peter lang peter lang mai 2008 (56 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall¿s experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an «occupation baby», born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Although loved by her mother, Ikäs experiences with German society¿s reaction to her skin color resonate with the insidiousness of racism, thus instilling in her a longing to meet her biological father. When she is seven, the state places her into a church-affiliated orphanage far away from where her mother, sister, and stepfather live. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book examines, from a behavioral perspective, the U.S. Supreme Court's exercise of the power of judicial review over Congress across two hundred years of the Court's history, testing the major competing theories in political science - the attitudinal model and the strategic approach - through systematic empirical analysis. Exploring the major trends in the Court's use of this power over time, the book examines a broad range of questions concerning the countermajoritarian nature of this power, and provides an analysis of each of the individual justices' behavior along several dimensions of the power, such as the use of judicial review to protect minority rights against majority intrusion. The book concludes that the Court has shown a high level of deference to Congress, with notable historic highs and lows, and generally that the exercise of the power has been less countermajoritarian than is usually assumed. Its analyses find the strongest level of support for the attitudinal approach to judicial decision making, but also concludes that strategic concerns cannot be dismissed, especially for the more recent Courts. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is an exploratory study of a juvenile drug treatment court in the Midwest. Based on observations and interviews the author conducted while serving as the contracted program evaluator, the book investigates how denial, surveillance, coercion, accountability, and definitions of success operate and interact in the Juvenile Drug Court environment and intertwine with institutional needs and authority structures. The book's findings suggest that some drug court practices may expose participants to potential harms that until now have been largely ignored in studies of drug courts. Drug Court Justice concludes with suggestions for reducing the potential harms of juvenile drug courts. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ever since Aristotle pointed out how closely time, space, and plot are linked in literary texts, the study of time and space not only in literature but in the arts in general has been at the heart of Western European poetics. This has been particularly apparent in recent years, when interest in time has been joined by a ¿spatial turn¿ in cultural studies and the German Kulturwissenschaften. This anthology of research in German studies bears witness to these developments. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Gabriel Zoran, the contributors cover a range of topics including simultaneity in medieval narrative, Paul Klee's understanding of the line, and the cyberliterature of Thomas Hettche and Botho Strauß. Together, the essays show that the study of time and space is an interdisciplinary undertaking and reflect the extent to which concepts of time and space are subject to historical change and vary across media.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 180 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Trusting Schools and Teachers: Developing Educational Professionalism Through Self-Evaluation emerged from a series of studies undertaken with teachers at various stages of their careers exploring the impact of a range of evaluation systems on their personal and professional development. The book begins with a comparative analysis of the rise of school and teacher evaluation, charting the trend¿s conceptual and political influences, and highlights how the concept of self-evaluation has come, for a variety of reasons, to play a surprisingly large role in the emerging approaches to school and teacher evaluation. This is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the emerging system of whole-school evaluation in Ireland. Research indicates that while self-evaluation looms large in the system¿s theoretical framework, in fact, there is strong evidence that neither schools nor teachers have the expertise required to systematically self-evaluate. This book identifies methodologies designed to empower schools and teachers to become genuinely self-evaluating through the development of research skills in the context of online communities of practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In recent years, the works of the Algerian francophone author Assia Djebar have reflected a growing preoccupation with the role of memory in forging a sense of individual as well as collective identity. This study traces the interrelated motifs of memory and identity in Djebar¿s novels, arguing the centrality of these themes to her literary project. An interdisciplinary theoretical framework positions Djebar¿s corpus in the wider context of philosophical and psychoanalytical debates on memory and identity. Djebar reveals that much more is at stake in discussions of the interrelationship between memory and identity than concerns of a mere cultural nature. In postcolonial Algeria, repressed memories of Algeriäs colonial past are revealed as instrumental to the genealogy of the current Algerian conflict; in this context, Djebar¿s poetics of memory become a ¿devoir de mémoire¿, an appeal for a revised Algerian historiography in which the individual takes pride of place. 