II Political Thinkers and Ideas Penseurs ET IDΈES Politiques
| Date | 01 August 2018 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451806800402 |
| Published date | 01 August 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Abstract |
II
POLITICAL THINKERS AND IDEAS
PENSEURS ET IDÉES POLITIQUES
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ARRINGTON, Lauren — The blindness of hindsight: Irish
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BOLTON, Jonathan — The shaman, the greengrocer, and
and British poets look back on early fascist Italy. Irish Po-
“living in truth”. East European Politics and Societies and
litical Studies 33(2), 2018 : 246-258.
Cultures 32(2), May 2018 : 255-265.
In the interwar period, the small town of Rapallo, Italy, was the year-
This article turns to Havel’s contemporaries in the Czech music under-
round home of E. and D. Pound and a seasonal retreat for W. B. Yeats
ground to look at earlier uses of the phrase “living in truth.” I focus on E.
and G. Yeats. The promise of good company, the hope of good weather,
Bondy’s 1976 novel The Shaman, where truth is portrayed in mystical
and the potential for poetic collaboration drew to Rapallo a number of
terms as a form of transcendence achieved through solitary spiritual
poets who were influential in shaping twentieth-century poetry. However,
training — a mental state that is divorced from political opposition. Havel
Pound’s virulent fascism and the Pact of Friendship and Alliance be-
repurposes the idea of “living in truth,” avoiding mystical notions in favor
tween Germany and Italy (1939) meant that writers were loathe to rec-
of civic engagement, but he also steers clear of the romance of “dissi-
ognize the degree to which Rapallo was instrumental to late modernist
dent stories” about people persecuted for such engagement. I explore
networks. For the most part, biographers have followed suit. This essay
why Havel’s famous story of the greengrocer is so weak on motivation;
attends to memoirs written by N. Cunard, H. D., Richard Aldington, and
rather than painting a scene or creating a three-dimensional character,
Th. MacGreevy to illustrate post-war aversions to acknowledging the
Havel gestures weakly at the greengrocer’s sudden transformation into
importance of Rapallo. [R, abr.] [See Abstr. 68.5273]
an oppositional figure. Havel also consistently uses scare quotes around
the phrase “living in truth,” registering his own discomfort with a phrase
that is inspiring, yet plays into dissident clichés. I see The Power of the
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ASHCROFT, Caroline — The polis and the res publica:
Powerless [1st ed. 1978] as delineating a version of dissident truth while
two Arendtian models of violence. History of European
remaining skeptical about its transmission. [R] [See Abstr. 68.4823]
Ideas 44(1-2), Jan.-March 2018 : 128-142.
This paper explores Arendt’s analysis of the ancient Greek and Roman
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COLLYER, Fran — Envisaging the healthcare sector as a
political worlds, [focusing] on what this comparison can tells us about
field: moving from Talcott Parsons to Pierre Bourdieu.
her understanding of the role of violence in politics. Arendt has gener-
Social Theory and Health 16(2), May 2018 : 111-126.
ally been understood to structurally exclude violence from the political.
Yet in her portrayal of Roman politics, and her preference for this
Sociology’s theorisation of the health system, as a system or structured set
political system above the Greeks’ (in certain respects), a genuinely
of interlinked practices and institutions, has recently been neglected. The
political engagement with violence can be discerned. The paper claims
importance of the concept of a system is demonstrated through a brief
that this particular case study indicates the framework of the vita
historical examination of the conceptual apparatus available within the
activa, set out by Arendt in The Human Condition, should be reinter-
discipline, beginning with the work of Talcott Parsons. It is proposed that
preted, particularly insofar as ‘fabrication’ or ‘work’ here appears as
the under-theorisation of the term makes it difficult to explain social action,
something that is legitimately part of the political, and incorporates
specifical y how social action might be shaped by the structures of the
within it some forms of violence. [R, abr.]
social system, and indeed, how social action might influence, and bring
about change in the system itself. The paper proposes Bourdieu’s concept
of the field as an appropriate replacement, demonstrating its greater utility
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AUGSPURGER, Carolyn — "The principles of British
for theorising the role of social structure in shaping healthcare practices and
honour": the memoirs of Sir Douglas Savory, M.P., and
for modelling the healthcare sector itself. [R, abr.]
the intersection between Ulster unionism and European
minorities, 1939-1969. Irish Political Studies 33(2), 2018 :
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DANAHER, David S. — Ideology as performance in [V.
