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Niccolò Machiavelli: history, power, and virtue
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ISBN: 9789042032774 Year: 2011 Volume: 226 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

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Het Kleine Europa : landkaart van een estheticus
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ISBN: 9789044136258 9044136259 Year: 2018 Publisher: Antwerpen Garant

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Persoonlijke beschouwingen over kunst, politiek en Europa.

Loyalty, dissent, and betrayal
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ISBN: 9401201714 1423789091 9781423789093 9789401201711 9042017279 9789042017276 Year: 2005 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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Loyalty and betrayal are among key concepts of the ethic of nationalism. Marriage of state and culture, which seems the essence of the congruence between political power structure and collective identity, usually offers a simple explanation of loyalty and dissent. Loyalty is seen as once-and-for-all commitment of the individual to his or her nation, whereas betrayal is identified as a failure to commit him or herself to a common cause or as a diversion from the object of political loyalty and cultural/linguistic fidelity. For conservative or radical nationalists, even social and cultural critique of one's people and state can be regarded as treason, whereas for their liberal counterparts it is precisely what constitutes political awareness, civic virtue, and a conscious dedication to the people and culture. "This book is the first attempt to provide a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal and conservative nationalism. Analyzing the works and views of dissenters and critics of society and culture, we can reveal a mode of being of liberal nationalism as a social and cultural criticism. This volume is of interest for intellectual historians, social theorists, students of East-Central European thought, and anyone interested in Baltic studies and the new members of the EU. Dissent: act of betrayal, or loyalty? Leonidas Donskis' new remarkable study is one consistent, thorough and dedicated effort to provide an answer to that question." - Zygmunt Bauman (from the Preface).


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Yet another Europe after 1984
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ISBN: 9401208174 9789401208178 9789042035430 9042035439 Year: 2012 Volume: v. 252 Publisher: Amsterdam Editions Rodopi

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Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political mappages Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?

Forms of Hatred : The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature
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ISBN: 9789004493469 9789042010666 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis.


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Moral blindness : the loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity
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ISBN: 9780745662756 9780745662749 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies...


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Liquid evil : living with TINA
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ISBN: 9781509508112 9781509508129 1509508120 1509508112 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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Academia in crisis : dystopic optimism and postalgic realism in university life
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ISBN: 9004402039 900440158X Year: 2020 Publisher: Brill

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Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism. Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels.


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Secrets and Conspiracies
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ISBN: 9789004499720 9789004499713 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : Brill

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Secrets and conspiracies have always played an important role in human history, and today conspiracy theories have become a rather disconcerting practice for picturing our world and our relations with each other. How seriously are we to take them, then? Are we to completely discard them as political rhetoric, purposeful misinformation, or even individual delusions? Or should we take them as serious, perhaps even scientific theories? This collection purports to provide a sober analysis of the much-debated issues and tries to develop and outline conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of what secrets and conspiracies truly are.


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Politics otherwise
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ISBN: 1280394749 9786613572660 9401207461 9789401207461 9789042034648 9042034645 9781280394744 6613572667 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

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The book is comprised of essays that utilize Shakespeare as a productive window into topics of contemporary social and political relevance. Its interdisciplinary qualities make the book relevant for students of political studies, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and history.

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Political and social views. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Hākipia, Wiremu, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Śeksper, --- Şekspir, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Šekspyras, --- Sha-ō, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakespeare, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shakspir, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shashibiya, --- Shekspīʼar, Viliyam, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shekspir, U. --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, Uĭlii͡am, --- Shekspir, V. --- Shekspir, Vilʹi͡am, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Shekspyr, Vyli͡em, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Szekspir, William, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Shekspir, Uĭlii︠a︡m, --- Shekʻspir, Uilyam, --- Political and social views of a person

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