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Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism. Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels.

Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- Aims and objectives --- Planning. --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Social Science --- Sociology --- General --- Europe --- Intellectual life

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Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political mappages Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?

Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Kundera, Milan --- Kundera, Milan. --- Kountera, Milan --- Кундера, Милан --- קונדרה, מילן --- كوندرا، ميلان --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Since 1989 --- Heisei Period (Japan) --- Europe, Central --- Europe, Central. --- History. --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン

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This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis.

Group identity --- Hate --- Social conflict --- Political aspects

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Machiavel (1469-1527) --- Vico, Giambattista (1668-1744) --- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) --- Zamâtin, Evgenij Ivanovič (1884-1937) --- Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) --- Orwell, George (1903-1950) --- Miłosz, Czesław (1911-2004) --- Kundera, Milan (1929-....) --- Philosophie politique --- Utopies --- Critique et interprétation --- 16e-20e siècles