Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2009.2.126-139
G. Buijs
How should Europe deal politically with its legacy as a so‐called “Christian civilization"? Should this imply an overt reference to God or to the Christian or Judeo‐Christian tradition in European constitutional documents (as was debated when the so‐called “Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe” was tabled)? This debate raised the old “politico‐theological problem”: does a political order need some kind of metaphysical or religious grounding, a “soul”, or can it present itself as a purely rational order, the result of a utilitarian calculus? In this article it is argued that the secular idea of the state as an inherent element in the “Judeo‐Christian tradition”, for a “divine state” usurps a place that is only God's. So, this religious tradition itself calls for a secular state, and this inherent relationship between religion and secularity has become a key element for the interpretation of European civilization, most notably in the idea of a separation of the church and the state. But the very fact that this is a religious idea does imply that the European political order cannot be seen as a purely rational political order without a soul. The idea of a “plural soul” is proposed as a way out of the dilemma.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2009.1.5-25
Evert van der Zweerde
In this paper, an argument is developed in favour of further integration of “Europe” and, most importantly, its increased “politicization”. It is not based on any romantic or idealistic vision of a positive European cultural identity, but on an assessment of Europe's reality as already integrated economically, socially and ecologically, however lagging behind politically in terms of democratic government and citizenship. The seemingly endless discussions about Europe's identity, limit, unity, civilization, etc. are not a problem that is yet to be solved, but are, precisely, the core of what makes Europe what it is: a plurality in unity instead of a “unity in plurality”, as one of the official slogans of the European Union (EU) has it. Current social, economic and environmental problems require European solutions as well as a more active European citizenship. However, European civil identity that is to match European societal reality, will not be a unitary and homogeneous identity, but heterogeneous and diverse, covering a plurality of perceptions, preferences and ideals ‐ it will be plural, not as a first step towards unity, but in its core; and it will be divided, but not along national lines.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2009.2.172-182
Agnieška Juzefovič
In this article Daoism is analyzed in the context of Chinese culture. It is demonstrated how the ideas of Daoism were shaped and matured in the Chinese civilization and how they reflect the peculiarities of the civilization of Eastern Asia and China. The author revives the genealogy and authorship of the main works of the Daoists (Daodejing, Zhuangzi) and analyzes their influence on the development of Daoism tradition during later periods. It is argued that Daoism was formed as the reaction towards the crisis of old Zhou culture and feeding degradation of Confucian rituals followed by the ruling circles. Different correlations are emphasized between the development of Chinese civilization and the maturation and transformation of Daoists’ ideas. It is demonstrated that Daoism is a natural product of its epoch and society; thus, it could not be dissociated from common Chinese cultural, religious and philosophical context, but rather analyzed together with it. Finally, the discussion is held on the anti‐rationality, sceptical view towards mind and logical argumentation.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.124-130
F. L. Lendvai
According to a generally accepted conception, members of a nation foster their national identity through assorting their memories of the past, elaborating and preserving their symbols collectively. We have to look for the original unity forming the basis of national unity either in the cohesive force of common origin and residence, or in the self‐conscious contracts of the individuals, or in both. The European Union as such does not have sovereignty; those of the Member States overrule its legislative and executive institutions. Perhaps we can speak about the European Union as a community on a cultural basis. This will raise the question of multiculturalism. Recently an interesting polemic has been developing on the concept and role of Leitkultur. In antiquity the Imperium Romanum, in the Middle Ages the Republica Christiana seem to have been the multicultural forerunners of the European Union.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.160-171
Antanas Andrijauskas
The object of the article is the duality of the cultural‐historical memory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between the worlds of the Latin West and the Byzantine Slavic East, strongly affected the historical memory and mentality of the Lithuanian nation and shaped many of the forms of cultural and national self‐identification, forms which are historically changing and characteristic for a border culture. After concisely discussing various aspects of the cultural history of the GDL, that have strongly affected Lithuanian historical memory, it is possible to state that homogeneity was alien for Lithuanian culture, which had insinuated itself between the Latin West and the Byzantine East and which, from the first century of the appearance of the state, was distinguished by a heterogeneous cultural orientation with diverse directions.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.88-98
Siarhei Danskikh
