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(arguably) does not advance a theory of power. This is the path that Habermas thought was wrong.3 Habermas criticises Horkheimer and Adorno (and implicitly, Nietzsche and Foucault) for being “so unappreciative of the rational content of cultural modernity that all they perceive everywhere is a binding of reason and domination, of power and validity”.4 This comment would apply also to Foucault. Some versions of critical theory depend upon specifically marxist concepts such as the mode of production

Information Links on January 24, 2011 Kohn / Afghānī on Empire, Islam, and Civilization 399 modernism. Afghānī concluded that the European civilizing mission was exploitative and barbaric, but he also emphasized the compatibility of Islam and modernity. His concept of civilization reflects the influence of both Islamic and European sources. In his most famous essay, “Refutation of the Materialists,”4 Afghānī starts with a basically Hobbesian account of endemic conflict and then explains why religion

homme ne peut pas se transformer en lion. Point barre. La raison de ces événements est la superstition, causée par l’analphabétisme. » 26Pour l’administrateur de Muidumbe, son peuple était foncièrement pré-moderne, enferré dans les pièges d’une tradition que la technologie, la science et le progrès auraient inéluctablement effacée. Des discours de ce type – qu’il tenait dans toutes les instances officielles, aussi bien que lors de longs défoulements dans l’intimité de sa maison18 – étaient loin d’être

Comparatismes en Sorbonne n° 1 Février 2010 TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Études réunies par Audrey Giboux Edward Burne-Jones, The Wheel of Fortune, 1883 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Comparatismes en Sorbonne n° 1 Février 2010 TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Études réunies par Audrey Giboux TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? REMERCIEMENTS Ce recueil d’articles est issu du colloque qui s’est déroulé

the `raceless' ones with which we are, all of us, most familiar" (Morrison qtd. in Hulbert 46). On the other hand, the narrating voice's indeterminacy enacts in a most forceful way the novelist's notion of African American modernity. Morrison once "observed ... [that] `a =modernity which overturns pre-war definitions ushers in the Jazz Age (an age defined by Afro-American art and culture), and requires new minds of intelligences to define oneself.' Efforts to shape identity became newly =`complex, contradictory

assessing environmental performance, promote further environmental improvements, regulate environmental issues and monitor the progress LESIEUR CRISTAL’s environmental management. This environmental committee consists of decision-making organizations within in each business unit; LESIEUR CRISTAL is now part of the Moroccan culture, which enhances the strong image and the brand recognition. In their ethical management, LESIEUR CRISTAL focused on trust management, on-site management and transparent management

slowing of economic growth; yet they have achieved different levels of democratisation and are heterogeneous in their economic growth.7 There are also differences regarding their status and “distance” from the Union. Deteriorating interethnic relations within countries and an absence of multicultural policies have proven to be a major obstacle for stability, security and democracy in the region. On the basis of the existing policy developed to encourage EU enlargement into the Western Balkans, this paper

the river Rio dos Camaroes ("River of Prawns") after the variety of crayfish they found there. This name later was applied to the coastal area between Mount Cameroon and Rio Muni. Cameroon has distinct regional cultural, religious, and political traditions as well as ethnic variety. The division of the country into British- and French-ruled League of Nations mandates after World War I created Anglophone and Francophone regions. The English-speaking region consists of the Southwest and Northwest provinces

that fascism was born as a concept before its explicit birth as a movement is central to any understanding of fascism. The ideology of radical nationalism that made it possible was part of a larger intellectual reaction to the Enlightenment.4 This tradition was both European and, in the Latin American case, “non-European” as well. To be sure, the original ideology behind fascism was born as a reaction to the progressive European revolutions of the long nineteenth century (from the French revolution

voices, within new narrative structures. And in doing so, they destabilized established structures of class, gender and politics.”[16] The Modern Novel In his Introduction to The Modern Novel, Jesse Matz notes that “the novel has always been modern – always concerned mainly with contemporary life” and “always after the new thing”. But, as he observes, “some time around 1900 (1910, or 1920), to be modern meant something more, because suddenly modernity meant everything.” Modernity seemed