Author: Miguel Poiares Maduro File Type: pdf Joseph Weilers The Transformation of Europe is one of the most influential works in the history of European studies. Twenty-five years after its original publication, this new collection of essays pays tribute to Weilers legacy by discussing some of the most pressing issues in contemporary European Union law, policy and constitutionalism. The book does not intend to be a simple expression of intellectual esteem for Weilers seminal work instead, the collection honours it by critically engaging with some of its assumptions and theses. Overall, it shows how a study of 1991 can still be fundamental to the present and future of the EU, including the challenges of Brexit and Eurozone crises.**ReviewAdvance praise Joseph Weilers The Transformation of Europe was a seminal article that placed previous developments in sharp perspective, and contained valuable insights on the future challenges facing the EU. The article has stood the test of time. This volume provides a fitting tribute to Weilers article, with important contributions from prominent scholars in the field that reflect on Weilers scholarship from a variety of perspectives. Paul Craig, University of Oxford Advance praise The Transformation of Europe had a decisive impact on the constitution of a smarter knowledge about European integration. It helped a generation of scholars to liberate themselves from the notion of a postwar new European order placed above the fray of inter-state relations and agonistic about political preferences and social conflicts, ideological differences and value choices. It made them aware of the amorphous, conflictive and precarious character of European integration. It reintroduced in the picture the tension inherent in a political project making the existence of states subject to their coexistence and it turned this tension into the normative core of the project. This book is an effort by the same generation of scholars to revisit The Transformation of Europe in view of their own conceptions developed since and thanks to the publication of the piece. A superb exercise of self-reflection and reappropriation of knowledge. A unique way of rethinking Europe in our time. Loic Azoulai, Institut detudes politiques de Paris Advance praise Amongst the many possible definitions of a classic, two features frequently arise. A classic most often connects worlds or ideas that are generally seen as distinct, and it stands the test of time It may be revisited, amended, possibly improved, but a classic always provides us with a lens through which we understand the world. Weilers The Transformation of Europe certainly meets these criteria and, as such, deserves the attention it gets here from a group of distinguished scholars. Renaud Dehousse, President, European University Institute, Florence Advance praise This outstanding collection of essays transforms the Transformation of Europe. Marking the 25th anniversary of Joseph Weilers famous essay by that name, the authors take stock of how the European Union has developed in the quarter century since the essay was published, showing how Weilers then-revolutionary blending of legal and political analysis remains the most useful way to comprehend the EU. As European crises have proliferated, Weilers analysis of the structural tensions in the European project has looked more and more prescient. Legitimacy remains in short supply European values are under stress. But the authors - an all-star cast of EU experts with a new essay by Professor Weiler himself - explore the way forward from the EUs present state of crisis and self-doubt. This collection is a compelling addition to the reading list of everyone concerned with the past, present and future of the European Union. Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values Advance praise This inspiring interdisciplinary, international and inter-generational collection of essays reinforces how Joseph Weilers vivid writing and intriguing arguments energize the minds of scholars from diverse fields even today. Karen J. Alter, Northwestern University Advance praise What is the European construct and how to evaluate its current crisis? This book deserves a place of honor in the debate on the Union. ... The authors of this book revisit Joseph Weilers foundational analysis of the European Union and provide a key to the understanding of successes and failures of this experiment ... [whilst also] capturing the essence of the European experiment. This work will likely influence public debate on the crisis of the Union. ... A critical re-appraisal of an important book and, in the meantime, a diagnosis of the current crisis of the European Union. ... A thoughtful and reasoned book about successes and failures of the European Union. Sabino Cassese, Former Justice, Italian Constitutional Court Book Description Based on the seminal work of Joseph Weiler, this book considers the extent to which Weilers thinking on the nature of European law and constitutionalism still holds today. The collection of essays is an important contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the EU in times of economic and constitutional distress.

Author: Maghiel van Crevel File Type: pdf Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the period from 1980s to the present, it is organized around the notions of text, context and metatext, meaning poetry, its socio-political and cultural surroundings, and critical discourse in the broadest sense. The authors and issues studied include Han Dong, Haizi, Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Sun Wenbo, Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin, Bei Dao, Yin Lichuan, Shen Haobo and Yan Jun, and everything from the subtleties of poetic rhythm to exile-bashing in domestic media. This book has room for all that poetry is cultural heritage, symbolic capital, intellectual endeavor, social commentary, emotional expression, music and the materiality of language - art, in a word.**

Author: David Bryan File Type: pdf This is an innovative investigation of the puzzling animal imagery found in three 2nd-century BCE texts the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), the Testament of Naphtali and Daniel 7. It urges that a sense of cultural change is required to understand this well-known imagery, and argues in particular that the mentality underlying the kosher legislation played a significant, even if unconscious, role in the imagination of the various authors. A reading of the Animal Apocalypse is offered which argues that the author utilized the unclean precisely because they represent for him the forces of chaos set in opposition to God. Bryan acknowledges that the bizarre creatures of T. Naph. 5 and Daniel 7 belong to a different kind of imagery (Mischwesen), but argues that awareness of the influence of the kosher mentality opens up new explanations. As mixed creatures, they represent a radical break with order. They are an intense form of unclean creature, and those whom they represent are perceived to be living embodiments of the powers of chaos. **

Author: Eduardo Galeano File Type: pdf