englischThis volume uses historiographical and literary texts from the Pahlawī era (1921-1979) to examine discourses on heroised actors. Based on the observation that Iranian mythology prefigures historians' assumptions about history, the study traces the changing approaches of state-affiliated [...]

englischThis book provides a concise account of 159-page long and extremely complicated Iran nuclear deal (formally known as the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” or JCPOA), including the legal analysis of its main content, the legal meaning of President Trump’s withdrawal from it and its link to [...]

englischThe political dimension shapes its respective counterpart. It can polarise in the forms of friend–enemy, good–evil and peaceful–threatening, as well as emphatically as a platform for the mediation of knowing–acknowledging–recognition. In ‘recognising’, two people cancel out each other's [...]

englischDo we adequately protect the deceased from disparagement and commercial exploitation of their personality? This comparative law study examines this question by analysing the post-mortem protection of personality rights in Germany and Italy. In detail, the author analyses the dogmatics of the [...]

englischFor 100 years, there has been a professorship for regional history at the Department of History at Kiel University, which has successfully worked for, with and in Schleswig-Holstein in research, teaching and transfer. During this remarkable period of time, not only have the faces of its [...]

englischLike every science, biology also needs its philosophy. Because without clear basic concepts, it can neither understand nor organize its subject area. “Leben als Sein” ("Life as Being") develops such a philosophy by clarifying the concept of 'aliveness'. Aliveness, according to Aristotle, is [...]

englischThe volume is committed to the reconstruction of Plato's relationship with the past in literary, socio-economic, and political contexts. The past is analysed as a real “resource” from which content can be drawn for reinterpretation and resemantisation. The analysis shows how Plato develops a [...]

englischArticle 15 of the Basic Law as a socialist utopia? Not at all. The socialization norm provides the legislator with an instrument for fulfilling the state's responsibility to provide services with the help of public-sector forms of organization. Socialization measures interfere with the [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 20th century, sport turned into a phenomenon with great cultural reach. The modern sporting hero came onto the scene as an often politically and economically instrumentalised picture of perfection, showcased both in the media and at competitions. Despite criticism of [...]