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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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“Beer Hall Putsch”: depicted on the pages of Soviet newspapers
Background. Despite numerous works devoted to the study of National Socialism and the biography of A. Hitler, in domestic historiography there are no works devoted to how the process of the formation of fascism in Germany and, in particular, the ...
Mikhail V. Bryantsev
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Resenha de Sayer, Yan e Botting, Douglas. Hitler e as mulheres. A vida amorosa de Adolf Hitler.
João Fábio Bertonha
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Resumo Este artigo trata dos limites do imoralismo de Nietzsche, tomando como fio condutor a figura do heroi do mal. Defende-se a tese de que há um limite para esse imoralismo, na medida em que algumas questões devem permanecer na esfera de um tratamento
Alexander Nehamas
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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How Was Democracy Under the Administrative Presidency Supposed to Work?
ABSTRACT Aggressive use of the administrative power of the presidency is a major source of public administrative concern about the health of American democracy. Many of these powers stem from executive branch reorganization in the late 1930s, which was conceived and implemented by founding figures in the modern field.
Ben Merriman
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Kriegsreden Adolf Hitlers und die Hirtenworte dreier maßgeblicher Vertreter des deutschen Episkopats während des Zweiten Weltkriegs jeweils unter dem Aspekt der religiösen Deutung des Krieges.
Christoph Bruns
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ABSTRACT COVID‐19 amplified the issue of public resistance to government vaccination programs. Little attention has focused on people's moral reasons for noncompliance, which differ from—but often build upon—the epistemic claims they make about vaccine safety and efficacy, disease severity, and the trustworthiness of government. This study explores the
Katie Attwell +4 more
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Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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