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Introduction: Weimar modernism -- Ernst Bloch's theory of nonsimultaneity -- Berlin Dada, Carl Schmitt, Georg Lukács, and the critique of contemplation -- From contemplation to distraction : the culture of inflation and the inflation of culture -- The art of disappearance : Adorno's aesthetics of modernism and Alban Berg's music -- From distraction to mobilization : Ernst Jünger, photography, and the imperial gaze of the worker -- From mobilization to interruption : dialectic at a standstill or Walter Benjamin on the politicization of the aesthetic in Brecht's epic theater

Following Robert Elgie, Skach defines a semi-presidential constitution as a dual executive system, in which the head of state is a popularly elected president with a fixed term of office and the head of government is a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature Robert Elgie, 'The Politics of Semi-Presidentialism,' in Semi-Presidentialism in Europe, ed.

A review essay on books by (1) Richard Beardsworth, Derrida and the Political (London: Routledge, 1996); & (2) Jon Simons, Foucault and the Political (London: Routledge, 1995). The objective of Beardsworth's book is to re-address the misunderstanding about the political dimension of deconstruction that occurred in the 1980s. He contends that deconstruction is politically informed. The book discusses Derrida's geneaology of violence as applied to Saussurean linguistics & Kafkian literature, Derrida's tertiary structure of violence as applied to Kant's moral & legal formalism, & Hegel's ethical life & the aporia of time. Beardsworth's analysis does more to point out the limitations of the deconstruction method than of the political thought of Kant & Hegel. Simon's book both reconstructs Foucault's critique of modern political rationality & elucidates his affirmative theoretization of new modes of subjectivity. It underscores Foucault's reliance on Kant & Nietzsche & evaluates Foucault's impact on contemporary political theory, eg, feminism. M. Pflum

Since the fall of communism in 1989 Southeast Europe has been a site of far-reaching societal transformation, much of it marked by political crisis, economic upheaval, ethnic tension, and bitter war. The book comprises articles investigating the history and development of civil society in post-communist Southeast Europe. How is civil society to be grasped, what are the historical factors shaping the civil societies of the region?, what is the function of civil society in the transition to democracy and a market-economy?, and what are the prospects for the future development of the civil societies of the region in an age of globalization?, -these are just a few of the major questions addressed in this collection of articles. Many of the authors are social scientists, philosophers, and activists from the region, offering first-hand critical analysis of the state of civil society in Southeast Europe and suggesting theoretical and practical strategies for the future course of its development. The aim is to provide the reader with insight into the complex challenges that face the civil societies of the region