»Criminal Law and Criminal Compliance in Philosophical Perspective. A Critique of the Postmodern Zeitgeist in Criminal Law«: Compliance is considered by many criminal law scholars and lawyers the jewel in the crown. At the apex of the relationship between compliance and criminal law, this work aims to bring the honeymoon phase to an end. The attainment of this goal cannot be had without a general theory of compliance, whereby this research is followed by a social and legal philosophical classification of compliance, which in turn leads to the search for a meta-theory of the criminal law doctrine in Germany, inserting again all areas into a historical consideration.