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Modernism and Coherence is an attempt to develop a negative aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks against the meaning assigned to them by criticism. From the accumulation of arguments on great texts of modernism, the book describes gestures of refusal that generate figures of negativity: Adornös Aesthetic Theory becomes a whirlpool revolving around a center refusing predication; Wallace Stevens¿ poetry exhibits a phonetic escape valve against the pressure of reality; Robert Frost writes a poem that is ahead of you in both senses of the expression; and James Joyce¿s Ulysses reads its readers in waves of self-folding. This book is an effort to salvage literature as something in itself in a world that increasingly can only see what is for the other. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A highly signi¿cant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an attempt is made to show that the proliferation of the new cultural idiom was indicative of the fundamental concerns of the time and intimately related to the development of artistic thought. Although the theme is considered in its cultural totality (visual arts, literature and drama), the work is focused on symbolist poetry. It provides a close analysis of the 'harlequinade' verse of Blok and Belyi - two leading ¿gures of the movement, in whose writings the symbolist theory found its maturity and perfection. The poems in question are conceptually centred on the dialectical unity of self and other - one of the key-notes in the new symbolist outlook. This is traced at various levels of poetic representation: in the imagery system and the principles of text construction, in linguistic features and poetic devices employed by the authors. Special attention is given to the sound organization of the poems, which heightens considerably the semantic potential of the text.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 298 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the context of the enlargements of 2004 and 2007 the European Union needed a concept for the future relationship with its new neighbours. The result was the development of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). In return for sharing European values and effectively implementing political, economic and institutional reforms, the EU offers economic incentives and closer ties to its eastern and southern neighbours. The ambitious objective of promoting stability, security and prosperity beyond its own borders raises questions about the Union's intentions, means and likely success. This volume analyses the logic and institutional origins of the ENP and provides a critical assessment of the promises and prospects of the EU's broader neighbourhood policies. It does so both from an issue-oriented perspective (e.g. security, visa policy, trade, aid, human rights, good governance) and a regional standpoint: eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Western Balkans and Russia. 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The majority of scholarly works on the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the establishment of its successor states focus almost exclusively on the national question. There is no major study of the subnational regional dimension, which had significant effects on the politics and political structures of these newly independent states.This book addresses this deficit by examining the struggle of Istrian regionalists in the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) against the nearly hegemonic nationalists of the Croatian ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDZ).Using a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, this instrumentalist analysis assays the political historiography of Istria in the 19 and 20 centuries, provides an analytical case study of the regionalist conflict with the HDZ in the 1990s and into the 21 century, illustrates how and why the regionalist party tried to influence both Istrians and Western Europeans in this struggle, and derives a critical analysis of the role of regionalism in European Union enlargement from this case study. It also shows that nationalists do not hold a monopoly on the politicization of identities. 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Tao Te Ching), art (Paleolithic cave art, Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting), and Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun, tanka) that were originally presented and published between 2000 and 2007. The essays identify strategies to counter the so-called postmodern condition. Matters of will, ethics, and consciousness are examined in comparative contexts with the aim of formulizing models of enlightened states of being and their aesthetic expressions. This study focuses on Wordsworth's rainbow epiphany; Walter Benjamin's «aura» and «monad»; Chinese mountain poetry's cosmic emptiness; Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Paleolithic cave art's transpersonal expression; Van Gogh's «dizzy heights» of natural beauty; American landscape painters' depiction of the sublime; haiku's absolute metaphor epiphany; and tanka's connection between natural beauty and erotic feeling. The collection is a re-examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson's «fundamental unity» between humanity and nature, as well as an examination of often-unmediated affective experience and its expression in this context through literature and art. 