ISBN:
1283290480
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9780230108790
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9780230339194
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9781283290487
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 205 p.)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Modernity in Crisis : A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging
DDC:
306.20943
Keywords:
Political culture
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Political culture
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Group identity
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Group identity
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Political sociology
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Electronic books
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Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-
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Europe, Central Politics and government 1989-
;
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-
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Europe, Central Social conditions 1989-
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Europe Civilization 1945-
Abstract:
A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in modern politics and culture. LEONIDAS DONSKIS is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania.
Abstract:
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. Blending 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Troubled Identity, or the European Canon and the Dilemmas of Memory; 2 Secrets, Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Art; 3 Eastern Europe after Communism: Identity and Morality in a Boundary Region; 4 The Crisis of Modernity and the Age of Anesthesia, or Life According to Zygmunt Bauman; 5 In the Name of Civilization, or the New Forms of Angst and Longing; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
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