Сборник очерков отражает личный опыт украинского интеллигента, с юности вовлеченного в увлекательную и кропотливую работу по "европеизации" своей страны как в культурном, так и в политическом смысле. Название относится, по иронии судьбы, к ироничному замечанию известного канцлера Меттерниха о том, что, предположительно, Азия начинается за восточным ограждением его сада (или, согласно другой апокрифической версии, в восточной части Вены). Это история одновременно и исключения, и включения, препятствий и стен, но также стремление к свободе и поиски солидарности. В книге рассматриваются различные способы бытия европейца - как на коллективном, так и на индивидуальном уровне - несмотря на различные вызовы или, возможно, благодаря им.
This volume represents the author's personal experience between challenges and entanglements while he was engaged since his time in the Soviet Union with the painstaking, yet fascinating process caused by his cultural and even political ‘Europeanisation’, realized through redefining individual experiences, search for concepts of existential community, historical reflexes and cultural history phenomenons. This title expresses, with its ironic sayings reference one of particularly distinguished Chancellor von Metternich comments noticeable in German literature: that Asia allegedly begins with the eastern wall of his garden. Already more than hundred years this share presume coincides with an additional comment which maintains that Asia starts at the eastern gate of the European style residential street, or alleged the Austrian capital, Vienna. The book covers the existence of both isolation and introduction, barrier and fence structures, with well established a strong will for freedom and confident attempts to guardianship among other [` …].
Электронная Книга «At the Fence of Metternich's Garden» написана автором Mykola Riabchuk в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9783838274843
Описание книги от Mykola Riabchuk
This collection of essays reflects the personal experience of a Ukrainian intellectual engaged, since his Soviet-time youth, in a painstaking but fascinating process of the both cultural and political ‘Europeanization’ of his country. The title refers, ironically, to the notorious Chancellor Metternich’s quip that Asia presumably begins at the eastern fence of his garden (or, as another apocryphal version maintains, at the eastern end of the Viennese Landstrasse). This is a story of both exclusion and inclusion, of walls and fences, but also of a longing for freedom and a quest for solidarity. It is a book on different ways of being a ‘European’—at both the collective and individual level,—despite various challenges or, perhaps, thanks to them.
