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Chances for Parliamentary Politics Today
2018
In the final chapter, the contemporary situation of parliamentary politics is discussed. The chances and limits of the parliamentary ideal type are situated to the current horizons of Western European politics. The main point is to emphasise the priority of dissensus and debate over outcomes as the main advantage of parliamentary-style politics over the narrowly teleological forms of human activities. With different thought experiments we could imagine to parliamentarise procedures and practices. These themes are discussed in terms of Perelmanian conceptual pairs of rhetoric, from a perspective that first presents the obstacle to parliamentarisation and discusses chances for a revaluation i…
Vita di un impero: tracce di metafore biologiche in Tucidide
2019
Although we do not find in the narrative of the Peloponnesian War an explicit analogy between the phases of human life (more or less distributed) and those of the great political bodies, it remains nevertheless fruitful in my opinion to explore the text in search of clues for biological metaphors. In particular, I will follow the traces left throughout the narrative by three crucial elements: daring (τόλμα), desire (ἔρως), disease (νόσος). The biological metaphor of the 'degrees of development' of the living being in Thucydides does not find fulfillment in the senectus. His absence was charged by Reinhart Koselleck as a distinctive feature of Greek historiography, especially of the classica…
Hav, hage, teater og temperatur i Cora Sandels <i>Alberte</i>-bøker
2010
Current readings of Cora Sandel’s Alberta-trilogy (1926-1939) frequently tend to reuse the novels’ imagery in their own descriptive and interpretive statements – instead of treating this characteristic of the novels with the same degree of attention as, e.g., the trilogy’s psychological and political aspects, or its narrative technique. The present article attempts to draw attention to the trilogy’s imagery as a both autonomous and integral element in Cora Sandel’s novelistic art. Three metaphorical ways of thought which show their presence throughout the trilogy, are singled out: In the novels, the persons (and thus, implicitly or explicitly, the human condition) are frequently pictured as…
Institutional Arrangements Matter for Both Efficiency and Distribution: Contributions and Challenges of the New Institutional Economics
2011
Are scholars in the New Institutional Economics tradition systematically disregarding distributive aspects when approaching policy issues as was the case during the 1970s and 1980s? Do economic and political agents usually care about distribution too? To provide an answer to these questions is the basic purpose of this chapter. The analysis carried out demonstrates that not all NIE oriented scholars disregard distributive issues. Some contributions are examined as examples, mainly in the so-called political economy branch of NIE. By means of a well-known graphical tool, the chapter also emphasizes that all of us clearly care about distribution, not just about efficiency, when participating …
Attitudes towards the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the European Union: The treaty partner heuristic and issue attention
2018
Why has the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partisanship met with strong public resistance among some Europeans and in some European Union member states, but not in others? This article argues that one important perspective to explain the pattern of support for TTIP is the role of heuristic opinion formation and issue attention. Analysing multiple waves of Eurobarometer data, I find that views of the two treaty partners, the US and the European Union, shape attitudes towards TTIP and that the largely post-materialist concerns over TTIP resonated specifically in those European countries whose citizens’ attention was less focused on economic issues. In showing how opinions towards concret…
1432P Characterizing diversity in the immune profile by a transcriptomic customized gene signature to potentially personalize treatment in advanced g…
2021
Hermeneutic Phenomenology meets Transformative Learning
2017
The research methods that have been employed in the latest studies on transformative learning are several. This diversity can be considered as a strength insofar as each method, with its underlying philosophy of research, has contributed to the enhancement of transformative learning, namely disclosing new insights
Translation and the Politics of Circulating Ideas
2018
This chapter explores the politics of circulating ideas, as part of a broader reflection on the circulation/diffusion/transfer/transplantation of concepts and ideas in the EU. The chapter starts with a discussion of some main points of Pierre Bourdieu’s text on the international circulation of ideas in which he develops a framework for the analysis of the diffusion of culture. The author then proceeds to develop some further lines of inquiry for an alternative social science approach to these issues. He explores the mechanisms by which ideas and concepts are associated to one another, how they form semantic fields, how they come to form institutionalized and taken-for-granted horizons of ac…
Córtazar in the middle of Pulp culture and political denunciation
2018
In Fantomas against the multinational vampires (1975) Julio Cortázar mixes a verbal narration with comic strips and with the Russell Tribunal political report. The text is a place of negotiation between some different ways of understanding the relationship between literature, culture and politics. Cortazar was trying to give an answer to the latinoamerican intellectual debates on these issues.
Entryism in the British Labour Party, 1920- 1992
2022
This work aims at studying entryism in the context of the revolutionary socialist left in Britain, from the inception of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 to the departure of Militant, the largest entryist organisation of the Kingdom, from the Labour Party in 1992.Entryism, which is often at the heart of political myths, is a tactic of penetration of a political party by another, aiming at accomplishing objectives, the nature of which can change depending on the type of entry. The intention of this study is to show to what extent there is not one type of entryism but several ones.The adopted methodology is chronological. The first part is dedicated to the relationship between the…