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The Jew Is to Be Burned: A Turning Point in the Communist Approach to the “Jewish Question” on the Eve of Catastrophe

history of the communist discussion on those issues. Existing scholarship has identified novel political stances among communists, such as recognizing the Jews as a nation and as unique victims of Nazism ... as unique victims of Nazism only from 1942 onwards. Although Heller did not express such far-reaching political views in this lost manuscript, he did introduce an original theoretical approach to the

Political Discourse and The Body on Television: Debate/Fighting

This article seeks to analyze the electoral political discourse from senses inscribed on the body of the presidential candidates in the 2014 campaign during the television broadcast of the last ... studies and anthropological studies of imagery production in the social history of civilizations, the paper aims to think over the functioning of the current political discourse inscribed in the dynamics of

From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia

Leib Prossnitz” [in Hebrew], Daat: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah 1 (1978): 73–120; Paweł Maciejko, ed., Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish ... ‘akedah melody also drew a parallel between the two men from Prosteˇjov and Jewish martyrdom. This melody echoes the political-religious context of the Bohemian lands in the late seventeenth century

“Tough to Compete”: Adaptation of Michael Dobbs’ Trilogy, House of Cards, by the BBC And Netflix

This paper presents a reading of the political trilogy House of Cards, To Play the King e The Final Cut, by Michael Dobbs, an English writer; and their adaptation by the BBC and Netflix series. I try ... Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary artistic/mediatic production. Keywords: House of Cards; Political Trilogy; TV Series Introdução Minha consciência tem mais de mil línguas, E todas me condenam por

West and East in Ashkenaz in the Time of Judah he-Ḥasid

contemporary political and territorial processes of the surrounding kingdom. The Hebrew terms describe the cultural tripartite division of the German kingdom (Regnum Teutonicum) in Lotharingia, the five duchies ... the “German lands” beginning in the twelfth century, I show how Hebrew geographic terminologies of the High Middle Ages can be utilized as a reflection of general political territorial developments. I

“Burning Villages”: Leo Katz’s Novels on the 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt and the Question of Antisemitism

Political Analysis, ed. Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly (Oxford, 2006), 210–24, at 213. 5Carol Iancu, Jews in Romania 1866–1919: From Exclusion to Emancipation (Boulder, CO, 1996), 150–52. from the Ottoman ... still constitutes a gap in the research. Filling that gap requires extensive study as an increasing amount of research reveals that in Romania, as in other European countries, political antisemitism found

Language, Translation, and the Irish Theatre Diaspora in Quebec

facilitated by similar political, religious, and even linguistic elements. Interest in Irish culture, especially in its theatrical output, remains high, with many theatre companies, for example Théâtre La ... political contextualisation of Irish and Québécois experiences of immigration and colonisation are useful for fleshing out the reasons for a sustained interest in Irish theatre on the part of Québécois

Dobbs and the Tiger: The Yeatses’ Intimate Occult

collaboration illuminates the esoteric philosophy expounded in the two very different versions of Yeats’s book A Vision (1925 and 1937). It is also theoretically interesting in itself, not only in the early ... marriage in 1917, the late period that includes much of his strongest work. A good deal is already known about their joint production of the esoteric philosophy expounded in Yeats’s book A Vision, and

Terry Eagleton: culture and politics in transformation

political terms.Keywords : Culture; History; Politics; Literary Criticism. ... . Some previous theoretical assumptions are abandoned and others are reaffirmed or modified. I try to discuss the results of this process in cultural, historical and political terms. Keywords: Culture

The Reconfiguration of Cultural Identity in We Need New Names, by Noviolet Bulawayo

Darling’s story from her childhood, in Harare, Zimbabwe, until she became an adult, as an immigrant in the United States. The novel’s background is the economic, political and social crisis that plagued the ... drafts of the novel were actually naming Zimbabwe, and they addressed Mugabe. The draft was not in Darling's voice, it was in an older peasant's voice. So you can imagine it was very political. There was a

Esp Teaching in Contemporary Medical Education In Brazil

Political Pedagogical Projects (PPPs) of public medical schools between the years 2013-2019; and (ii) to present a methodological proposal to the teaching of ESP in medical schools, according to the National ... universities, allowing the concrete consolidation of theory and practice, academy and community. Historical and political tensions were and will still be part of the structure and implementation of proposals

“So Were I Equalled in Renown”: Autobiographical Elements and the Epic Poet’s Career in Milton

major cultural and political revolution, in which the legitimacy of the individual consciousness was revalued. The main aim of this article is to explore specific moments in Milton’s oeuvre in which the ... discoveries, and religion, England’s economic and political structures were thoroughly reconfigured. While prior to that period civil society was understood as a great body whose head was the king,3 now, there

Revisiting The Waste Land in the Light of Lacanian Materialism

perspective. Thus, the Lacanian Materialism via Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher who writes in the scope of Political Theory, Film Criticism, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies, becomes essential for the

Agnes Blake Poor and the Pan-American Poems

Translation Studies, the objective of this article is to analyse the political and literary dimensions in which the anthology was published in the United States and compare the source and target poems to

“Serving the turn”: Collaboration and Proof in Illegal Hand-press Period Books

printing process - is key to understanding the social dynamics of authorship, and the strains on production resulting from political suppression of the press during this period. We look at the evidence of ... as orthodox ideas, and as such, printing was subject to various degrees of censorship. This remained the case throughout the political tumult of the seventeenth century. During the hand-press period

“Serving the turn”: Collaboration and Proof in Illegal Hand-press Period Books

printing process - is key to understanding the social dynamics of authorship, and the strains on production resulting from political suppression of the press during this period. We look at the evidence of ... as orthodox ideas, and as such, printing was subject to various degrees of censorship. This remained the case throughout the political tumult of the seventeenth century. During the hand-press period

Between Humans and Beasts: The Fictional Uncanny in The Great God Pan and Shame

the same device, typical of fantastic fiction, the metamorphosis of characters, and, through it, the authors build a subliminal criticism of the political and social system dominant in their own ... submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, August, 2010. [ Links ] RODRIGUES, Selma Calasans. O Fantástico

Critical tasks in action: the role of the teacher in the implementation of tasks designed from a critical perspective

Based on the premise that teaching is a political act and that it is thus necessary to engage additional language students in the process of both linguistic and critical development (Crookes, 2013 ... Introduction: teaching English critically through tasks Teaching (and also learning) is always a political act. As Paulo Freire (1996) states, “no one can be in the world, with the world and with others in a

Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry

Technology of Race." Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 2004, pp.77-98. [ Links ] Sheth, Falguni A. Toward a Political Philosophy of Race. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. [ Links ] Sinclair, Bruce, ed ... of a person’s humanness and their race. We ask this question amidst a surge of interest for theorizing race as some sort of technology. Consider four examples. Falguni Sheth, a political philosopher

Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry

Technology of Race." Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 2004, pp.77-98. [ Links ] Sheth, Falguni A. Toward a Political Philosophy of Race. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. [ Links ] Sinclair, Bruce, ed ... of a person’s humanness and their race. We ask this question amidst a surge of interest for theorizing race as some sort of technology. Consider four examples. Falguni Sheth, a political philosopher