Published: 2020-11-03

Central Europe: a crisis of the concept and term, a little hope that is left

Ivo Pospíšil

Abstract

The article discusses a concept of Central Europe and its research implications, as seen within their importance to the Slavonic Studies in Brno. An essential element of any discussion about Central Europe (thus East and West) is a cultural dialogue. The author of the article understands such a dialogue as not only a gentle coexistence and peaceful supplementation but also – a creative confrontation of the participating parties. Under deliberations are also: a problem of evaluating some cultures against others, terms that reveal the off­putting attitudes and stereotypes used by some researchers when cultures and literatures of Central Europe are written about. The author analyses the tradition of “Central­Europeanness” and places it within a wide cultural context. The question about a future of this concept as well as the status of homo Europae centralis is also posited.

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Pospíšil, I. (2020). Central Europe: a crisis of the concept and term, a little hope that is left. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 15(1), 81–95. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10235

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2020-11-28


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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