A Litmus Test Case of Modernity
Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-0343-0335-4
- EAN: 9783034303354
- Produktnummer: 35705123
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 314 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 507 g
- Gewicht: 507
Über den Autor
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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