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Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
Untangling the long history of neoliberalism Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive, and even thrive, in times of crisis. Understanding neoliberalism’s longevity and its latest permutation requires a more detailed understanding of its origins and development. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple, unvariegated belief in market fundamentalism and homo economicus. It shows how neoliberal thinkers perceived institutions from the family to the university, disagreed over issues from intellectual property rights and human behavior to social complexity and monetary order, and sought to win consent for their project through the creation of new honors, disciples, and networks. Far from a monolith, neoliberal thought is fractured and, occasionally, even at war with itself. We can begin to make sense of neoliberalism’s nine lives only by understanding its own tangled and complex history.
Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen
In the public imagination, small and medium-sized family businesses have always been male-dominated organisations, with those headed by women regarded as barely noteworthy exceptions to the rule. These ideas and associations are far from telling the full story; the proportion of women among Germany's self-employed population remained above 20 per cent throughout the twentieth century. A surge of interest in female entrepreneurs among academic researchers and in the political and media spheres has resulted in increasing recognition of their achievements past and present. There nevertheless remains a persistent tendency to overlook the fact that women have always made a vital contribution to t...
The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa
Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Context dependent, it acquires diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inh...
The Making of the German Post-War Economy
The years following the end of World War II in Germany were a significant period of change and upheaval. This book on the economic reconstruction of post-war West Germany traces the development of economic and socio-political ideas, and their gradual absorption by mainstream politicians, officials and the general public during the period of transition between 1945 and 1949. In the aftermath of World War II, several German think-tanks, political parties and individuals gave impulse to and then shaped the development of a viable socio-political and economic model between the extremes of laissez-faire capitalism and the collectivist planned economy. In their endeavours to bring into effect thei...
A Taste for Purity
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization, this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India, where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized, new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the connections among these developments and ma...
Helmuth James von Moltke
Günter Brakelmann schildert anschaulich den ungewöhnlichen Lebensweg Helmuth James von Moltkes, der als Gründer und Vordenker des Kreisauer Kreises eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten des deutschen Widerstands gegen Hitler ist. Das Buch lässt auf der Grundlage vieler neuer Quellen die charismatische Persönlichkeit Moltkes lebendig werden und macht sein Denken und Handeln, das sich allen weltanschaulichen Schubladen entzieht, im Kontext seiner Zeit verständlich. Mit dieser umfassenden Biographie liegt seit langem wieder ein Standardwerk zu Helmuth James von Moltke vor. "Eine eindrucksvolle und lebensnahe Biographie." Hans Mommsen, Süddeutsche Zeitung "Die Darstellung & dürfte schnell zum Standardwerk über Moltke werden."Stephan Malinowski, Deutschlandradio Kultur "Ein überzeugendes und gut lesbares Lebensbild Moltkes und des Kreisauer Kreises." Joachim Scholtyseck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Günter Brakelmanns bewegende Biographie & ist eine in vielerlei Hinsicht empfehlenswerte Lektüre." Renate Wiggershaus, Frankfurter Rundschau
Faltenwürfe der Geschichte
Paare, Briefe, Körper, Tanz: Die vielfältigen Beiträge dieses Bands nähern sich mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen der facettenreichen Vergangenheit Europas seit der frühen Neuzeit. Wie durch ein Schlüsselloch geben sie den Blick frei auf ungewöhnliche Alltagsszenen, unerwartete Machtkonstellationen und neu zu deutende Beziehungsgefüge. Die Konzentration auf die Miniatur und das Vergnügen am Erzählen lassen ein vielschichtiges Geschichts- und Menschenbild entstehen – jenseits der einschlägigen Meistererzählungen.
Wirtschaft, Politik und Freiheit
English summary: The opposition of Freiburg scholars and church groups to the Nazi regime has been firmly established in literature concerning the Resistance under the term 'Freiburger Kreise' (Freiburg circles.). Of special significance in these circles were the Freiburg economists who were associated with Constantin von Dietze, Walter Eucken and Adolf Lampe. They participated actively in the opposition against the Nazi dictatorship and developed comprehensive economic and socio-political plans for a postwar system. This volume documents the papers given at the symposium on the 'Freiburg Economists and the Resistance', which was held in July 2004, 60 years after the plot to assassinate Hitl...
Res publica semper reformanda
Rund 40 Beiträge aus verschiedenen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen präsentieren ein interdisziplinäres Analysepanorama zu den Herausforderungen der Demokratie in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
