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08.02.2010
AC Grayling, Tzvetan Todorov

How to defend the Enlightenment

"To say that reason is only desiccating and too dry is a dangerous caricature. No less dangerous is to eliminate the place for arts, for myth, which is a different kind of knowledge of the world." Tzvetan Todorov in conversation with AC Grayling about his new book, "In Defence of the Enlightenment". [ more ]

05.02.2010
Christopher Newfield

The structure and silence of the cognitariat

05.02.2010
Lucas Zeise

Banking regulation? Malfunction!

04.02.2010
Michael Bywater

Fair game


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27.01.2010
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Erring on the side of secrecy

"Index on Censorship" covers another chapter of the fruitless cartoon debate; "Glänta" pays attention to nature; "RiLi" picks over the debris of aviation's dreams; "Multitudes" calls on cognitarians of all lands; "L'Homme" misses women's lib in the 68 anniversary; "Edinburgh Review" takes Kafka's Prague down from the top shelf; "NZ" says Russian readers never had it so good as during Glasnost; "Osteuropa" doubts there's anything left in the pan-Slavic idea; "Mehr Licht" appeals to philosophy's transformative potential; and "Vikerkaar" uncovers the ancient origins of the telenovela.

13.01.2010
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Charismatic megafauna

16.12.2009
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Extra-parliamentary opposition 2.0

02.12.2009
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And ultimately to forget

18.11.2009
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Nuclear Bonapartism



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AC Grayling, Tzvetan Todorov

How to defend the Enlightenment

philosophy "To say that reason is only desiccating and too dry is a dangerous caricature. No less dangerous is to eliminate the place for arts, for myth, which is a different kind of knowledge of the world." Tzvetan Todorov in conversation with AC Grayling about his new book, "In Defence of the Enlightenment". [ more ]

08.02.2010
Christopher Newfield

The structure and silence of the cognitariat

universities Only a small "creative class" achieves the freedom stereotypically attributed to knowledge workers, writes Christopher Newfield. Increasingly, recipients of higher education are prepared for working life in a knowledge economy where independence has been eroded. [ more ]

05.02.2010
Lucas Zeise

Banking regulation? Malfunction!

financial crisis The few regulatory measures introduced since the financial collapse are being supervised by the same banking sector that caused it in the first place, writes Lucas Zeise. Governments' delegation of regulatory responsibilities has deeply negative implications for democracy. [ more ]

05.02.2010
Michael Bywater

Fair game

media 350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can't continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says Michael Bywater. [ more ]

04.02.2010
Ernesto Laclau

The defender of contingency

An interview with Ernesto Laclau

political science Ernesto Laclau talks to the Greek journal "Intellectum" about the uses of populism, why radical democracy has nothing to do with liberalism, and how lack of political competition benefits the far-Right. [ more ]

02.02.2010
Claus Offe

Lessons learned and open questions

Welfare state building in post-communist EU member states

welfare states The dissatisfaction expressed by the many not to have benefited from transition suggests post-commmunist welfare states have a long way to go before they attain western levels of credibility. Their democracies depend on that gap being bridged, argues Claus Offe. [ more ]

28.01.2010
Dominique Bourg

The ecological imperative

climate Reductions in greenhouse gases demand major economic and political changes. Dominique Bourg writes that we must abandon our obsessively humanist ideology if we wish to preserve humanity itself. This is an ecological imperative in its true, moral sense. [ more ]

01.02.2010
George Blecher

Anger as the ship goes down

financial crisis Obama's proposed banking reforms are likely to face insurmountable opposition from Congress, where lobby interests have become all-powerful. Worse still, writes George Blecher, the proposals themselves don't go far enough. [ more ]

