1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996207543303316

Autore

Robertson-von Trotha Caroline Y

Titolo

60 Jahre Studium Generale und 20 Jahre Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft : Entstehung, Dokumente, Konzeptionen / / Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (Hrsg.) ; unter Mitarbeit von Christine Mielke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Karlsruhe, : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2009

Karlsruhe : , : KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie : , : Scientific Pub., , 2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages ) : illustrations, portraits; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Problemkreise der angewandten Kulturwissenschaft ; ; Heft 15

Disciplina

306.0711

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching (Higher) - Germany - Karlsruhe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291)

Sommario/riassunto

To mark the double anniversary - 60 years of Studium Generale, 20 years of applied cultural studies at the University of Karlsruhe - the volume documents the history and content of both institutions. In addition to documents and sources for the establishment and further development of Studium Generale and Applied Cultural Studies, there are also historical and current programmatic texts on general teaching and the tasks of cultural studies approaches at a technical university.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786208903321

Autore

Gorbachiov Mijail Sergueevich <1931-2022, >

Titolo

Conversations with Gorbachev : on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism / / Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár ; translated by George Shriver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-231-52927-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

947.0854092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Translator's Note; Author's Preface; CONVERSATION ONE: The Criss-Crossing of our Paths; 1. Student Communists; 2. New Hopes and New Disappointments; 3. Twenty Years, Divergent Paths; CONVERSATION TWO: How We Sought to Reinvigorate Socialism; 1 .The Prague Spring and its Defeat; 2. More Democracy, More Socialism; 3. Freedom of Choice Either Exists or It Doesn't; 4. An Airplane Took Off, Not Knowing Where It Would Land; 5. What to Do With the Party ?; 6. Can the Use of Force ""Save Socialism""?; CONVERSATION THREE: There's Only One World

1. Breaking Out of the Dead End of the Cold War2. Socialism is Alive as a World Process; 3. At a Crossroads of Civilization; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS The Conscience of the Reformer; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that ?thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two fri