Category: VOLUME X, No. 1

MAKING A VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM

“European political debate at present centres around the rising popular resistance to Brussels, to its growing centralisation of power, and to particular policies it has pursued (such as relocating migrants), often with little or no consultation, across the continent. It seems likely, though not certain, that this resistance will mean

HAS AUSTRIA BECOME A DIFFERENT COUNTRY?

“The government programme concentrates on structural modernisation and shows a liberal economic mix of reducing the tax burden and regulations for business, as also for the individual tax payer. Despite the obvious differences of the coalition partners on the future of European integration, the government did agree on a pro-European

FROM DESIRE TO RIGHTS – NOTES ON HUMAN RIGHTS FUNDAMENTALISM

“The notions of the rule of law, European values, democracy, human rights and equality, so often invoked in European discourse, actually lack a precise (and therefore potentially authoritative) definition. As such, they can be twisted and stretched to any length and tweaked in any manner in the name of fundamental

JUDSON’S HISTORY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

“An imperial EU, if it is to function, will necessarily be authoritarian, since there is as yet no demos that would provide the basis for a genuine pan-European democracy. A partial solution is supposedly offered by ‘subsidiarity’, a notion founded in Catholic doctrine, which accepts that some issues are best

HUNGARIAN TRANSYLVANIAN POETS – PART II

DOMOKOS SZILÁGYI  Domokos Szilágyi (1938–1976), poet, writer and translator, is considered an important figure in Transylvanian literature. He graduated from the Hungarian university of Kolozsvár with a degree in Hungarian Language and Literature in 1960. From that time until 1970, he worked as editor for periodicals in Kolozsvár and Bucharest

THE IMAGE OF DEATH IN HUNGARIAN SYMBOLISM

There is only one event of interest in life, and that is none other than death. Gyula Krúdy Hungarian symbolism has rich and previously unnoticed particularities. As a movement, it exerted an influence far more profound than earlier supposed, inspiring a generation of Hungarian artists who had just turned their