Individuen, die ihrerseits der Gesellschaft nichts schulden.

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        January 1983

        Keltische Folksongs

        Texte und Noten mit Begleit-Akkorden

        by Herausgegeben von Walton, Jake

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2019

        English literary afterlives

        by Elisabeth Chaghafi, Tamsin Badcoe

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 1988

        Lancashire

        by John K. Walton

        If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most people. It was also one the first fully industrialised areas to experience catastrophic economic decline in the inter-war years. Much has been written about particular aspects of the Lancashire industrial experience, and the social causes and consequences of the changes that took place, but there is not full-length social history of the county as a whole, looking at developments in the long run and comparing and contrasting the patterns of change in the south-eastern textile district, on Merseyside and north of the Ribble. An explanation of Lancashire's unique social history since Elizabethan times is long overdue, and Lancashire a social history, 1558-1939 puts forward a distinctive point of view on the many areas of controversy. How did the 'Industrial Revolution' affect working-class living standards? Why did Lancashire become a stronghold both of Puritan activism and Roman Catholic survival, and what were the long-term consequences of this? Was the 'Industrial Revolution' really funded by the profits of the slave trade? Why was working-class Lancashire in the nineteenth century apparently first Chartist, then Conservative? Was Lancashire the original centre and true home of 'Victorian values', of a culture of thrift, enterprise and self-reliance? This is the first social history of an English county to span the centuries from the sixteenth to the twentieth, looking at all levels of society and analysing politics and the power structures as well as technological innovation and material wealth. More importantly, it studies a particular vital and controversial place and period, and takes account of continuities as well as changes. Aimed at the sixth former and general reader as well as the academic market, it should become essential reading for historians, and historical geographers, sociologists and economists. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2020

        Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

        by Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont, Charlotte Coffin

        This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.

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        Luna-Lila

        Das allergrößte Beste-Freundinnen-Geheimnis

        by Stohner, Anu; Stohner, Friedbert / Illustriert von Grigo, Pe

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