Hezbollah ceases its attacks on Israel and withdraws its fighters to north of the Litani River. Any Hezbollah military bases ...

Donald Tusk’s Poland.

It is widely recognized that economic policy in the advanced capitalist countries shifted profoundly in the 1980s. Employment levels were abandoned to market processes, government deficits would be ...

In contradiction with narrative stands metaphor, which is a kind of denarrativization, and within the novel as a form there is always a tension—and a dilemma for the novelist—between poetic perception ...

Once the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the region’s social sump. The population of this megalopolis has swollen to an estimated 17 million, more than ...

One of T.J. Clark’s objectives in The Painting of Modern Life is to make us ‘unlearn our present ease with Impressionism’, and in this he succeeds magnificently.footnote ＊ By raising the issue of the ...

Icoined the term ‘antisystemic movement’ in the 1970s in order to have a formulation that would group together what had, historically and analytically, been two distinct and in many ways rival kinds ...

During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished.footnote 1 The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic ...

Is there still a living choice between Necropolis and Utopia: the possibility of building a new kind of city that will, freed of inner contradictions, positively enrich and further human development? ...

Hearing of Weber’s death in 1920, many in the German academic community might have thought the news referred to Alfred Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. While his elder ...

1Georg Lukács, Ästhetik, Neuwied and Berlin 1963 (2 vols.). See, respectively, Vol. 11, pp. 759–66; Vol. 1, pp. 679–80; Vol. 11, pp. 185–8; and Vol. ii, pp ...