Freiheit und Zugehörigkeit: Europäischer Kanon, kulturelle Identität und postmoderne Krise
Freiheit und Zugehörigkeit: Europäischer Kanon, kulturelle Identität und postmoderne Krise (in German). Heidelberg: Springer VS, 2014. 342 p.
ISBN 978-3658013356
Translation of L. Donskis book "Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) into German. A critical inquiry into postmodern anxiety, fear, indifference, obsessive attention seeking, and the disappearance of privacy and of public space, the book offers penetrating insights into what its author terms the troubled identity, and also into the cultural canon, the weakened sense of belonging, and the inflation of key political concepts. Blending political theory and philosophy of culture, the book exposes the tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in postmodern politics and culture. A polemical book of an Eastern European, it raises the pivotal issues of present Europe’s cultural identity and political existence.
