Envisioning Europe from the East: À la recherche du temps perdu with Václav Havel and Lennart Meri
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Envisioning Europe from the East : À la recherche du temps perdu with Václav Havel and Lennart Meri. / Mälksoo, Maria.
Europe Thirty Years After 1989. red. / Tomas Kavaliauskas. Brill - Rodopi, 2020. s. 175−192 (Value Inquiry Book Series, Bind 359).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Envisioning Europe from the East
T2 - À la recherche du temps perdu with Václav Havel and Lennart Meri
AU - Mälksoo, Maria
PY - 2020/11/20
Y1 - 2020/11/20
N2 - The illiberal tendencies in various Central and East European (CEE) countries have re-invoked concerns about the region sliding back to the “old ways” or, as some surmise, always having lacked fundamental democratic features in the first place. This chapter turns to the political thought of two writers-cum- presidents, Václav Havel and Lennart Meri to tap into the early post-1989 visions of Europe, democracy and responsibility. Havel’s call for a post-totalitarian “existential revolution” and Meri’s bold propositions about the telos of Europe serve as critical counterpoints amidst contemporary pessimism about the faint grasp of democracy in the eastern part of the continent. Revisiting the visions of Europe articulated by these representatives of CEE at a critical juncture in the European history provides an intellectual stimulus for rethinking the current impasse along the East-West axis of Europe. At the time of CEE’s increasing association with political regression, the political writings of Havel and Meri offer an important counterpoint to the loudening national populist voices of today’s political entrepreneurs.
AB - The illiberal tendencies in various Central and East European (CEE) countries have re-invoked concerns about the region sliding back to the “old ways” or, as some surmise, always having lacked fundamental democratic features in the first place. This chapter turns to the political thought of two writers-cum- presidents, Václav Havel and Lennart Meri to tap into the early post-1989 visions of Europe, democracy and responsibility. Havel’s call for a post-totalitarian “existential revolution” and Meri’s bold propositions about the telos of Europe serve as critical counterpoints amidst contemporary pessimism about the faint grasp of democracy in the eastern part of the continent. Revisiting the visions of Europe articulated by these representatives of CEE at a critical juncture in the European history provides an intellectual stimulus for rethinking the current impasse along the East-West axis of Europe. At the time of CEE’s increasing association with political regression, the political writings of Havel and Meri offer an important counterpoint to the loudening national populist voices of today’s political entrepreneurs.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Lennart Meri
KW - Vaclav Havel
KW - Central and Eastern Europe
KW - idea of Europe
KW - liberalism
KW - existential revolution
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004443587_010
U2 - 10.1163/9789004443587_010
DO - 10.1163/9789004443587_010
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789004443587
SN - 9789004442115
T3 - Value Inquiry Book Series
SP - 175−192
BT - Europe Thirty Years After 1989
A2 - Kavaliauskas, Tomas
PB - Brill - Rodopi
ER -
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