Publisher: Zeta Books

Journal of Early Modern Studies

Journal of Early Modern Studies

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest The Journal of Early Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It aims to respond to the growing awareness within the scholarly community of an emerging new field of research that crosses the boundaries of the traditional disciplines and goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts. JEMS publishes high-quality articles reporting results of research in intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of early modern science, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community as yet unexplored topics, which testify to the multiple intellectual exchanges and interactions between Eastern and Western Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main language of the journal is English, although contributions in French are also accepted.

Schutzian Research. A Yearbook of Lifeworldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science

Schutzian Research. A Yearbook of Lifeworldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Schutzian Research is an annual journal that seeks to continue the tradition of Alfred Schutz. It seeks contributions that are philosophical, cultural-scientific, or multidisciplinary in character. We welcome a broad spectrum of qualitative and interpretive work, comparable with Schutz's orientation but not necessarily derived from it. The journal is multilingual in character, with abstracts in English. All submissions will be blindly reviewed by at least two experts in the appropriate field.

Environment, Space, Place

Environment, Space, Place

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Environment, Space, Place is a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal committed to values contributing to our rootedness to the earth and attunement to the environment, space, and place. Interdisciplinary is taken to mean that each discipline is encouraged to share its own particular excellence with the other disciplines in an open exchange. Transdisciplinary is taken to mean that contributors are required to make the "geographical turn." Meant in the etymological sense of "earthinscription" or the spatiality of meaning, the geographical turn frames or makes thematic the spatial aspect of any and all earthly / worldly phenomena.

History of Communism in Europe

History of Communism in Europe

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

History of Communism in Europe (HCE) is a journal edited by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, Romania (www.iiccr.ro/en). HCE is open to interdisciplinary research sensitive to the conceptual complexity and methodological sophistication required by in-depth inquiry into the totalitarian experience and radical societal experiments of the recent past. The editors encourage young scholars, in particular, to assess novel historical, cultural, and polit¬ical findings within the ex-Soviet Bloc: Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, former GDR or various states of the former USSR or Yugoslavia. HCE favors original contributions relying on newly de-classified archival documents in former communist countries. Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Marius Stan E-mail: marius.stan@iiccr.ro Webpage: http://www.zetabooks.com/history-of-communism-in-europe.html Scientific board : Florian Bieber (CEU Budapest Hungary/ Jena University Germany) Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg University Germany) Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University USA) Dennis Deletant (Georgetown University USA) Dominique Colas (Political Science Faculty Paris France) Mark Kramer (Harvard University USA) István Rév (CEU/OSA Budapest Hungary) Jaques Rupnik (Political Science Faculty Paris France) Aleksandr Stykalin (Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies Moscow Russia) Lavinia Stan (St. Francis Xavier University Canada) Grigori Shkundin (Moscow University Russia) Holm Sϋndhaussen (Free University Berlin Germany) Jean-Charles Szurek (CNRS Paris France) Vladimir Tismăneanu (Maryland University USA)

Social Imaginaries

Social Imaginaries

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Social Imaginaries inquires into complexes of cultural meaning and cultural projects of power. It presupposes an understanding of society as a political institution, which is formed — and forms itself — in historical constellations, on the one hand, and through encounters with other cultures and civilizational worlds, on the other. An emphasis on “imaginaries” points to several interrelated trends: it reveals the modern concern with — and emphasis on — the social imagination as truly creative rather than reproductive; it highlights the phenomenon of collectively instituted meaning and its inter-cultural variations; it provides a corrective to a one-sided focus on ‘reason’ as the central tenet (or promise) of modernity; finally, it underscores the ongoing, albeit incomplete, hermeneutical turn in the human sciences. Social Imaginaries reflects on the human condition in modernity, which, amongst other things, ought to be centrally concerned with theoretical elaborations of and responses to the ecological devastation of the natural world. It pursues intersecting debates on (inter)cultural and historical varieties of meaning, power and socially instituted worlds.

The Journal aims to: Foster challenging and innovative research on modernity and multiple modernities especially with reference to inter-civilizational horizons. • Interrogate varieties of modernity and the formation of political freedom. • Critically engage with political ecology, and theories, philosophies and cultural histories of nature, broadly construed. • Encourage phenomenological and hermeneutical analyses, especially those that address social, historical, political, cultural and ecological dimensions of the world. • Nurture a particular comparative emphasis on civilizational world-views, inter-civilizational encounters and historical trajectories, especially in regard to East Asia and the West. • Publish high quality research that truly reflects an international and multi-regional scope in the field of social and political imaginaries, broadly conceived. To secure the quality of the research we publish, the journal will be peer reviewed. • Publish research by both leading and emerging scholars in social theory and political philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, world history and historical sociology.

Social Imaginaries invites contributions from social theory, historical sociology, political philosophy, political theory, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and, more broadly, cultural studies, anthropology, geography that critically advance our understanding of the human condition in modernity.

The Brothers Seven. A Tale. Translated into English from the Finnish by Douglas Robinson

The Brothers Seven. A Tale. Translated into English from the Finnish by Douglas Robinson

Author(s): Aleksis Kivi / Language(s): English

Keywords: Finnish literature; Aleksis Kivi; Finland; novel; Seitsemän veljestä;

Seitsemän veljestä (The Brothers Seven), the 1870 Finnish novel by Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872), is one of the most (in)famously unknown classics of world literature—unknown not only because so few people in the world can read Finnish, but also because the novel is so incredibly difficult to translate, the Mount Everest of translating from Finnish. It is difficult to translate not only because it blends a saturation in Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, and the Bible with a brilliantly stylized form of local dialect, but because it is wild, grotesque, carnivalistic, and laugh-out-loud funny on every page. It has been translated 58 times into 34 languages—but somehow the translations always seem to fall short of their flamboyant original.Douglas Robinson’s new translation is a bold attempt to remedy that. He aims to make Kivi as rhythmic, as alliterative, as brash, as grotesque, and as funny in English as he is in Finnish. Since Kivi deliberately used an archaic Finnish, but used it playfully—and since Kivi was steeped in Shakespeare, to the point of memorizing whole plays—Robinson translates him into a playful Shakespearean register. As he notes in his Preface, this makes the translation a bit difficult to read—but the original is difficult for Finns to read as well, and the Finnish readers who love Kivi (and that is most of them) read him with pleasure despite the words they don’t know, because his prose is so intensely alive.