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Hace 2 días · German historian Ernst Kantorowicz, in his groundbreaking work “The King’s Two Bodies” (1957), demonstrated how the body of the sovereign emanated two types of influence. One is physical and relates to the biological character of human anthropology – according to his colleagues, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini is a friendly and entertaining companion, a person devoted to work.
Hace 2 días · Elucidating the evolution and current state of the field, the Handbook emphasizes the value of studying the history of political ideas to gain a critical perspective on our own embedded cultural predispositions.
Hace 4 días · In a damaged world, Gordon argues, all happiness is likewise damaged but not wholly absent. Through a comprehensive rereading of Adorno’s work, A Precarious Happiness recovers Adorno’s commitment to traces of happiness—fragments of the good amid the bad.
Hace 1 día · Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies - Routledge, August 2024 The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. It maps the history of literary geography and identifies key developments and debates in the…
Hace 7 horas · McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. After the mid-1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually ...
Hace 3 días · e. The International Brigades ( Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The organization existed for two years, from 1936 until 1938.
Hace 5 días · This opposition found its focus in the SA and its leader in the SA chief of staff, Ernst Röhm. From the summer of 1933 to the summer of 1934, this question of the so-called “second revolution” formed the dominant issue in German politics.
