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This wide-ranging collection of academic essays examines the various undertakings by modern intellectuals and ideologues in the process of propaganda and political debate. Matthew Feldman calls attention to the substantial role played in post-Great War Europe and the US by religions¿both familiar monotheisms like Christianity and secular ¿political faiths¿¿over the last century of upheaval and revolutionary change. While the first part considers Ezra Pound as a case study in fascist ¿conversion¿ in Mussolini¿s Italy, leading to extensive propaganda, the second half examines other fascist ideologues like Martin Heidegger to fascist murderer Anders Behring Breivik, before turning to other leading ideologies in modern Europe and the US, communism and liberalism, covering key figures from Thomas Merton and Albert Camus to the Russian Constructionists and Samuel Beckett, with especial focus on the subjects of modern warfare, political terrorism, and genocide, ranging from Stalinist gulags to the war in Iraq. With thought-provoking discussion of the interplay between belief and modern politics as understood by familiar intellectual voices, this volume will be of interest to scholars and general readers alike.

Theories about the nature and function of philosophical imagination depend on our understanding of what kind of universe we inhabit. Some theories are compelling if the universe is meaningful as a whole, but they make no sense if it is not. Raymond C. Barfield discusses conditions that would be necessary if the universe is meaningful as a whole, and then develops a theory of philosophical imagination in light of that starting place. The theory moves toward the conclusion that if the universe is meaningful as a whole, the concept of the analogia entis, the analogy of being, illuminates philosophical imagination in a way that changes our understanding of its function and potential, along with the value of its discoveries through the things it creates.

Helmut Meier's study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784-1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the late modern period, the distinct image of Africans as slaves was instrumental in universalizing a Eurocentric concept of capitalist wage labor both at the colonial centres and margins, Meier argues that, by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, especially anti-slavery texts created colonial Others in an indistinct zone between inclusion and exclusion from humanity. The discourse on slavery thus constructs African slaves as mimetic Others which could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonial reform and 'betterment'.

The theory of capital structure is one of the most exciting and complex topics in corporate finance. After many years of debate it is still extremely difficult to provide a conclusive answer to the question which capital structure maximises the value of a company and what factors determine the optimal mix of debt and equity capital.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to capital structure theory and investigates its practical relevance in the German market. The main objectives are to explore the link between capital structure theory and corporate practice and to test determinants of capital structure choice empirically.The book has been written for students, researchers, and academics, but also for practitioners seeking empirical evidence of capital structure theory and an empirical model that can be used to estimate the optimal level of debt for an individual company in relation to an existing industry optimum.

Die deutschen Besatzer und ihre einheimischen Helfer ermordeten zwischen 1941 und 1944 in Ostgalizien mehr als eine halbe Million Juden. Lemberg, die größte Stadt dieser multiethnischen und geschichtsreichen Region, veränderte in Folge der Shoah vollkommen ihr Gesicht - ebenso wie Buczacz, Tarnopil und viele andere Orte, in denen Juden mit Ukrainern und Polen zusammengelebt hatten. Nur wenige Juden haben die dreijährige deutsche Besatzungszeit überlebt, darunter auch Eliyahu Yones, der Autor dieser Monographie, der sich erst nach Jahrzehnten dazu entschloss, sich mit der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der Lemberger und ostgalizischen Juden wissenschaftlich auseinanderzusetzen sowie mit ihrem Leben unter der sowjetischen Besatzung. Yones wertete eine nahezu unüberschaubare Anzahl von Quellen und Publikationen in deutscher, englischer, hebräischer, jiddischer, polnischer, ukrainischer und russischer Sprache aus. Es gibt bislang kaum Veröffentlichungen, in denen man ein vergleichbares Maß an Informationen über das vielfältige kulturelle Leben der galizischen Juden, über die zionistischen Bewegungen in der sowjetischen Besatzungszeit oder über die Organisationen jüdischer Jugend in Ostgalizien findet. Ebenso geben seine Analysen der Arbeitslager, des Lebens in den Ghettos und auch der Deportationen in das Vernichtungslager Belzec bislang ungekannte, durch ihren Detailreichtum erschütternde Einblicke in das Leben und Leiden der ostgalizischen Juden. Yones' Buch verbindet erlebte mit erforschter Geschichte und leistet so einen Beitrag zur integrierten Geschichtsschreibung, die sowohl die Dokumente der Täter als auch der Opfer ernst nimmt, kritisch auswertet und zusammenführt.

Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative is an exhaustive survey of Australian literature proposing itself as a journey through time and space. With a careful selection of texts which recount Australian history from the early days of white colonization to the present, this study endeavours to cast light on the process of socio-topographic construction that the settlers imposed upon the continent.As suggested by the title, the textual inquiry conducted in this book is driven by the stimulating ambiguity that lies between physical space and its discursive construction. A selection of canonical and non-canonical texts by authors ranging from Henry Lawson to Christos Tsiolkas aims to reveal the relationship between the space of the city (the scene) and the outback (the ob-scene space beyond the metropolitan area) and its role in the process of spatial construction that, through the last two centuries, has shaped Australia.Pablo Armellino's distinctive approach to Australian literature makes Ob-scene Spaces in Australian Narrative a very interesting work. Using a carefully selected range of novels, linked together using social and literary theory, it recounts the history of colonization in Australia in a particularly approachable manner. Through the analysis of each text the reader seamlessly learns about the expansion of the frontier, the creation of an ob-scene space beyond it and the use the Discourse makes of this mechanism. These characteristics would appeal to both an academic audience, which would appreciate the detailed text analysis, and a general audience, which would enjoy the historical and thematic aspect of the book.- Professor Carmen Concilio and Professor Pietro Deandrea, Facoltà di Lingue, Università di Torino