Franz L. Neumann Livres

"Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the war to political psychology. His insights into the structure of the Nazi state have to some extent been eclipsed by their own success: subsequent research on the Nazi period has tended to absorb the lessons of Neumann's study while often losing sight of their subtlety and originality. He suggested that the Nazi organization of society involved the collapse of traditional ideas of the state, of ideology, of law, and even of any underlying nationality. Behemoth is so important that it must be "studied, not simply read," Raul Hilbert wrote." "Peter Hayes's Introduction offers biographical background on Neumann and sets his book in the context of studies of Nazism, pointing out its shortcomings as well as its accomplishments." --Book Jacket.

In the pathbreaking essays collected here, Neumann and Kirchheimer demonstrate that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the twentieth century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars. The volume includes writings on constitutionalism, political freedom, Nazism, sovereignty, and both Nazi and liberal law. Most important, the Frankfurt authors point to the continuing efficacy of the rule of law as an instrument for regulating and restraining state authority, as well as ominous evidence of the rule of law's fragility in modern liberal democracy.

A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School―Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer―worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published here for the first time.These reports provide a fresh perspective on Hitler's regime and the Second World War, and a fascinating window on Frankfurt School critical theory. They develop a detailed analysis of Nazism as a social and economic system and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazism, as well as a coherent plan for the reconstruction of postwar Germany as a democratic political system with a socialist economy. These reports played a significant role in the development of postwar Allied policy, including denazification and the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials. They also reveal how wartime intelligence analysis shaped the intellectual agendas of these three important German-Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution prior to the war.Secret Reports on Nazi Germany features a foreword by Raymond Geuss as well as a comprehensive general introduction by Raffaele Laudani that puts these writings in historical and intellectual context.

The book features a collection of significant essays from the pre-Nazi era in Germany, exploring the potential for establishing a social democratic system during the Weimar Republic. It delves into the political climate and constitutional challenges faced by the first German Republic, providing insights into the aspirations and obstacles of that transformative period.

Politische Theorien bieten systematische und historisch gebundene Deutungen politisch-sozialer Phänomene und sind entscheidend für die Analyse politischer Zusammenhänge. Band 2 behandelt Themen wie Kapitalismus, Sozialismus, Marxismus, Anarchismus, Feminismus und internationale Politik sowie Rassismus und Fundamentalismus.

Mit „Liebelei“ erzielte Schnitzler 1895 seinen ersten größeren Bühnenerfolg. Er verwandelte hierin den Typus des gemütlichen Wiener Volksstücks in ein brisantes sozialpsychologisches Drama: Die scheinhafte Idylle um die Freunde Theodor und Fritz mündet unversehens in Ratlosigkeit und Verzweiflung.

Das Werk bietet eine detaillierte Untersuchung der mathematischen Gesetze, die induzierte elektrische Ströme beschreiben. Es handelt sich um einen hochwertigen Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1889, der die damaligen Erkenntnisse und Theorien zur Elektromagnetismus und deren mathematische Grundlagen präsentiert. Ideal für Interessierte an der Geschichte der Elektrotechnik und der Entwicklung mathematischer Modelle in der Physik.

Das Buch enthält Beiträge von verschiedenen Autoren, darunter Klaus Fritzsche, Gerhard Kraiker und Elisabeth Heidt, sowie weiteren Fachleuten.