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Brolly
Vol. 6, No. 2
August 2025
Vol. 6, No. 2
August 2025
Thirty-Three Moments of the Soviet Position on the German Question. A Microhistory
This article presents the microhistory of the Soviet position on the German question from 1985 to 1990, drawing on Russian-language archival materials, mainly Gorbachev’s correspondence published by the Gorbachev Foundation. In addition to offering this microhistory, it aims to illuminate the long-debated “not one inch eastward” assurance by analysing its context. [...]
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‘Cause Synthesis Never Still.Reading Charlie Johns’s “A History of Philosophy in 100 Pages”
Reading Charlie Johns’s History of Philosophy in 100 Pages is like stepping onto a street where Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Meillassoux walk beside you. The book refuses the stillness of catalogue entries, offering instead concepts as living “signatures”—each a doorway rather than a lid. Motion, speculative realism, and hermeneutical openness combine so that thinking is simultaneously historical, ethical, and cosmologically aware. Brevity becomes a vehicle for circulation: thought can be pocketed, read on a train, or left as a quiet provocation
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Should Atrocious Speech Be Legally Protected?
Internationally, political tension subsists between free speech advocates and those who want to regulate “hate speech”. In countries without prohibitions against hate speech, efforts to limit harm from public speech acts falls to private actors [...]
The Atrocity Paradigm, the non-ideal ethical theory defended by Claudia Card and others, contends that ethics and legal theory should be dedicated to prevent the worst sorts of harms, atrocities. [...]
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The Social Construction of the Sexes in Post-War Germany
Macroscopically, in the broader context, the emergence of women’s dominant role in society is attributed to the social reformations in the Sixties, not the reforms of the immediate post-war years [...]Gender inequalities in post-war society were evident, even though the ambivalence on gender hierarchies during the war did not persist. Women performed certain societal roles, mainly as canonised collaborative nuclear family figures [...]
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Tracing the Borders of Human Free Will.Sketches after Michael Novak
This contribution aims to reconstruct the concept of common good, as elaborated by the American-Slovakian philosopher Michael Novak in his text The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Published in 1993 by The Free Press, this book deals both genealogically and theoretically with this notion, indicating it as the only one capable of guaranteeing integral development for human beings in the new millennium.
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Where the Harm Comes From: Ethics of Mediating Collectives
We target three domains of global injustice: economic, environmental, and gender-related, following the threads of briefly stated cases in these domains. Our conclusion suggests recommendations for dealing more realistically and more efficiently with global injustice (...)
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Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy as a Theoretical Framework of Wine Rhetoric
Wine rhetoric encompasses the unique discourse, vocabulary, and tastes of sommeliers, restaurateurs, and other wine professionals. (...) The rhetorical skills they develop are reflective of Scottish Enlightenment theories on Taste and Beauty.
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Pre-Raphaelite Intertextualities and Love as Melancholy in Constantin Christomanos’ Tagebuchblätter
Romantic aesthetics and Pre-Raphaelite fashion inspired Constantin Christomanos (late 19th century) to write about his virtual interaction with Empress Elisabeth...
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When “Knowing How to Read Texts” Means Understanding and Inferring Meanings
(...) a vision of reading comprehension as a dynamic process of decoding and linguistic understanding, which suggests how the relationship between decoding and linguistic understanding should be integrative rather than additional.
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“Gabriel de Pedro Quintet”: Decisions in Search for a Sonority
The production process and musical performance of the album "La mujer árbol" (2018). (...) The theoretical framework conceives music as a process and performance, not as an isolated object. The research field is organized by (...)
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