Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/00472441241245834a
Jon Banks
{"title":"Book Review: David Wyn Jones: The Strauss Dynasty & Habsburg Vienna","authors":"Jon Banks","doi":"10.1177/00472441241245834a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441241245834a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141168445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/00472441241245834h
Timothy B. Malchow
{"title":"Book Review: Dieter Stolz: Günter Grass: Der SchriftstellerDorothee Neuhaus and Volker Neuhaus: Katalogisierung und Kommentierung der Jugendlektüren von Günter Grass in den 1930er und frühen 1940er Jahren oder: Wie Oskar Matzerath zu seinem Vornamen kam: Die Büchersammlung der Helene Grass im Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg e. V. Literaturhaus Oberpfalz","authors":"Timothy B. Malchow","doi":"10.1177/00472441241245834h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441241245834h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141168441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/00472441241245834d
David Midgeley
{"title":"Book Review: Katherine E. Calvert: Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany. Political and Psychological Discourses in Women’s Writing","authors":"David Midgeley","doi":"10.1177/00472441241245834d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441241245834d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141168566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/00472441241245834e
Ingo Cornils
{"title":"Book Review: Mererid Puw Davies: Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany: On Fire","authors":"Ingo Cornils","doi":"10.1177/00472441241245834e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441241245834e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141168434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1177/00472441241246960
Wukai Lin, Taohua Wang
Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall features a circular narrative structure, with the unjust expulsion of Paul from Oxford University at the beginning and his enigmatic return at the end. Existing interpretations of this circularity, typically labelled as ‘fruitless’ or ‘futile’, have largely neglected the underlying tension between capitalist ideology and Paul’s moral subjectivity, which governs his movements through various spaces in the novel. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s conceptual framework of ‘territory’ and Henri Lefebvre’s notion of ‘social space’, this article proposes an alternative understanding of Paul’s three-part adventure as a process of ‘territorialization’, ‘deterritorialization’ and ‘reterritorialization’. These stages correspond to Paul’s moral development: moral decline, moral awakening and further moral growth. With his return to Oxford, Paul’s adventure constitutes, instead of an apparent ‘fruitless circularity’, a tortuous process of moral growth. Waugh thereby depicts the early twentieth-century British capitalist social space as a ‘vanity fair’ and explores the possibilities for individual growth within a territory of general moral decline.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00472441241246959
Kateřina Fuksová
Drawing on the threefold categorisation of memory as antagonistic, cosmopolitan and agonistic, proposed by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Hansen, the article examines contemporary memory activism in the Republic of Moldova and how it contributes to creating historical narratives. Through an analysis of two memory initiatives, namely ‘The Last Address’ and ‘Stolpersteine’, designed to memorialise victims of Soviet repression and atrocities committed by the Romanian and Nazi German forces, respectively, the article uncovers the many challenges facing memory activists in Moldova where there is limited openness about these periods in recent history. Instead, different versions of the past and suppression of painful truths are subservient to contemporary political agendas.
