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Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find common ground between the two thinkers. This pioneering work recovers the relevance of Arendt and Adorno for contemporary political theory and philosophy and lays the foundation for a critical understanding of political modernity: from universalistic claims for political freedom to the abyss of genocidal politics.
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional teams and their players have become agents of globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural conflict and prejudice. Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann take readers into the exciting global sports scene, showing how soccer, football, baseball, basketball, and hockey have given rise to a collective identity among millions of predominantly male fans in the United States, Europe, and around the rest of the world. They trace how these global--and globalizing--sports emerged from local pastimes in America, Britain, and Canada over the course of the twentieth century, and how regionalism continues to exert its divisive influence in new and potentially explosive ways. Markovits and Rensmann explore the complex interplay between the global and the local in sports today, demonstrating how sports have opened new avenues for dialogue and shared interest internationally even as they reinforce old antagonisms and create new ones. "Gaming the World" reveals the pervasive influence of sports on our daily lives, making all of us citizens of an increasingly cosmopolitan world while affirming our local, regional, and national identities.
Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find common ground between the two thinkers. This pioneering work recovers the relevance of Arendt and Adorno for contemporary political theory and philosophy and lays the foundation for a critical understanding of political modernity: from universalistic claims for political freedom to the abyss of genocidal politics.
Die Studie hat das Ziel, die qualitative politische Kulturforschung
zum Problem des Antisemitismus und zu politischen
Mobilisierungschancen von Judenfeindlichkeit in der demokratischen
Gesellschaft neu zu fundieren. Vor dem Hintergrund
multifaktorieller Modelle werden Parameter und Deutungsmuster
entworfen, mit denen die politischen und diskursiven
Gelegenheitsstrukturen antisemitischer Mobilisierungsversuche und
Judenbilder' in der bundesrepublikanischen Demokratie empirisch
erforscht werden. Die Untersuchung des Antisemitismus als
ideologischem und politisch-psychologischem Bindemittel in der
extremen Rechten wie in der radikalen Linken sowie die Analyse
offentlich-politischer Diskursprozesse der letzten Jahre zeigen,
dass sich das politisch-kulturelle Bedingungsgefuge im Zeitalter
rapider Modernisierung und Globalisierung verandert und sich die
politische Opportunitat antisemitischer Vorurteile erhoht
hat.
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