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Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond

Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives

by Anja Hennig, Ives Bizeul, Fabio Bolzonar, Radu Cinpoes, Belén Fernández-García, Katja Freistein, Frank Gadinger, Oliver Hidalgo, Antonius Liedhegener0, Anastasia Litina1, Laura Lots2, Miroslav Mares3, Astrid Mattes4, Madalena Meyer Resende5, Konstantinos Papasthatis6, Xavier Romero-Vidal7, Robert Sata8, Jakob Schwörer9, Christine Unrau0, Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann1, Manon Westphal2 ...

Globale Migrationsbewegungen, Sicherheitsbedrohungen und soziale Umwälzungen haben in den vergangenen Jahren den Aufstieg populistischer rechter Parteien und Bewegungen in Europa und im transatlantischen Raum befördert. Religiöse Akteure stellen potenzielle Allianzpartner für diese Gruppierungen dar. Denn religiöse Interpretationen, etwa die Bezugnahme auf christliche Traditionen, bieten ein ... Read more

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Globale Migrationsbewegungen, Sicherheitsbedrohungen und soziale Umwälzungen haben in den vergangenen Jahren den Aufstieg populistischer rechter Parteien und Bewegungen in Europa und im transatlantischen Raum befördert. Religiöse Akteure stellen potenzielle Allianzpartner für diese Gruppierungen dar. Denn religiöse Interpretationen, etwa die Bezugnahme auf christliche Traditionen, bieten ein
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Antiheroines of Contemporary Media

Saints, Sinners, and Survivors

by Melanie Haas, Henriette-Juliane Seeliger, Tiara Sukhan, Lucinda Rasmussen, Melanie Piper, Louise Coopey, Kathleen Waites, Liz Evans, Stephanie Salerno0, Anja Meyer1, Siobhan Lyons2, Brenda Boudreau4 ...

This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and ... Read more

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This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and
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Traces of Modernism

Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

by Monica Cioli, Maurizio Ricciardi, Pierangelo Schiera, Fabio Benzi, Roberta Ferrari, Eckhart J. Gillen, Sophie Goetzmann, Andrea Meyer-Fraatz0, Eric Michaud1, Silvio Pons2, Anja Schloßberger-Oberhammer3, Francescomaria Tedesco4 ...

Die Krise der Moderne und der auf sie antwortende Modernismus markieren den Übergang vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Im Ersten Weltkrieg und den sich an ihn anschließenden Revolutionen manifestierten sie sich auf dramatische Weise. Dieses Buch geht den Beziehungen zwischen den neuen sozialen und politischen Entwürfen dieser Zeit - Planungsdenken, Neuer Mensch, totaler Staat - und den künstlerisch ... Read more

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Die Krise der Moderne und der auf sie antwortende Modernismus markieren den Übergang vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Im Ersten Weltkrieg und den sich an ihn anschließenden Revolutionen manifestierten sie sich auf dramatische Weise. Dieses Buch geht den Beziehungen zwischen den neuen sozialen und politischen Entwürfen dieser Zeit - Planungsdenken, Neuer Mensch, totaler Staat - und den künstlerisch
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Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People

Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care

by David Oliver, Gabriele Meyer, Kate Irving, Carmel Hughes, Sascha Kopke, Kate Lapane, Suparna Madan, Antonie Haut, Beryl Goldman, Anja Gerlach, Chris Gastmans, Jan Dewing, Sheena Whylie, Jane Williams, Pat Rowe, Karen Russell, Ingelin Testad, Samuel R Nyman, Heather Wilkinson, Joan Ferlo Todd, Gregory M Smith, Dag Aarsland, Donna M Ashbridge, Peter JS Ashley, Janet Davis, Robert H Davis, Aidan Altenor, Steve Clarke, David Evans, Jim Ellis ...

The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people. ... Read more

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The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people.
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Teaching English

by Michael Meyer, Nancy Grimm, Laurenz Volkmann ...

Narrated by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein ...

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11 hours 31 min

This lively audiobook in a pleasant female voice with a charming British accent appeals to students who like to complement their reading of the book with listening – or simply missed the lecture. Watching the PowerPoint presentations online while listening facilitates multimodal learning. This audiobook also serves a lecture-oriented flipped classroom and complements other introductions to ... Read more

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This lively audiobook in a pleasant female voice with a charming British accent appeals to students who like to complement their reading of the book with listening – or simply missed the lecture. Watching the PowerPoint presentations online while listening facilitates multimodal learning. This audiobook also serves a lecture-oriented flipped classroom and complements other introductions to
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Imagining Europe

Myth, Memory, and Identity

by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or ... Read more

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In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or
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Multitude

War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...

In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more ... Read more

$5.99 USD

In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more
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The Great Regression

Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...

We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

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We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years
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Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism

Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism

by A. James Gregor ...

This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided ... Read more

$26.29 USD

This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided
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Not Enough

Human Rights in an Unequal World

by Samuel Moyn ...

“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

$15.19 USD

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“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment
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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan ...

For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring ... Read more

$28.79 USD

For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring
... Read more
Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...

Translated by Catherine Porter ...

Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the
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