(part of the following is taken from the work on a new book, discussing questions of so-called populism) The present reflections are limited to the discussion of so-called market freedom. Though often misunderstood, in the beginning it had not been the word but the deed; while it is again and again said that the anti-feudal … Read more
Introduction – and the thesis The call for the right of a private sphere is one of today’s human rights issues, and as such becoming louder and louder. Leaving aside if this is justified • while people die as consequence of violent conflicts, • while people do not have access to clean water, health care, … Read more
The Economy … Hearing the term ‘economy’, we all have some understanding of what it is – it seems. There are some caveats, however. The meaning attributed to the term is very different. It reaches from the common persons understanding of having difficulties to pay the bill for food and heating – or being in … Read more
Today, the 10th of December, we can celebrate the anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: on that date in 1948 the document had been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris (General Assembly resolution 217 A). There are as many good reasons to celebrate this as success as there … Read more
An HRUG-Open Talk had been looking at the developments of polities, politics and policies of the recent years, seemingly culminating in the election of Trump and the failure of the traffic light coalition in Germany. Peter Herrmann addressed the dark side of bourgeois enlightenment behind these developments, followed by a debate. See as well the … Read more
– many noticed it, though they overlooked that the tremor existed already for a long time and too many got used to the underlying tectonic cracks or fractures in soci(et)al structures.Both, the election of the Trump as 47th POTUS, also known as President of the United States of America) and the collapse of the traffic light … Read more
On August 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “In the Contemporary Context: The Essence of the Concept of Human Rights” was successfully held. This seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann (a researcher of CSU Human Rights Center). Mehmet Okyayuz (a professor of political science at Middle East Technical University, Turkey), and three teaching … Read more
Obviously, democracy is a somewhat open concept, i.e. there are different concepts of what democracy actually is and how it works. One – and probably the dominant in the Western sphere – is that it is a representative polity, the demos, according to the Marriam Webster dictionary, understood as “common people”. In other words, the … Read more
On January 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Interaction between Law and Politics in a Global Perspective: Law First or Politics First” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann, a researcher of Central South University Human Rights Center. Evgeniia Kiseleva (a researcher of the School of Economics at the Russian … Read more
Should there be a question mark or an exclamation mark. In the e-newsletter of the German ZeitOnline, published on the 6th of September 2024, we read – here translated: Joe Biden disappeared on a beach holiday for a fortnight without anyone really noticing his absence. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and their respective partners are travelling the … Read more