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Identities and Politics During the Putin Preside - The Foundations of Russia`s Stability

How could an undemocratic regime manage to stabilise Russia? What is Putin's success formula? What are the symbolic and discursive underpinnings of Russia's new stability? Many outside observers of Russia regarded the authoritarian tendencies during the Putin presidency as a retreat from, or even the end of, democratisation. Rather than attempting to explain why Russia did not follow the trajectory of democratic transformation, this book aims to attain an understanding of the stabilisation process during Putin's tenure as president. Proceeding from the assumption that the stability created under Putin is multi-layered, the authors attempt to uncover the underpinnings of the new equilibrium, inquiring especially about the changes and fixations that occurred in the discourses on political and national identity. In doing so, the authors analyse the trajectories of the past years from the traditional perspective of transitology as well as through the lens of post-structuralist discourse theory. The two approaches are seen as complementary, with the latter focusing less on the end point of transition than on the nature of the mechanisms that stabilise the current regime. The book therefore focuses on how nationalism became an increasingly important tool in political discourse and how it affected political identity. "Sovereign democracy" is seen by many contributors as the most explicit manifestation of a newfound post-Soviet identity drawing on nationalist ideas, while simultaneously appeasing most sectors of the Russian political spectrum.

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Slavische Erzähltheorie

The eight contributions to this collection, written by members of the â??Narratology? research group in Hamburg and by external experts, contain the basic categories of Russian and Czech narratology. These became significant for the development of international narratology or for the further development potential of the theory. The studied concepts include â??fableâ?? and â??subjectâ??, â??subject developmentâ??, â??eventâ?? and â??fictional worldsâ??. The comparative studies explore and discuss Russian composition theory, the author theories of Slavic functionalism, formalistic film and theater concepts and narrative semantics in the conception of Prague structuralism. The spectrum of the discussed theorists includes the Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky and the formalism-leaning theorist Michail Petrovsky, the Czech structuralist Jan Muka?ovskÃ½, Felix Vodi?ka and LubomÃr DoleÅ¾el as well as Yuri Lotman, the central figure of the Moscow-Tartu school.Der Sammelband beleuchtet in acht Beiträgen, die von Mitgliedern der Hamburger Forschergruppe Narratologie und von externen Experten verfasst worden sind, Grundkategorien der russischen und tschechischen Erzähltheorie, die für die Entwicklung der internationalen Narratologie bedeutsam wurden oder Potential für die weitere Theorieentwicklung enthalten. Zu den untersuchten Konzepten gehören "Fabel" und "Sujet", die "Sujetentfaltung", das "Ereignis" und die "fiktiven Welten". In vergleichenden Studien werden die russische Kompositionstheorie, die Autortheorien des slavischen Funktionalismus, formalistische Film- und Theaterkonzepte und die narrative Semantik in der Konzeption des Prager Strukturalismus behandelt. Der Bogen der besprochenen Theoretiker reicht vom russischen Formalisten Viktor Sklovskij und dem formalismusnahen Kompositionstheoretiker Michail Petrovskij über die tschechischen Strukturalisten Jan Mukarovský, Felix Vodicka und Lubomír Dolezel bis zur Zentralfigur der Moskau-Tartu-Schule Jurij Lotman.

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Lacan and the Limits of Language

This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacan's purported "ahistoricism," and how does the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect with the questions of temporality initiated by Heidegger and then developed by contemporary French philosophy? The second question concerns the status of the body in Lacanian theory, especially in connection with emotion and affect, which Lacanian theory is commonly thought to ignore, but which the concept of jouissance was developed to address. Finally, it aims to explore, beyond the strict limits of Lacanian theory, possible points of intersection between psychoanalysis and other domains, including questions of race, biology, and evolutionary theory. By stressing the question of affect, the book shows how Lacan's position cannot be reduced to the structuralist models he nevertheless draws upon, and thus how the problem of the body may be understood as a formation that marks the limits of language. Exploring the anthropological category of "race" within a broadly evolutionary perspective, it shows how Lacan's elaboration of the "imaginary" and the "symbolic" might allow us to explain human physiological diversity without reducing it to a cultural or linguistic construction or allowing "race" to remain as a traditional biological category. Here again the questions of history and temporality are paramount, and open the possibility for a genuine dialogue between psychoanalysis and biology. Finally, the book engages literary texts. Antigone, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Hamlet, and even Wordsworth become the muses who oblige psychoanalysis and philosophy to listen once again to the provocations of poetry, which always disrupts our familiar notions of time and memory, of history and bodily or affective experience, and of subjectivity itself.

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A Post-Structuralist Look at the Relationship Between Still and Moving Images

A Post-Structuralist Look at the Relationship Between Still and Moving Images: ab 2.99 €

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We think What We Eat

We think What We Eat - Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and other Mythological and Cultural Domains: ab 191.99 €

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The Logic of Incest

The Logic of Incest - A Structuralist Analysis of Hebrew Mythology: ab 36.49 €

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Structuralist Theory of Science

Structuralist Theory of Science - Focal Issues New Results: ab 109.99 €

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Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory)

Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory) - A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser: ab 47.99 €

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