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      • Peter Lang Group

        Peter Lang Group specializes in the Humanities and Social Sciences, covering the complete publication spectrum from monographs to student textbooks.

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        We are an independent, illustrated publisher creating beautifully produced books in the areas of interior design, food & drink, craft, mindfulness and spirituality, health, humour and pop culture.   We also produce delightful gifts and stationery, as well as fantastic ranges of books for kids.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Potentials of disorder

        by Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2012

        Justifying violence

        Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo

        by Naomi Head, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

        When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2006

        Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict

        The Other side

        by Adrian Millar, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

        Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of this, he concludes that traditional approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed to failure and that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the arguments in this book or not, you are sure to find it a welcome change from both the existing, mainly conservative, analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict and traditional approaches to conflict resolution.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2010

        In/security in Colombia

        Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy

        by Josefina A. Echavarría, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet

        Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict. Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. She claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. In/security in Colombia offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of security discourses and furthers a nuanced understanding of the security problematique in a postcolonial setting. This wide-reaching study will benefit students, scholars and policy-makers in the fields of security, peace and conflict, and Latin American issues. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2012

        The social construction of Swedish neutrality

        Challenges to Swedish identity and sovereignty

        by Christine Agius, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Martin Hargreaves

        Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly in the post-9/11 international environment, neutrality has been conceptualised as a problematic subject. With the end of bipolarity, neutrality as a foreign and security policy lost much of its justification, and in the ongoing 'War on Terror', no state, according to the Bush Administration, can be neutral. However, much of this debate has gone unnoticed in IR literature. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to the present day, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in IR theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its world-view. ;

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        February 1998

        Emmanuel Bove

        Eine Biographie

        by Jean-Luc Bitton, Raymond Cousse, Peter Handke, Thomas Laux

        Peter Handke wird am 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen (Kärnten) geboren. Die Familie mütterlicherseits gehört zur slowenischen Minderheit in Österreich; der Vater, ein Deutscher, war in Folge des Zweiten Weltkriegs nach Kärnten gekommen. Zwischen 1954 und 1959 besucht er das Gymnasium in Tanzenberg und das dazugehörige Internat. Nach dem Abitur im Jahr 1961 studiert er in Graz Jura. Im März 1966, Peter Handke hat sein Studium vor der letzten und abschließenden Prüfung abgebrochen, erscheint sein erster Roman Die Hornissen. Im selben Jahr 1966 erfolgt die Inszenierung seines inzwischen legendären Theaterstücks Publikumsbeschimpfung in Frankfurt in der Regie von Claus Peymann. Seitdem hat er mehr als dreißig Erzählungen und Prosawerke verfaßt, erinnert sei an: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1970), Wunschloses Unglück (1972), Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied (1972), Die linkshändige Frau (1976), Das Gewicht der Welt (1977), Langsame Heimkehr (1979), Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire (1980), Der Chinese des Schmerzes (1983), Die Wiederholung (1986), Versuch über die Müdigkeit (1989), Versuch über die Jukebox (1990), Versuch über den geglückten Tag (1991), Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht (1994), Der Bildverlust (2002), Die morawische Nacht (2008), Versuch über den Stillen Ort (2012), Versuch über den Pilznarren (2013).  Auf die Publikumsbeschimpfung (UA, Theater am Turm Frankfurt / Main, 1966) folgt 1968, ebenfalls in Frankfurt uraufgeführt, Kaspar. Von hier spannt sich der Bogen weiter über Der Ritt über den Bodensee (UA, Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer Berlin, 23.1.1971), Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus (UA, Theater am Neumarkt Zürich, 17.4.1974), Das Spiel vom Fragen oder Die Reise zum sonoren Land (UA Burgtheater Wien, 16.1.1990), Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten (UA, Wiener Festwochen, 9.5.1992), über den Untertagblues (UA, Berliner Ensemble, 30.9.2004) und Bis daß der Tag euch scheidet (Deutschsprachige Erstaufführung, Salzburger Festspiele, 9.8.2009) über das große Epos Immer noch Sturm, das am 12. August 2011 bei den Salzburger Festspielen seine Uraufführung hatte und 2012 mit dem Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis ausgezeichnet wurde, bis zum Sommerdialog Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez (UA, Wiener Festwochen, 15.5.2012). Darüber hinaus hat Peter Handke viele Prosawerke und Stücke von Schriftsteller-Kollegen ins Deutsche übertragen: Aus dem Griechischen Stücke von Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides, aus dem Französischen Emmanuel Bove (unter anderem Meine Freunde), René Char und Francis Ponge, aus dem Amerikanischen Walker Percy. Sein Werk wurde mit zahlreichen internationalen Preisen geehrt. Die Formenvielfalt, die Themenwechsel, die Verwendung unterschiedlichster Gattungen (auch als Lyriker, Essayist, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur ist Peter Handke aufgetreten) erklärte er selbst 2007 mit den Worten: 'Ein Künstler ist nur dann ein exemplarischer Mensch, wenn man an seinen Werken erkennen kann, wie das Leben verläuft. Er muß durch drei, vier, zeitweise qualvolle Verwandlungen gehen.'

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