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- Thinking through Transition: Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in East Central Europe After 1989
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
Thinking through Transition is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-communism can be understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions), and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance.
This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.
Table of Contents
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- Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions
- Conservatism: A Counter-Revolution?
- Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects
- The Left: Between Communist Legacy and Neoliberal Challenge
- Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions
- List of Contributors
- pp. 587-590
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633861103
Related ISBN(s)
9789633860854
MARC Record
OCLC
935985274
Pages
608
Launched on MUSE
2016-02-01
Language
English
Open Access
No