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Mitteleuropa versus Central Europe
The migration crisis has shown—to the astonishment of European public opinion—that Visegrad countries do not want to be Mitteleuropa.
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Tit for Tat: Illiberal Tendencies and the Far Right in the Visegrad
The spread of illiberal tendencies characterize the entire EU, but in the recent months it has become especially evident in the Visegrad countries.
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EDITORIAL: Barbarians of Central Europe?
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Dead Philosophers: Joie de Mourir
Costica Bradatan, Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
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How Would Yakovlev Advise Putin Today on Ukraine and ISIS?
Richard Pipes, Alexander Yakovlev. The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism. Northern Illinois University Press, 2015
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No Laughing Matter
Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind, Translated by Fred Brigham and Edward Timms, Yale University Press, 2015.
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The Politics of Imagining “the Turk”
The stereotypical “Turk,” sensual and cruel, was really a product of the pamphlet literature of the 16th century.
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Szela, the Black Horse of Revolution
Tomasz Szubert, Jak(ó)b Szela. (14)15 lipca 1787 – 21 kwietnia 1860. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2014.
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The Secrets of Jarosław Kaczyński
Michał Krzymowski, Jarosław. Tajemnice Kaczyńskiego. Portret niepolityczny. Ringier Axel Springer, 2014
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Was Bohumil Hrabal a Politically Engaged Writer?
It was perhaps more than just an innocent joke when not long after the Velvet Revolution Václav Havel said in conversation with Bohumil Hrabal that he also could have become the head of state.