Kidnapped From Nazism, or the Greek Tragedy of Central Europe

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Kidnapped From Nazism, or the Greek Tragedy of Central Europe

Original language description

Our paper recalls the essay The Tragedy of Central Europe, written by the Czech novelist Milan Kundera. We criticize the unhistorical cold-war image of the West that Kundera employs. In his reading, the Second World War just did not take place. We do not mean this objection as an external critique. Since why should someone be interested in Kundera&apos;s omission, after all. We mean our criticism as immanent in the sense that ignoring the WWII, as the &quot;truth&quot; and result of the severe nationalism that was then spread across the continent, precludes the very possibility to apprehend the moral equality or equal legitimacy of the &quot;socialist&quot; East and the &quot;capitalist&quot; West. Since a tragic collision of two powers is set up only by their equal essentiality, Kundera cannot grasp the tragical dimension of the Cold War, and Central Europe respectively. Underpinned by the WWII and thereby elevated into the genuine Greek tragedy, the Cold War cannot know any victors, losers or pure victims and, moreover, both powers of equal essentiality must experience their own respective demise.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Pars academia 2019: Svoboda v kontextu střední Evropy

ISBN

978-80-7561-286-1

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

63-84

Number of pages of the book

320

Publisher name

Univerzita J.E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem

Place of publication

Ústí nad Labem

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