Searchings after the Cognitive Centre (The Case of Belarus)
Searchings after the Cognitive Centre (The Case of Belarus)
Author(s): Valery YevarouskiSubject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Keywords: Belarusian cognitive map; cognitive geography; East European regionalism; genealogy of the national thought; meditative thinking; intellectual history of Belarus; principle of the methodological pluralism; multiculturalism; revolutionary democrats.
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the comparative analysis of the process of construction of a new cultural space with its specific history and its cognitive geography, securing a firm, which foots the intrinsic centre. Belarusian cognitive map in particular and the Eastern European one in general have their own specifics of a description of social reality. Particularly, philosophical discourse is usually used here as a main way of interaction between subject and social reality. First of all, the presentation aims at an investigation of the emergence of the Belarusian cognitive center through the writings of national intellectual history. This article intends to present the conceptual analysis of our recent attempts to reconceptualize and to line up the contemporary Belarusian national space with related “big picture” of Belarusian thought.
Journal: LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 15-27
- Page Count: 1
- Language: English