Kelet-Nyugat fogságában: Közép-Európa helye szövegek térképén
Stuck Between East and West: The place of Central Europe on a map of texts

Summary/Abstract: Katalin Dancsi’s study entitled Locked between East and West: Locating Central Europe on Map of Concepts explores how the theme of Central Europe is represented in the important articles by Péter Hanák, George Schöpflin and Timothy G. Ash. These three texts were significant contributions to the debate on Central Europe in the mid-eighties, whose main objective was to stabilize an independent position for Central Europe and to overwrite the notion of the divided Europe. The thematic structure of the texts is explored via concept network analysis, with a focus on the location of the topics of Central Europe, East and West. The study concludes that the East–West dichotomy dominates the worldview of all the three texts. This involves two elements: acceptance of an insecure `in-between` position for Central Europe and the construction of Eastern Europe as a counterpoint to the West.

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