Chantal Delsol is a member of the Institute.
LE FIGARO.
- You have managed an encyclopedic dictionary devoted to Central and Eastern European thought since 1945. What makes the unity and originality of this thought?
Chantal DELSOL. -
Michel Maslowski, one of the contributors, with whom we have been working for a long time, writes that what makes the unity and specificity of this thought is the fragility of destinies, its rootedness in romanticism, and culture as a way of realization and breeding ground for spirituality. The fragility of destinies reflects the constant threat weighing on these central countries, constantly colonized in history, and to which freedom is always "offered by others", as Jana Vargovcikova says when speaking of the Slovaks. Why romanticism? After the great revolution, in the 19th century, these countries adopted, like Germany, the romantic vision of the Enlightenment, that of Herder - against the French rationalist vision.
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