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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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On Theology and the “Overcoming” of Metaphysics: Falque, Betz, Heidegger, and Marion
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract John Betz and Emmanuel Falque have recently defined “metaphysics” as something intrinsic to the Christian faith. This faith, they claim, has always spoken metaphysically, until lately challenged by the likes of Heidegger and Marion. However, when we consider Heidegger and Marion's account, we find a completely different approach to metaphysics.
Matthew C. Kruger
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The Plain Mennonite Face of the World War One Conscientious Objector
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 World War One was a difficult time for American Mennonites. conscription revealed profound differences between progressive Mennonites such as those from the General Conference and plain Mennonites such as those from the Mennonite Church.
Donald Eberle
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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, 2017 A brochure explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s position against compulsory military service and proffering alternative non-military services to the country.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ecc/1005/thumbnail ...
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While many explain the crisis of the liberal international order through nationalism, its treatment by neorealist scholars remains frustrating. Untangling the nationalism–neorealism relationship would help explain the current crisis and enhance neorealism's explanatory power.
Dylan Motin
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Obrana a strategie, 2011 In July 2011 Germany abandoned conscription. This step is the most significant part of the ongoing reform of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and by no stretch also the greatest change in the entire history of the Bundeswehr.
Tomáš Kučera
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, 2017 A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for Namibia due to the South Africa Defence Army’s illegal occupation.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ecc/1010/thumbnail ...
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Intimate Reading. Zur Aktualität einer Lektürepraxis unter Bedingungen datenbasierter Sprachsysteme
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Zusammenfassung Sich Texten intim anzunähern, bedeutet sich lesend unvoreingenommen und ungeschützt auf Begegnungen einzulassen mit abwesenden und anwesenden Anderen, und mit sich. Texte werden dabei nicht als Produkt von Berechnungen und Daten begriffen, sondern als Ausdruck von Welterfahrung und Weltwissen einer oder mehrerer Personen.
Christine Abbt
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