Thinking through Transition is the first
concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European
past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be
understood as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic
eclipsing of the dissident legacy (as well as the older political traditions),
and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance.
This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local
contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and
unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume
is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic
(liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history)
deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the
generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and
the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.
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