technology. The French thinker Paul Virilio followed suit with his studies on the catastrophic consequences of virtualization and speed. Influenced by the growing anxieties in the 1990s and 2000s, Virilio would shift the focus from risks that might happen to
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The Little Entente of Women as Transnational Ethno-Nationalist Community
Spotlight on Romania
Maria Bucur
about with great admiration. 23 She also found a sympathetic ear among some French and British aristocratic women. 24 But overall, she came to the realization that within this large network, the specificities and needs of Romanian women became
Bridging the Political Gaps
The Interdiscursive Qualities of Political Romanticism in the Weimar Republic
Christian E. Roques
as it is inspired by the antiromanticism of authors close to the Action française , the French nationalist, monarchist, counterrevolutionary movement championed by Charles Maurras. 26 A paradigmatic example of the reception of Schmitt’s analysis is
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Ayşe Durakbaşa, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, Evgenia Sifaki, Maria Repoussi, Emilia Salvanou, Tatyana Kotzeva, Tamara Zlobina, Maria Bucur, Anna Muller, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, Lukas Schretter, Iza Desperak, Susan Zimmermann, and Marina Soroka
insanity. The final chapter in part 2 is Erica L. Fraser’s “Soviet Masculinities and Revolution.” Moving through time and space, Fraser compares the revolutionary masculinity of the Russian Revolution with that of the French and especially Latin American
Annabel Brett, Fabian Steininger, Tobias Adler-Bartels, Juan Pablo Scarfi, and Jan Surman
, in Suárez): that is, that the story of sovereignty just is the story of democracy, in some sense. Tuck tracks it through the eighteenth-century reception of Hobbesian thought in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, via the American Revolution and the French
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Sovereignty versus Influence
European Unity and the Conceptualization of Sovereignty in British Parliamentary Debates, 1945–2016
Teemu Häkkinen and Miina Kaarkoski
conception of Western civilization from this peril. 14 From January 1948 on, the British government started to assume a leading role in advocating cooperation, and in March 1948, Britain, France, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands signed a
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Crossing Boundaries
The Case of Wanda Wasilewska and Polish Communism
Agnieszka Mrozik
themselves and their environment. As Michel Foucault wrote: “Revolution … was [for communists] not just a political project; it was also a form of life.” 2 In one of his lectures delivered at the Collège de France in the early 1980s, Foucault noted that since
Rob Boddice, Christian J. Emden, and Peter Vogt
paper, the territorial integration of France with its colonies. The envisioned colonization of Algeria and the function of the Suez Canal also show, however, that the geopolitical integration of space through networks ultimately has to be paid for by the
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Introduction
Concepts of Emotions in Indian Languages
Margrit Pernau
of animals. This link between emotions and their naming has been investigated in detail by William Reddy. Originally a historian of the French eighteenth century, he is one of the few researchers who combined historical research with an in
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Women and Gender in Europe from 1939 to the Present
Challenging and Reassessing the Narrative
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Weill-Hallé? Dr. Weill-Hallé “disrupted the silence about contraception in France”; Katja Vodopivec was one of the founders of the field of social work in Yugoslavia; Maria Jančar established the School of Social Work, now a part of the University of