modern Lithuania and East-Central European moral imagination /
First Statement of Responsibility
Leonidas Donskis ; preface by Zygmunt Bauman.
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New York :
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Rodopi,
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2005.
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1 online resource (xii, 164 pages)
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On the boundary of two worlds: Identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ;
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4
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-159) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE. On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Lithuanian Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; TWO. The Second Voice of Lithuanian Politics and Culture: Sketches for Three Moral Biographies; THREE. Vytautas Kavolis: Toward a Polylogue of Civilizations; FOUR. Shtromas vs. Venclova: Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal in the Liberal-Nationalistic Moral Imagination; FIVE. Juozas Girnius: Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal in the Conservative-Nationalistic Moral Imagination; SIX. Imagology, Populism, and Treason; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Loyalty and betrayal are among key concepts of the ethic of nationalism. Marriage of state and culture, which seems the essence of the congruence between political power structure and collective identity, usually offers a simple explanation of loyalty and dissent. Loyalty is seen as once-and-for-all commitment of the individual to his or her nation, whereas betrayal is identified as a failure to commit him or herself to a common cause or as a diversion from the object of political loyalty and cultural/linguistic fidelity. For conservative or radical nationalists, even social and cultural criti.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.