Equal Citizenship & Global Inequality: Is Reconciliation Possible?

Karol Bethke and the Fine Line

The exhibition “Karol Bethke and the Fine Line”, held to mark the roughly one-hundred-year anniversary of Concrete Art, is dedicated to an artist who, despite his importance, has remained in the shadow of the greater names of the genre. Karol Bethke was a German painter, draftsman and sculptor whose creative period falls in the second half of the 20th century.

Bowing Before Two Gods: Navigating Competing Demands

In the last two decades, the boundaries between business and the social sector have blurred. Early pioneers like Grameen Bank in Bangladesh broke away from using charity to address complex social problems like inequality and instead started offering microloans and other financial services.

Nationality, Identity and Collaboration

Can the erosion of trust between countries and the rise of nationalism lessen the compensation you receive for damages caused to you or change the terms of a private contract you signed? Surprisingly, it might.

Words to Numbers

When empirically studying questions in the social sciences, we often need to find numeric measures for “soft” constructs such as culture, trust, individual traits, strength of institutions, etc. However, most human interaction is not numeric, but verbal.

Peatlands in Germany. Paving the Way for a Social and Ecological Transformation

Peatland protection is climate protection: if we want to combat climate change effectively, we cannot afford to overlook the importance of protecting peatlands. While forests often steal the spotlight in environmental discussions, peatlands play a crucial role that has only recently begun to be recognised.

Literatur als Schule der Empathie am Beispiel von Shakespeares Othello

Es waren Psychologen, Neurowissenschaftler, Soziologen, Philosophen und Historiker, die die Bedeutung der Emotionen wiederentdeckt haben. Und irgendwann erreichte diese Entwicklung auch die Literaturstudien. Der Umgang mit Emotionen ist inzwischen als ein integraler Bestandteil der Werke und ihrer Rezeption anerkannt und es stellt sich die Frage, wie man dieser Dimension auch methodisch gerecht werden kann. Hier bietet sich nun insbesondere ein neues Empathie-Konzept an.

Three Meanings of Constitutional Identity and Their Prospects in the European Union

In a rather banal understanding, constitutional identity means that each constitution is singular in the sense that no constitution looks exactly like the other. In a more prescriptive sense, identity refers to the fundamental principles of a constitution and the basic structure of the order it designs; in short, those provisions without which the constitution would no longer be the same. In a symbolic sense, it means that the people who live under a certain constitution accept it as a more or less good order and can identify with it.