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Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of
duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines
the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on
executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and
undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on
detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in
Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on
three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernicious effects of
polarization; realignments of party systems that enable elected
autocrats to gain legislative power; and the incremental nature of
derogations, which divides oppositions and keeps them off balance.
A concluding chapter looks at the international context of
backsliding and the role of new technologies in these processes. An
online appendix provides detailed accounts of backsliding in 16
countries, which can be found at www.cambridge.org/backsliding.
Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (1970) offers one of the most
powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline
of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical
engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with
the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th
century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic
theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic
Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has happened since
then both in theory and in practice. Adorno's powerful vision of
aesthetics calls for reconsideration in this light. Must his work
be defended, updated, resisted, or simply left behind? This volume
gathers new essays by leading philosophers, critics, and theorists
writing in the wake of Adorno in order to address these questions.
They hold in common a deep respect for the power of Adorno's
aesthetic critique and a concern for the future of aesthetic theory
in response to recent developments in aesthetics and its contexts.
"The Sunset Years" is the story of a group of medical and legal
professionals who gather weekly in a continuing education class to
study the problems that face today's elderly. Using an upbeat,
positive approach to the questions that always pop up when "old
age" is the topic of conversation, the book discusses many issues
on aging, from Alzheimer's disease to elder abuse, and more. The
reader is lifted above the noise to a vantage point where he can
see from wherever he stands in life, the problems associated with
growing old.
An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of
twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the
centenary of his birth. "Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a
portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical
treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet
for whom writing was a matter of life and death."-The New Yorker
"Jean Daive's memoir of his brief but intense spell as confidant
and poetic confrere of Paul Celan offers us unique access to the
mind and personality of one of the great poets of the dark
twentieth century."-J.M. Coetzee Paul Celan (1920-1970) is
considered one of Europe's greatest post-World-War II poets, known
for his astonishing experiments in poetic form, expression, and
address. Under the Dome is French poet Jean Daive's haunting memoir
of his friendship with Celan, a precise yet elliptical account of
their daily meetings, discussions, and walks through Paris, a
routine that ended suddenly when Celan committed suicide by
drowning himself in the Seine. Daive's grief at the loss of his
friend finds expression in Under the Dome, where we are given an
intimate insight into Celan's last years, at the height of his
poetic powers, and as he approached the moment when he would
succumb to the debilitating emotional pain of a Holocaust survivor.
In Under the Dome, Jean Daive illuminates Celan's process of
thinking about poetry, grappling with questions of where it comes
from and what it does: invaluable insights about poetry's relation
to history and ethics, and how poems offer pathways into a deeper
grasp of our past and present. This new edition of Rosmarie
Waldrop's masterful translation includes an introduction by
scholars Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard, which provides critical,
historical, and cultural context for Daive's enigmatic, timeless
text. "Under the Dome breathes with Celan while walking with Celan,
walking in the dark and the light with Celan, invoking the
stillness, the silence, of the breathturn while speaking for the
deeply human necessity of poetry."-Michael Palmer, author of The
Laughter of the Sphinx "The fragments textured together in this
more-than-magnificent rendering of Jean Daive's prose poem by this
master of the word, Rosmarie Waldrop, grab on and leave us haunted
and speechless."-Mary Ann Caws, author of Creative Gatherings:
Meeting Places of Modernism and editor of the Yale Anthology of
Twentieth Century French Poetry "Rosmarie Waldrop's brilliant
translation resonates with her profound knowledge of both Celan's
and Daive's poetry and the passion for language that she shares
with them. The text brings these three major poets together in a
highly unusual and wholly successful collaboration."-Cole Swensen,
author of On Walking On "Rosmarie Waldrop takes up Celan's question
to Jean Daive as her own. I cannot unread her inimitable ease in
these pages. This is a book that contends with time."-Fady Joudah,
author of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance "Daive's writing
is a highly punctuated recollection, a memoir, perhaps a testimony,
but also surely a way of attending to the time of the writing, the
conditions and coordinates of Celan's various enunciations, his
linguistic humility. ... Celan's death, what Daive calls 'really
unforeseeable,' remains as an 'undercurrent' in the conversations
recollected here, gathered up again, with an insistence and clarity
of true mourning and acknowledgement."-Judith Butler, author of The
Force of Nonviolence
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