No one expected it. In a world darkened by economic dis- tress, political cynicism, cultural emptiness and personal hopelessness, it just happened. Suddenly dictatorships could be overthrown with the bare hands of the people, even if their hands had been bloodied by the sacrifice of the fallen. Financial magicians went from being the objects of public envy to the targets of universal contempt. …
The genesis for this book was an interest in looking at the world’s most successful substantive international commercial law convention – the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – from various national and methodological perspectives. Success here is measured by the overwhelming reception of the CISG by countries throughout the world. By late …
Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical and anthropological questions but also extremely important political questions. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offe…