"Religion, European secular identities, and European integration...
Jets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as part of France's annual Bastille Day celebrations.More photos here from BBC on Bastille Day celebrations in France...
What Are the Iranians Dreaming About?
Michel Foucault
"They will never let go of us of their own will. No more than they did in Vietnam." I wanted to respond that they are even less ready to let go of you than Vietnam because of oil, because of the Middle East. Today they seem ready, after Camp David, to concede Lebanon to Syrian domination and therefore to Soviet influence, but would the United States be ready to deprive itself of a position that, according to circumstance, would allow them to intervene from the East or to monitor the peace?....
European heritage battle
At the foot of the Acropolis, a new museum is undergoing construction – but something important is missing: the British Museum is not prepared to return pieces of the world-famous Parthenon frieze to Athens...
Historical myths new and old
A new myth in the making? A response to arguments that national experiences of eastern Europe have been suppressed in western European commemorative practice.....
Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) Issue Posters Against "Honor Killings"
Religion, European secular identities, and European integration
The rapid process of secularization in western Europe has not diminished the unease with which Europe considers Islam religion and Muslims in its midst. In this benchmark essay from 2004, José Casanova argues that the "Islam problem" is an indicator of the disparity between liberal and illiberal strands of European secularism.....
Two ads from WWF Romania. "Nature Can't Be Recycled"... VIA
Suprealist manifesto
"Suprealism brings popular kitsch into the art gallery and high culture to the masses; it introduces into art the naivety of the producer of kitsch while retaining the elitism of the professional artist."...
Democracy and philosophy
Moral insight "is a matter of imagining a better future, and observing the results of attempts to bring that future into existence". Richard Rorty, who died on June 8, was one of the most public of public intellectuals. In the recent ten-year anniversary edition of "Kritika & Kontext", he outlined the anti-foundationalist premise of his philosophy....
This week in "Network Europe"
- Will high speed train travel ever be as fast or as cheap as budget air travel?
- What’s the political cost of the gravy train connecting Europe’s two parliaments
- If you had to live on a train you’d want to live on Marshall Tito’s Blue train – we don’t move in but we do take a ride on it
- Protests from the sidings in France as the Train de Grand Vitesse speeds through small towns cutting them out of the network
- Aboard the slowest train in Europe
- Postcard from the edge…of reason
20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 1
Works of literary criticism have identified an extraordinary array of schools and movements defining the content and styles of novelists, poets, and dramatists who have flourished in the past 100 years. Here is a short list, culled from numerous sources, that offers examples of prominent works and serves as a quick refresher course for reference librarians and others who may be interested in genres but hazy on how to define them. See the Britannica entries for more detailed information. Parts 2-4 will follow in subsequent weeks.....
Joschka Fischer: The EU Moves Ahead At Last
