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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
by Peter Lawler, Anthony Burke, Matt McDonald, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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October 2000Kultureller Austausch
by Peter Burke, Burkhardt Wolf
Über die Folgen der Globalisierung für die Kultur wird in den letzten Jahren heftig gestritten. Prophezeien die einen eine Homogenisierung der Weltkultur, verheißen die anderen kulturelle Desintegration bzw. Fragmentierung allerorten. Doch ein Blick auf die Kulturgeschichte der letzen Jahrhunderte lehrt, dass diese beunruhigenden Diagnosen nur zum Teil zutreffen. Viel wahrscheinlicher ist indes, so der Kulturhistoriker Peter Burke, dass eine neue kulturelle Ordnung entsteht, sich neue Formen kultureller Rekonfiguration herauskristallisieren werden, wobei Bausteine des Alten in ein neues Muster eingefügt werden. Burke untersucht daher in diesem Buch den kulturellen Austausch in vergleichender und historischer Perspektive. Er erkundet die Vielfalt der Konzepte, mit denen dieser Austausch beschrieben und analysiert wurde, und befasst sich mit seinen Kontexten und Konsequenzen. Sein Hauptaugenmerk gilt dabei drei möglichen Szenarien einer Reaktion auf kulturellen »Import« bzw. kulturelle »Invasionen«: Akzeptanz, Abwehr und Segregation.
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Classic crimeJune 2018Burke & Hare Asesinos
El oráculo
by Pablo Boneau
In Edinburgh, between the years 1827 and 1828, Mr. William Burke and Mr. William Hare committed a series of murders. Why did they do it? This is the story on Pablo Boneau's version.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
by Anthony Burke, Matt McDonald
In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has meant that analyses rarely move beyond the statist, militarist and exclusionary assumptions that underpin traditional realpolitik. This innovative new book challenges these limitations and addresses the missing problems, people and vulnerabilities of the Asia-Pacific region. It also turns a critical eye on traditional interstate strategic dynamics. Critical security in the Asia-Pacific applies both a critical theoretical approach that interrogates the deeper assumptions underpinning security discourses, and a human-centred policy approach that focuses on the security, welfare and emancipation of individuals and communities. Leading Asia-Pacific researchers combine to apply these frameworks to the most pressing issues in the region, from the Korean peninsula to environmental change, Indonesian conflict, the 'war on terror' and the plight of refugees. The result is a sophisticated and accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalization in the region, and a compelling argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Order and conflict
Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)
by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2007Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
by Edited by Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald
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December 1995Peter Huchel
Leben und Werk in Texten und Bildern
by Peter Walther
In den Erinnerungen von Freunden und Bekannten an Begegnungen mit dem Dichter entsteht ein Bild von der Persönlichkeit Huchels. Zugleich wird ein Stück jüngster deutscher Literaturgeschichte rekonstruiert.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024David, Donne and Thirsty Deer
Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott
by Anne Lake Prescott, Roger Kuin, William A. Oram
For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott's immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceSeptember 2018Violence and the state
by Matt Killingsworth, Peter Lawler, Matthew Sussex, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Jan Pakulski
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2016Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
by Michelle Bentley, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Potentials of disorder
by Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Redefining security in the Middle East
by Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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FictionJuly 2023The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End
By Anthony Burgess
by Ákos Farkas, Anthony Burgess
First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic creation. Dyspeptic and obese, this is the account of his last day as a visiting professor in New York, and his last day on Earth. The Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament will provide new information about the genesis of the novel, gleaned from a series of drafts and typescripts recently discovered in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) in Manchester, as well as printing a deleted chapter for the first time in English.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2012Justifying 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 SciencesDecember 2006Socio-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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February 1998Emmanuel 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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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2019The securitisation of Islam
by Clara Eroukhmanoff, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Writing the war on terrorism
by Richard Jackson, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2019ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess
by Paul Howard, Andrew Biswell
ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two. This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
