Modernity in crisis
Subtitle: a dialogue on the culture of belonging
By: Leonidas Donskis ; with an introduction by Sigurd Skirbekk
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230108790
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Political culture; Group identity; Civilization
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Troubled identity, or the European canon and the dilemmas of memory; title: Secrets, mysteries, conspiracies, and art; title: Eastern Europe after communism : identity and morality in a boundary region of Europe; title: The crisis of modernity and the age of anesthesia, or life according to Zygmunt Bauman; title: In the name of civilization, or the new forms of angst and longing.