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"Free Speech Debate" hears the call from Istanbul loud and clear: "participatory democracy or bust!"; "Schweizer Monat" demands an end to quibbling over the future of Europe; "L'Espill" ponders the crisis of television; "Esprit" notes that Marseille Capital of Culture 2013 is struggling to shake off its shabby image; "Gegenworte" sees science get a bad press in the media's handling of prominent plagiarizers; "Glänta" celebrates twenty years of publishing, or not...; "Dilema veche" appeals for the kind of basic trust that allows society to advance; "Akadeemia" contemplates life with neither nation nor home; and "Revolver Revue" advises the Czech president to read something lighter than Karel Capek's "Apocryphal Tales". [ more ]

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19.06.2013
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Unshakeable knowledge of what is good

"Free Speech Debate" hears the call from Istanbul loud and clear: "participatory democracy or bust!"; "Schweizer Monat" demands an end to quibbling over the future of Europe; "L'Espill" ponders the crisis of television; "Esprit" notes that Marseille Capital of Culture 2013 is struggling to shake off its shabby image; "Gegenworte" sees science get a bad press in the media's handling of prominent plagiarizers; "Glänta" celebrates twenty years of publishing, or not...; "Dilema veche" appeals for the kind of basic trust that allows society to advance; "Akadeemia" contemplates life with neither nation nor home; and "Revolver Revue" advises the Czech president to read something lighter than Karel Capek's "Apocryphal Tales".

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Jan-Werner Müller

Jan-Werner Müller teaches in the Politics Department, Princeton University, where he is also the Founding Director of the Project in the History of Political Thought. Co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin.

His recent publications include Wo Europa endet: Ungarn, Brüssel und das Schicksal der liberalen Demokratie, Suhrkamp, 2013, and Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe Yale UP, 2011. He is also author of: Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity, Yale UP 2000; A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought, Yale UP, 2003; Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (ed.), Cambridge UP 2002; German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (ed.), Palgrave 2003; Constitutional Patriotism, Princeton University Press 2007.



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Jan-Werner Müller

The failure of European intellectuals?

Intellectuals have been accused of failing to restore a European confidence undermined by crisis. Yet calls for legitimating European narratives reflect the logic of nineteenth-century nation building, argues Jan-Werner Müller. [French, German and Italian versions added] [more]

21.05.2013


Jan-Werner Müller

On the side of democracy

Should Brussels intervene in EU member states?

Brussels is not empowered to be a policeman for liberal democracy in Europe. Not yet. But should it be? Following recent developments in Hungary and Romania, Jan-Werner Müller argues that it is legitimate for Brussels to interfere in individual member states as a democracy watchdog. [more]

03.05.2013


Jan-Werner Müller

Is Germany's future still European?

An interview with Jan-Werner Müller

Germany's politicians lack deep European convictions yet are susceptible to calls for a more strident role in Europe; and while the mainstream is unlikely to give up what it sees as the recipe for German success, "constitutional patriotism" could allow for greater Europeanization. [more]

22.11.2011


Jan-Werner Müller

European memory politics revisited

European commemorative culture is an integral component of the post-national process. But how can a "European memory" be justified if we aren't to refer to a continental, quasi-national entity? [more]

18.10.2007


Jan-Werner Müller

A "pause for thought" without the thought?

Possible ways to talk about the future of the EU today

The one-year "pause for thought" launched by Europe's elites after the rejection of the EU constitution in 2005 was extended in June 2006. This time could be used to discuss the pros and cons of competing Euro-visions, writes Jan-Werner Müller. [more]

11.05.2007


 

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Robert Skidelsky
The Eurozone crisis: A Keynesian response

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Political economistst and Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains the reasons for the failure of the current anti-crisis policy and how Europe can start to grow again. Listen to the full debate organized by Krytyka Polityczna. [more]

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Forgotten Kingdoms

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Arrivals/Departures: European harbour cities

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The EU: Broken or just broke?

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European histories (2): Concord and conflict

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Broadening the question of a common European narrative beyond the East-West divide. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events activated in the present, uniting and dividing European societies? [more]

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Gilles Lipovetsky, Mario Vargas Llosa
"Proust is important for everyone"

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In conversation with the sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky, novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa discusses the relative merits of "high" and "mass" culture in the contemporary world. [more]

Ivan Krastev
The transparency delusion

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-02-01-krastev-en.html
Disillusionment with democracy founded on mistrust of business and political elites has prompted a popular obsession with transparency. But the management of mistrust cannot remedy voters' loss of power and may spell the end for democratic reform. [more]

Klaus-Michael Bogdal
Europe invents the Gypsies

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-02-24-bogdal-en.html
Social segregation, cultural appropriation: the six-hundred-year history of the European Roma, as recorded in literature and art, represents the underside of the European subject's self-invention as agent of civilizing progress in the world, writes Klaus-Michael Bogdal. [more]

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Nationalism in Belgium might be different from nationalism in Ukraine, but if we want to understand the current European crisis and how to overcome it we need to take both into account. The debate series "Europe talks to Europe" is an attempt to turn European intellectual debate into a two-way street. [more]

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Steve Sem-Sandberg
Even nameless horrors must be named

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-09-23-semsandberg-en.html
It is high time to lift the aesthetic state of emergency that has surrounded witness literature for so long, writes Steve Sem-Sandberg. It is not important who writes, nor even what their motives are. What counts is the "literary efficiency". [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

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Marian Rubchak
Charge of the pink brigade
FEMEN and the campaign for gender justice in Ukraine

Is FEMEN the precursor of a bold new protest pattern, or has it been reduced to an organization of exhibitionists? As long as gender injustices multiply in Ukraine, the strength of FEMEN's message remains undiminished, argues Marian Rubchak. [more]

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Arrivals/Departures: European harbour cities as places of migration
The 24th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Hamburg, 14-16 September 2012

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/harbourcities.html
Harbour cities as places of movement, of immigration and emigration, inclusion and exclusion, develop distinct modes of being that communicate how they see themselves as part of the structure that is "Europe". The 2012 Eurozine conference explored how European societies deal variously with the cultural legacy of the "harbour city". [more]

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