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Seit der Unabhängigkeit Simbabwes wurde sukzessive die Autonomie der 1952 gegründeten Universität untergraben. Die Autorin (Professorin der Universität) beschreibt detailliert die einzelnen Schritte und Folgen zunehmender politischer Einflußnahme. Mit der Analyse der politisch-motivierten Studentenproteste des vergangenen Jahrzehnts wird deutlich, daß der restriktive "University of Zimbabwe Amendment Act" (1990) den vulgarisierten Lebenswandel (Drogenhandel, -konsum, Diebstahl, Prostitution) nur zum Vorwand einer politischen Gängelung der Universität benutzt. Die Arbeit endet mit einer Solidarisierung von 380 Universitätslehrern mit der Studentenschaft. Die Reaktion der Regierung bleibt abzuwarten. (DÜI-Sth)

Reviews the historical facts of Zimbabwean university governance since the colonial days of the 1950s. It appears that the state (or the party that controls the state) intends to deprive the University of all independent control over who it admits, what and how it teaches and examines them, and the standards of attainment to be applied. They contravene directly the World University Service's 1988 Lima Declaration. (SJK)

The article analyzes various projects of hybridization of materialism and political theory in one conceptual system. Special attention is paid to the critical analysis of the phenomenon of economic materialism of the nineteenth century, which for a long time remained the only example of a materialistic analysis of politics. The subsequent development of materialism that became a new limit of economic determinism, put new problems in the context of the capabilities of materialistic policy. The author proposes to follow the argument of the French philosopher Louis Althusser as a philosophy of aleatory materialism created by the thinker himself, including to substantiate the variations of materialistic understanding of the political. The article consistently disassembled the prerequisites for the crisis of the Marxist economic interpretation of history, which, at the original stage of its own formation, had extremely few common with philosophical materialism. The further struggle of new materialists with the idea of a universal explanatory principle ultimately allowed them to create a new type of philosophical knowledge that is not related to the idea of universal history. The focus in this case is chained to the political aspect of Althusser's Materialism regarding the theory of conjuncture as a genuine object of any materialistic politics. Finally, the author compares aleatory materialism with a number of other directions of post-modern materialistic ontology, whose representatives direct their own criticism towards the anthropological component of the political theory, which, however, leads to the denial of this discipline in principle. Thus, it is Althuserianism that in couple with Schmitterism, are the only examples of a successful project to create a materialistic theory of politics.

One of the Western travellers that went through the Romanian area during the second half of the 18th century was the French Jean-Louis Carra (1742-1793). Originary of Burgundy (France), he travelled in Europe on several occasions. He reached Moldavia as well in the year 1775, when he came to serve the Reigning Prince Grigore III Ghica (whom he had met in Russia), as a teacher of his sons and as a secretary for the French correspondence. He remained here for a year (1775-1776), and during this period he seems to have travelled to Wallachia as well. In the spring of the year 1776, Carra left Moldavia heading to Poland. A year later, in 1777, there appeared in Buillon, not in Iaşi, as it is written on the title page, Histoire de la Moldavie et la Valachie (History of Moldavia and Wallachia), a work that was to be published in the same year in Paris as well and then in its second edition in Neuchatel, in the year 1781. Our paper aims to bring into focus Carra's works together with all the controversies it triggered in the course of time in the Romanian historiography.