Publication details
Central Europe as a Bridge on an Unsettled Exponential into a Simplistic World?
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| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | ICCEES |
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| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | Central Europe; historical periods in 19th and 20th centuries; bridge between the West and the East; globalization; social optimisation; individual justice; dialetheism |
| Description | Attitudes toward life and its values change more rapidly now than ever. We should not overlook the growing gap between the cultural and material wellbeing on one hand, and its underdeveloped potential users. Within this context, "Central Europe" is not a geographical concept. As a 4D unit, it is not stable either. After 1918, in socially destabilized conditions, Czechoslovakia tried to practise a policy as a certain East West political and security "bridge" (E. Beneš). Important economic, cultural, political, educational, technological etc., effects of globalisation on the life in the contemporary Czech Republic have been given due analysis in the text. We cannot easily cope with our problems of social optimisation and individual justice when no "dialetheism" makes us cautious enough. |