29.01.2010
 

a look into the latest issues

Eurozine Review

Erring on the side of secrecy

Journals digest "Index on Censorship" covers another chapter of the fruitless cartoon debate; "Glänta" pays attention to nature; "RiLi" picks over the debris of aviation's dreams; "Multitudes" calls on cognitarians of all lands; "L'Homme" misses women's lib in the 68 anniversary; "Edinburgh Review" takes Kafka's Prague down from the top shelf; "NZ" says Russian readers never had it so good as during Glasnost; "Osteuropa" doubts there's anything left in the pan-Slavic idea; "Mehr Licht" appeals to philosophy's transformative potential; and "Vikerkaar" uncovers the ancient origins of the telenovela. [ more ]

27.01.2010
Jytte Klausen

See no evil

cartoon controversy "They have turned my book into another chapter of this fruitless debate." Jytte Klausen talks to "Index on Censorship" about the controversial decision of Yale University Press to publish her book on the Danish cartoon crisis without reproductions of the cartoons themselves. [ more ]

25.01.2010
James Hawes

Repression's capital, Europe's canary

literary history Kafka's home city has a lot to hide, writes James Hawes. The Czech capital's architectural debt to greater Germany; its authoritarian past and history of anti-Semitism; even its most famous son's penchant for pornography – these unwelcome truths are bad for business. [ more ]

21.01.2010
 
Rudolf Walther

Swiss self-defeatism

Islam in Europe The Swiss vote to ban minarets has less to do with a "populist factor" inherent in referenda than with resentment at high-level corruption and the fear of social declassification. Celebrated by rightwing parties across Europe, the vote augurs more Islam-baiting to come. [ more ]

19.01.2010
Kazys Varnelis

The meaning of network culture

media theory As digital computing meshes with mobile networking technology, society is undergoing a cultural shift. Whereas in postmodernism, being was left in a fabric of emotional intensities, today the self is affirmed through the net. What does this mean for the democratic public sphere? [ more ]

14.01.2010
 
Felix Holmgren

Kigali's ambassador-at-large

How Philip Gourevitch wrote the victors' history book

rwanda With his book about the Rwandan genocide, Philip Gourevitch has perhaps more than anyone influenced the way the conflict is viewed in the US and Europe. But his view is clouded by over-simplifications and a glorified view of the Kagame government, writes Felix Holmgren. [ more ]

15.01.2010
Felix Holmgren, Marie Béatrice Umutesi

The forgotten slaughter

An interview with Marie Béatrice Umutesi

rwanda Two years after the Rwandan genocide, refugees living in camps in Zaire were systematically slaughtered – an event the rest of the world has chosen to forget. The international community first betrayed the Tutsis, then the Hutus, says former refugee Marie Béatrice Umutesi. [ more ]

15.01.2010
 

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Almantas Samalavicius

Literary perspectives: Lithuania

Almost normal

literature The literary field in Lithuania has established itself since independence, despite vastly smaller print runs. Today, a range of literary approaches can be made out, from the social criticism of the middle generation to the more private narratives of the post-Soviet writers. [ more ]

27.12.2009

Read also: Andreas Harbsmeier's account of The contemporary literary reservation in Denmark.

 

focal point

Climate of change? Debating the politics of global warming

focal point The failure of the Copenhagen climate summit has deepened doubts about the effectiveness of the multilateral approach towards reducing C02 emissions. More than ever, the declaration of commitment to sustainability appears an exercise in societal self-delusion. A Eurozine focal point debates the politics of global warming. [ more ]

30.10.2009

Helen Bird, Max Boykoff, Mike Goodman, Jo Littler, George Monbiot

The media and climate change

climate The entry of climate change into the media mainstream, welcome as it is, nevertheless brings new problems. Journalists, campaigners and scientists discuss the implications of demand-led reporting and the dangers of focusing on "charismatic megafauna". [ more ]

11.01.2010
Dipesh Chakrabarty

The climate of history: Four theses

climate Freedom has been the most important motif of accounts of human history since the Enlightenment. Yet, as the climate reaches "tipping point", an awareness is only now emerging of the geological agency human beings gained through processes linked to their acquisition of freedom. [ more ]

30.10.2009
Ingolfur Blühdorn

Locked into the politics of unsustainability

climate Dominant discourses of sustainability remain firmly within the growth paradigm, reflecting the exhaustion of the critique of consumer capitalism. Any genuine turn towards sustainability requires the redefinition of rights and freedoms widely held to be sacrosanct. [ more ]

30.10.2009

Read also: All articles in the focal point Climate of change? Debating the politics of global warming.

