Paul Fischer – författare

By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists created an integrated intellectual approach that contrasts with other, more specific philosophies. Presenting the first full English translation of the earliest example of a Syncretist text, this volume introduces Western scholars to both the brilliance of the syncretic method and a critical work of Chinese leadership.Written by Shi Jiao, China''s first syncretic thinker, during the Warring States Period of 481 to 221 BCE, Shizi is similar to Machiavelli''s The Prince in that it dispenses wisdom to would-be rulers. It stresses the need for leaders to be detached and objective. It further encourages self-cultivation and effective government, recommending that rulers maintain self-discipline, hire reliable people, delegate power transparently, and promote others in an orderly fashion. The people, it is argued, will emulate their leader''s wisdom and virtue, and a just and peaceful state will result. Paul Fischer provides an extensive introduction and a chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of the text—outlining the importance of syncretism in Chinese culture—and explores the text''s particular features, authorship, transmission, loss, and reconstruction over time. The Shizi set the stage for a long history of syncretic endeavor in China, and its study provides insight into the vital traditions of early Chinese philosophy. It is also a template for interpreting other well-known works, such as the Confucian Analects, the Daoist Laozi, the Mohist Mozi, and the Legalist Shang jun shu.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of A Kim Jong-Il Production, by Paul Fischer, read by Stephen Park.Before becoming the world''s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea''s film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of South Korea''s most famous actress and her ex-husband, the country''s most acclaimed director.In a jaw-dropping mission the couple were kidnapped, held hostage and then ''employed'' to make films for the Dear Leader, including a remake of Godzilla. They gained Kim''s trust - but could they escape?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Riveting, grade A smack for cinema junkies...Fischer's writing pulsates." -Steven Soderbergh, filmmakerThe untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries-Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg-revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right.Within a year, the three men would become friends. Spielberg, prioritizing security, got his seven-year contract directing television. Lucas and Coppola, hungry for independence, left Hollywood for San Francisco to found an alternative studio, American Zoetrope, and make films without answering to corporate capitalism.Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. Along the way, Coppola directed The Godfather, then the highest-grossing film of all-time, until Spielberg surpassed it with Jaws - whose record Lucas broke with Star Wars, which Spielberg surpassed again with E.T. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. The Last Kings of Hollywood is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures - intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.

Sind das Ein-Platz-Prinzip und die daraus resultierenden exklusiven Organisationsstrukturen im Sport als gegeben hinzunehmen? – Dieser Frage geht der Autor dieses Bandes nach. Er untersucht das Ein-Platz-Prinzip, das in nahezu jeder Sportart die Verbandsstrukturen von der internationalen bis hin zur regionalen Ebene prägt. Neben der Ein-Platz-Regelung stellt er auch die Teilnahmeverbote der Sportfachverbände auf den Prüfstand. Die zentralen Erkenntnisse gewinnt er, indem er den Kerninhalt der Autonomie der Sportfachverbände bestimmt und diesen allein in den für den Wettkampfsport notwendigen Regelungen sieht.

„Eine fulminante Entzauberung der Ein-Platz-Regel" – Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Kubiciel via Twitter