Karl Wittfogel is best known for his monumental work Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, first published in 1957. Starting from a Marxist analysis of the ideas of Max Weber on China and India's "hydraulic-bureaucratic...
Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by...
Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi. Ad illustrissimum ac potentissimum principem Ferdinandum Roman. Regem semper Augustum atque Archiducem Austria conscripta. Anno 1536. Date de Publication...
Im "Recht auf Widerstand" beschreibe ich an anschaulichen Beispielen das System des Unrechts, wie es tatsächlich aussieht, ohne es zu übertreiben oder etwas auszulassen; der Leser soll selbst über Wahrheitsgehalt meiner Darstellungen urteilen. ...
Religion vs Religion consists of two lectures Ali Shariati gave at the Husayniyah Center in Tehran on August 12 and 13, 1970. In them he puts forth a most remarkable thesis, that throughout history, religion has fought against religion and not a...
Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening rift between a modernizing, post-Communist society and a paternalistic government will ultimately shape...
The Western world is in eclipse, after a long epoch of decay. Yet the West is ever more optimistic. Under U.S. leadership, a diseased corpse, with an outward façade covering the rotting pestilence, and falsely labelled ‘Western way of life’,...