184-201.
Havel's] The Power of the Powerless. East European Poli-
This article examines the autobiographical works of Sir Douglas Sa-
tics and Societies and Cultures 32(2), May 2018 : 266-270.
vory, M.P., an Ulster unionist politician in the pre-Troubles period,
While ideology is a central concept in Václav Havel’s master essay, at no
primarily from the 1940s through the 1960s. Savory used these writ-
ings to disseminate a unionist perspective on Northern Irish history
point does he operate with a standard definition of the term. Instead,
Havel “defines” ideology in metaphorical and performative terms, refram-
and to construct unionist identity. The article particularly focuses on
ing our understanding of its meaning and power in the modern world by
the intersection between his engagement with European minorities and
Ulster unionism, arguing that his autobiographical accounts of his
focusing on its pre-political operation. This point has yet to be appreci-
advocacy for marginalized groups helped to justify his portrayal of
ated by scholars of Havel. To better understand the import of Havel’s
approach, this essay details metaphorical contexts for ideology in The
unionism as a threatened group. His work further helped to shape
Power of the Powerless [1st ed. 1978] and draws connections to ideo-
post-war narratives of unionism. These narratives elided nationalist
grievances and encouraged an inflexible response to such issues on
logical performativity in Havel’s plays from the 1970s as well as in the
cinema of the Czech New Wave. [R] [See Abstr. 68.4823]
the part of unionist policy-makers, which would have far-reaching
consequences in later periods. This article will conclude that Savory’s
autobiographical works were used in deeply political ways. [R, abr.]
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DONOGHUE, Matthew — Beyond hegemony: elaborating
[See Abstr. 68.5273]
on the use of Gramscian concepts in critical discourse
analysis for political studies. Political Studies 66(2), May
2018 : 392-408.
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BERGMANN, Julian ; NIEMANN, Arne — From neofunc-
tional peace to a logic of spillover in EU external policy:
The work of A. Gramsci is important for the theoretical underpinnings of
a response to Visoka and Doyle. Journal of Common Mar-
critical discourse analysis. However, many scholars’ engagement with
ket Studies 56(2), March 2018 : 420-438.
Gramsci’s work within critical discourse analysis remains surprisingly thin.
This article seeks to highlight the detriment to critical discourse analysis of
In their article, Gezim Visoka and John Doyle ["Neo-functional peace: the
having only a surface engagement with Gramsci. It critically assesses how
European Union way of resolving conflicts", ibid. 54(4), 2016: 862-877]
Gramscian concepts such as hegemony and ‘common sense’ are currently
have proposed the concept of ‘neofunctional peace’ as a means to
employed within critical discourse analysis and provides more detailed
conceptualize the EU's peacemaking practices in the case of the EU
discussion on the import of these concepts for critical discourse analysis.
facilitated Belgrade Pristina dialogue. This article challenges the ‘neo-
The article also argues that introducing the Gramscian concepts of the war
functional peace’ on conceptual and empirical grounds. We critically
of position and spontaneous and normative grammars enables the further
discuss Visoka and Doyle's reading of neofunctionalism and question
realisation of critical discourse analysis’ ambition to be an emancipatory
parts of their empirical evidence given for the existence of a ‘neo func-
tool in political and social science. [R, abr.]
tional peace’. We stipulate a neofunctionalist logic for explaining integra-
tion in the area of EU external policy. Focusing on three spillover dynam-
ics to explain the initiation of the Belgrade Pristina dialogue — functional
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FALK, Barbara J. — The Power of the Powerless and
discrepancies, supranational entrepreneurship and external spil over —
Václav Havel’s “responsibilityism”. East European Politics
we il ustrate how neofunctionalism can be used to explain the extension
and Societies and Cultures 32(2), May 2018 : 328-333.
of the scope of EU competences and action in the external policy realm.
Havel’s essay The Power of the Powerless [1st ed. 1978] is a key ex-
[R] [See also Gëzim Visoka and John Doyle, "The promise and future of
pression of Havel’s views on responsibility, particularly as personified in
neo functional peace: a reply to Bergmann and Niemann", pp. 439-445]
the greengrocer taking responsibility for his actions and his decision to
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