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Troubled Identity and the Modern World

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  • © 2009

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  1. Leonidas Donskis
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. An Identity in Need of Assurance and Confirmation

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 1-33

  3. To Be or to Forget

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 35-47

  4. Identity and the Emergence of Modern Sensibilities

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 49-72

  5. Us and Them

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 73-103

  6. Fear and Loathing in Liquid Modernity

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 105-142

  7. Forgetting the Ends and Then Redoubling the Efforts

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 143-163

  8. Nowhere at Home

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 165-192

  9. Making and Unmaking History

    • Leonidas Donskis
    Pages 193-206

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-218
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About this book

The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating book by a fascinating man from a fascinating place." - The Economist

"Leonadis Donskis clearly has much to say of great interest to academics and advanced students from a crucial East/Central European standpoint." - Roland Robertson, University of Essex and University of Pittsburgh

About the author

LEONIDAS DONSKIS serves as Professor and Dean of Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy in Kaunas, Lithuania. In addition, he acts as Docent of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki and also as Extraordinary Visiting Professor of Cultural Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia.

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