1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786604803321

Autore

Hell Julia

Titolo

Post-fascist fantasies : psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany / / Julia Hell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.] : , : Duke University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-8223-1963-2

0-8223-9978-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Collana

Post-contemporary interventions

Disciplina

833.9/14/09358

Soggetti

German literature - Germany (East) - History and criticism

German literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Psychoanalysis and literature - Germany (East)

Fascism and literature - Germany (East)

Germany (East) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Critical Orthodoxies: Toward a New Reading of East German Literature -- ; I. In the Name of the Father: East Germany's Foundational Narratives. ; 1. Specters of Stalin, of Constructing Communist Fathers. ; 2. Stalinist Motherhood, or the Hollow Spaces of Emotion: Netty Reiling/Anna Seghers -- ; II. Mapping the Oedipal Story onto Post-Fascist Socialism: New Families/New Bodies. ; 3. The Past in the Present: Sons, Daughters, and the Fantasy of Post-Fascist Bodies -- ; III. Inscribing the Daughter in the Paternal Narrative. ; 4. Post-Fascist Body/Post-Fascist Voice: Christa Wolf's Moskauer Novelle and Der geteilte Himmel. ; 5. The Paternal Family Narrative as Autobiography and as Parable: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Kassandra. History as Trauma.

Sommario/riassunto

Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues to the contrary that they were in fact complex fictions sharing the theme of antifascism, the founding



discourse of the German Democratic Republic. Employing an approach informed by Slavoj Zizek's work on the Communist's sublime body and by British psychoanalytic feminism's concern with feminine subjectivity, Hell first examines the antifascist works by exiled authors and authors tied to the resistance movement.

She then strives to understand the role of Christa Wolf, the GDR's most prominent author, in the GDR's effort to reconstruct symbolic power after the Nazi period.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910349371403321

Autore

Avgerinopoulou Dionysia-Theodora

Titolo

Science-Based Lawmaking : How to Effectively Integrate Science in International Environmental Law / / by Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-21417-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 pages)

Disciplina

341.762

344.046

Soggetti

Environmental law, International

Environmental law

Environmental policy

Environmental sciences

International law

Environmental management

Political science

International Environmental Law

Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice

Environmental Science and Engineering

Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations

Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management

Philosophy of Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Is Contemporary International Environmental Law Based on Science? -- Historical Background: What Are the Lessons Learnt from the Past and What Remains To Be Answered -- Part I -- Pathology of International Environmental Law -- Fragmentation of Science, International Environmental Law, and International Institutions -- Causes of Pathology -- Part II -- Normative Powers of the International Institutions with Environmental Competence -- Contemporary Lawmaking Processes and Progressive Lawmaking Processes That Bind the States Without Unanimous Vote -- Progressive Lawmaking Procedures in the Framework of International Institutions with Environmental Competence -- Normative Powers of Expert Bodies as Variables for Effective Environmental Governance -- Additional Theoretical Legal Bases for the Integration of Science in International Environmental Law Without Any Constitutional or Procedural Amendment -- Part III -- Democratic Governance and Public Accountability as Limitations to the Science-Based Lawmaking Model -- The Inherent Limits of the Science-Based Lawmaking Model -- Criticism Against the Delegation of Lawmaking Powers to Experts Based Upon Democratic Considerations -- Part IV -- “To Unite the Political Power with the Wisdom. . .”: The Decision-Making Model That Accepts Expertise as a Basis of Legitimacy -- Why Would States Obey Rules Issued by Expert Bodies? -- Science Expertise as a Legitimacy Basis for Lawmaking and Additional Bases of Legitimacy -- A New Modus Operandi for the International Institutions with Environmental Competence -- Part V -- Towards a Comprehensive Science-Based Lawmaking Model -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The Book takes the approach of a critique of the prevailing international environmental law-making processes and their systemic shortcomings. It aims to partly redesign the current international environmental law-making system in order to promote further legislation and more effectively protect the natural environment and public health. Through case studies and doctrinal analyses, an array of initial questions guides the reader through a variety of factors influencing the development of International Environmental Law. After a historical analysis, commencing from the Platonic philosophy up to present, the Book holds that some of the most decisive factors that could create an optimized law-making framework include, among others: progressive voting processes, science-based secondary international environmental legislation, new procedural rules, that enhance the participation in the law-making process by both experts and the public and also review the implementation, compliance and validity of the science-base of the laws. The international community should develop new law-making procedures that include expert opinion. Current scientific uncertainties can be resolved either by policy choices or by referring to the so-called „sound science.“ In formulating a new framework for environmental lawmaking processes, it is essential to re-shape the rules of procedure, so that experts have greater participation in those, in order to improve the quality of International Environmental Law faster than the traditional processes that mainly embrace political priorities generated by the States. Science serves as one of the main tools that will create the next generation of International Environmental Law and help the world transition to a smart, inclusive, sustainable future. .