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Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

The Transformative Power of Immigration

By: Kostas Maronitis

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Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

The Transformative Power of Immigration

By: Kostas Maronitis

This book is a study into how immigration is transforming the EU and its member-states. Kostas Maronitis contends that immigration creates utopian and dystopian visions of the European project. These visions can be found in the immigration detention centers and the fences between member-states, the dead bodies on Europe’s shores, the electoral success of far-Right parties, and in the way migrants and refugees view Europe as a land of rights and equality. Maronitis locates the transformative power of immigration at the intersection of sentiments regarding national and ethnic hierarchies with a policy framework constructed around the presence of migrants and refugees in Europe. By examining the utopian and dystopian transformation of the EU and of Greece as its borderland, the author challenges established notions of integration, citizenship and nationality on new intellectual and political terms. The book will be of use to students and scholars specializing in migration, EU policy and Greece, and will have a wider appeal for those interested in the ongoing debate surrounding the EU and immigration.

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3319463462

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Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

The Transformative Power of Immigration

By: Kostas Maronitis

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The Transformative Power of Immigration

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Robots and Immigrants

Who Is Stealing Jobs?

By: Kostas Maronitis,Denny Pencheva

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Robots and Immigrants

Who Is Stealing Jobs?

By: Kostas Maronitis,Denny Pencheva

This book scrutinises the narratives created around stealing jobs, opening new debates on the role of automation and migration policies. The authors reveal how the advances in AI and demands for constant flow of immigrant workers eradicate political and working rights, propagating fears over job theft and ownership.

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Policy Press

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1529212723

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An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê

Leisure as a Political End

By: Kostas Kalimtzis

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An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê

Leisure as a Political End

By: Kostas Kalimtzis

Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of scholê is usually translated as 'leisure', there is a vast difference between the two. Leisure, derived from Latin licere, has its roots in Roman otium and connotes the uses of free time in ways permitted by the status quo. Scholê is the actualization of mind and one's humanity within a republic that devotes its culture to making such a choice possible. This volume traces the background in Greek culture and the writings of Plato of a daring proposal presented by Aristotle, that scholê is a principle for political organization. The concept of scholê by and large did not survive Aristotle. To sharpen our understanding of scholê the book goes on to identify the concepts of leisure which we have inherited from the intellectuals of the Hellenistic and Roman empires and the early Church Fathers. Scholê also had its contrary ascholia – busyness – which Plato described as a social and psychological pathology and his analysis suggests why, due to these ills, current visions of a leisure society are highly unlikely.

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242

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474237959

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9781474237956

Reading Homer’s Odyssey

By: Kostas Myrsiades

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Reading Homer’s Odyssey

By: Kostas Myrsiades

Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Rutgers University Press

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1684481325

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Reading Homer's Iliad

By: Kostas Myrsiades

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Reading Homer's Iliad

By: Kostas Myrsiades

We still read Homer’s epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer’s own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning of honor and fame? What are the consequences of intense emotion and violence? What does recognition of one’s mortality teach? We also turn to Homer’s Iliad in the twenty-first century for the poet’s preoccupation with the essence of human life. His emphasis on human understanding of mortality, his celebration of the human mind, and his focus on human striving after consciousness and identity has led audiences to this epic generation after generation. This study is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s 24 parts, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.

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Rutgers University Press

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1684484502

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Robots and Immigrants

Who Is Stealing Jobs?

By: Kostas Maronitis,Denny Pencheva

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Who Is Stealing Jobs?

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Book's by Kostas Maronitis

Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece

Robots and Immigrants

Robots and Immigrants

An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê

An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê

Reading Homer’s Odyssey

Reading Homer’s Odyssey

Reading Homer's Iliad

Reading Homer's Iliad

Robots and Immigrants

Robots and Immigrants

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