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This new volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Émile Durkheim, one of the informal "holy trinity" of sociology's founding thinkers, along with Weber and Marx. The author shows that Durkheim's perspective is arguably the most properly sociological of the three. He thought through the nature of society, culture, and the complex relationship of the individual to the collective in a manner more concentrated and thorough than any of his contemporaries during the period when sociology was emerging as a discipline

Seit der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft und der Möglichkeit Strom börslich zu handeln, ist auch der organisierte Stromhandel durch typischerweise im Börsenhandel auftretende Missbrauchsstrategien, wie Insiderhandel und Marktmanipulationen, gefährdet. In diesem Werk wird untersucht, inwiefern sich die existierenden marktmissbrauchsrechtlichen Regelungen eignen, die Integrität des börslichen Stromspothandels zu stärken. Es werden hierzu Anwendbarkeit und Regelungsgehalt entsprechender Normen des nationalen WpHG und der europäischen REMIT-VO dogmatisch begutachtet. Dabei gelangt der Autor zu dem Ergebnis, dass beide Regelungswerke auf der für den Finanzmarkthandel konzipierten Marktmissbrauchsrichtlinie basieren und aus diesem Grund nicht recht geeignet sind, den Stromspothandel effektiv vor spezifischen Missbrauchsstrategien, wie der Kapazitätszurückhaltung, zu schützen

Introduction : through the looking glass / Alexander T.J. Lennon -- pt. I. How the world sees the United States. To be an enlightened superpower / Wu Xinbo -- First among equals / Akio Watanabe -- Add five 'E's to make a partnership / Kanti Bajpai -- The keystone of world order / Chong Guan Kwa and See Seng Tan -- Participate in the African renaissance / Francis Kornegay, Chris Landsberg and Steve McDonald -- Justice for all / Mahmood Sariolghalam -- What is right is in U.S. interests / Barry Rubin -- Less is more / Dmitri Trenin -- Balance from beyond the sea / Michael Stürmer -- The specter of unilateralism / Pascal Boniface -- Wanted : a global partner / Peter Ludlow -- Guide globalization into a just world order / Maria Claudia Drummond -- pt. II. How the reflection looks to the United States. The new normalcy / Simon Serfaty -- Saved from ourselves? / Michael J. Mazarr -- Offshore balancing revisited / Christopher Layne -- The end of unilateralism or unilateralism redux? / Steven E. Miller; Since 2001

Abstract
Kant and Fichte developed the concept of a worldview as a way of reflecting on experience as a whole. But what does it mean to form a worldview? And what role did it play in the German Idealist tradition? This paper seeks to answer these questions through a detailed analysis of the form of a philosophical worldview and its historical portent, both of which remain unexplored in the literature. The dearth of attention is partially to blame on Kant's desultory development of it, as well as its place in Fichte's understudied lectures on religion. In this paper, I first reconstruct Kant's conception as the starting point and then trace it to Fichte who went on to evolve it further. Fichte endorses the basic conceptual shape pioneered by Kant, namely, a reflective process of positing an idea and then checking the coherence of necessary judgments relative to it. However, Fichte came to realize that its philosophical function needed expanding. Beyond recognizing the possibility for alternative worldviews, Fichte further fleshed out how worldview creation could lead to human flourishing. The common feature between both thinkers is that the formation of a worldview aims to turn philosophy into a life-orienting exercise.