The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book by Hungarian sociologist Peter Csigo reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political actors unknowingly lean on collective beliefs about the popular expectations they seek to gratify, and thus do not follow popular public opinion as it is, but popular public opinion about popular public opinion.
January 31, 2017
The essays in the book, edited by M. Mark Stolarik, professor of history at the University of Ottawa, compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field.
December 13, 2016
Three CEU professors and an alumnus presented recently published books dealing with various aspects of Jewish history at a book launch December 6 hosted by the Jewish Studies Program at CEU.
November 29, 2016
This book by Thomas S. Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, and Svetlana Savranskaya, senior research fellow of the Archive, publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991.
November 15, 2016
A man with no memory wakes up on the deserted staircase of a gigantic building. Gradually he learns about his identity and mission: he is Petr Brok, a detective sent to rescue Tamara, the princess kidnapped by the ruler of the monstrous Mullerdom, the house of a thousand floors. Ohisver Muller is a ruthless tyrant with many faces, eyes and ears in the most remote corners of his empire and untold wealth at his disposal. But a revolution is spreading through the floors, a revolt of dispossessed slaves who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
November 15, 2016
Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in both Germany and in Austria (where 98% live in the capital, Vienna) after 1945. Susanne Cohen-Weisz, researcher of Jewish communal developments in Europe, explains the process of reconstruction over the next six decades, and its results in each country.
November 15, 2016
The ever-growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation-states, while Tudor Georgescu, associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, asks why an ethnic minority, the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in inter-war Romania. The Eugenic Fortress examines the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during this turbulent period.
November 15, 2016
Those Who Count by Mihai Surdu, former Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at CEU, scrutinizes the scientific and expert practices of Roma classification and counting, and the politics of Roma-related knowledge production. The book takes a historical perspective on Roma group construction, both as an epistemic object and a policy target, with a focus on the expert discourse of the last two decades.
November 15, 2016
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP), of which CEU Press is a member, celebrates University Press Week Nov. 14-19. The week originated in the summer of 1978 when President Jimmy Carter proclaimed a University Press Week "in recognition of the impact, both in the U.S. and abroad, of American university presses on culture and scholarship." The theme of University Press Week 2016 is community: from the community of a discipline to a regional home and culture, from the shared discourse of a campus to a bookstore's community of readers.
October 18, 2016
Broken Masculinities by Cimen Gunay-Erkol, assistant professor of Turkish Literature at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, addresses authoritarianism, power and masculinity in literature written after the 1971 coup in Turkey. It not only offers a panorama of Turkey’s 1968 generation but also provides clues to understanding foundations of Turkey’s now reinforced Islamic image, current political deadlocks and ongoing struggle with democratization.
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