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Modernity in crisis : a dialogue on the culture of belonging / Leonidas Donskis ; with an introduction by Sigurd Skirbekk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donskis, Leonidas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--Europe, Eastern.
- Group identity.
- Group identity--Europe, Central.
- Political culture--Europe, Eastern.
- Political culture.
- Eastern Europe.
- Political culture--Europe, Central.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Politics and government.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Central.
- Central Europe.
- Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.
- Social conditions.
- Europe, Central--Social conditions--1989-.
- Europe--Civilization--1945-.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- A critical inquiry into postmodern anxiety, fear, indifference, obsessive attention seeking, and the disappearance of privacy and of public space, the book offers penetrating insights into what its author terms the troubled identity, and also into the cultural canon, the weakened sense of belonging, and the inflation of key political concepts. A blend of political theory and philosophy of culture, the book exposes the tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in postmodern politics and culture. A polemical book of an Eastern European, it raises the pivotal issues of present Europe's cultural identity and political existence. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Troubled identity, or the European canon and the dilemmas of memory
- Secrets, mysteries, conspiracies, and art
- Eastern Europe after communism : identity and morality in a boundary region of Europe
- The crisis of modernity and the age of anesthesia, or life according to Zygmunt Bauman
- In the name of civilization, or the new forms of angst and longing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230108790
- 0230108792
- OCLC:
- 701495650
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