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Hermann Beck / Larry Eugene Jones (Eds.), From Weimar to Hitler. Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third…
2020
Radbruch´s Introduction to the Science of Law as the Spirit of a Time
2021
En este artículo comparo la primera y última edición de la Introducción de la ciencia del derecho de Gustav Radbruch. Me centro en aquellos aspectos que bosquejan su concepto de derecho, a saber, la relación entre derecho y moral, su modelo de Estado y la creación judicial del derecho. El resultado está determinado por la circunstancia vital e histórica de las dos ediciones: la primera publicada antes de la IGM, siendo Radbruch un joven docente en Heidelberg; la última fue redactada ya en la República de Weimar, habiendo ocupado la cartera de Justicia y siendo un reconocido jurista.
Political Cleavages In The Weimar Republic and the Rise of National Socialism
2013
The article deals with the question if the cleavage concept of Lipset and Rokkan can be applied to the rise of National Socialism at the polls and as a mass-integration party. Voter fluctuations within and between political camps are analysed by means of ecological regression analysis as well as the social composition of the NSDAP electorate. Furthermore the social fabric of NSDAP party members between 1925 and 1933 is decribed in terms of the cleavage concept.
Des idées devenus inactuelles ? Le rapport ambivalent au libéralisme dans le discours des juristes sociaux-démocrates weimariens.
2015
International audience; Cet article entend jeter un éclairage sur le rapport ambivalent que la pensée juridique sociale-démocrate entretient avec le libéralisme dans cette période à la fois de crise et de renouveau de la pensée du droit qu’est la République de Weimar. D’une part, des juristes comme Hugo Sinzheimer, Gustav Radbruch, Ernst Fraenkel ou Hermann Heller remettent en cause de façon parfois radicale la conception individualiste et libérale du droit, jugée inadaptée aux exigences de l’époque, ce qui rapproche à certains égards leur discours de ceux de juristes « de droite » rejetant la démocratie weimarienne. D’autre part, certains n’hésitent pas, et notamment dans la crise des dern…
From Graz to Göttingen: Neugebauer’s Early Intellectual Journey
2016
Otto Neugebauer’s early academic career was marked by a series of transitions. His interests shifted from physics to mathematics, and finally to the history of ancient mathematics and exact sciences. Yet even from his early years in Graz, Neugebauer was strongly attracted to the mathematical culture of Gottingen. When he arrived there in 1922, he quickly established a strong personal friendship with Richard Courant, the newly appointed Director of the Mathematics Institute. Neugebauer and Courant worked together closely up until 1933, when the Nazi government decimated the Gottingen scientific community. In this essay, Neugebauer’s historical work and his vision for a new approach to the st…
Parliamentary oversight of the exceptional situations in a presidential system : debating the reassertion of the constitutional powers of the US Cong…
2013
De l’État de droit libéral à l’État de droit social. Critique et transformation de l’État de droit chez Hermann Heller
2019
This article analyzes the genesis and meaning of the concept of a “social rule of law” (sozialer Rechtsstaat) which Heller put forward in the particular context of The Weimar Republic. Heller was at this time one of the jurists who criticized the liberal ideal of law. He instead promoted a social conception that would take socio-economic inequalities into consideration. However, this did not imply eliminating the rule of law; it was rather a question of extending it or elevating it to a higher point – which he called “social democracy” and from 1929, “social rule of law”. In the context of the crisis of democracy, this kind of statement clearly had a political dimension.
"The first politician to be assassinated by far-right activists since Walter Rathenau": uses and functions of references to German history in the dis…
2022
Gustav Radbruch, a left-wing jurist under the Weimar Republic
2011
What did it mean to be a left-wing jurist under the Weimar Republic? This study attempts to answer this question through the example of Gustav Radbruch (1878-1949), legal philosopher, but also Social-Democratic activist, supporter of the Republic and for some time Member of Parliament and Justice Minister. Even though he is not as well-known as Hans Kelsen or Carl Schmitt,, Radbruch participated in all the important legal debates of his time – debates which reflected the most significant issues of that time of crisis, the Weimar Republic. By analyzing the way in which Radbruch responded to the challenges of the crisis of law and democracy, this study tries to contribute to a better comprehe…
Einstein and Relativity: What Price Fame?
2012
ArgumentEinstein's initial fame came in late 1919 with a dramatic breakthrough in his general theory of relativity. Through a remarkable confluence of events and circumstances, the mass media soon projected an image of the photogenic physicist as a bold new revolutionary thinker. With his theory of relativity Einstein had overthrown outworn ideas about space and time dating back to Newton's day, no small feat. While downplaying his reputation as a revolutionary, Einstein proved he was well cast for the role of mild-mannered scientific genius. Yet fame demanded its price. Surrounded by social and economic unrest in Berlin, he was caught between two worlds, one struggling to be born, another …