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book reveals the heterogeneous image of translation using positive metaphors featuring bridge building between languages and cultures, neutral ones such as translation finding place in intercultures, but also controversial aspects of translation as a potential source of conflict. The articles address a variety of topics, all connected with cultural challenges to translation between Africa and the West discussing linguistic, political and ideological aspects of translation, ranging from problems related to Bible translation to the position of African postcolonial literature. The languages discussed range from North to South, from global to local ones, varying from sacred terms to obscene language. Methodological approaches not only cover linguistics, literary and translation studies, featuring especially skopos theory and relevance theory, but also cultural studies and anthropology. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Despite its low penetration in Chinäs vast rural areas, the Internet is generally perceived as a new engine for rural empowerment. By examining five Internet application initiatives in rural China, this book offers a unique view of the diffusion and usage of the Internet and its implications on the lives of rural people. Placed in the political, socioeconomic and infrastructure contexts of rural China, the book departs from the classical diffusion of innovations model and extends the existing knowledge on the adoption and usage of the Internet by rural people.In addition to testing the applicability of the diffusion of innovations theory to the diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies in the rural areas today, the study provides rich empirical evidence regarding the actual impact of the Internet on the livelihood of rural people. It also shows some innovative uses of the Internet in rural development.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This collection provides the first full-length investigation of the oeuvre of one of Britain's leading dramatists: Timberlake Wertenbaker. By considering the polyglot playwright's theatre from translations and adaptations to new plays as a dynamic continuum of «translations and transformations», Maya Roth and Sara Freeman create an intriguing, focused frame for understanding Wertenbaker's work as distinctly cross-cultural, theatrically rich, and intertextual, providing a prescient case study of the translational turn emerging in international theatre today. The contributors investigate translation theory and practice through Wertenbaker's diverse linguistic and genre translations - from French, ancient Greek, and Italian to English, and from myth, history, classics, fairytale, and literature to the stage. Interrelated chapters by scholars and artists from varied countries, language traditions, and disciplines use performance studies, comparative literature, feminist theory, and cultural anthropology to position Wertenbaker's theatre as a critical nexus for analyzing - and imagining - cross-historical dialogues with contemporary audiences and our plural legacies. Thanks to its substantive engagement with the ethics, theories, and collaborative practices of theatrical translation and adaptation more broadly, and its equally rigorous examination of Wertenbaker's hybridic politics and poetics, this collection can serve as a useful resource for scholars and artists, both. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The study examines the democratization in Slovenia and compares it to democratization processes elsewhere, drawing patterns upon not only other post-communist democratizations but also upon general patterns in other third-wave democratizations. The book begins with a theoretical overview: the problem of defining democracy, democratic transition and democratic consolidation. It proceeds to an examination of the historical, political, and economic factors relevant for the democratization. The transition is explained from Yugoslav, Slovenian, and external aspects, where foundations for patterns in Slovenian democratization are sought. The consolidation is examined on the institutional level and on the level of the actors. In the concluding analysis, the indicators of democratic consolidation are examined in a comparative perspective and applied to Slovenia. 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bulat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Bozena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Pawel Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek simik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Docekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkos demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs. 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume explores the relations between theology and power by focusing on the Bible as source of medieval and modern political ideology and law. The problems related to the «political theology» in Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant worlds are submitted to a comparative reflection involving historians, art historians and jurists, in order to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue and to bring forward new themes for further reflection. Le volume porte sur les rapports entre théologie et pouvoir. L¿attention des auteurs s¿est concentrée sur la Bible en tant que source de l¿idéologie politique et du droit au Moyen Âge et à l¿époque moderne. Les problèmes de la « théologie politique » dans les mondes orthodoxe, catholique et protestant sont soumis à une réflexion comparative, impliquant historiens, historiens de l¿art et juristes, afin de promouvoir un dialogue interdisciplinaire et lancer de nouveaux thèmes de réflexion. 