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Author Donskis, Leonidas.

Title Loyalty, dissent, and betrayal : modern Lithuania and East-Central European moral imagination / Leonidas Donskis ; preface by Zygmunt Bauman
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 164 pages)
Series On the boundary of two worlds: Identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 4
On the boundary of two worlds ; 4.
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE. On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Lithuanian Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; TWO. The Second Voice of Lithuanian Politics and Culture: Sketches for Three Moral Biographies; THREE. Vytautas Kavolis: Toward a Polylogue of Civilizations; FOUR. Shtromas vs. Venclova: Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal in the Liberal-Nationalistic Moral Imagination; FIVE. Juozas Girnius: Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal in the Conservative-Nationalistic Moral Imagination; SIX. Imagology, Populism, and Treason; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Loyalty and betrayal are among key concepts of the ethic of nationalism. Marriage of state and culture, which seems the essence of the congruence between political power structure and collective identity, usually offers a simple explanation of loyalty and dissent. Loyalty is seen as once-and-for-all commitment of the individual to his or her nation, whereas betrayal is identified as a failure to commit him or herself to a common cause or as a diversion from the object of political loyalty and cultural/linguistic fidelity. For conservative or radical nationalists, even social and cultural criti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-159) and index
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Subject Nationalism -- Lithuania
HISTORY.
Nationalism
Politics and government
Nationalsozialismus
Ethik
SUBJECT Lithuania -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077634
Subject Lithuania
Litauen
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423789091
9781423789093
9789401201711
9401201714