This issue of impEct No. 9, 2018, features articles from the fields of Business Studies, Politics, Intercultural and European Studies, History and Philosophy.
First and foremost, impEct 9 features a premiere: We are pleased to present two articles by colleagues from Kostroma State University (RU).
Secondly, we are pleased to announce the continuation of a series of publications. This is a philosophical examination of the most globally influential cultures by a colleague from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj (RO), who began analyzing the "Russian idea" in impEct No. 8.
Thirdly, there is a focus on Europe and European culture. Finally, there are announcements of forthcoming articles that will deepen the focus on Europe and European culture.
The first article is by Dr. Alexander A. Turygin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Humanities at Kostroma State University. It is dedicated to the conflict around 1900 ff. between national ideology and Catholic ultramontanism.
The second is a joint work by Dr. Alexander A. Turygin and Dr. Olga V. Minovskaia, Chair of Pedagogy and Psychology:
Vlad Mureşan, PhD, Associate Professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, continues the historical-philosophical analysis of the great political powers begun in impEct 8, 2016, with Russia. Based on Hegel's philosophy, this article, like the essay on Russia, opens up a world-historical perspective.
This is followed by a review of Gerd Held's book by Dr. Werner Müller-Pelzer, initiator of impEct and the Research Centre for Interculturality and European Studies.
The books of two colleagues are also on display.
Pilar Sánchez, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Economics, Consumer Economics and Business Administration at ESIC Marketing & Business School Madrid (E), recently published the following anthology together with María del Carmen de la Orden: Ética, marketing y finanzas islámicas. Madrid ESIC Editorial 2017
In it, a number of experts have their say. I hope that my colleagues will be able to present the results of their research in the next issue of impEct.
> https://esic.edu/editorial/editorial_curriculum.php?nombre=Pilar+S%E1nchez+Gonz%E1lez&author=566
Mariella Olivos Rossini, PhD, Professor at the University ESAN, Lima (PE), published her dissertation in 2017.
Internationalization at home: Technology-supported multicultural learning in Peru
> https://pure.uvt.nl/portal/en/publications/internationalization-at-home(08fc1097-494d-4ab1-97e7-a299f40cd636).html
The focus on Europe and European culture includes four articles by Dr. Werner Müller-Pelzer.
These texts, initially published at www.philosophie.ch, were successively deleted by the editors from fall 2018 onwards, initially on the grounds of "insufficient scholarship", then successively without any justification. The controversy was triggered by my theses on the incompatibility of Islam and Islamism with the European model of civilization. The deleted texts include those that have nothing to do with this question. From this I conclude that I have generally become an undesirable author.
The first examines the question of whether the dilemma between social autism (rationalist models of society) and social straitjacket (communitarian models of society) can be resolved. An approach is outlined that refers to Hermann Schmitz.
The second essay focuses on the EU elites' project to identify the European Union and Europe. It is about a changed distribution of power of the further centralized competences in Brussels. However, the identification is based on a category error. The essay therefore argues for a distinction between the two spheres.
The following is an abridged version of an essay of the same name that was published at the end of 2018 (see below). The European Union of 2017 is at odds with its own principles. That is why it is trying to drag Europeans into a collective self-deception. But exchange students have the opportunity to grow into the collective atmospheres of a target culture, following the concept of the "adoptive language" (Trabant).
The fourth essay deals with the so-called open concept of culture according to Jürgen Bolten. Bolten sees the need to ironistically break strong affective communal (landscape, linguistic, historical, religious, etc.) ties between people in the face of omnipresent global intermingling. However, he operates on the level of constellations and does not take into account the pre-reflective formative power of common situations, especially the European languages of identification.
The European focus is continued in the following contributions by Müller-Pelzer:
Despite its positive image, the Erasmus program is in no way suitable for strengthening a sense of European togetherness. The planned Montaigne program is based on the philosophical consideration that the pre-reflective experience (body, bodily communication, atmospheres) is necessary for a better understanding in Europe.
About the role of collective atmospheres for European Students, in: Studi di estetica.
(to be published in 2019)
Another article was published at the end of 2018. It criticizes the invitation to European citizens to embrace the collective "mauvaise foi", according to which the EU defends human rights and can embody a model of harmonious ethnic mixing. The affective involvement in implanting common situations (Schmitz) shows the way to regenerate Europe.
Régénérer l'Europe. Narratifs - critique - situations communes d'implantation, in: Journal of the European Integration Studies. Special issue ed. by Nicolae Păun: The Future of the European Union.https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0947-9511-2018-2/jeih-journal-of-european-integration-history-jahrgang-24-2018-heft-2
See also the list of Müller-Pelzer publications
Werner Müller-Pelzer
April, 2018 Updated: February 2019