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What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time has finally come -- the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can "share." Zupančič argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time.

To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the thought "lives on its own credit,"...

Biobanking, i.e. storage of biological samples or data emerging from such samples for diagnostic, therapeutic or research purposes, has been going on for decades. However, it is only since the mid 1990s that these activities have become the subject of considerable public attention, concern and debate. This shift in climate is due to several factors. The purpose of this book is to investigate some of the ethical, legal and social challenges raised by research biobanking in its different modern forms and formats. The issues raised by research biobanking in its modern form can be divided into...

In diesem Band werden von namhaften Historikern deutsche und britische Staatsmanner im Krieg vom Siebenjahrigen Krieg bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg verglichen. Die biographischen Beitrage reichen von Friedrich dem Groen und William Pitt dem Alteren, William Pitt dem Jungeren und Joseph II., William Gladstone und Bismarck, David George und Wilhelm II. bis zu Churchill und Hitler. Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der Kriegsfuhrung sowie Bezuge zur aktuellen politischen Lage werden eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Damit liefert der Band wichtige Ergebnisse, die weitere Forschungen anregen...