This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Prior to its destruction in 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had ruled over a vast array of nationalities and, in the course of its demise as well as after, Austria was beset by nationalism, racism, and other forms of identity politics that ultimately led to the triumph of Nazism.
It was to this society that Musil responded in his great work "The Man Without Qualities."...

The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, and has witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their investment in PR and other media oriented forms of communication. The expansion and increased importance of the media and its working practices and preferences has become an institutional force, alongside other societal developments such as globalization, marketization, individualization and...

Dieses Skript soll Ihnen helfen, die Methodik der Fallbearbeitung zu verstehen und anzuwenden, sodass auch eine Klausur im obersten Punktebereich realistisch wird.