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Big scary monster
Big Scary Monster learns some surprising things about himself when he goes down his mountain to find the creatures he has frightened away.
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Complicity
Thomas Docherty advances the invention and development of a new critical theory. This book offers a broad historical sweep, ranging from an exploration of wartime collaboration through tocontemporary surveillance society.
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The new treason of the intellectuals
This book delivers a damning criticism of the contemporary University system. It argues that the University has become politicised - that its primary purpose has shifted from education to the advancement of market-fundamentalist capital, an ideology that paints society as a war of all against all for individual financial gain. Against this, the book calls for a reconfiguration of the purpose of the University. It evokes the institution's wider ambitions and purposes: extending the range of human possibilities, seeking global justice and promoting democracy. Nothing less than ecological and human survival is at stake. Written by a senior academic and leading opponent of the modern University regime, this book exposes a troubling present while remaining optimistic for the future
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The Snatchabook
The woodland animals of Burrow Down are ready for a bedtime story--but where are the books?
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Remnants of Dissent
In his article, \"Remnants of Dissent,\" Thomas Docherty explores the relation of dissent to guilty complicity in post-war Europe. The article opens with a consideration of the position of Karl Jaspers in 1945 and examines how Jaspers worked through the various modes of guilt that flowed from diverse modes of living under Nazism. Of particular interest is the status of silence in the face of tyrannical Nazi oppression and murders. The essay explores how the workings of language, and its manipulations by the Nazis, helps to normalize such tyranny and to make resistance to it both dangerous and difficult. The detailed examination finds, via individuals such as Wilhelm Furtwangler and Vaclav Havel, that there is a vital distinction to be made between dissent and dissidence and that this distinction depends upon the ways in which political discourse is regulated.
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The bear-shaped hole
Gerda and Orlo are best bear friends. When Gerda was there, Orlo always had time for a game or a story, a joke or a rhyme. He was never too busy to listen, to talk, to help, to share, or to go for a walk. But slowly, something starts to change. Orlo reveals he is ill, and as he softly explains to Gerda, he is not going to get better. Gerda is overwhelmed by emotions she cannot quite explain, but Orlo gently helps her prepare, so they can spend their time together making memories that will last a lifetime. When the time comes, Gerda can fill the bear-shaped hole in her life with the special moments she shared with Orlo.
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Migrant Reading
The regulations governing charter renewal stipulated that the East India Company must engage in educational activities; and, ever since the charter renewal of 1813, a sum of one Lakh (100,000 rupees) had been provided \"for the revival and promotion of literature\" (Macaulay 1835, 2). Speaking in Berlin on June 26, 1963, John F. Kennedy (JFK), then-US President, famously stated that \"Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was 'civis romanus sum.'\" He then uttered the phrase for which the speech became known, saying \"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner'\"; adding \"I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.\" The United Kingdom's head of state made a similar gesture in an address given on the occasion of her State Visit to Ireland, hosted by President Mary MacAleese, on May 18, 2011. When we are required to adopt a foreign tongue by those who would occupy our place in the interests of self-expansion, it indicates the exercise of unwarranted power or violence; and we call it imperious.
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The Logic of 'But': Quarrels, Literature and Democracy
This paper looks at intrinsic disputation within proposition, and specifically within propositions that offer a moderated version of the freedom of speech and expression. It begins from a consideration of what is at stake in Othello's 'Rude am I in my speech', a rhetorical gesture that frames an act of great eloquence, and in which the eloquence serves to formulate a quarrel by ostensibly resolving it. This example reveals that there is a conflict between empirical quarrel and articulated spoken resolution. This leads the essay to explore the way in which diplomacy works, whereby we establish the pretence that there is peace between disputatious positions through the power of the logic of 'but', thus: 'I agree with you, but ...'. Finally, this is extended to a consideration of the limits of and/or on free speech: 'I defend free speech, but ...', where the 'but' is a gesture in which the defence of free speech is modified to the point of being obliterated.
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Bez porównania
In this article, the author takes up the issue of the so-called “crisis” of comparative literary studies (Comparative Literature), at the same time trying to outline the presentday condition of the discipline and to point to the objectives which it should attempt to attain today. Beside other detailed problems, the author analyses the threats posed by the hegemonic status of English which has become a specific ‘foundational language’ in Comparative Literature. However, in the principal part of his analysis, the author tries to go beyond the tendency towards ‘unification and totalisation of thought,’ which is present in Comparative Studies, by means of a search for ‘commensurability’ between the elements being compared,, and also beyond the equally popular strategy of ‘divisiveness’ that consists in continual emphasis on and proliferation of differences. He juxtaposes these two dominant trends with a model of conducting Comparative Literary Studies based on the concept of language of friendship or even love – an idea stemming from the philosophical thought of Lyotard and Badiou. In this approach, reading becomes an ‘event of love, which, like love, is what is without and beyond compare.
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