By Costas Lapavitsas, Heiner Flassbeck
At the twenty fifth January 2015 the Greek humans voted in an election of ancient importance—not only for Greece yet very likely all of Europe. the novel occasion Syriza used to be elected and austerity and the neoliberal schedule is being challenged. all at once it sort of feels as though there's another. yet what?
The Eurozone is in a deep and lengthy quandary. it really is now transparent that financial union is a historical failure, past repair—and not at all within the pursuits of Europe’s operating people.
Building at the monetary research of 2 of Europe’s top thinkers, Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas (a candidate status for election on Syriza’s list), opposed to the Troika is the 1st publication to suggest a strategic left-wing plan for a way peripheral nations may well go out the euro. With a metamorphosis in govt in Greece, and looming political alterations in nations resembling Spain, this significant intervention lays out a thorough, anti-capitalist programme at a serious juncture for Europe. the ultimate 3 chapters supply an in depth postmortem of the Greek disaster, clarify what may be realized from it—and offer a potential alternative.
Against the Troika is a pragmatic blueprint for genuine swap in a continent wracked via problem and austerity.
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Bartsch (1989: 80–108); 15 M i c ha e l S q u i r e remove more conspicuous than in the context of ancient medical writings, among them a surviving Hippocratic treatise On Sight. 65 Crucial here are two generic theories about how vision operates, which modern scholars have labelled “extramissionist” and “intromissionist” respectively. According to the first “extramissive”, “extramissionist” or “emissionist” theory, the sense of sight was understood to emanate from fiery rays actively cast out from the eye, travelling to the thing seen.
94 For the association, see especially Walker (1993) (in the context of the Elder Philostratus’ Love-Letters, and discussing the Agathon citation (= frg. 29 Nauck) at 132): “for the ancient mind, ‘desiring’ is intimately connected with ‘seeing’ ”. Compare also Ogle (1920); Calame (1992: esp. 19–23); Cline (1972: esp. 267–78); Cairns (2011); Blundell et al (2013: 17–19). For Christian subversions of the oran/eran association – especially in reports of Thecla’s agapē for St Paul – see Heath (this volume).
Writers like Cicero and Quintilian testify to a remarkably “visual” way of conceptualizing verbal language. But, as Elsner & Squire demonstrate in the context of Campanian painting, their structural approach to visual experience is equally pertinent to the “language” of Roman art itself. Ruth 33 M i c ha e l S q u i r e Webb’s chapter on “sight and insight” likewise remains in the field of Roman and Imperial Greek (“Second Sophistic”) rhetoric. This time, though, the focus is on the trope of “imagination” – that is, the capacity of a speaker/author to render a scene “visible” in the mind’s eye of the audience/reader.