Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2214440
L. Stan
{"title":"Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath","authors":"L. Stan","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2214440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2214440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41577013","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2214443
Yu Liu
{"title":"Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism","authors":"Yu Liu","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2214443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2214443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42067896","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2214438
Jakub Filonik
{"title":"Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism","authors":"Jakub Filonik","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2214438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2214438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":"28 1","pages":"673 - 675"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43283939","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2214439
L. Stan
{"title":"The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century","authors":"L. Stan","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2214439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2214439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42510743","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 : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2209972
K. Schweizer
{"title":"Fundamentalisms—Sacred Truths or Deceptions?","authors":"K. Schweizer","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2209972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2209972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46117500","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 : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2209971
J. Lalande
{"title":"Writing the Great War: The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present","authors":"J. Lalande","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2209971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2209971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47599237","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 : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2208014
K. M. Schmidt
ABSTRACT This article attempts a reinterpretation of Aeschylus’ Persians as primarily a warning about the instability of democracy following a major military victory against an overpowering totalitarian enemy. It discusses the historical and our contemporary ideas of the democratic principles of government versus the constant tendency towards a strongman regime. I argue that the play’s underlying philosophy is based on the Heraclitan idea of constant flux, which predates our modern ideas of the relativity of time and space, and the core concept underpinning any democracy that the only constant thing about it is continuous change. A short retrospective of modern productions of The Persians reveals the relationship between history and current events that can or cannot be associated with the play. By treating the thorny issue of translations and adaptations and the temptations of simplistic patriotic or antiwar interpretations of the play, the article also addresses the challenging task of determining what constitutes a just war and why a democracy is necessarily engaged in a continuous defensive battle against the forces of totalitarianism.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2209969
L. Johnson
{"title":"Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe","authors":"L. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2209969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2209969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44334297","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 : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2208013
Sarfaraj Nawab
{"title":"Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India","authors":"Sarfaraj Nawab","doi":"10.1080/10848770.2023.2208013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2208013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55962,"journal":{"name":"European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47056535","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 : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2204643
Sunny Dhillon
ABSTRACT This article argues for a reconceptualization of utopia as akairological rupture. Its central thesis disputes the conventional reading of utopia as a teleological goal to be realized by a social collective. Thus rather than viewing the potentiality of utopia as a prescribed ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants live in harmony, I argue that it should be seen as an akairological rupture, manifested through a determinately negative, individual, approach. In this reading, utopia is primarily a social condition within culture, and perennially opposed to any ideal telos. This temporal and qualitative reconceptualization of utopia as disruptive is anathema to the positive reading that sees it as feasible through social reform and rational discourse. This reconceptualization argues for the importance of developing a reading of utopia that can transcend any reified, fixed conception that seeks to domesticate it in the service of a contingent political aspiration, however noble and humanitarian it may appear to be. Herein lies its critical potentiality under neoliberal conditions.
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