The Modern State and the Society of Hyper-Order from 1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-91
Author(s):  
T. K. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern State ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Hyper Order ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Second World

This chapter serves as a companion to its predecessor. It surveys the temporary dislocation of state power across much of Europe during the Second World War: before turning to its reinforcement and enhancement in the decades that followed. It examines the unfolding consequences of the 1968 crisis of legitimacy across Western societies: before noting the apparently unassailable position of the Western State against all violent challengers in the post-Cold War Brave New World of the early 1990s. Finally, it introduces the strikingly open-ended juncture of the early twenty-first century, setting up a more in-depth discussion in Chapter Three.

scholarly journals Genetics, Bioethics and Space Travel: GATTACA

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Clare Sansom
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Genetics And Genomics ◽  
Second World

It has been said that all stories set in the future say more about the concerns of the time in which they are written than they do about future possibilities. Long before the genome era, writers were investigating the possibility of changing the biological make-up of humans. Questions about human biology, identity and eugenics (from the Greek ‘well-born’) have been raised by writers ever since Plato; classic novels addressing these issues include H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1931). Eugenics in fiction passed out of fashion after the Second World War, but recent developments in genetics and genomics have brought these ideas into the foreground again.

The Modern State and the Society of Hyper-Order to 1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-54
Author(s):  
T. K. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
State Power ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Modern State ◽  
World War ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Dominant State ◽  
Hyper Order ◽  
Second World

For the past 200 years the defining feature of most domestic contests between Western governments and armed opponents has tended to be their lopsided asymmetry. Since the later nineteenth century a recurrent phenomenon of Western societies have been hopeless micro-insurrections mounted against stable societies: the armed utopianism of the violently delusional. Time and again, it is only society’s dreamers and deranged who have dared to mount any kind of sustained violent challenge to the state. This chapter traces the emergence of such dominant state power from the late eighteenth century up until the eve of the Second World War.

Brave New World

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-64
Author(s):  
Alex Brummer
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
World War ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

This chapter mentions Aldous Huxley, who wrote the Brave New World after the upheaval of the First World War and before the terrors of the Second World War. It highlights Huxley's contemplation of revolutionary change that captured what he sensed as deep-seated changes in the national feeling, along with the questioning of long-held social and moral assumptions. It also discusses the economic shockwave delivered by the coronavirus, which caused an unprecedented loss of output from the month before lockdown to April 2020 when most of the economy was shut and threatened the highest level of unemployment in a century. The chapter explores the EU and the seventeen members of the eurozone that were considered not in the best of shape long before the coronavirus added to the dislocation. It talks about the membership of the euro that had delivered economic chaos, hardship and political turmoil in Greece.

The Mexican and Latino Question: What Is to Be Done?

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Central America ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Second World

In his book Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice, Enrique M. Buelna examines the life of Ralph Cuarón, a Mexican-American or Chicano seaman, furniture maker, father, husband, and lifelong activist who joined the Communist Party at age 19 during the Second World War. The Communist Party, however, largely ignored Mexican workers and local members were not pleased with his organizing of that segment of the working class. In the early twenty-first century, the Mexican question remained, although it became known as the "Latino question" after considerable immigration from Central America in the 1980s and '90s. In their book The Latino Question: Politics, Labouring Classes, and the Next Left, Armando Ibarra, Alfredo Carlos, and Rodolfo D. Torres deconstruct the word Latino, arguing that it homogenizes an extremely diverse population.

Teaching in a Brave New World

Diogenes ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Louis Van Delft
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Metaphoric Language ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Ultimate Purpose

This article is essentially a commentary on a little-known text by `Alain' (whose real name was Emile-Auguste Chartier), successively entitled Les marchands de sommeil and Vigiles de l'esprit. This piece of work, initially a prize-giving speech to students in a Parisian lycée, was rewritten by Alain many years later during the Second World War. It describes with acute intelligence and in a splendid metaphoric language the enduring and compelling proposition that the formation of critical judgement should be the ultimate purpose of all teaching.

Restoring Four-Power Rights, Reviving a Confederation in 1989

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elise Sarotte
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
World War ◽  
German States ◽  
Divided Germany ◽  
Second World ◽  
Restoration Model

This chapter examines the Soviet restoration model and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's revivalist model. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) hoped to use its weight as a victor in the Second World War to restore the old quadripartite mechanism of four-power control exactly as it used to be in 1945, before subsequent layers of Cold War modifications created room for German contributions. This restoration model, which called for the reuse of the old Allied Control Commission to dominate all further proceedings in divided Germany, represented a realist vision of politics run by powerful states, each retaining their own sociopolitical order and pursuing their own interests. Meanwhile, Kohl's revivalist model represented the revival, or adaptive reuse, of a confederation of German states. This latter-day “confederationism” blurred the lines of state sovereignty; each of the two twenty-first-century Germanies would maintain its own political and social order, but the two would share a confederative, national roof.

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Thomas Klikauer ◽  
Norman Simms ◽  
Helge F. Jani ◽  
Bob Beatty ◽  
Nicholas Lokker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
European Union ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Right ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
The European Union ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

Jay Julian Rosellini, The German New Right: AfD, PEGIDA and the Re-imagining of National Identity (London: C. Hurst, 2019).Simon Bulmer and William E. Paterson, Germany and the European Union: Europe’s Reluctant Hegemon? (London: Red Globe Press, 2019).Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).Stephan Jaeger, The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020).Robert M. Jarvis, Gambling under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2019).

Un: 75 years after the Second world war

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-32
Author(s):  
L. E. Grishaeva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Security Council ◽  
New World ◽  
International Security ◽  
Second World War ◽  
International Organization ◽  
World War ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

October 24, 1945 as a result of long labors and aspirations, in the first phase of the anti-Hitler coalition countries, began operating international organization designed to end war, promote peace and justice and the coming of a better life for all mankind. The author writes about the history of the creation of the United Nations and contemporary issues facing it. The fact that the UN has universal competence, a wide representative composition, and its Charter is the basis of the legitimacy of decision-making on maintaining peace and strengthening international security. About conceptual approaches to reform of the UN and its main organ — the Security Council. About what allowed the UN to prevent a new world war for 75 years.

Initiatives for preservation and tourism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Macknight
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Government Support ◽  
First Century ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
World War ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Civic Associations ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines the interactions between nobles and various public bodies for the preservation of art, archives, and architectural heritage from the 1950s to the 2000s. It documents nobles’ communication with museum curators and archivists about the lending of items for exhibitions and about the donation or deposition of private archives for the State’s collections. Analysis of this correspondence sheds light on evolutions in twentieth-century attitudes toward patrimony, including the reasons that some items have been kept while others have been deliberately destroyed. The chapter shows how efforts to attract tourists to châteaux received increased stimulus and government support after the Second World War. Nobles in the twenty-first century remain closely involved in initiatives for heritage preservation via family networks and civic associations.

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