 

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focal point

Dilemma 89

focal point Twenty years after 1989, most former communist states in central and eastern Europe are members of the EU. Yet the transition from closed to open societies is far from "complete". Fierce debates rage over lustration and information surfacing from secret police archives, over corruption inherited from communist power structures, and over dominant representations of the communist past. Clearly, 1989 is not only an historic moment of liberation, but also a political and social dilemma for the present day. [ more ]

06.11.2009

Karl Schlögel

Places and strata of memory

Approaches to eastern Europe

Dilemma '89 The idea of 1989 as an annus mirabilis is too crude; rather, it was the result of a long incubation period that took a different course in each Eastern Bloc country. Karl Schlögel asks whether it is too soon to start talking of a "common European history". [ more ]

19.12.2008
László Borhi

A reluctant and fearful West

1989 and its international context

Dilemma 89 Documents recently released from the Hungarian archives reveal how western leaders, without exception, deferred to the Soviet Union in 1989. The threat of regional chaos meant overwhelming support for preserving the status quo as events unfolded. [ more ]

06.11.2009
Mark Kramer, András Schweitzer

Gorbachev's go-ahead

András Schweitzer in conversation with Mark Kramer

dilemma '89 With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to accuse the West of reluctance in '89. Yet concerns about a violent crackdown by Moscow were understandable, if ultimately unfounded. [ more ]

15.12.2009

Read also: All articles in the focal point Dilemma 89.

 

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Events

Europe talks to Europe

debate series From Autumn 2009 to Spring 2011, Eurozine organizes a series of high-profile debates in different central and eastern European cities, including Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Sofia, Warsaw and Vienna. [ more ]

25.09.2009

Read also: Summaries of the first two debates in the Eurozine series "Europe talks to Europe": Dilemma '89. My father was a communist with Martin M. Simecka and László Rajk, and "Breaking the bonds of national mythology" with Danuta Glondys and Arne Ruth.

 

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Focal points

Climate of change?

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/ecopolitics.html
Green turnaround or business as usual in the global hothouse? Debating the politics of climate change. [more]

Dilemma 89

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/dilemma89.html
1989: not only historic moment of liberation, but also political and social dilemma for the present day. [more]

European histories

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories.html
European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]

Editor's choice

Anders Ramsay
Marx? Which Marx?

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-21-ramsay-en.html
Marx's naturalistic understanding of value has led interpreters to overlook the role played by credit, writes Anders Ramsay. [more]

Ewa Hess, Hennric Jokeit
Neurocapitalism

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-11-24-jokeit-en.html
In a society that confronts the self with its own shortcomings, neuroscience serves an expanding market. [more]

Zoltan Tabori
Guns, fire and ditches

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-15-tabori-en.html
On the spiral of anti-Roma violence in small communities facing increasing competition for employment and education. [more]

Literature

Katharina Raabe
As the fog lifted

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-08-raabe-en.html
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settled over eastern central Europe. [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered as yet: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

Behind the headlines

Memorial
National images of the past

http://www.eurozine.com/2008-12-05-memorial-en.html
An appeal by the winners of the Sakharov Prize 2009 for a platform for historical reconciliation. [more]

Mykola Riabchuk
Metaphors of betrayal

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-14-riabchuk-en.html
Any policy towards the Ukraine-Russia conflict that downplays values is fundamentally flawed, writes Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

Conferences

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. In the meantime, approximately 100 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings.
European histories
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/vilnius_european_histories.html
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 to 11 May 2009. Under the heading "European Histories", the Eurozine conference explored the role of history and memory in forming new identities in a Europe in change. [more]

Multimedia

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/multimedia.html
Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]


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