1st Edition

Identity and Freedom Mapping Nationalism and Social Criticism in Twentieth Century Lithuania

By Leondas Donskis Copyright 2002
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Identity and Freedom provides a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal nationalism by focusing on the work of three eminent Lithuanian émigré scholars - Vytautas Kavolis, Aleksandras Shtromas and Tomas Venclova. Presenting these critics of society - and also analysing the significant impact of such writers as George Orwell and Czeslaw Milosz on Lithuanian political and cultural... Read more
Foreword Alfred Erich Senn
1. Between Identity and Freedom: Mapping Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Lithuania
2. Vytautas Kavolis Liberalism, Nationalism and the Polylogue of Civilisations
3. Aleksandras Shtromas Liberal Nationalism and the Politics of Dissent
4. Tomass Venclova Ethical Universalism and the Discovery of the Other

Biography

Leondas Donskis

'This book is important because it presents three intellectuals from Eastern Europe that have produced a great deal of work on the least heard variant of nationalism.' - SEER