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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.About the author: Leonidas Donskis is a Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014) and acts as a visiting professor of politics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He combines political theory, history of ideas, philosophy of culture, philosophy of literature, and essayistic style. Among other books, he is coauthor (together with Zygmunt Bauman) of Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity (2013), and the author of Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging (2011), Troubled Identity and the Modern World (2009), Power and Imagination: Studies in Politics and Literature (2008), and Forms of Hatred: Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature (2003).
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ContentsForewordAcknowledgments1. The Cycle of Abuse, or a Grimace of the New Europe2. Trapped by Half-Truths3. Unnoticed Fascism4. The Miraculous Year 1989, or In Praise of Weakness5. European Citizens, or How the Culture of Curiosity Works6. Memory Wars7. Reason or Treason?8. The Tragedy with Fragile Signs of Hope9. The Springtime of Our Discontents?10. Does the Baltic Region Exist?11. The Treason of Intellectuals, Or An Identity Crisis?12. We Are Faster than History, Yet Slower Than a Lifetime13. A Lonely Voice of Despair14. The Craving for Liberty in the Arab World15. Belgique mon amour...16. Freedom and Democracy in Decline 6017. Do Old-Fashioned Intellectuals and Politics Have a Future?18. The Culture of Fear19. The Dissonances of Realpolitik and Human Rights20. Postimperialism21. A Dangerous Delusion22. A New Technocratic Revolution or the End of Modern Nations?23. Where Does Memory Live?24. Spenglerian Fallacy and Europe as Mutual Rediscovery25. The Individuals by Default26. The New Russia with the Worn-Out Leader27. Commercialism or a Cult of Brutality and Power?28. The End of Modern Politics?29. Discursive Handicap of Central and Eastern Europe30. Remembering a Friend of the Baltics31. The Blind Leading the Blind?32. Democrats and Dictators33. The Revolt of Crooks34. The Source of Success35. Searching for the Europe of Czeslaw Milosz36. From the Revolution of Dilettantes to the Managerial Revolution37. Human Rights and Multiculturalism in Our Troubled World38. Nationalism and Postimperial Syndrome39. The Crisis of Liberalism?40. Liquid Totalitarianism41. The New Class of Political Entertainers42. The Ukrainian Perspective on Politics43. It Happens Overnight44. Is Football just Another Name for Politics?45. When Treachery Becomes Virtue46. Criminals in Politics47. Is European Culture a Fantasy?48. Our Ambiguous New World, orCan We Reverse a Tragedy of the EU?49. A Heroic Narrative in Violation of Good Conscience50. The Inflation of GenocideEpilogue Sketching and Mappingthe Moral and Political Sensibilities of Our Time
