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Germany and the Aftermath of the Second World War
2017
New Phenomenological Horizons
2020
Preferring the word ‘horizon’ is focusing readers’ attention on the vision of phenomenology as a method at the same time recursive and productive. The issue collects the results of the efforts of a new generation of researchers, gathered for some years around two research experiences located in different times and spaces, but united by a healthy and rigorous experimental approach, i.e. the collective translation of the first part of Husserliana XLII (Grenzprobleme der Phänomenologie. Analysen des Unbewusstseins und der Instinkte. Metaphysik. Späte Ethik (Texte aus dem Nachlass 1908-1937) and the establishment of the International Research Summer School on Genetic Phenomäenology held at the …
Changing definitions of Asia
2012
The meaning of Asia has changed drastically during the millennia the concept has been in use. Its usage was established in Greek literature 2,500 years ago as a geographic reference to lands inhabited by the Greeks at the Eastern side of the Aegean Sea. Over the ensuing centuries, Asia’s Western boundary was extended to the rivers Don in the North and Nile in the South. At that time, it hardly contained any definite political or civilisational meanings. These were added to the concept in 1730 in a kind of Swedish–Russian cooperation when the Urals were redefined to form the boundary between Europe and Asia, the former starting to represent progress, and the latter its opposite. This situati…
The Fascination of History Ignored: Explosive Economic Paths for Which We Pay a Huge Price
2018
The paper is presenting a series of examples of ignored history – facts which were overlooked and the humankind who didn’t seem to learn anything. The examples are many: from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the First and Second World Wars and from the economic crisis of 2008–2009 to recent developments in East European countries, particularly in Romania, the people ignore the lessons, and the price paid for this ignorance is huge.
Historia y memoria de la educación : HMe
2019
Finalizada la Segunda Guerra Mundial en 1945, fueron muchos los que creyeron que el fin del conflicto supondría la caída del franquismo, el regreso del gobierno republicano y la vuelta de la democracia a España. Desde el exilio, el retorno estuvo muy presente en publicaciones, reuniones, manifiestos y acciones políticas, especialmente en México y en Francia. Entre los temas tratados en los círculos de los desterrados con mayor implicación política e intelectual sobresalió la educación, dada la importancia que se le daba a la formación de las nuevas generaciones de españoles que deberían de retomar los principios y valores republicanos. El artículo examina tres documentos con propuestas de l…
The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948
2009
This article examines the way in which the Holocaust was linked to the process of the birth of Israel between 1947 and 1948 in the mainstream British, Swedish and Finnish press. By utilising a framework of comparative cultural history, this essay seeks to understand why different countries responded to the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War in such diverse ways. This essay also seeks to question the popular belief that the two events were intimately linked, and that the link was recognised in a straightforward manner. Hence, the study argues that although the press coverage sometimes managed to establish the connection between the two events, more typically the news was domes…
Scandinavia and the great powers in the First World War
2020
In this compact and accessible volume, Michael Jonas sets Northern European experiences of the First World War in an international context, exploring the relationship between great powers and small...
The international Ebola response: heroes and bystanders in the chronicle of an epidemic foretold.
2014
The “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” and the First World War: The crisis of scientific internationalism: a view through the unedited correspondence of…
2021
Abstract In this work the situation of the “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” between 1914 and 1928 is analyzed. It will be observed that during this time the Circolo was among the few European scientific associations with German as well as French associates. During the 1930s, the nationalist politics of Fascism and above all the racial laws dealt a deadly blow to the Circolo as an international scientific association. We will use the rich correspondence in the Circolo's archives to shed some light on this. In particular, the correspondence between M. De Franchis and E. Landau and other recently found documents will figure prominently.
Assessing commodity price risks and terms of trade exposures in emerging and developing countries
2020
This paper provides novel evidence on commodity exposure (impacts of commodity price and terms of trade fluctuations) amongst 46 emerging and developing countries (EMDCs) in Africa, Asia and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. We focus on the exposures of six macroeconomic variables to the commodity prices and terms of trade, based on the real business cycle (RBC) theory. Our empirical results indicate that, overall, about 10% of the macroeconomic variation amongst the EMDCs is due to commodity market-related exposures. The Asian and LAC economies are especially sensitive to changes in commodity prices. The changes in the prices of world trade have an imminent impact on non-commo…