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Pre-histories and Afterlives

Studies in Critical Method

By: Anna Holland

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Pre-histories and Afterlives

Studies in Critical Method

By: Anna Holland

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? 'Pre-histories' and 'afterlives', methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer. In this volume, distinguished contributors engage in a dialogue with these two new critical methods, exploring their uses in a range of contexts, disciplines, languages and periods. The contributors are Terence Cave, Marian Hobson, Anna Holland, Neil Kenny, Mary McKinley, Richard Scholar, Kate E. Tunstall, and Wes Williams.

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Routledge

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1351194739

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The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology

Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn

By: Anna Varga-Jani

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The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology

Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn

By: Anna Varga-Jani

In The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn, Anna Jani examines the common methodological background of phenomenology. Through attention to the phenomenon of being, the existential experience of religiosity can be phenomenologically described by the ontological difference between being and beings. Jani demonstrates that the methodological inquiries connect closely with the ontological source of phenomenology. First, she elaborates on the contributions of Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Roman Ingarden, and Edith Stein from the point of view of Heidegger’s influence on the early phenomenologists from Husserl’s students. Second, she analyzes Heidegger’s reinterpretation of his own earlier thinking after the “turn,” which is formulated in the idea of the “new beginning of philosophical thinking” in the Contributions to Philosophy. In the context of clarifying the difference between being and beings, her third hypothesis about Ricœur’s critique of Heidegger reveals an ethical level. The primordiality of the ethical dimension of the action reveals the ontological foundation of the hermeneutical-phenomenological situation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793649014

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Goethe's Travels in Italy. Together with His Second Residence in Rome and Fragments on Italy

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Oxenford,Anna Swanwick

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Goethe's Travels in Italy. Together with His Second Residence in Rome and Fragments on Italy

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Oxenford,Anna Swanwick

Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.

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3385558794

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Databook of Biocides

By: Anna Wypych,George Wypych

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Databook of Biocides

By: Anna Wypych,George Wypych

Databook of Biocides contains critical data on the most important biocides in use today. The selection includes generic and commercial biocides, which are approved for use in the European Union and the US. Data on generic biocides come from numerous sources, and can be easily compared with manufacturer information on commercial biocides, which are also included. Physical properties are presented—including volatility, solubility, and concentration—as are health and safety considerations (such as flash point, autoignition temperature, risks of skin and eye irritation, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity) and first-aid guidance. Ecological properties are also emphasized, with data on biodegradation and acquatic toxicity. Particular emphasis is placed on usage considerations, including recommended material-biocide combinations, processing methods and dosages, and features and benefits for each biocide. The book also contains an introductory chapter in which general indicators of performance of biocides are discussed. - Presents practical information for use in the lab and the field, including recommended processing methods, recommended dosages, and potential substitutes - Emphasizes environmental, health, and safety properties to ensure safe deployment - Includes the most commonly used biocides in compliance with the latest regulations in the European Union, US, and worldwide - Covers the physical properties, ecological properties, and performance indicators of biocides

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Elsevier

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1927885043

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Labor and Supply Chain Networks

By: Anna Nagurney

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Labor and Supply Chain Networks

