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John Rodden 《Society》2017,54(3):215-217
Sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four and other dystopian classics have risen in response to the audacious attempts of President Donald Trump to manipulate public opinion by circulating “alternative facts” throughout the presidential campaign and since his November 2016 election victory. Various statements by Trump and his advisors that exemplify what has come to be known as the “post-factual world” account for the meteoric rise and final breakthrough of Nineteen Eighty-Four to the top of the bestseller lists in spring 2017. 相似文献
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The following interview is with a retired eastern German professor whose career constitutes a case history in the comparative
politics of “academic unfreedom”. Professor Erhard Naake was the only Ph.D. student in the history of the German Democratic
Republic (GDR) to write his dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, whose work was considered “anti-socialist” throughout the
history of the GDR regime. Because Herr Naake had the temerity to select Nietzsche as his thesis topic – a philosopher whose
work was banned from GDR bookstores and never taught in GDR schools or even universities – he never received an appointment
as a professor in a GDR university. Ironically, however, even after the collapse of the GDR in 1989–1990, Herr Naake was penalized
by the new powers-that-be in reunited Germany. He once again suffered a violation of his academic freedom when the university
evaluation boards, which were composed of western German scholars, refused to let him keep his recently acquired position
as a professor and instead summarily fired him, thus leading to his enforced retirement. As we shall see, the dramatic life
story of Herr Naake reflects not only complicated issues of academic freedom and communist versus capitalist political values,
but also the rich and complex history of eastern Germany both under the Nazis and GDR Communists and within reunited Germany
since 1990.
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John Rodden 《Society》2018,55(6):488-490
The Alfred Kazin Centennial Symposium in May 2015 took place with no external funding on a budget totaling less than $200. Despite these overwhelming limitations, this "symposium on a shoestring" proved a rich intellectual experience for all. Its success is a tribute not only to the participants but also to the example of Alfred Kazin himself and his devotion to the life of the mind and the humanistic calling. 相似文献
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This meditative essay by a writer and professor reflects on the milestone of reaching 50 years of age. The author relates
his own experiences and those of his elder literary friends and colleagues who have felt comparable anxieties and coped with
similar challenges toward aging and death. He records their own milestones on life’s journey as well as their insightful and
often quite hopeful, if not always cheery, responses. Several of them, like the author, admit that turning 50 has entailed
for them a coming to terms with the impossibility of realizing some immortality projects.
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