Debt Brake or Breach of the Rules? Building Budget Reserves in Times of Crisis by Thiess Büttner

“…In the following, the author explain the critique of the latest supplementary budget and argues that the federal government has missed the opportunity to prove that the fiscal policy options within the existing rules are sufficient.…”
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An American Ex-Nihilist Exposing Postmodern Errors: Eugene Rose on the Perils of Nihilism by Anna Cholewa-Purgał

“… This article presents Eugene Rose’s critique of nihilism, the philosophy which he had himself embraced and was devastated by before his conversion to Orthodoxy, before his monastic tonsure and ordination to priesthood. …”
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Simulating education. The bureaucratisation of schooling as a production of the simulacra by Piotr Zamojski

“…Starting from Max Weber classical view, thanks to its critique made by Claude Lefort I try to interpret the bureaucratisation of schooling with reference to Jean Baurillard theory of simulation as the production of the simulacra. …”
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Settled by David Mann

“…It was written as part of a collection of short stories that seeks, through the lens of fiction, to provide an alternative record and critique of the South African art world. The collection was produced over the course of a Creative Writing Masters programme at the University of Witwatersrand, under the supervision of Ivan Vladislavic. …”
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„Fiber der Gegenwart“. Walter Benjamins Frankreich by Sofia Cumming

“…It was above all Benjamin’s interest in the contemporary developments of the French intelligentsia which permitted him to advance a critique of the ‘engaged’ European writer of the interwar period.…”
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Magnetic Somnambulism in Context. Hegel’s Criticism of Kluge on Hypnosis by Andrés Ortigosa Peña

“…To show this, we analyse Hegel’s critique of hypnosis, which aligns more closely with Kluge’s proposal on hypnosis than that of Marquis de Puységur. …”
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The Levellers’ Conception of Legitimate Authority by Eunice Ostrensky

“…This article examines the Levellers’ doctrine of legitimate authority, by showing how it emerged as a critique of theories of absolute sovereignty. For the Levellers, any arbitrary power is tyrannical, insofar as it reduces human beings to an unnatural condition. …”
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Suggestion et réserve mentale by Aurélia Peyrical

“…They are also complementary, though not reducible, to other concepts in his work: for example, his concept of “primacy of the object” or his “immanent critique” methodology.…”
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Vridsløselille Statsfængsel set i fangeperspektiv by Torkil Lauesen

“…The article goes on to critique traditional discussions of the negative role of "strong" prisoners, as well as a new prison structure in which the guards perform additional duties as social advisers and pedagogues.…”
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Éros minoritaire : tel qu’il est vécu by Françoise d’Eaubonne

“…Now impossible to find and unjustly forgotten, this book forms a particularly striking critique of a prevailing body of knowledge on sexuality. …”
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Rescuing policy in tourism network research by Dianne Dredge

“…Researchers adopting a network ontology could gain considerable insights and open up new lines of inquiry into what is really going on if they engage with, unpack and critique policy and political science theories, tools, frameworks and concepts.…”
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Autoridade prática e ambivalência das instituições de justiça no crime-desastre da Barragem de Fundão by José Szwako, Poema Euristenes Portela

“…As a whole, the text asserts that the critique of institutional voluntarism is heuristically salutary to the research agenda on social movements’ their interactions and their effects on public policies.…”
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Was macht es, wo die Kategorien herkommen? by Robert Ziegelmann

“…The author proposes to read Sohn-Rethel’s theory as an explanation and a critique of the colonisation of lifeworld ontologies by abstractions derived from natural science practices.…”
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Uma discussão sobre o uso dos conceitos de processos (e formas) espaciais nas cidades brasileiras by Pedro de Almeida Vasconcelos

“…The text concludes with a critique of the automatic application of the concept of segregation to Brazilian cities, especially Salvador, and the indication of other processes that occur in these cities.…”
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Evaluation criteria for information retrieval systems. by Julian Warner

“…Subsidiary concepts and measures (relevance and precision and recall) have been increasingly subjected to critiques. An enhanced capacity for informed choice is advocated as an alternative principle for system evaluation and design. …”
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Reduce VAT on Food to Zero by Lukas Scholle

“…In this paper, I argue that these points of critique hardly stand up to closer scrutiny. Both theoretical and practical arguments suggest that reducing the VAT to zero is an appropriate measure to mitigate inflation and provide relief.…”
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Cultures narratives « vernaculaires » et création sociale by Jérôme Meizoz

“…Mis à l’écart par le discours moderniste, les mondes vernaculaires n’en proposent pas moins une critique de la raison savante et des outils de création sociale horizontale, qu’explorent nombre de récits contemporains.…”
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Houellebecq à l’encontre ou au centre de l’utopie ? Une analyse de l’ambivalence utopique dans La Possibilité d’une île by Françoise Campbell

“…However, these texts, characterised by their cutting social critique, play upon the very possibility of imagining a better world. …”
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“Workers, Master Workers, Unworkers”: Carlyle and Southey — The Saint-Simonians and Industrial Feudalism by Jude V. Nixon

“…Mais, comme Carlyle, qu’il critique, par ailleurs, Hopkins n’est pas favorable à la disparition de l’ordre ancien, bien qu’il reconnaisse volontiers que cet ordre était dans l’incapacité d’améliorer la condition des travailleurs pauvres.…”
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Témoignage. Écrire, trouver-créer, penser. Un moment de respiration trans-formatrice by Françoise Bréant

“…Venant de l’intérieur du récit, ma réflexion, à la fois clinique et critique, s’ancre dans l’analyse de l’expérience d’ateliers d’écriture proposés à des étudiants stagiaires en Licence Professionnelle de formateur et en formation des cadres de santé (I.F.C.S.). …”
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