The article discusses the influence of the process of urbanization on the Belarusian nationality. Due to some historical conditions the Western cities‐communes have not formed in Belarus. At the beginning of the New Ages the Belarusian city has had Magdeburgian law and the trading relations, it has been the centre of the political life, the residence of the State officials and the provinces. Through the social‐economical backwardness of the Russian empire the peasants of Belarus could not move into the towns from the country. The towns and the cities in Belarus were not Belarusian but Jewish and Polish ones. Due to the World War II there have emerged the Polish Holocaust, repatriation and the Soviet industrialization which have made some auspicious conditions for the overtaking modernization in Belarus. During only one generation the peasant Belarusian nation has become the urban one. Such overtaking process of the urbanization has been preventing the formation of the standards and the traditions of the Belarusian city. The basis of the social and cultural life of Belarusians has been forming the traditions of the Soviet culture. That is why we can come to the conclusion that the overtaking modernization is closely related to the radical changes of the national identity. The more overtaking is modernization of the cities and the whole State, the more dangerous is the deprivation of the national peculiarity. The nation whose spiritual life is not utterly formed can hardly successfully adapt itself to the social and economical changes, which are determined by the overtaking modernization. These alterations do absolutely not correspond to its spiritual way of life.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.68-74
Vytautas Berenis
This article deals with the influence of the heritage of the Great Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) on the contemporary development of Lithuanian identity, emphasizing the reasons of its actualization. The actualizing of the GDL is closely connected with the processes of globalization, euro‐integration and geopolitical alternations. The author affirms that the historical heritage of the GDL helps Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine to integrate into the space of Eastern Europe and the supposed national tolerance in the GDL is peculiar manifestation of the democratic tradition in this area.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.75-87
Malgorzata Bienkowska-Ptasznik
Nationality, ethnicity, ethnic minorities, ethnic identity, borderland, etc. ‐ all these concepts have been essential in a long tradition of research concerning sociology of nation or sociology of borderland. However, none of them is understood in one definite way ‐ it is, partly, the result of different kinds of experience on particular continents or in different periods in history, but it also results from the fact that sociology itself has not worked out one paradigm. The aim of this paper is to present certain problems that the researcher might be coping with as well as show new certain theoretical possibilities.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.99-107
Mikalai Biaspamiatnych
The paper presents opportunities of the phenomenological approach towards the Belarusian‐Polish‐Lithuanian borderlands. Such approach is based upon the principles of understanding of social reality elaborated in phenomenology (E. Husserl, M. Heidegger) and phenomenological sociology (A. Schutz) and presents a different view of the borderlands as compared with the traditional (classical) sociology. The social and cultural space of the borderlands is reflected in the modes of distance (close ‐ distant), temporality (now ‐ then) and the “presence of the Other” (local ‐ stranger), as well as their interrelated modifications. It helps to understand the degree of the acquisition / alienation of various cultural and political phenomena of the historical past and the present‐day life. The historical events and personalities, as well as existing monuments of culture in the borderlands are reflected in “our / alien” dichotomy. This results in the representation of the identities of the borderlands as liquid and plural constructs and the matters of interpretation.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.55-67
Lilijana Astra
The present day discourse of globalization is a new socio‐culturally determined form of self‐identification which is chosen by the subjects taking part in globalisation, being ready for cultural openness vs. rarefaction of boundaries of national identity. This discourse is an interesting one but still it is little investigated and a contradictory process in actual transformations that take place on worldwide arena. However, there is no doubt that the phenomenon of modern self‐identification or identity unites historically multilayer cultural phenomena which reveal sui generis of their peculiar nature. Identity that is undergoing changes in global modernity becomes an inter‐subjective cultural unity, expression of which is represented by language, belief, moral consciousness, accumulation of fundamental values, customs and a unique worldview. That is why contemporary identity of Lithuanians is a historically vital and creative proceeding, while ancient national tradition is reflecting strata of cultural meanings of the past towards the present time and altogether inspiring, developing spiritual experience of society towards new per spectives. Therefore, systems of certain mental categories, sensible self‐expression can last throughout entire centuries, many generations are being integrated into them, and all these become peculiar socio‐cultural frameworks which are indefeasible because they predetermine who you are.
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