Yet another Europe after 1984 : : rethinking Milan Kundera and the idea of Central Europe / / edited by Leonidas Donskis.

Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade o...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 252
Value Inquiry Book Series 252.
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 p.)
Notes:International conference proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • WHAT IS “CENTRAL” IN CENTRAL EUROPE? / Zygmunt Bauman
  • CENTRAL EUROPE: KUNDERA, INCOMPLETENESS, AND LACK OF AGENCY / George Schöpflin
  • I REMEMBER, THEREFORE I AM: MILAN KUNDERA AND THE IDEA OF CENTRAL EUROPE / Leonidas Donskis
  • WE ARE ALL CENTRAL EUROPEANS NOW: A LITERARY GUIDE TO THE EUROZONE CRISIS / Stefan Auer
  • EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE, AND THE SHAPING OF COLLECTIVE EUROPEAN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN IDENTITIES / Mitja Žagar
  • MISSING IN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION: INTELLECTUALS / Rudi Rizman
  • CENTRAL EUROPE AND INTERCULTURALITY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION? / Stefano Bianchini
  • EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES: IS THERE A FUTURE FOR HOMOGENEITY? / Ineta Dabašinskienė
  • MASS MEDIA, ALTERNATIVE SPACES, AND THE VALUE OF IMAGINATION IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE / Auksė Balčytienė
  • KUNDERA, NÁDAS, AND THE FICTION OF CENTRAL EUROPE / J. D. Mininger
  • REINVENTING CENTRAL EUROPE / Krzysztof Czyżewski
  • CENTRAL EUROPE: MYTH, INSPIRATION, OR PREMONITION? / Samuel Abrahám
  • THE GLOOMIEST OF DESTINIES? INTELLECTUALS AND POWER IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE / Rein Raud
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • VIBS.