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Europe and the United States: how alike, how different. Opening address by Mr. Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission of the EEC, at the symposium "Europe and the United States". Nice, 19-20 October 1981
Get PDFAddress [on EC-US relations, the Atlantic Alliance, and East-West relations] by Mr. Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission of the European Communities, at the Dialogue Congress Western Europe-USA. Alpbach, 21 June 1981
Get PDFThe Community needs to be governed - this is the crux of the matter. Summary of the address by Commission President Gaston Thorn to the European Parliament. Strasbourg, 15 February 1984
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The impossibility of sympathy
Get PDFCopyright © 2010 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112.This article questions the status of sympathy in eighteenth century studies. It argues that sympathy can be seen as an economy of two persistent idealizations: the untouchableâthat touches everything. Tracing the genealogy of fellow feeling as a militant Puritan concept of exclusion that is still marked by its theological and political past, the sympathy advocated by Hutcheson, Hume and Smith appears as an idealization confronted by its own impossibility. The eighteenth century is a century in search of an absent and insufficient sympathy, a sympathy that is already preoccupied with its own limitations and excesses: a meta-discourse on sympathy still eludes us
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