the role of the Wehrmacht in turning the war into a war of extermination and on their knowledge of and participation in the organization of the so-called Final Solution and the Holocaust. Unlike earlier controversies, this could not be contained in an
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Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 7–28
Representative Government in the Dutch Provinces
The Controversy over the Stadtholderate (1705–1707) and Simon van Slingelandt
Bert Drejer
towns had no right to speak for themselves. Van Slingelandt's pivotal claim is that the represented members of the States are excluded from participation in its meetings. He first introduces this claim in speaking of a declaration of the nobility of 1555
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 76–96
Eugenia Gay, Philipp Nielsen, Emanuel Richter, and Gregor Feindt
public affairs, implicating cleverness, factitiousness, and selfishness. Politique sometimes attains a very disrespectful meaning, associated with pretension and audacity. For the moment, it does not carry any reference to democracy or participation
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Book Review
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- 123–142
African Dawn
Keïta Fodéba and the Imagining of National Culture in Guinea
Andrew W. M. Smith
to invigorate national culture and offered the winners participation in a biannual national festival. 85 This system was a key part of Sekou Touré’s attempt at “reinvigorating the arts” in his search for authentic national culture. 86 These musical
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Christina Oesterheld
Islamic novel makes use of the themes of romantic love and love marriage, but safely situated outside the respectable middle-class domestic sphere. However, while Sharar portrays romantic love as a driving force for the hero’s participation in jihād
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
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The Specter of Communism
Denmark, 1848
Bertel Nygaard
qualifications as a condition for suffrage—instead of the age limit of thirty years supported by the left and center politicians. He argued, characteristically, that the personal independence required for political participation did not appear at a certain age
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Does Democratic Theory Need Epistemic Standards?
Grounds for a Purely Procedural Defense of Majority Rule
Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti
based on the principle of cognitive diversity instead of competence. More broadly, however, this example illustrates that because epistemic theories of democracy do not treat political participation as a normative value in itself but only as an
Paul Apostolidis, William E. Connolly, Jodi Dean, Jade Schiff, and Romand Coles
of the day: climate change, democratic participation, and inequality being leading candidates. He thinks that the dissonances between these tasks are best negotiated in two ways: through movements back and forth between creative reception and writing
Precarious Time, Morality, and the Republic
New Granada, 1818–1853
Francisco A. Ortega
strengthened the executive, curbed regional power, and restricted popular participation. 94 After 1847 the country spiraled again into intense conflict. Conservative president Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera initiated a number of liberalizing measures, but most
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 85–109
Nationalism and Internationalism Reconciled
British Concepts for a New World Order during and after the World Wars
Antero Holmila and Pasi Ihalainen
For many Republicans, nationalism remained a positively charged principle, and Wilson, too, emphasized the principle of national self-determination. As US participation appeared increasingly unlikely, British diplomats would play key roles in forming
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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