Środkowoeuropejska przestrzeń mitotwórcza. Przegląd nowych publikacji
Central European Myth-Making Space. On the Most Recent Publications

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of Central Europe as a myth-creating area with particular emphasis on the latest publication by Michał Masłowski, Mity i symbole polityczne Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (2020). Origin, interpretation and actualization of myths confirm the thesis about their indelible presence (Leszek Kołakowski’s notion) in both national and broader, universalistic discourse. When discussing myths, Masłowski takes into account the chronology and the place of their origin, while reflecting on their current, modern transformations; the myth of progress and the myth of the declining West are of particular interest in this context. These considerations are complemented by the recent publications in Polish language: Larry Wolff ’s Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilizations on the Mind of the Enlightenment (2020), Timothy Snyder’s The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2019), and Iwan Krastew’s After Europe (2018).

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