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“Making America Gothic Again: Reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Today”
No full textFew historical phenomena seem less gothic than democracy, an ideal that is virtually always figured in terms of rational enlightenment and transparency, all of which made the January 6th insurrection in Washington especially unsettling: an interruption, not just of the important business of the day but of the most fundamental progressivist narratives of western civilization. But there have been other, more ominous accounts of democracy that would have figured these events more as a culmination than an interruption of the larger historical forces at work. Writing in the aftermath of the insurrection, this paper returns to Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning in Democracy in America that however precious, democracy was not the antithesis of despotism but an historically specific set of conditions that lent themselves to new, more insidious forms of despotism which would “degrade men without tormenting them.” Confronted with the spectre of this unprecedented form of oppression, Tocqueville warned in classic gothic terms that its greatest threat may have been its obscurity: “the old words of despotism and of tyranny do not work. The thing is new, so I must try to define it since I cannot name it.” It was, by all measures, a classic gothic tale: democracy as the basis for rather than safeguard against unprecedented and even unnameable forms of tyranny. This paper asks how Tocqueville’s warning can better understand our own highly polarized political situation today
Ein ganz normaler Freitag der 13. : Fallbearbeitung im Bürgerlichen Recht für Fortgeschrittene
No full textDie vom Schwierigkeitsgrad her als mittelschwer anzusehende, aber umfangreiche Klausur wurde im Rahmen der Übung im Bürgerlichen Recht für Fortgeschrittene im Wintersemester 2023/2024 bei Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause geschrieben, wobei der Schwerpunkt insgesamt auf den gesetzlichen Schuldverhältnissen lag. Im ersten Klausurteil ging es anhand einer an den Erbensucher-Fall angelehnten Konstellation vorrangig um das Rechtsinstitut der Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag (GoA) sowie um das Bereicherungsrecht. Im zweiten Teil stand anhand einer klassischen Verkehrsunfallsituation das Deliktsrecht einschließlich des Straßenverkehrsrechts im Vordergrund
Three poems from Lorca to the Umpteenth Power: How Flamenco Undresses Granada; Santiago Teaching Me the History of Flamenco Guitar; Jacinto Praises the City of Hidden Water
No full textthree poems by Cyrus Cassells
Photo by Eyoel Kahssa
Introduction: A Celebration of Contemporary African American Poets: “We are the Image of Pride Worth Imitating”; Interview with Cyrus Cassells
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الوصول لأسطوانات الشمع – مجموعات العالم العربي في أرشيف برلين للتسجيل الصوتي Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv : بين الرقمنة و"الإعادة" والنشر الرقمي
No full textتُلخّص المقدمة العامة المحاور الأساسية للإصدار الموضوعاتي الموسوم بـ "الوصول إلى أسطوانات الشمع- مجموعات العالم العربي في متحف برلين للأرشيف الصوتي "(BPhA) والمساهمات الخاصة به، كما تناقش الاعتبارات الأخلاقية والقانونية والتقنية التي يشتمل عليها تمكين الجمهور العام من الوصول إلى تسجيلات العالم العربي المهمة من الناحية الثقافية، والحساسة أيضا، خاصة في سياق الجدل القائم حول "إنهاء الاستعمار" والإعادة الثقافية