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[German Version] I. Terminology Both the name of the academic discipline and the understanding of what it studies have been subject to several historical transformations. Classically politics was understood as the normative good order of society; in the early and later modern period, the focus shifted to ¶ the empirical analysis of power and sovereignty (Dominion) as the characteristic subject matter of politics. In its earlier phase, no distinction was made between the academic discipline and its object of study; when the discipline was rees…