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LEONIDAS DONSKIS

Fifty Letters from the Troubled Modern World

"Fifty Letters from the Troubled Modern World A Philosophical-Political Diary 2009-2012". Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz GmbH, 2013.

ISBN 978-3-88309-799-2

Happy are those epochs that had clear dramas, dreams, and doers of good or evil. Today technology has surpassed politics, the latter having in part become a supplement to technology and threatening to bring the creation of a technological society to completion. This society with its determinist consciousness regards a refusal to participate in the technological innovations and social networks (so indispensable for the exercise of social and political control) as sufficient grounds to remove all those who lag behind in the globalization process (or have disavowed its sanctified idea) to the margins of society.

This is the message of the Lithuanian philosopher and politician Leonidas Donskis`s new book. Donskis echoes Jean Baudrillard in his assumption that an epoch of fragmentation calls for fragmentary writing. A short essay for a friend, a sketch, or a letter from nowhere, as if it was meant to be found in the bottle in the middle of the sea or on the coast of a remote country, can shed new light on the way in which we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

 

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LEONIDO DONSKIO KADENCIJA EUROPOS PARLAMENTE
(2009-2014)