CENTRAL EUROPE AS AN IMAGINED REGION

• Authors: Kacerauskas Tomas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the conception of Central Europe in the perspective of clash of civilizations. The author's major thesis is the following: Central Europe is central being the centre of fight for European values including Western Christianity, liberalism, democracy, justice, and historical memory. The minor theses are the following: 1) the very notion of Central Europe is inseparable from its moral content, i.e. from imagined values to be obliged as maximas of life in a certain life-world; 2) Central Europe serves as the becoming of Europe's identity and - vice versa- the identity of Central Europe depends on contrary parts of imagined Europe. The author considers Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) as a historical rim of European civilization and the area for the becoming of Central Europe.

Keywords

EN

CENTRAL EUROPE   EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION   IMAGINATION   REGION   VALUES  

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: VERSITA Central European Science Publishers, Warsaw; http://versita.com, in cooperation with journal's owner - Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania,
• Journal: Limes. Cultural Regionalistics
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 106-115
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kacerauskas Tomas

• Tomas Kacerauskas, Department of Philosophy and Political Theory, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10LTAAAA075212