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A Litmus Test Case of Modernity

Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century

Donskis, Leonidas
Erschienen am 23.10.2009
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ISBN/EAN: 9783034303354
Sprache: Englisch
Format (T/L/B): 21.0 x 14.0 cm

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This volume offers the insights of Baltic and Western European scholars into present socioeconomic, migration, identity, gender, race, media, and historical memory issues in the Baltic States. The book attempts to show the intensity and depth of social, economic and cultural change in the Baltic region. It throws light on why and how three small countries have become a litmus test case of modernity and its sensibilities, stretching from authoritarian and totalitarian past to liberal-democratic present. An historic jump from the Soviet Union to the European Union was accompanied by a dramatic struggle of the Baltic States for their inalienable right to return to the political map of the world. The Baltic States allow us a glimpse of the twentieth century history better than anything else. This interdisciplinary volume, by virtue of different perspectives employed by political scientists, gender and race scholars, communication and journalism researchers, linguists, and anthropologists will enable a readership to get the first-hand knowledge about an unprecedented social and political change that took place in the Baltic States over the past nineteen years. In addition, the book allows a point of departure into some historical memory clashes, controversies, and moral and political debates over the past and its impact on the present.

Autorenportrait

The Editor: Leonidas Donskis, Ph.D., is a Member of the European Parliament. As an academic writer and editor, he wrote and edited seventeen books, seven of them in English. An interdisciplinary scholar, he combines political theory, history of ideas, philosophy of culture, and essayistic style. Among other books, he is the author of Troubled Identity and the Modern World, Power and Imagination, and Forms of Hatred. He lectured and researched in the USA, Great Britain, and Europe.

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