Constitutional Patriotism: Four European Reincarnations and the Russian Version
Автор: И. Н. Барциц
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This study examines the theory of constitutional patriotism with respect to the interests and needs of constitutional and legal development of Russia. The author pays special attention to the views of German legalists and philosophers as originators of this legal theory. Thoroughly analyzing foreign documents that define the content and purpose of constitutional patriotism and give examples of countries using this concept as a basis of their national development, as well as shaping of the European Union’s common identity, the author explores its relevance for the legal doctrine of the Russian Federation and other countries.
Four Reincarnations
Автор: Max Ritvo
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Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to “everything living / that won’t come with me / into this sunny afternoon.” Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity, but he is also a poet of life and of love—a cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.Ritvo writes to his wife, ex­-lovers, therapists, fathers, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips, Indian mythology, wool hats. But in these poems—from the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of death—it’s Ritvo’s vulnerable, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one of our finest young poets.
