Author : Michal Kope?ek,Piotr Wci?lik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860854
Thinking Through Transition by Michal Kope?ek,Piotr Wci?lik Pdf
This book is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be understood both as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy?as well as the older political traditions?and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.