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What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or, alternately, to the secular French Enlightenment. While drawing on sociologists such as Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Ernst Troeltsch, Joas sets out a new path, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of “sacralization” of every human being. Accordi...
Das Kind wächst in einem Dreifrauenhaushalt auf. Mit einer lügenhaften Mutter, einer unzuverlässigen erwachsenen Schwester, einer verwöhnenden Oma. Den Vater kennt es nicht. Die Kleine ist von allem fasziniert, was in ihren Augen einen Mann ausmacht. Für sie steht fest: Sie steckt im falschen Körper. Zweifellos ist sie innen ein Junge. Die Idee, es der Wahrhaftigkeit zuliebe auch äußerlich werden zu müssen, ergreift Besitz von ihr. - Ein Katastrophenfall im kleinbürgerlichen Familienmief! Je mehr Prügel und Demütigungen sie dafür erntet, desto heftiger wird ihre Besessenheit, umso hartnäckiger verbohrt sie sich in ihre Vision: Ihre Selbstverwandlung in den Mann, der allen Rollenklischees gerecht wird.
The software industry is regarded as one of the most creative and dynamic industries in the world. At the same time, sheltering software through copyright and patent law has been a major point of contention for the past 40 years. This doctoral thesis aims to provide new insights to this discussion. Through the use of sociological methodology, it supplies the necessary basic scientific reasearch regarding how software is developed and commercialized nowadays. Based on these findings, it then legally evaluates to what extent copyright and patent law are able to reflect these structures and determines how an optimal protection scope for computer programs could look like today. This doctoral thesis on one hand offers novel insights and points of view on existing legal doctrines. It further acknowledges as well as legally qualifies some prevailing trends in the software industry, such as Scrum and continuous delivery, that have so far been largely unaddressed by copyright and patent law.
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Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In A Heinrich Schütz Reader, the composer and his times are brought to life through the translation of more than 150 documents by or about the composer, each complemented with richly detailed annotations and commentary.
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