328 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Poetry of the Self-Taught demonstrates the characteristic strengths of self-taught poetry and analyzes the factors that have caused most selftaught poets to disappear from anthologies and from literary history. Raising the question of whether or not their work should be read today and taken seriously - instead of being relegated to separate and unequal categories like women's or «peasant» poetry - the book highlights interesting contrasts between the poetry of eighteenth-century autodidacts such as Robert Burns, Mary Leapor, C.D.F. Schubart, and Anna Louise Karsch and the work of their contemporaries, mainstream poets like Alexander Pope, James Thomson, C.F. Gellert, and Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Self-taught poetry is often treated as an index to the lives and times of the poets, but this book explores it with a different purpose: to understand and illustrate the commonalities in autodidactic poetics, imagery, rhetorical strategies, and themes. Concurrent with a recent upturn of interest in «laboring» or self-taught poets both in England and in Germany, The Poetry of the Self-Taught will be useful for courses focusing on such poets or those dealing with eighteenth-century literature. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise Büchner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of Büchner¿s fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the «woman question». This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. Büchner tested and revised her thoughts on the «woman question» in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women¿s associations and as a member of two competing «national» bourgeois women¿s organizations. Her «voice» and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day. 396 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -De tous temps les artistes ont cherché à transmettre leurs réflexions théoriques et leurs savoir-faire. Les traités en sont la forme la plus aboutie, certainement la plus durable. Si les grands ouvrages de Vitruve, d¿Alberti ou de Serlio jalonnent l¿histoire des arts, les travaux de moindre portée, manuels pratiques, livres de recettes composent une littérature souvent négligée.Les historiens du vitrail ont entrepris avec succès l¿étude de ces ouvrages. En 2006, le XXIII colloque international du Corpus Vitrearum a pour la première fois permis de confronter les connaissances, les méthodes et les conclusions des chercheurs.La prise en compte de l¿ensemble des ouvrages que l¿on peut désigner par le mot « traité » a permis à elle seule de nombreuses découvertes et en a fait des sources désormais incontournables. Elles se prêtent à des analyses aussi diverses que stimulantes, commentaires historiques et critiques, analyses expérimentales des données techniques etc. Une voie est ainsi ouverte vers une connaissance plus complète du vitrail et vers une évaluation nouvelle de sa place parmi les autres arts. 364 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Smiling Slovenia's collection of articles and essays on Slovenia's current political scene boldly declares its dissenting view from the political mainstream beginning with a declaration of a dozen prominent intellectuals presenting their views of Slovenia's political situation. Topics range from recent Slovenian history, Slovenia's role in the breakup of Yugoslavia, foreign policies, including liaisons with the Islamic terrorists to modern-day Slovenian-American relations and Slovenia's admission into the European Union. This book shows that Slovenia, although outwardly westernized, is still deeply rooted in its communistic legacy. However, prominent intellectuals and democratic politicians strive to hold Slovenia to the highest European cultural, ethical, political, legal, and economical standards in public life - a goal that may take several generations to achieve. Some authors observe that transparency achieved by the present conservative coalition government has already established a state of affairs where return to the old ways of a crypto government would be impossible even if the leftist parties returned to power. 362 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Western interpretations of poverty proverbs in the Old Testament Book of Proverbs have tended to see a status quo acceptance in the ancient texts, thus neglecting existential challenges of the poverty issue. In contrast, Lechion Peter Kimilike argues that African proverbial material on poverty may - when used comparatively to interpret the corresponding Old Testament poverty proverbs - create a more dynamic analysis. The author's new and thought-provoking interpretation suggests «an African transformational hermeneutic» that balances between the questions and methodology of the «global [i.e., western] guild» and the concerns of the African interpretative context. 396 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas ¿ terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the political and diplomatic environment post-9/11 ¿ this book articulates the role of human communication in the «war of ideas». Drawing on contemporary research from a variety of disciplines, this book offers analyses and recommendations for people to make use of informed, inspired, and ethical communication to counter ideological support for terrorism and to promote more effective public diplomacy.This is the first book to apply human communication concepts and theories ¿ and to offer potential solutions ¿ to the communication problems encountered by nations, communities, and individuals, and in doing so moves beyond critiques of failed U.S. communication campaigns and strategies in the «war on terror».Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 222 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book presents an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of a highly popular online fan fiction writing space. Its analyses highlight the range of sophisticated literacy practices that English language learning youth engage in through their fan-related activities. Discussion also centers on how opportunities for language socialization, literacy, and identity development converge and diverge between academic settings and informal learning contexts such as fan fiction sites. 