Tag: Fractured

State and Nation in the United Kingdom The Fractured Union


Free Download Michael Keating, "State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union"
English | ISBN: 019884137X | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which the key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.

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The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda


Free Download Susan Harrow, "The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda"
English | 2004 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0802087221 | PDF | 14,5 mb
In The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self, Susan Harrow explores the fascinating interrelation of subjectivity, materiality, and representation in the poetry and related texts of four modern French writers: Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Réda. She demonstrates the richness and the relevance of modern French poetry for today’s readers, putting contemporary thought to work on the fractured self emerging in the post-Baudelairian lyric.

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Fractured Parties How Recent Elections Have Exposed Weaknesses in American Political Parties


Free Download Anthony Stasi, "Fractured Parties: How Recent Elections Have Exposed Weaknesses in American Political Parties"
English | ISBN: 1498539998 | 2016 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
America is so ethnically, geographically, socially, and spiritually diverse that a book on party strength in any other country would be less complex. The American state of democracy, however, is a pastiche of culture, economics, and community.

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Permacrisis A Plan to Fix a Fractured World [Audiobook]


Free Download Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4BG4N3Z | 2023 | 8 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence, Reid Lidow
Narrator: Gareth Armstrong

Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence certainly did.Three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a brighter future exists.

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