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Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous
government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging
and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of
problems faced by modern democracies, including political
disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity
inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate
change and segregation. In practice, these attempts are given many
names, such as citizen panels, deliberative fora, collaborative
dialogues, etc. In the academic literature as well, the phenomenon
falls under many different headings, for instance collaborative,
deliberative or interactive governance. Participatory Governance
and Representative Democracy refers to this empirical phenomenon as
local participatory governance, that is, government-sponsored
direct participation between invited citizens and local officials
in concrete arrangements and concerning problems that affect them.
Participatory governance, we argue, may take many forms, regarding
(1) type of interaction and type of communication between
participants within the specific participatory arrangement (e.g.,
deliberative vs. aggregative) as well as regarding (2) the relation
and connection between the specific arrangement and the more
traditional representative structures (e.g., compatible,
incompatible, transformative or irrelevant). The proposed edited
volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting
the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a
shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local
politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements.
Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous
government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging
and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of
problems faced by modern democracies, including political
disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity
inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate
change and segregation. In practice, these attempts are given many
names, such as citizen panels, deliberative fora, collaborative
dialogues, etc. In the academic literature as well, the phenomenon
falls under many different headings, for instance collaborative,
deliberative or interactive governance. Participatory Governance
and Representative Democracy refers to this empirical phenomenon as
local participatory governance, that is, government-sponsored
direct participation between invited citizens and local officials
in concrete arrangements and concerning problems that affect them.
Participatory governance, we argue, may take many forms, regarding
(1) type of interaction and type of communication between
participants within the specific participatory arrangement (e.g.,
deliberative vs. aggregative) as well as regarding (2) the relation
and connection between the specific arrangement and the more
traditional representative structures (e.g., compatible,
incompatible, transformative or irrelevant). The proposed edited
volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting
the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a
shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local
politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements.
Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her
letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished
critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the
nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of
one of her early letters, for her "not simply to "be," but to
"utter.""
Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and
characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot's works passages
of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of
writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be
understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their
author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of
language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or
criss-cross to other writings of Eliot's as well as to works by
philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.
Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her
letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished
critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the
nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of
one of her early letters, for her "not simply to "be," but to
"utter.""
Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and
characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot's works passages
of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of
writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be
understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their
author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of
language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or
criss-cross to other writings of Eliot's as well as to works by
philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.
Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century
interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in
English a complete collection of his writings on art and
literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his
work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his
first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907
"Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva"" and concluding with the
1940 posthumous publication of "Medusa's Head." Many of the essays
included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary
literary and art criticism and theory.
Among the subjects Freud engages are Shakespeare's "Hamlet, The
Merchant of Venice, King Lear, " and "Macbeth, " Goethe's "Dichtung
und Wahrheit, " Michelangelo's "Moses, " E. T. A. Hoffman's "The
Sand Man," Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov, " fairy tales, the
effect of and the meaning of beauty, mythology, and the games of
aestheticization. All texts are drawn from "The Standard Edition of
the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud," edited by James
Strachey. The volume includes the notes prepared for that edition
by the editor.
In addition to the writings on Jensen's "Gradiva" and Medusa, the
essays are: "Psychopathic Characters on the Stage," "The
Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words," "The Occurrence in Dreams of
Material from Fairy Tales," "The Theme of the Three Caskets," "The
"Moses" of Michelangelo," "Some Character Types Met with in
Psycho-analytic Work," "On Transience," "A Mythological Parallel to
a Visual Obsession," "A Childhood Recollection from "Dichtung und
Wahrheit,"" "The Uncanny," "Dostoevsky and Parricide," and "The
Goethe Prize."
Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century
interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in
English a complete collection of his writings on art and
literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his
work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his
first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907
"Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva"" and concluding with the
1940 posthumous publication of "Medusa's Head." Many of the essays
included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary
literary and art criticism and theory.
Among the subjects Freud engages are Shakespeare's "Hamlet, The
Merchant of Venice, King Lear, " and "Macbeth, " Goethe's "Dichtung
und Wahrheit, " Michelangelo's "Moses, " E. T. A. Hoffman's "The
Sand Man," Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov, " fairy tales, the
effect of and the meaning of beauty, mythology, and the games of
aestheticization. All texts are drawn from "The Standard Edition of
the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud," edited by James
Strachey. The volume includes the notes prepared for that edition
by the editor.
In addition to the writings on Jensen's "Gradiva" and Medusa, the
essays are: "Psychopathic Characters on the Stage," "The
Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words," "The Occurrence in Dreams of
Material from Fairy Tales," "The Theme of the Three Caskets," "The
"Moses" of Michelangelo," "Some Character Types Met with in
Psycho-analytic Work," "On Transience," "A Mythological Parallel to
a Visual Obsession," "A Childhood Recollection from "Dichtung und
Wahrheit,"" "The Uncanny," "Dostoevsky and Parricide," and "The
Goethe Prize."
For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing
conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is
often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization
does little to take into account the myriad motivations that have
shaped it in ways that make it seem intractable, from powerful
nationalist and theological ideologies to the more practical
concerns of the people who live there and just want to carry out
their lives without the constant threat of war. In 2011, Neil Hertz
lived in Ramallah in Palestine's occupied West Bank and taught in
nearby Jerusalem. With "Pastoral in Palestine", he offers a
personal take on the conflict. Though the situation has resulted in
the erosion of both societies, Hertz could find no one in either
Israel or Palestine who expressed much hope for a solution.
Instead, they are resigned to find ways to live with the situation.
Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs captured by
Hertz, "Pastoral in Palestine" puts a human face to politics in the
Middle East.
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