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Published online: 10 March 2011
Published in print: 04 January 2010
...Abdelwahab Meddeb is concerned with the roots and history of Islam and with crossings, like his own, between Islam and Europe. White Traverses is a poetic memoir about growing up in Tunisia and the contrasts between Islamic and European influences. In it, the intense colors...
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Published: 20 November 2018
... Pasolini Pier Paolo Walser Martin Char René Genet Jean Leonetti Francesco Nietzsche Friedrich Ollier Claude Schefer Jean Louis Yacine Kateb Europe intellectuals journals politics When in the fall of 1960 Blanchot, Mascolo, and Vittorini decided to launch the project for an International...
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Published: 02 January 2012
... anticommunism still gave him some semblance of authority in France and in the United States. During his imprisonment in September 1944, Tasca still talked about socialism and entertained the idea of making an intellectual contribution to the reconstruction of Europe, but he longed to return to Italy, which he...
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Published: 06 December 2022
... Valéry Paul Cecchi Emilio Cummings Henry Gigli Lorenzo Catholic Church atonement Rotten Mother Malaparte virility Allied occupation of Italy creaturely life Fascist intellectuals Curzio Malaparte Kaputt Nazi occupation of Europe The Skin testimony totalitarianism WWII literature Curzio...
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Published: 09 January 2013
... identity Germany double bind of postwar identity collective “Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe” Berlin memory ephemeral nature of remembrance Adorno Theodor W Aesthetic Theory Kracauer Siegfried Luhmann Niklas Lukács György modernity Nora Pierre Riegl Alois Mitscherlich Alexander...
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Published online: 29 May 2014
Published in print: 01 December 2013
... the “queer turn in feminism” that occurred at the very end of the twentieth century in the United States, and some fifteen years later in Western Europe....
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Published: 01 September 2009
... that Europe had no racism. However, for a black man, Europe seemed a lot less dangerous. Spending time with his family was a precious gift after having been away from them, and he was also happy to have a chance to return to Virginia to see his girlfriend, Connie Boyer. New York City Allen Jones black...
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Published: 15 November 2006
...This chapter looks at Europe's responses to the veil or headscarf and the politics of gender to clarify how the confrontation between ideologies of secularism and the multifarious strategies of conversion fails to register what should have been clear all along: namely, that anxious contemporary...
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Published: 01 May 2012
...It is not by chance that philosophy was born on the sea, when the word “being” came into existence, floating between being and nothingness. This chapter explores the centrality of the Mediterranean as it relates to Europe, and argues that Greece is polytheism and tragedy. Europe becomes a world...
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Published: 15 December 2006
... that printmaking in Europe grew up alongside the printed Christian Bible. The print's beginnings in Western Europe coincided roughly with the development of the printing press and movable type. Indeed, the impact of the biblical print is in some ways analogous to that of the printed text. Just as the printing...
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Published: 17 November 2008
...This chapter focuses on some of Derrida's works: The Other Heading, Rogues, and A Europe of Hope. These works reveal what Derrida thinks about Europe (beyond geographical designation and current political incarnation), its unique “promise” to non...
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Published: 05 November 2019
... with supranational organizations like the EU, NAFTA, and the WTO against the so-called populism of its right-wing opponents, many observers have painted themselves into a corner. The problems with a straightforward compound of “neoliberal Europe” became starkly evident with the success of the “leave” vote...
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Published: 04 February 2020
... ecumenism Nazism theodicy Feuerbach Ludvig Reinhard Kenneth Derrida Jacques Freud Jakob Yerushalmi Yosef Hayim deconstruction Freudian psychoanalysis Paul and Judaism Pauline introspection post-Holocaust Europe Romans Paul has been constructed as the first Christian who abrogated the Jewish law...
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Published: 01 February 2014
...This chapter provokes an encounter between Queer and Europe. Encounters are both threats and opportunities that reveal ideological investments. Therefore, the chapter’s aim is to exacerbate rather than conceal the destabilizing consequences of conjoining Queer and Europe. The objective...
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Published: 01 December 2020
... silence s “Sounding the Sacred” conference theology Albin Andrew Karnes Kevin May Christopher J Siitan Toomas Europe film score s modernism “Pärt sound ” the United States Bouteneff Peter Cizmic Maria Engelhardt Jeffers Helbig Adriana Hillier Paul Shenton Andrew reception text s...
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Published: 07 July 2020
...Examines the concept “border” bearing in mind Etienne Balibar’s extensive work on the matter of geopolitical borders, animated by analysis of the problem of “Europe” which ranges from a historical demand to account for the trajectory of European thought and its political implications...
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Published online: 01 September 2011
Published in print: 15 October 2008
... that emerged in early modern Europe and that limits our thinking today must be understood as a fundamentally racialized logic, first visible in the New World. The modern concept of sovereignty is based on a trope of personification, the conjunction of individual and collective identities. In Grotius, Hobbes...
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Published online: 21 May 2015
Published in print: 15 December 2014
..., Germanos Demakos) chose the path of active resistance and joined the National Liberation Front (EAM). Despite significant differences between the Greek case and those of other territories in Axis-occupied Europe, the response of the Greek church is instructive in understanding the conditions under which...
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Published: 03 June 2013
... studies West Virginia closed IO models open IO models employment Florida job growth multiplier effect in broadband sectors worldwide information society basic definitions United Kingdom cost and benefit framework Europe absence of universal service principle intermediate transactions Sweden...
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Published: 17 November 2008
...This chapter illustrates how Derrida looks upon America, and describes Derrida's life in America. It considers Derrida's influence on America, especially in deconstruction, a term often associated with him. It also provides a description of Derrida's “America” and “Europe”. Algeria Deconstruction...