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'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ' So begins Adorno's letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi Germany at the last minute. At the end of 1939 his parents moved again to Florida and then to New York, where they lived from August 1940 until the end of their lives. It is only with Adorno's move to California at the end of 1941 that his letters to his parents start arriving once more, reporting on work and living conditions as well as on fri

The phenomenon of state-led development has been persistent throughout modern history and remains significant today. Latecomers in the world's development, from Russia in the 19th century to contemporary China, persistently resorted to the state as a developmental instrument in economic catch-up. Why did relatively 'backward' economies tend to take the state-led approach rather than following the free market model? Why did those latecomers that used the state as the main coordinator and had the bureaucratic capacity to do so modernize faster than other 'backward' economies? Finally, do the successful state-led developers have the potentials to take the lead in world's developments? Or under what conditions could they do so? These are the questions the book intends to answer. This book looks into the state-led development in the post-war period, offering a new perspective for interpreting the choice of the state-led approach by latecomers and the consequences of such choices.

Untersucht wurden 52 niedergelassene Hamburger Ärzte für Allgemeinmedizin und Innere Medizin bezüglich Einstellungen und Erfahrungen mit Übergewichtigen. Die tonbandaufgezeigten Arzt-Interviews wurden inhaltsanalytisch ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen u.a. Defizite im Kenntnisstand der Ärzte hinsichtlich Genese und Therapiemöglichkeiten des Übergewichts. Von den Befragten wird Übergewicht vor allem als Risikofaktor als sehr wichtig eingeschätzt. Die berichtete Erfolgsbilanz von ärztlichen Maßnahmen fällt eher negativ aus, es werden dafür Motivationsprobleme der Patienten verantwortlich gemacht. Trotz eingestandener Ausbildungsdefizite sehen die Ärzte eine primäre Zuständigkeit für die Übergewichtsbehandlung beim Arzt, eine Einbeziehung von Psychologen und Diätberatern wird eher kritisch beurteilt.

Isaiah Berlin's humanistic liberalism is still an influential theory and an implacable antidote against extremism and fanaticism in all their guises. The author of this article notes that one of the main contributions of this theoretician born 100 years ago consists in gaining awareness that there is a multiplicity of values in plural societies which cannot be reduced to a single principle, or a universal permanent combination of values applicable to all individuals and all practical cases. However, Berlin's defence of value pluralism is in no way a gratuitous concession to relativism or scepticism. Without a doubt, there is a role reserved for reason in moral conflicts. However, "reasonable" discrimination between values is much more context-dependent, even on an individual scale, than what moral, political or religious "rationalist" conceptions assume.