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Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: o istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane
2021
As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was guided by a solid liberal and bourgeois drive. Claiming the autonomy of the aesthetics, Lovinescu actually built an urban bourgeois literary canon in his effort to systematize the local literary material. Almost 100 years later, Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 (2021) proceeds to a similar effort, but through the lens of New Left critical theory. Both Lovinescu and Iovănel use what I call the administrative language of their time: Lovinesc…
Translating the Classics into the vernacular in sixteenth-century Italy
2015
Whilst early- and mid-fifteenth-century Italian humanism had concentrated on ambitious new translations from Greek into Latin, rather neglecting the vernacular, the sixteenth century is characterized by a proliferation of vernacular works in all fields and, especially from the 1530s on, intense activity in translating classical works into Italian. This article discusses some material features of the original and translated publications under consideration, but especially explores linguistic choices and translation techniques used by three translators in a variety of classical texts: Antonio Brucioli (1487–1566), who translated among other things the texts discussed here, the Rhetorica ad He…
‘Where the F… is Vuotso?’ : heritage of Second World War forced movement and destruction in a Sámi reindeer herding community in Finnish Lapland
2017
In this paper we discuss the heritage of the WWII evacuation and the so-called ‘burning of Lapland’ within a Sámi reindeer herding community, and assess how these wartime experiences have moulded, and continue to mould, the ways people memorialise and engage with the WWII material remains. Our focus is on the village of Vuotso, which is home to the southernmost Sámi community in Finland. The Nazi German troops established a large military base there in 1941, and the Germans and the villagers lived as close neighbours for several years. In 1944 the villagers were evacuated before the outbreak of the Finno-German ‘Lapland War’ of 1944–1945, in which the German troops annihilated their militar…
Smithian Sentimentalism Anticipated: Pufendorf on the Desire for Esteem and Moral Conduct
2018
In this paper, we argue that Samuel Pufendorf's works on natural law contain a sentimentalist theory of morality that is Smithian in its moral psychology. Pufendorf's account of how ordinary people make moral judgements and come to act sociably is surprisingly similar to Smith's. Both thinkers maintain that the human desire for esteem, manifested by resentment and gratitude, informs people of the content of central moral norms and can motivate them to act accordingly. Finally, we suggest that given Pufendorf's theory of socially imposed moral entities, he has all the resources for a sentimentalist theory of morality.
Taylor on Solidarity
2009
After characterizing Taylor’s general approach to the problems of solidarity, we distinguish and reconstruct three contexts of solidarity in which this approach is developed: the civic, the socio-economic, and the moral. We argue that Taylor’s distinctive move in each of these contexts of solidarity is to claim that the relationship at stake poses normatively justified demands, which are motivationally demanding, but insufficiently motivating on their own. On Taylor’s conception, we need some understanding of extra motivational sources which explain why people do (or would) live up to the exacting demands. Taylor accepts that our self-understanding as members of either particular communiti…
Des curés chez Bacchus : satire anticléricale et opposition politique chez Gustave Courbet (1863-1868)
2013
International audience; Dans les années 1860, parallèlement à sa virulente opposition au Second Empire, Gustave Courbet produit des tableaux, pamphlets et illustrations qui servent son combat anticlérical. En écho au Retour de la conférence, refusé pour immoralité au Salon de 1863 et au Salon des Refusés – l’œuvre montre un cortège de curés ivres –, le peintre publie en 1868 un opuscule, Les Curés en goguette, illustré de six dessins qu’il conçoit comme une extension de son tableau original et comme une intervention polémique, à caractère satirique, dans la tradition de la caricature anticléricale. Mais cette suite d’images, jusqu’alors peu étudiée, croise d’autres préoccupations de Courbet…
Politics of affect in the EU heritage policy discourse : an analysis of promotional videos of sites awarded with the European Heritage Label
2017
European cultural heritage is discussed with affective rhetoric in current European Union (EU) policy discourse. How does affect contribute to the meaning-making of a European cultural heritage and how are the workings of affect used by the EU to promote certain meanings of heritage and effect thereupon? The analysis focuses on recent promotional videos of sites awarded with the European Heritage Label by the EU. In the videos, affective textual, visual, audible, and narrative tropes intertwine with the tropes of EU policy rhetoric, increasing its capacity to impact and ‘move’ the receivers. The ethos of a European cultural heritage in the videos is based on a paradox: the history of the se…
« Les relations entre policiers et gendarmes à travers leurs représentations mutuelles sous la Troisième République (1875-1914) »
2003
International audience; L'histoire des relations entre policiers et gendarmes ne semble composée que d'épisodes tendant à faire de ces agents les acteurs irréconciliables de l'ordre. Ces récits construisent un antagonisme qui se nourrit, d'abord, de représentations mutuelles avant d'être une réalité de terrain. Si pour les policiers, les gendarmes ne sont que des militaires dénués de ce « flair » indispensable pour accomplir des missions de police judiciaire, les gendarmes, au contraire, voient les policiers comme les descendants honteux de Vidocq. Ces représentations, qui assument autant une fonction identitaire professionnelle que de positionnement institutionnel, ne sont pas figées et év…
‘Our words are stronger’ : re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event
2020
This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on media events as public rituals in news media and applies digital media ethnography as its method. Fieldwork is conducted in 15 online news sites. The article identifies three key phases through which the ritual work was carried out: the rupture in the news event (ritualised as the strike), the liminal phase (ritualised as the manhunt) and the reconstitution of order following the attack (ritualised as the mourning). The article concludes with an interpretation of the broader …
¿Guerrilla unisex? Ser mujer u hombre en el conflicto guatemalteco a partir de los testimonios de combatientes
2016
Resumen: A partir de los testimonios de combatientes guatemaltecos: Autobiografia de una guerriglia (Ramirez, 1969), Los dias de la selva (Payeras, 1980), Rosa Maria, una mujer en la guerrilla. Relatos de la insurgencia guatemalteca en los anos sesenta (Paiz Carcamo, 2015), Mujeres en la alborada (Colom, 1998) y Ese obstinado sobrevivir. Autoetnografia de una mujer guatemalteca (Arriola, 2000); el texto analiza los posibles cambios acaecidos en las relaciones de genero en la sociedad guatemalteca durante y despues de la gesta revolucionaria. Palabras clave: Genero, testimonio, Guatemala y estereotipos. Abstract: The text analyses the testimonies of Guatemalan combatants : Autobiografia de u…