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Fifty letters from the troubled modern world : a philosophical-political diary 2009-2012.
Happy are those epochs that had clear dramas, dreams, and doers of good or evil. Today technology has surpassed politics, the latter having in part become a supplement to technology and threatening to bring the creation of a technological society to completion. This society with its determinist cons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nordhausen :
Traugott Bautz,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The Cycle of Abuse, or A Grimace of the New Europe; 2 Trapped by Half-Truths; 3 Unnoticed Fascism; 4 The Miraculous Year 1989, or In Praise of Weakness; 5 European Citizens, or How the Culture of Curiosity Works; 6 Memory Wars; 7 Reason or Treason?; 8 The Tragedy with Fragile Signs of Hope; 9 The Springtime of Our Discontents?; 10 Does the Baltic Region Exist?; 11 The Treason of Intellectuals, or An Identity Crisis?; 12 We are Faster than History, Yet Slower Than a Lifetime; 13 A Lonely Voice of Despair.
- 14 The Craving for Liberty in the Arab World15 Belgique mon amour ... ; 16 Freedom and Democracy in Decline; 17 Do Old-Fashioned Intellectuals and Politics Have a Future?; 18 The Culture of Fear; 19 The Dissonances of Realpolitik and Human Rights; 20 Postimperialism; 21 A Dangerous Delusion; 22 A New Technocratic Revolution, or the End of Modern Nations?; 23 Where Does Memory Live?; 24 Spenglerian Fallacy and Europe as Mutual Rediscovery; 25 The Individuals by Default; 26 The New Russia with the Worn-Out Leader; 27 Commercialism or a Cult of Brutality and Power?; 28 The End of Modern Politics?
- 29 Discursive Handicap of Central and Eastern Europe30 Remembering a Friend of the Baltics; 31 The Blind Leading the Blind?; 32 Democrats and Dictators; 33 The Revolt of Crooks; 34 The Source of Success; 35 Searching for the Europe of Czesław Miłosz; 36 From the Revolution of Dilettantes and to the Managerial Revolution; 37 Human Rights and Multiculturalism in Our Troubled World; 38 Nationalism and Postimperial Syndrome; 39 The Crisis of Liberalism?; 40 Liquid Totalitarianism; 41 The New Class of Political Entertainers; 42 The Ukrainian Perspective on Politics; 43 It Happens Overnight.
- 44 Is Football just Another Name for Politics?45 When Treachery Becomes Virtue; 46 Criminals in Politics; 47 Is European Culture a Fantasy?; 48 Our Ambiguous New World, or Can We Reverse a Tragedy of the EU?; 49 A Heroic Narrative in Violation of Good Conscience; 50 The Inflation of Genocide; Epilogue; Sketching and Mapping the Moral and Political Sensibilities of Our Time.