1st Edition
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe
1. Introduction: Philosophy, Geography, Fragility Costica Bradatan
Part I: UNCOMFORTABLE IDENTITIES
2. Interwar Southeastern Europe Confronts the West. The New Generation: Cioran, Yanev, Popović Keith Hitchins
3. Poststructuralism in Georgia: The Phenomenology of the "Objects-Centaurs" of Merab Mamardashvili Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
4. What is Eastern Europe? A Philosophical Approach Julia Sushytska
Part II: GEOGRAPHIES OF PAIN
5. On the Meaning of Life in the Age of the Most Meaningless Death Costica Bradatan
6. Apocalyptic Writing, Trauma and Community in Imre Kertész's Fateless Magdalena Zolkos
7. On Happiness in Unusual Places: N. Steinhardt’s Uplifting Lesson Aurelian Craiutu
Part III: SERVING THE MUSES UNDER STRESS
8. The Fragility of It All Krzysztof Michalski
9. Familiar affairs: Tracing Croatian Theoretical Normality Aleksandar Mijatović and Aljoša Pužar
10. Latin as a sign of life? The reception of the ancient tradition as a marker in the analysis of the Sovietization process in Poland Jerzy Axer
Part IV: 1989
11. The Revolutions of 1989: Twenty Years Later Michael Bernhard
12. Marx on 1989 G. M. Tamás
13. Jamming the Critical Barrels: The Legacies of Totalitarian Thinking Aviezer Tucker
Part V: THE NEW EUROPE
14. Voices from Central Europe: Bauman, Kertész and Žižek in Search of Europe Mare van den Eeden
15. Europe in the Mode of As If: Józef Tischner's Góral Philosophy Anita Starosta
16. Europe Speaks: Linguistic Diversity and Politics Jan Sokol
Biography
Costica Bradatan is a Professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA. He has also taught at Cornell University and Miami University, as well as several universities in Europe and Asia. He has authored or edited several books, including In Marx’s Shadow: Knowledge, Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia (2010, co-edited with Serguei Alex Oushakine) and The Other Bishop Berkeley: An Exercise in Re-enchantment (2006).
