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The disappearance of this tradition [phenomenology] has implications that extend beyond a proper understanding of Eastern Europe. Since the 1980s, our social and political vision has narrowed considerably, with a righteous liberalism the only widely available social and political discourse. East European dissidents, selectively misunderstood, have been conscripted as agents of this liberal triumph. They would have shuddered at the role. Only by neglecting their urgent warnings against Western technocracy and economism could Patocka or Wojtyla be turned into a liberal vanguard. Their social and ethical views, as this book has argued, derived from an independent tradition of phenomenological social thought, one that offered a personalist and communitarian social vision distinct from both liberalism and totalitarianism. --Michael Gubser
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:38:43 +0000

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