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In Clausewitz' Werk Vom Kriege gibt es viele Rätsel. Der absolute Krieg gilt als das größte, für das aber bisher noch keine deutliche Lösung gefunden wurde. Der absolute Krieg wird hier hauptsächlich vom methodischen und historischen Gesichtspunkt her betrachtet, um damit einen Beitrag zur Lösung dieses Problems zu leisten. Der Begriff absoluter Krieg im Werk Vom Kriege ist tiefgründig, aber nicht mystisch. Er ist ein Gedankenexperiment. Der absolute Krieg steht nicht im Gegensatz zum wirklichen Krieg. Die Begriffe absoluter Krieg, wirklicher Krieg und die absolute Gestalt des Krieges zeigen im Grunde die drei Phasen des Clausewitzschen Gedankenganges. Bei Clausewitz' absolutem Krieg handelt es sich hauptsächlich um eine Denkmethode, die auch in der heutigen Zeit als eine Denkform noch nützlich ist. (Zeitschrift für Politik / FUB)

This book analyzes and expounds the basic contents of people's livelihood and its position in the Scientific Outlook on Development, describes in a systematic way the effors made by the Communist Party of China and Chinese Government during these ten years in sharing the fruits of development, employment, education, medical service, old-age care and housing as well as in the aspects of ecological development and improving the equality of life, and summarizes the achievements scored in China in gruaranteeing and improving people's livelihood, to demonstrate how China, on the way of scientific d

How might science and technology studies and science, technology and society studies (STS) learn from its studies of other knowledge traditions? This article explores this question by looking at Chinese medicine (CM). The latter has been under pressure from modernization and "scientization" for a century, and the dynamics of these pressures have been explored "symmetrically" within STS and related disciplines. But in this work, CM has been the "the case" and STS theory has held stable. This article uses a CM term, reasoning-as-propensity ( shi, 勢), to look at contemporary practices of cancer care in a hospital in Taiwan. It describes how shi ( 勢) informed the design of a new decoction, Kuan Sin Yin, while also relating to the production of scientific knowledge, biomedical interventions, Buddhist practices, and the patients living with cancer themselves. Does CM's use of shi ( 勢) simply confirm the essential and incompatible otherness of CM? Looked at from outside the answer seems to be yes. However, this article explores how STS might change itself—and the theory–practice division in STS—by thinking through shi ( 勢) in dialogue with its othered object. This opens the possibility of an STS for CM.

How might the agency of the subaltern be conceptualized within the intersection of multiple worlds? Actor-network theory's (ANT) translation framework for understanding agency portraying this as entrepreneur and talking of a world in the making is arguably "imperialist," "managerial," and "monolithic." Draws from the enactment turn of ANT and insights into the politics of representation, this article elaborates an alternative framework which focuses on displacement. By examining the case of dialysis patients, the article explores the displacing practices that follow the disruption of routines in dialysis. Patients have to go through a process of problematization, distribution, hybridization, and restabilization, in order to sustain the coexistence of their alternative practices with dialysis. Unlike entrepreneurs in the translation model who transform the world by interesting others, enduring trials, and becoming spokespersons for all, those patients who manage to displace and sustain the coexistence of multiple worlds avoid interesting, still less confronting, the hegemonic actors and claiming representation for themselves. This article suggests the displacement of agency as a generic alternative.