Description: Further DetailsTitle: Critical Thinking in Slovakia after SocialismCondition: NewISBN-10: 1580464378EAN: 9781580464376ISBN: 9781580464376Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/15/2013Description: Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism interrogates the putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of civic discourse in post-1989 Slovakia.Critical thinking is the civic virtue of a liberal democracy. Citizens who think for themselves, cooperate, and can agree to disagree are the hallmark of a self-governing society. People from undemocratic societies, however, are often believed to lack this virtue, because authoritarian regimes smother critical discourse through fear and dull critical thought through the control of information and propaganda. After the end of Communist rule in 1989, Westernagents of democratization and educational development chided the residents of the former Czechoslovakia for this deficiency, claiming that the Slovaks' inability to think critically was the reason the nation struggled to integrate with Western Europe. Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism examines this putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of post-1989 Slovakia. Drawing on original fieldwork and anthropological theories of language and culture, Jonathan Larson uncovers patterns of social analysis and criticism in Slovak political discourse. He exposes ways in which these discursive practices have been misinterpreted and explains their underlying dynamics in Slovak society. This important volume, bringing together scholarship on East Central Europe, liberalism, education, and the public sphere, gives students of modern history, politics,and culture a fresh perspective on a skill essential to civil society. JONATHAN L. LARSON is Assistant Professor of Education at Grinnell College, IA.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jonathan LarsonGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central EuropeItem Weight: 1gType: TextbookRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism
Title: Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism
ISBN-10: 1580464378
EAN: 9781580464376
ISBN: 9781580464376
Release Date: 04/15/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: Political Process / General, Educational Psychology, Europe / Eastern, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Modern / 20th Century, World / European
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Jonathan Larson
Subject Area: Political Science, Education, History
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe Ser.
Format: Hardcover
