Ivailo Dichev, “The Post-Communist Condition,” presentation at Dubrovnik, October 1990.
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Post-communist countries today are haunted by the idea that there was nothing symbolic in the defeat of communism. Tzvetan Todorov wrote that the feeling was like what happened to the woman in Maupassant’s story: she borrowed a necklace and lost it, and then worked her [...]
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The Post-Communist Condition
Posted in Berlin Wall, Dubrovnik, Ivailo Dichev, Maupassant, Post-Communist, Tzvetan Todorov, communism, tagged 文化与欺凌 on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Colonial Pedagogy/ 殖民地的教育
Posted in Indo-Aryan, Isabella, Peter Lawford, The Mimic Men, V.S. Naipaul, tagged 文化与欺凌 on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men (New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 109-114.
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I could scarcely wait for my childhood to be over and done with. I have no especial hardship or deprivation to record. But childhood was for me a period of incompetence, bewilderment, solitude and shameful fantasies. It was a period of burdensome secrets – like [...]
Hitler’s Oratory and Beethoven’s Pastoral/ 希特勒的演说术与贝多芬的《田园交响乐》
Posted in Beethoven, FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, New Deal, Oratory, Pastoral, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 希特勒, 演说术, 田园交响乐, 贝多芬, tagged 文化与欺凌 on April 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 60-61.
Our post-1945 impression of Hitler’s speeches is deceptive. As a rule, what we know of his oratory consists of excerpts, aggressive, often hoarse passages in which his staccato-fortissimo dominates.
But these were only a part of [...]