By: Anna Nagurney

The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly and dramatically demonstrated the importance of supply chains to the functioning of societies and our economies. The discussion in this timely book explores prominent issues concerning supply chain networks and labor. The readership is aimed to include students, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, interested in the wide range of topics presented in these pages. Labor has a particular focus as the driver behind supply chains, whether associated with food products, life-saving medicines and supplies, or high tech products that make innovation possible, just to name a few. The impacts of policy interventions, in the form of wage bounds, and their ramifications, in terms of volume of attracted labor, product prices, product volumes, as well as profits, are explored. Profit-maximizing firms are considered (with relevant associated issues such as waste management in the case of the food sector, for example), but also non-profits, as in blood services, as well as humanitarian organizations engaged in disaster relief. The book is filled with many network figures, graphs, and tables with data, both input and output and includes an appendix that provides the foundations of the underlying mathematical methodologies used. The book offers strong evidence for the need to provide a holistic, system-wide perspective for the modeling, analysis, and solution of supply chain problems with the inclusion of the critical labor resources. A formalism using the prism of supply chain networks, which yields a graphic representation of supply chains, consisting of multiple stakeholders, is constructed. Models that capture the behaviors and interactions of single decision-makers as well as multiple decision-makers engaged in supply chain activities of production, transportation, storage, and distribution, are considered. The models capture many realistic constraints faced by firms today, as they seek to produce and deliver products, while dealing with competition, various constraints on labor, a variety of disruptions, labor shortages, challenges associated with proper wage-determination, plus the computation of optimal investments in labor productivity subject to budget constraints. The book provides prescriptive suggestions in terms of how to ameliorate negative impacts of labor disruptions and demonstrate benefits of appropriate wage determination.

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Springer Nature

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3031208552

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Honecker's Children

Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979–2002

By: Anna Saunders

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Honecker's Children

Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979–2002

By: Anna Saunders

During the final decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), young citizens found themselves at the heart of a rigorous programme of socialist patriotic education, yet following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emphasis of official state rhetoric, textbooks and youth activities changed beyond recognition. For the young generation growing up during this period, ‘normality’ was turned on its head, leaving a sense of insecurity and inner turmoil. Using a combination of archival research and interviews, together with educational materials and government reports, this book examines the relationship between young people and their two successive states in East(ern) Germany between 1979 and 2002. This unusual time-span straddles the 1989/1990 caesura which often delimits historical studies, and thus enables not only a detailed examination of GDR socialisation, but crucially also its influence in unified Germany. Anna Saunders explores the extent to which a young generation’s loyalties can be officially regulated in the face of cultural and historical traditions, changing material conditions and shifting social circumstances, and finds GDR socialisation to be influential to post-unification loyalties through its impact on the personal sphere, rather than through the official sphere of ideological propaganda. At a time of globalisation, this lucid study not only provides unique insight into the functioning of the GDR state and its longer-term impact, but also advances our broader understanding of the ways in which collective loyalties are formed. It will be of particular interest to those in the fields of German History and Politics, European Studies and Sociology.

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Manchester University Press

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1847796583

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Discover the Eternal You!

Travel the Path Toward God Consciousness

By: Dr. Anna Zibarras

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Discover the Eternal You!

Travel the Path Toward God Consciousness

By: Dr. Anna Zibarras

Humanity has always had a thirst for knowledge, a need to know why we’re here and what it all means. Discover the Eternal You approaches human existence from a different perspective. Using both scientific and religious texts to present some often-misunderstood concepts, this book helps to make sense of both the physical and metaphysical aspects of our lives. There are different ways to attain God consciousness. Life goes beyond our five senses. It is possible to experience different dimensions. These are just a few of the topics addressed in this book. Catering to Christians, but open to anyone looking to connect to their real self, Discover the Eternal You demonstrates the importance prayer, meditation, and silence have on the evolution of the spirit and the health of the body. The author discusses the different types of energy that exist in this universe and explains how our brain waves, emotions, and vibrations affect our lives. Go inside yourself and explore who you are on a deeper level. Gain a better understanding of your place on this Earth—and in this universe. Explore the ways in which you can better cope with your feelings. If you want to learn how to achieve a higher level of consciousness, and connect to the universal intelligence, let this book be your guide—and companion—on your journey toward the divine.

