Europe,the Final Solution and the dynamics of intent

ABSTRACT

The scale and scope of the ‘final solution’ of the ‘Jewish question’ were extreme even in the horrific annals of genocide. Bloxham attempts to shed light on the pattern of mass murder in its expansion and contraction by viewing the Holocaust in a set of temporally and culturally specific contexts. It places the Holocaust into a broader European framework of violent ethnopolitics and geopolitics from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The Holocaust is depicted as an only partially discrete part of a continental process of traumatic flux, and a part, furthermore, that can itself be partially disaggregated into national and regional components. Bloxham moves from a general consideration of patterns of ethnic violence in the period to a closer causal explanation that shows the different valences of Nazi policy towards Jews in the lands directly ruled by Germany and those of Germany's allies respectively. He shows that the peculiarly extensive ambitions of the ‘final solution’ at its most expansive can only be explained when wider geopolitical and strategic contextual terms are factored in along with consideration of Nazi ideology and the internal dynamics of some of the key institutions of the perpetrator state.     

后现代语境中的公共行政:解构与重构——读法默尔《公共行政的语言》

传统公共行政理论受到后现代的质疑和批判,在后现代语境下理解公共行政,要求准确把握现代性和后现代性的语言结构以及它们之间的区别。公共行政正是在现代性与后现代性两者之间激烈的思想碰撞中不断发展和创新。     

The ‘Sharia Law Debate’ in Ontario: The Modernity/Premodernity Distinction in Legal Efforts to Protect Women from Culture

The normative figure in Western feminism remains the liberal autonomous individual of modernity. ‹Other’ women are those who have their freedom to choose restricted. Typically, ‹other’ women are those burdened by culture and hindered by their communities from entering modernity. If we remain in the terrain of thinking about women as vulnerable or imperilled, and some women as particularly imperilled, as we generally do of Muslim women, we remain squarely within the framework of patriarchy understood as abstracted from all other systems. A modernity/premodernity distinction will continue to invade any projects intending to help Muslim women. This paper shows the persistence of the modernity/premodernity distinction in contemporary debates around applying Sharia law to the settlement of family law disputes under the Arbitration Act in Ontario, Canada. I argue below that in their concern to curtail conservative and patriarchal forces within the Muslim community, Canadian feminists (both Muslim and Non-Muslim) utilized frameworks that installed a secular/religious divide that functions as a colour line, marking the difference between the modern, enlightened West, and tribal, religious Muslims. I suggest that feminist responses might have helped to sustain a new form of governmentality, one in which the productive power of the imperilled Muslim woman functions to keep in line Muslim communities at the same time that it defuses more radical feminist and anti-racist critique of conservative religious forces. I end by exploring how this effect could have been restricted.     

调解、诉讼与公正——对现代自由社会和儒家传统的反思

调解作为一种解决纷争的做法和制度 ,是我国传统法律文化尤其是儒家法律文化的重要部分。在现代法治社会中 ,调解否已经过时 ?本文首先介绍中国的调解传统的哲学基础、理论和实践 ,然后从现代自由主义和法治理想的角度 ,对传统的调解提出批判。本文进而指出 ,调解在当代的中国以至西方仍有顽强的生命力 ,西方学者对调解作为“解决纠纷的另类选择”之一提出了多种理论依据 ,其中不少与儒家传统的睿见不谋而合。本文的结论是 ,经过“创造性转化”后的调解理论与实践能对现代文明作出贡献 ,由此可见 ,传统文化遗产在现代仍是十分宝贵和有用的资源。     

论政治的现代性

政治的现代性是社会现代性的一个侧面,政治的现代性是一个无限向前的动态运动过程。本文从政治哲学的角度在考察政治的现代性尤其是西方20世纪政治现代性过程中表现出的民主多元性、世俗主义、理性化和民主参与等特征,在此基础上,以期对整个人类政治的现代性特征作一个宏观的把握。政治现代性的本质在于创新。     

中国现代唯物史观发展的基本历程(上)

中国现代唯物史观史,就是马克思主义唯物史观在中国传播发展及其同中国现代社会实践相结合的历史,亦即五四运动以来中国历史唯物主义思想的形成、发展及其反对历史唯心主义的历史。唯物史观在中国传播与发展的基本历程大体分为四个阶段:一、五四运动与第一次国内革命战争时期唯物史观在中国的初步传播及其同唯心史观的初步较量;二、第二次国内革命战争时期唯物史观在中国的进一步传播与具有中国特色唯物史观的形成;三、抗日战争与解放战争时期唯物史观普遍真理与中国革命实践的成功结合和新民主主义革命的伟大胜利;四、在改革开放和现代化建设的新时期邓小平、江泽民对唯物史观的继承和发展。     

The Beast in the Machine: Modernity,Aviation and the Legacies of Colonialism in Roger McDonald’s Slipstream

The expectation that a novel about a celebrity aviator will romanticise flight and glorify the pilot is a product of the mythologisation of aviation, which this essay understands is a response to the threat of technology and the alienating conditions of modernity. Roger McDonald’s novel Slipstream refuses to reproduce this mythology, expressing a literary aspiration to use the form of the modern novel to explore the entanglement of the subject under the conditions of postcolonial modernity. My argument will develop through three parts. The first section will explore the mythologisation of aviation as a symptom of modernity. The second will examine the ways in which the novel uses its modernist form to call into question the celebrity of the aviator and the spectacle of flight. This part of my argument is indebted to the critique by German philosopher Martin Heidegger of the technological mode of Being. Finally, I take up the postcolonial implications of the Heideggerian critique in a country in which many of modernism’s standard antidotes to the problems of its century are compromised by the legacies of colonialism.     

欧盟、美国反补贴立法及对策研究

从国际贸易领域中补贴与反补贴的角度,参以世界贸易组织规则,介绍并评论了GATT/WTO框架下的欧盟、美国的反补贴立法.随着中国市场经济改革的深入和加入WTO,中国将面临越来越严峻的反补贴形势,研究补贴和反补贴的迫切性也逐渐加重.因此,中国需要适当调整或在执行中加以注意补贴政策,以及采取相应对策以面对欧美等国的反补贴措施.     

现代性与中国现代监狱制度构建论

以市场经济为制度维度的中国现代监狱制度构建,是现代性的反思与重新架构.它必须在一定的内源和外源动力和动力机制下,以继承和移植为途径,以演化为模式.同样,现代性并不排斥中国特色.中国现代监狱制度将是表征和彰显现代文明、法治、公正和权利的监狱制度.     

Unpacking public justification

ABSTRACT

This brief response to Greenfeld’s caveat submits that public justification is not omnipresent, but can extend, and has extended, beyond the modern, liberal West. Subscribing to a thin, rather than thick, conceptualization of public justification, we chart the contested contours of public justification, and urge scholars of this emergent field to clarify their own take before advancing pertinent theories and case studies. We briefly expound the nature and historical roots of both ‘justification’ and ‘the public’, suggesting that their amalgam into public justification transcends the modern, liberal West.