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The Difficult Role of Parliaments in the Reformed Governance of the European Economic and Monetary Union

Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Difficult Role of Parliaments in the Reformed Governance of the European Economic and Monetary Union

Facing the Test of Global Financial and Economic Crisis

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Facing the Test of Global Financial and Economic Crisis

Dionysian Politics and The Discourse of "Rausch"

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

I propose to look back at the sources of ecstatic action, or trance. To understand Rausch we need to accept the inherent link between ecstatic action and transgression, the flouting of norms and boundaries. However, the link itself is a historical one; this paper would narrate a course conducted from three historical moments of Rausch and transgression: In early Romanticism, late Romanticism, and finally the 1920s conceptualization and politicization of both earlier moments.

Expression of Enthusiasm And Emotional Coding in Dictatorship - The Stalinist Soviet Union

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

The propaganda pictures of joyous mass gatherings on Soviet celebrations and the enthusiastic rhetoric of the 1930s. What kind of emotional coding do these crowd choreographies represent? Which concepts of rulership are engraved in such public staging of enthusiasm? Did anything like Rausch exist in the Stalinist Soviet Union?

Nazi Disourses on "Rausch" Before And After 1945: Codes and Emotions

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

How do we explain effects like enthusiasm, fanaticism, collective violence or fraternization, appearances often described during festivals or mass gatherings? Even if we consider the fact, that enthusiastic organizers or observers often invented or exaggerated such collective feelings and even, if we study sources critically and sceptically, we would still have to deal with the problem that the talking about collective emotions is indeed important for the study of public celebrations and other mass gatherings.

Ecstatic Crowds, Addicted Dictators, Intoxicating Politics: Reflections on Rausch and Fascist Italy

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Can the concept of ecstasy explain some of the rationale of dictatorships, and more specifically of fascism? And can the concept of ecstasy be connected to manipulation? These are the two central questions I would like to raise and explore in this paper, although there are also other questions that will emerge in my discussion which I hope will help clarify the relationship between ecstasy and manipulation