Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies, and Organizations of the French National Front. By Edward G. DeClair. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. 261p. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1014-1015
Author(s):  
Andrew Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
National Front ◽  
Front National ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Point Of Departure

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” (The Devils of Loudon, 1952) Surely, Huxley would have had much to say about the role played by the Front National (FN) in the recent history of France. The FN is but the modern incarnation of a traditional strand of the French Right. Indeed, Remond is one of the most powerful voices behind the cultural approach to analyzing the contemporary extreme Right, arguing that any organizational manifestation of it can only be understood with reference to the historical and philosophical antecedents. Much of the scholarship on the FN either implicitly or explicitly uses this approach as a point of departure.

Liturgical Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Heron
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Semantic History ◽  
Point Of Departure

The second chapter seeks to deepen and extend Agamben’s analysis by describing the terms of a specifically Christian technology of power. Its point of departure is Erik Peterson’s suggestion that the form of political action specific to Christianity coincides with the Church’s appropriation of the practice that in the ancient Greek polis was termed leitourgia; a suggestion which in turn stimulates a reappraisal of Foucault’s influential notion of pastoral power. “Pastoral power,” the chapter argues, on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of the semantic history of the term (laos) that in the Greek biblical tradition designates the “people” as the referent of pastoral intervention, is more precisely conceived as “liturgical power.” Only by emphasising its liturgical dimension, it contends, can we fully grasp the stakes of the process that Foucault himself suggestively described as the “institutionalisation of the pastorate” and which coincides with the establishment of a fundamental division in the single people of God.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT «PEOPLE-FAMILY» IN THE ANALYSIS OF RECENT HISTORY OF SOUTH OSSETIA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
К.Г. Дзугаев
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
South Ossetia ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

В статье предлагается описание концепта «народ-семья» как инструмента анализа и объяснения основных событий и  результатов новейшей истории Южной Осетии The article proposes a description of the “people-family” concept as a tool of analyzing and explaining the main events and results of the recent history of South Ossetia.

scholarly journals The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini. Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Outi Merisalo
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Recent History ◽  
The People ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Language Text

During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined structure. This was most probably his history of the people of Florence (Historiae Florentini populi, the title given in Jacopo’s dedication copy to Frederick of Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino), revised and published posthumously by Poggio’s son, Jacopo Bracciolini (1442-1478). Contrary to what is often assumed, Poggio’s treatise was not a continuation, nor even a complement, to Leonardo Bruni’s (1370-1444) official history of Florence. It concentrates on the most recent history of Florence from the fourteenth-century conflicts between Florence and Milan through Florentine expansion in Tuscany and finally reaching the mid-fifteenth century. This article will study the genesis and fortune of the work in the context of Poggio’s literary output and the manuscript evidence from the mid-fifteenth century until the first printed edition of the Latin-language text by G.B. Recanati in 1715.

scholarly journals Commons of Identity: Sherpa Identity Management

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 176-192
Author(s):  
Leif Rune Loland
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Ethnic Boundary ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Boundary Dynamics

The recent history of Sherpas demonstrates how identities can be scarce goods. While ‘Sherpa’ refers to an ethnic identity, ‘Sherpa’ refers to a crucial occupation in the trekking industry.i Their privileged position in Nepal’s international tourist industry is related to their common reputation. Their collective use of identity seems to help them getting access to an economic niche, and work in tourism seems to be an aspect of being Sherpa. Thus, an individual that operates in the tourist market does not only manage material assets but also identity assets to maintain the Sherpa reputation. Consequently, one can expect it to be a collective concern to husband their image, ie to control each member’s behaviour which could affect the Sherpa image. This article on Sherpa identity in encounters with outsiders analyses Sherpaness as a manageable resource that constitutes a collectively sanctioned commons. My point of departure is Barth’s analysis of ethnic boundary dynamics (1969, 1994) combined with Bourdieu’s concept of ‘capital’ and Hardin’s perspective on commons.DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v1i0.288Dhaulagiri Vol.1 (2005) pp.176-192

Hypermeter

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-56
Author(s):  
Danuta Mirka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
American Music ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Study ◽  
Point Of Departure

This chapter unearths a number of cues that point to eighteenth-century recognition of what today is called hypermeter and retraces the line of tradition that led from eighteenth-century music theory to the emergence of the modern concept of hypermeter in the twentieth century. It departs from the eighteenth-century concept of compound meter, related to hypermeter by some modern authors, and from the analogy between measures and phrases posited by Johann Philipp Kirnberger and Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in Johann Georg Sulzer’s Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste (1771–74). While compound meter proves irrelevant for the development of hypermeter, the analogy between measures and phrases, adopted by Gottfried Weber in his Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (1817) and further refined by German music theorists, provides the point of departure for the development of the concept of hypermeter in American music theory. The further course of the chapter traces more recent history of this concept. It evaluates the contribution of Schenkerian theory and the cognitive study of music, and it introduces a dynamic model of hypermeter as an extension of the dynamic model of meter presented by the author in Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart (2009).

Physiologic Measures In Patients with PTSD with and Without A Recent History of Alcohol Abuse

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Ahearn ◽  
Mary Mussey ◽  
Catherine Johnson ◽  
Amy Krohn ◽  
Timothy Juergens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of
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