174 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -By analyzing the daily work of online journalists, this book investigates the production of online news: how it differs from traditional media production, and its consequences for the character and quality of online news. It advocates revitalization of the ethnographic methodologies of sociologists who entered newsrooms in the 1970s and 1980s, while simultaneously exploring new theoretical frameworks to better understand the evolution of online journalism and how newsrooms deal with innovation and change. This collection fills a gap in the field by offering ethnographic descriptions from sites of online news production in many countries, and provides insider perspectives on the real practices and values of new media production, documenting how these often differ from the claims of both producers and theorists.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Aristotle has been continuously at the frontier of philosophical reflection for almost 2400 years. Throughout the 20 century the influence of his practical philosophy has been growing. His «non-modernist» concept of phrónêsis or practical wisdom is attracting increasing interest as an alternative to both «modernism» and «post-modernism». This book is a meticulous study of Aristotle¿s phrónêsis and its applications to the fields of personal development or character formation and of ethical virtues. It also relates phrónêsis to the wider context of Aristotle¿s theoretical philosophy and of his different ways of knowing, and to both theoretical and practical concerns within modern social and action research. The whole of Aristotle¿s thinking is radically practice-based and directed. However, it never loses its theoretical focus. His theoretical philosophy is fundamentally dialogical. Hence, the relevance of Aristotelian thinking is striking for the current reconfigurations in the social organisation of learning and knowledge production.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 562 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -La diáspora cubana en México: terceros espacios y miradas excéntricas ofrece el primer estudio monográfico sobre la diáspora cubana en un lugar más allá de Miami. Indaga en la terminología de la diáspora en el contexto cubano así como la única relación geopolítica entre Cuba y México. Se aprovecha de la narrativa cubana producida en México para considerar diferentes perspectivas que se producen en México. En Informe contra mí mismo de Eliseo Alberto se observa la creación de una comunidad diaspórica a través de la literatura. En contraste, en la novela Livadia de José Manuel Prieto se percibe la celebración del cosmopolitismo en el que sólo se nota lo cubano con una lectura cuidadosa. 192 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Les questions environnementales contemporaines sont éminemment complexes et réticulaires. La manière privilégiée de les aborder consiste à s'intéresser aux moyens matériels et conceptuels employés par les acteurs eux-mêmes (gestionnaires, experts, riverains, etc.) pour diagnostiquer, pour se coordonner et pour agir. Nous verrons ainsi comment des cartes (d'épandage ou d'un réseau écologique), des schémas (d'aménagement d'un site classé), des fiches projets (d'une politique de conservation de la nature), un tableau (de mise en correspondance des pratiques de consommation et de leurs impacts sur l'environnement), un diagramme (dans le milieu de la production du boeuf bio) ou encore des concepts (de classement de zones humides ou de gestion d'un lac) sont autant de repères à la fois pour la description par l'observateur de ce qui est en construction dans le travail de concertation, mais surtout pour l'action même des acteurs engagés. Nous les appellerons, avec d'autres, des objets et concepts intermédiaires. Ces entités techniques - quelques fois ésotériques - suivies dans leurs élaborations ou dans leur détournement renseignent sur des représentations des milieux et des ressources naturels et sur leurs transformations et peuvent être de véritables médiatrices dans l'émergence de dynamiques collectives originales. Elles constituent le fil d'Ariane par lequel l'environnement entre en société. 218 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Quels sont les facteurs qui expliquent qüun certain nombre de personnalités, d¿hommes d¿État de premier plan, aient pris le risque de s¿engager au lendemain du second conflit mondial dans un processus de construction d¿une Europe que la plus grande partie d¿entre eux voyaient unie Quelle alchimie complexe permet de comprendre l¿engagement en faveur de cette construction D¿où vient, chez ses premiers architectes, la « sensibilité » à l¿Europe Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage collectif apporte des réponses en explorant des pistes de réflexions regroupées autour de trois thèmes : les héritages, les expériences et les engagements.Une vingtaine d¿historiens européens tentent ainsi de comprendre la gestation de l¿idée d¿Europe unie, d¿en approcher l¿expression et d¿en cerner les premières tentatives de réalisation au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.L¿idée européenne relève de ce fait de bien autre chose que de la seule histoire des idées politiques, et les années de formation des pères de l¿Europe nous invitent à réfléchir à son cheminement, à ses nombreux relais, aux tamis successifs, à l¿altération qüelle subit jusqüau moment où elle connaît un début de réalisation concrète. 366 pp. Französisch.