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Resignation, “Better not to Know”, Being Busy Bees. Variations on Withdrawal
It is understandable if someone dos what causes her pleasure. Nevertheless, our pleasures and gratifications, on a shorter or longer term, might threaten our existence. This analysis tries to examine this conflict from many angles.
System-Changing Sociology. Critical Dialogues
On the books of Erzsébet Szalai: Globális válság, magyar válság, alternatívák [Global Crisis, Hungarian Crisis, Alternatives]; Zsuzsa Ferge: Vágányok és vakvágányok a társadalompolitikában [Tracks and Sidetracks in Social Policy]; János Ladányi: Leselejtezettek. A kirekesztett népesség társadalom- és térszerkezeti elhelyezkedésének átalakulása Magyarországon a piacgazdasági átmenet időszakában [On the Waste Heap. The Social and Geographical Transformation of the Outcast Society During Market Transition]. All published by L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest 2012.
The Unavoidable Solitude. Varlam Shalamov and the Theoretical Heritage
The shadow of Solzhenitsyn, who is well known or even a star in the West, still hides the oeuvre of Varlam Shalamov, the representative of Gulag literature overgrowing him. The importance of him can be compared of Gogol, Platonov and Bely. Shalamov, until the end of his life, insisted on the ethos of the Trotskyist opposition of the 1920s and the revolutionary message of the Russian intelligentsia on the "unity of words and act" – not matching anti-Stalinism with anti-Soviet theories.
Marx in the Cinema
Analysing social developments from a Marxists point of view is traditional in this journal, while this approach is mentioned in other circles mostly with a negative context, if it is mentioned at all. To hear about Marxism inspired art, for instance films, or about analyses and debates about the link between Marxism and films, we have to go back in time or far away, leaving the Continent arriving in the Preston University, US – from where the author reports.