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FriesenPress

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1039154867

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Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

By: Anna Jameson

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Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

By: Anna Jameson

Jameson's hugely successful 1838 work begins with a description of Toronto and Niagara in winter.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108033547

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Logos and Life: The Three Movements of the Soul

The Spontaneous and the Creative in Man's Self-Interpretation-in-the-Sacred

By: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Logos and Life: The Three Movements of the Soul

The Spontaneous and the Creative in Man's Self-Interpretation-in-the-Sacred

By: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

PART I THE CRITIQUE OF REASON CONTINUED: FROM LOGOS TO ANTI-LOGOS 1. THE NEW CRITIQUE OF REASON A new critique of reason is the crucial task imposed on the philosophy of our times as we emerge more and more from so-called "modernism" into a historical phase which will have to take its own paths and find its own determination. It may be considered that the main developmental line of modern times in its philosophy as well as in its culture at large was traced by the Cartesian cogito. The unfolding of Occidental philos ophy has culminated in reason or intellect's being awarded the central place. This is its specific trait. We can see a direct line of progression from the cogito to Kant's Critique. It is no wonder that this work is the landmark of modern philosophy. Kant's Critique was concerned with the foundation of the sciences. Edmund-Husserllaunched a second major, renewed, critique of reason, one which addresses not only the critical situation of the sciences but extends the critique even to the situation of Occidental culture as its malaise is diagnosed by this great thinker. Edmund Husserl voiced, in fact, the conviction that Occidental humanity has reached in our age the peak of its unfolding. His identify ing this peak with the formulation of phenomenological philosophy strikes at the point in which the significant and novel developments of Occidental culture and philosophy (phenomenology, that is) coincide.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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902772556X

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The Mimiambs of Herodas

Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

By: Anna Rist

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The Mimiambs of Herodas

Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

By: Anna Rist

The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This book is the first to attempt to reproduce in English Herodas' 'choliambic' or 'limping' metre (sic) - distinctive for its signatory reversed final foot, a variant on the standard Greek iambic trimeter. The present volume provides an accessible introduction to Herodas and his Mimiambs requiring no knowledge of Greek. The translation steers a judicious course between literal accuracy and fidelity to this linguistically very demanding poet's spirit and intention. The contextual introductions and notes on the poems take into account the most recent scholarship, providing explanation of the context of the Mimiambs and guiding the reader to an appreciation of the poetry itself. The General Introduction places the author in his cultural world and context, namely urban society in the Ptolemaic Empire of the hellenistic period. This he conjures up in his Mimiambs with an often scathing vividness.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350004219

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9781350004214

Biomechanical Analysis of Nursing Tasks for Physical Relief by Collaborative Robotics

By: Anna Brinkmann

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Biomechanical Analysis of Nursing Tasks for Physical Relief by Collaborative Robotics

By: Anna Brinkmann

Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most significant health risks contributing to the global decline in mental health and physical performance. Occupations with high physical work demands, such as patient handling in nursing, are associated with high rates of long-term absenteeism and disability due to musculoskeletal pain and disorders. Robotic assistance systems are revolutionizing bedside care and could provide a healthy future for caregivers. For the first time, the potential of a collaborative robotic system to assist nurses in a manual patient handling scenario has been quantified. Using the system significantly reduced the maximum effort required, resulting in physical relief. It demonstrates the feasibility of robot-assisted patient repositioning and highlights the need for interdisciplinary research to adaptively respond to the individual needs and functional abilities of nurses. This work provides a foundation for future research and practical implementation. The use of robotics is innovative, contemporary, widely applicable, and promising for reducing existing risk factors in nursing care.

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Springer Nature

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3658417919

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Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

By: Anna Forlani Tempesti,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

By: Anna Forlani Tempesti,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870996061

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Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' "Phoenissae"

By: Anna A. Lamari

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Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' "Phoenissae"

By: Anna A. Lamari

Euripides’ Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and drama, this book uses the former as a working tool for the study and interpretation of the latter. The Phoenissae is approached as a coherent narrative unit and issues like the use of myth, narrators, intertext, time and space are discussed in detail. It is within these contexts that the play is seen as a Theban mythical ‛thesaurus’ both exploring previous mythical ramifications and making new additions. The result is rewarding: Euripides constructs a handbook of the Theban saga that was informative for those mythically untrained, fascinating for those theatrically demanding, but also dexterously open upon each one’s reception.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110245930

