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Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Introduction 8
Edna Rosenthal – Opening Speech. Monday 11 July 2016 University of Łódź, Poland 12
Stefan Höjelid – Welcome speech at What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity 2016 ISSEI Conference at the University of Łódź, Poland (11 July 2016–15 July 2016) 17
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney – Poland and the European Union—Selected Problematics 24

EUROPEAN CULTURE AND ITS MULTIPLE VOICES 34

Agnieszka Miksza – European Culture and its Multiple Voices 35

Section 1 – Education
Fernando Blaya, Silvia Nuere and Manuel Islán – Art and Science: 3D Technologies at the service of Culture 37
Denise Egea – The Challenge of Democratic Education in the European Union 46

Section 2 – Literature, Theatre and Film
Iolanda Mănescu – Contemporary Interpretations of Ancient Drama at the National Theatre of Craiova, Romania 58
Per Bjørnar Grande – Th Lomans’ Private Apocalypse in Death of a Salesman 63
Victor Castellani – Making Fun [sic] of Hitler 73
Verita Sriratana – Švejk, Jan Dítě, Samko Tále and the First Thai Adaptation of the (Not So) Good Soldier Sha-Wake: Transnational Significance of the “Small” and “Childlike” Characters in Czech and Slovak Literature 81

Section 3 – Social Issues
Shala Barczewska – Transforming Post-Communist Societies: The Thin Line between Cultural Competencies and Cultural Values 93
Rolf Hugoson – Cultural Legacy or Capital?: Towards a Theory of What European Capitals of Culture Leave Behind 103
Veronika Planková – Fighting the (Un)hidden “Enemies” of the Slovak Society 112
Jennifer Walden – “Moments of Grace?” The “Dramatic” Representation and the Aesthetic of Ageing 131
Anthi Dipla – An “Idyllic” World Against War Atrocities, Images of Elegance, Escapism and Liberation in the midst of the Peloponnesian War 138
Hans Rindisbacher – The Lingustic and Cultural Manifestations of War and Terrorism 149

POLITICS IN THE NEW EUROPE 162

Tomasz Fisiak – Politics in the New Europe 163

Section 1 – Referendum as a New Tool of Democracy
Dorota Maj – Local Direct Democracy in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: A Comparative Study 165
Marcin Pomarański – National Referendums in Hungary and Albania: A Comparative Perspective 173
Wojciech Ziętara – National Referendum as an Example for Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule (the Case of the Republic of Belarus after 1991) 181

Section 2 – New Politics through the Lens of (Modern) History and Philosophy
S. N. Nyeck – Contracting Nations or Status Nations? Evidence of Strategic Bargaining in Nineteenth-Century East Africa 192
Geoffrey Hinchliffe – Politics in a Society of Control 201
Giorgos Kataliakos – Bad Influences from Outside: State Anti-cosmopolitanism in Hobbes’ Leviathan 211
Richard R. Weiner and Iván López – The New Resilience of Pacted Transition in Spain 220

A NEW ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE OLD WORLD 230

Grzegorz Zinkiewicz – A New Enquiry Concerning the Old World 231

Section 1 – Political Philosophy
Endre Kiss – Innovative Perspectives of Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy in the Global Theory of Democracy 233
Mark Debono – The Blasphemy of Europe/The Europe of Blasphemy 241
Tommaso Visone – Facing Nihilism. Camusian Route to Reshape Politics 251
Maria Pia Paternò – Beyond Totalitarianism: Politics, Relationality and Narrativity 260
Kalli Drousioti – What is and is not Utopia 269

Section 2 – Concepts and Ideas
Geoffrey Hinchliffe – Curiosity and Uncertainty 280
Giorgos Kataliakos – The ‘Lust of the Mind’: Curiosity in Hobbes’ Leviathan 287
Marianna Papastephanou – Peace and Wilderness 294
Cristiana Senigaglia – The Logic of Resentment in the Globalized World 305
Alexandre Rouette – The Shortcomings of a Concept Inertia and Conatus in the Philosophy of Spinoza 315

Section 3 – Epistemology
Daniel Schmal – The Problem of Unconscious Perception in the Early Enlightenment: The Case of David-Renaud Boullier 323
Oberto Marrama – Conflicts of the soul and mind-body interaction in Descartes’s Passions of the Soul 332

Section 4 – Eschatology
William Proios – Re-Thinking the Human Condition in the Age of Modernity 354
Stella Marega – The Meanings of Apocalypse in Eric Voegelin’s Lifelong Enquiry 362
Shala Barczewska, Paulina Barańska – Imagining the End of the World: Polish Perspectives 371

Szczegóły ebooka What’s New in the New Europe?

Wydawca:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Rok wydania:

2019

Typ publikacji:

Ebook

Język:

angielski

Format:

pdf

ISBN:

978-83-8142-286-4

Wydanie:

1

Redakcja:

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney,Agnieszka Miksza,Tomasz Fisiak,Grzegorz Zinkiewicz

Miejsce wydania:

Łódź

Liczba Stron:

394

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