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Russia’s war against Ukraine has grave consequences in several political categories. These include: a reassessment of the school of ‘political realism’, one of whose proponents claims to have predicted the war. Was the West partly ‘responsible’ for the war? Second, to what extent does the war of aggression, as an undeniable violation of law, damage the status of international law and justice? Third, the war is embedded in political developments that stretch back a century. It is examined in its context within American foreign policy since the Wilsonian peace programme, in relation to the dangerous reluctance of the EU to pursue a decisive geopolitical policy towards Russia, and interpreted in the light of Stalinist echoes within Russian politics.

Russia. --- jus ad bellum. --- political realism.

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"This book explores the ways Robert Smithson's art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates the false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences between Smithson and science fictional, speculative, and mystical modes of thought, Rory O'Dea explores the aesthetic encounters engendered by his art as a means to warp the contours of reality and loosen the boundaries of being human. Given the current and impending catastrophes of the Anthropocene, which represents the ever-expanding planetary shadow cast by humanism, the possibility of being other-than-human posited by Smithson's art is a matter of urgent of concern. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies, and environmental humanities"--

Smithson, Robert --- Earthworks (Art) --- Realism. --- Aesthetics. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Loin de se limiter a la description du réel, les artistes réalistes ont eu a cœur de l’interpréter, afin d’offrir au public de nouvelles clés de lecture du monde. Si ce mouvement, né dans les années 1830- 1840, avant de prendre son essor sous la Révolution de 1848, paraît aujourd’hui bien sage, Courbet et d’autres peintres – Honoré Daumier, Jean-François Millet, Rosa Bonheur... – le pensèrent comme une opération de transgression ostensible et scandaleuse. C’est au début du xIxe siècle qu’apparaissent, marquéees notamment par la découverte de l’art espagnol, les premières peintures réalistes dépeignant les habitants des provinces françaises (Bretagne, Vendée, Pyrénées, etc.) dont certains peintres s’attachent a représenter tant les costumes que les coutumes.Admiré ou critiqué pour sa capacité à montrer sans détour et parfois avec brutalité le monde qui nous entoure, cet art éminemment social et politique s’intéresse en effet aux sujets « ordinaires » (paysans, blanchisseuses, etc.). Face à une société en pleine industrialisation et confrontée à un exode rural important, la vie domestique, le monde paysan, les pratiques religieuses et communautaires proposaient ainsi des sujets rassurants empreints d’harmonie et de calme. A contrario, à la fin du siècle, la peinture réaliste mettra en lumière la modernisation industrielle de l’Europe et les conflits sociaux et politiques liés aux droits des travailleurs.Loin de se cantonner à la France, Bertrand Tillier s’attelle également à démontrer le rayonnement de ce mouvement à l'échelle internationale dans les années 1860-1870, que ce soit en Angleterre, en Allemagne (Hans Thoma, Adolph von Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl, etc.) ou encore en URSS (Ilya Répine) et aux États-Unis (Thomas Eakins ou Winslow Homer).Rédigé par l’un des spécialistes les plus éminents de l’art du xIxe siècle et comprenant pas moins de 320 illustrations, l’ouvrage propose une analyse captivante sur cette esthétique subversive qu’est le réalisme.

Realism in art --- Painting, French --- Sculpture, French --- Art, French --- Painting --- Social aspects --- Social aspects.

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Weltabgewandter Sprachspieler oder »radikaler Realist«? Fremd- und Selbstzuschreibung gehen in Bezug auf den Autor Ror Wolf weit auseinander. Dies gründet auf einer nur scheinbaren Paradoxie: In Wolfs vielgestaltigem Werk vollzieht sich der Zugriff auf Wirklichkeit gerade im Modus der Sabotage, Unterbrechung, Irritation oder Verzerrung - kurz: im Modus der Störung. Ausgehend von der langen Prosa fragt Barbara Bausch nach möglichen Formen literarischer Referenzialität. Dabei konturiert sie Ror Wolfs experimentelle und zugleich engagierte Poetik des ästhetisch produktiven Störens als Kreuzungspunkt verschiedenster Suchbewegungen des Prosaschreibens in den 1950er bis 1980er Jahren.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- 1960s. --- Aesthetics. --- Culture. --- Disruption. --- Experimental Literature. --- German Literature. --- Language. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Neo-avantgarde. --- Realism. --- Reality.

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Why do great powers go to war? Why are non-violent, diplomatic options not prioritized? Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War argues that world leaders react to status decline by going to war, guided by a nostalgic, virile understanding of what it means to be powerful. This nostalgic virility – a system of subjective beliefs about power, bravery, strength, morality, and health – acts as a filter through which leaders articulate glorified interpretations of history and assess their power and their country’s status on the international stage.In this rigorous study of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Matthieu Grandpierron tests the theory of nostalgic virility against the two more common theoretical frameworks of realism and the diversionary theory of war. Consulting thousands of newly declassified government documents at the highest levels of decision making, Grandpierron examines three specific cases – the early years of the Indochina War (1945–47), the British reconquest of the Falklands in 1982, and the US invasion of Grenada in 1983 – convincingly contending that status-seeking behaviour and nostalgic virility are more relevant in explaining why a leader chooses war and conflict over non-violent, diplomatic options than the dominant frameworks.Looking to the recent past, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War considers how this new model can be applied to current conflicts – from the Russian war in Ukraine to Chinese actions in the South China Sea – and provides surprising ways of thinking about the relationship between power, decision makers, and causes of war.

Falkland Islands War, 1982 --- Great powers. --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- International relations. --- Power (Social sciences). --- Causes. --- Causes. --- China. --- France. --- Putin. --- Reagan. --- Russia. --- Thatcher. --- United Kingdom. --- United States. --- Xi Jinping. --- biopolitics. --- constructivism. --- decision-making. --- declassified. --- emotions. --- empire. --- honor. --- humiliation. --- international relations. --- masculinity. --- perceptions. --- periphery. --- prestige. --- realism. --- theory of war.