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9783110245936

Sustainability in Project Management

A Functional Approach

By: Anna Brzozowska,Arnold Pabian,Barbara Pabian

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Sustainability in Project Management

A Functional Approach

By: Anna Brzozowska,Arnold Pabian,Barbara Pabian

This book presents a new approach to the issue of project management, showing how it can be approached through the lens of sustainability. The nature of sustainable project management is not only to achieve economic goals, but also environmental and social ones. Considering project management from the perspective of sustainability is very important because sustainable development cannot keep up with the pace and scale of accumulation of ecological and social problems. The natural potential of the Earth is quickly running low. The global equilibrium between the Earth’s ecosystems, which have developed for millions of years, and the human world of production and consumption, becomes disrupted. The focus is on a functional approach to the subject, allowing management and business to implement the methodology discussed. Topics discussed include sustainable planning, sustainable organizing, sustainable leading and sustainable controlling. The authors use their combined experience in the area to inform their novel approach. The book will be especially useful for people who are project managers, members of project teams and other project stakeholders. It may also be a useful reference for scientists and students studying the fields of management, IT and business.

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CRC Press

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1000337758

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9781000337754

Migration and (Im)Mobility

Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada

By: Anna Xymena Wieczorek

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Migration and (Im)Mobility

Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada

By: Anna Xymena Wieczorek

In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.

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transcript Verlag

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3839442516

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9783839442517

Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945

By: Anna Bogen

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Women's University Fiction, 1880–1945

By: Anna Bogen

The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights.

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Routledge

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1317319567

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Thousands and Thousands of Lovers

Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta

By: Anna Harrison

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Thousands and Thousands of Lovers

Sense of Community among the Nuns of Helfta

By: Anna Harrison

Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta—a concern that lies at the heart of the monastery’s literature. Focusing on a woefully understudied resource and the largest body of female-authored writings in the thirteenth century, this book offers insight into the religious preoccupations of a theologically expert and intellectually vibrant cloister to reveal a subtle interplay between communal practice and private piety, other-directed attention, and inward-religious impulse. It considers the nuns’ attitudes toward community among themselves and with their household members as well as with souls in purgatory and the saints.

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Liturgical Press

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0879071893

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9780879071899

Republican Europe

By: Anna Kocharov

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Republican Europe

By: Anna Kocharov

Constitutional orders constitute political communities – and international orders deriving from them – by managing conflicts that threaten peace. This book explores how a European political community can be advanced through EU constitutional law. The constitutional role of the Union is to ensure peace by addressing two types of conflict. The first are static conflicts of interests between the national polities in the EU. These are avoided by ensuring reciprocal non-interference between Member States in the Union through deregulation in Union law. The second are dynamic conflicts of ideas about positive liberty held by the peoples of Europe. These can be resolved through regulation in a European political space. Here, EU law enables a continuous process of re-negotiating a shared European idea of positive liberty that can be accepted as its own by each national polity in the EU. These solutions to the two types of conflicts correspond to the liberal and republican models for Europe. The claim of this book is that the constitutional design of Europe presents both liberal and republican features. Taking an innovative approach, which draws on arguments from substantive law, constitutional theory, case law analysis, insights from psychology and philosophy, it identifies how best to strengthen the Union through constitutional law.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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150991076X

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Rilke's Russia

A Cultural Encounter

By: Anna A. Tavis

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Rilke's Russia

A Cultural Encounter

By: Anna A. Tavis

Explores the biographical and textual evidence of Russia's importance in shaping the writer Rainer Maria Rilke's aesthetic perception. During Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn the century, he made connections with a number of important artists, including Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, and the author traces the impact of these meetings and other experiences in Russia upon Rilke's writing. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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