The reactions to the Austrian conservatives joining forces with the FPÖ can be attributed to the established political parties¹ need for a common enemy. In the “post-political era” the choice between Left and Right has lost its meaning, says Slavoj Zizek. The return of the extreme Right is the price that the “Third Way” of social democracy is paying for its renunciation of any radical political project.
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Ett försök att förklara "Walser-affären"
I sitt tacktal för den tyska bokhandelns fredspris deklararerade Martin Walser att han fått nog av “instrumentaliseringen av Auschwitz”. Men när Walser själv bortser från den politiska sprängkraften i sitt tal och samtidigt gör anspråk på att tala med författarens auktoritet, bidrar han i själva verket till den cyniska instrumentaliseringen av litteraturen, skriver Lothar Baier.
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The age of discovery
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The Fort Madison Rodeo
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Americans at millennium’s end
How we learned to love the media and forget who we are
Hebrew poetry at the turn of the millennium
Preface to the anthology of contemporary Hebrew poetry
New Asian Migration to Eastern Europe
The Case of the Chinese in Hungary
The Fall of the Angelus Novus
Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options
The global and the local in human rights: The case of FR Yugoslavia
The Case of the FR of Yugoslavia
In a fascinating addendum to Native Son (1940), the novelist Richard Wright talked about “the deep fun” of writing the book, and his sense that the nightmarish but weirdly comic saga of an illiterate black killing an upper-class white was universal.