RETHINKING CENTRAL-EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY: RESTORATION, TRANSITION OR RECONSTRUCTION? Cover Image

RETHINKING CENTRAL-EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY: RESTORATION, TRANSITION OR RECONSTRUCTION?
RETHINKING CENTRAL-EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY: RESTORATION, TRANSITION OR RECONSTRUCTION?

Author(s): Emil Višňovský
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Slovenská Akadémia Vied - Kabinet výskumu sociálnej a biologickej komunikácie
Keywords: Cultural identity; Central Europe; community; values; Slovakia; reconstruction;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses issues of cultural identity as applied to and exhibited in the current period of social transformation in post-communist Central Europe, and especially the case of the community of people in Slovakia. The aim is to clarify who we Central Europeans are, based on our cultural identities. It is a philosophical reflection on Central European culture, its current shape and its historical roots. The author considers three main options for the future of Central-European cultural identity: restoration, transition and reconstruction.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 166-185
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English