The standard criticism on the left of neoliberalism, whose ideological core is what Somers aptly calls ‘market fundamentalism’, is that it harms the economic interests of most people and is bad for the overall functioning of the economy. On the one hand, market fundamentalism leads to a rejection of the affirmative state and thus the massive under-provision of a wide range of public goods; on t...

priorities (Powell, 2002; Wadman, 2005). Europeans have their own problems with dogmatic thinking too, albeit arising from a different historical and cultural background. Consider the often-irrational positions taken by the Green parties, pro-life groups and environmental groups in Germany and England who indiscriminately reject stem-cell research or genetically engineered crops. Or the fact th...

considering increment in fundamentalism movements in recent decades, especially in islamic society, objective of this work is to survey and analyzing effect of social crisis and globalization on development of fundamentalism movements in egypt. this assay is up to answer that what is the role of social crisis as major variant and globalization as intensifier on emergence of fundamentalism movem...

this research was done for understanding islamic fundamentalism and its relationship with violence. islamic fundamentalism has had significant developments since its appearance at the turn of the 19th century. the most important development is its radicalization in recent decades. in this article, the author addresses the roots and principles of islamic fundamentalism, its main theorists and it...

In her article, "Nobel Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian and his Novel Soul Mountain," Mabel Lee introduces Gao Xingjian, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 2000. Lee is the translator of several of Gao's works from the Chinese into English, including the Nobel's main text of reference, Soul Mountain (first published in Chinese in 1990). Lee's article combines descriptions of Gao's biograp...