安娜-森托-布尔和汉斯-汉森将记忆分为对抗性、世界性和鼓动性三类，文章以此为基础，探讨了摩尔多瓦共和国的当代记忆活动及其如何促进历史叙事的形成。通过分析两项分别旨在纪念苏联镇压和罗马尼亚及纳粹德国军队暴行受害者的记忆活动，即 "The Last Address "和 "Stolpersteine"，文章揭示了摩尔多瓦的记忆活动家所面临的诸多挑战，因为在摩尔多瓦，对近代史上这些时期的公开程度有限。相反，不同版本的过去和对痛苦真相的压制服从于当代的政治议程。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-26DOI: 10.1177/00472441241245834
Paul Bishop
{"title":"Book Reviews: Kommentar zu Nietzsches ‘Die fröhliche Wissenschaft’ [Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken","authors":"Paul Bishop","doi":"10.1177/00472441241245834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441241245834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141148624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-26DOI: 10.1177/00472441241246956
Guylian Nemegeer
This article focuses on the discourse on pacifism and Latinity in the Italian periodical Cronache della civiltà elleno-latina (1902–1907), founded by Angelo De Gubernatis. Under the leadership of Crispi in the 1880s and 1890s, Italy embraced expansionism, colonialism, and pro-German attitudes, which strained its relations with France. In stark contrast to this militarism, the Cronache championed a vision of Italy rooted in liberal and democratic ideals. The periodical advocated for a peaceful international order to enhance Italy’s position in modernity. In doing so, it proposed an anti-belligerent macro-nationalism based on the dissemination of the values of Latinity: harmony, peace, and order. Specifically, I analyze how the periodical used the historical relations between France and Italy to construct a myth of a new Latin Renaissance. This Renaissance envisioned a profound epochal transformation, a new beginning in European history characterized by peace, unity, and solidarity among Europe’s nations.
这篇文章的重点是意大利期刊《Cronache della civiltà elleno-latina》（1902-1907 年）中有关和平主义和拉丁性的论述，该期刊由安杰洛-德-古贝纳提斯（Angelo De Gubernatis）创办。19 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代，在克里斯皮的领导下，意大利奉行扩张主义、殖民主义和亲德态度，这使其与法国的关系紧张。与这种军国主义形成鲜明对比的是，《克罗那切》倡导一种植根于自由和民主理想的意大利愿景。该期刊主张建立和平的国际秩序，以提高意大利在现代社会中的地位。为此，它提出了一种反战的宏观民族主义，其基础是传播拉丁价值观：和谐、和平与秩序。具体而言，我分析了该期刊如何利用法国和意大利之间的历史关系来构建一个新的拉丁文艺复兴神话。这种文艺复兴预示着一场深刻的时代变革，是欧洲历史的一个新起点，其特点是欧洲各国之间的和平、统一和团结。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1177/00472441241235142
Filippo Bignami, Naomi Clara Hankata
This article analyses how digital platforms challenge and redefine the way in which urban forms of citizenship are shaped. What we call ‘platform urbanisation’ accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when digital platforms penetrated with increasing rapidity into every aspect of urban life. While these digital platforms have facilitated new possibilities for engagement, access to services, efficiency in processing data, and customising responses to people online and offline, they also pose political challenges related to inequality, privacy, exclusion and social polarisation. Developing a techno-political urban environment built upon inclusion, equality, and respect for the rights of users, necessitates leveraging the potential of digital platforms to empower citizens and acknowledging and incorporating the political nature of this new urban environment. Furthermore, the intersection between the political influence of platforms on the governance of citizens and everyday life has a biopolitical dimension, since the power of platforms is exercised through policies and practices that affect individuals and collectivities. The article clarifies two essential facets of platform urbanisation: (1) the political nature of such a process, which requires a reframing of citizenship and (2) the role of both material and immaterial infrastructures in this process, which serve thus to constitute it as a new biopolitical territory. This conceptual expansion allows us to interpret digital platforms as an inextricable merging of political rationality, administrative techniques and technology.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1177/00472441241232671
Thomas Crew
This article examines the ideas, reception and social role of Germany’s most prominent cultural critic of lockdown politics, Gunnar Kaiser. In contrast to the majority of European intellectuals, Kaiser took an early public stand against the naive adoption of science as a social authority and the unprecedented overturning of core democratic principles. He argued that without vigorous, open debate, the worldwide state of emergency threatened to usher in a fundamentally new (bio)political era, in which liberal democracy would be replaced by an increasingly totalitarian technocracy. Yet despite his voluminous philosophical output, which included a highly creative and increasingly professionalised YouTube channel as well as two best-selling books, Kaiser found himself largely excluded from mainstream German discourse. Crew analyses the full range of Kaiser’s interventions while also situating him within the broader landscape of European dissent.
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